What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

[SonicMan46]

Tchaikovsky Symphonies - sets from my collection although Mravinsky does only the last three - seem to be some of Hurwitz's favorites, if you care to see his video below?  Dave

[Traverso]

Bal-Kan

CD 1

[DavidW]

Tchaikovsky Symphonies - sets from my collection although Mravinsky does only the last three - seem to be some of Hurwitz's favorites, if you care to see his video below?  Dave

I don't want to watch the video, but I agree with him. But I would also add Muti and Jansons.

[VonStupp]

Wilhelm Stenhammar
Serenade in F Major
Gothenburg SO - Neeme Järvi

VS

[SonicMan46]

I don't want to watch the video, but I agree with him. But I would also add Muti and Jansons.

Actually, Muti was also in his top picks, and Jansons may have been highly rated - can't remember and don't want to watch the video again -    Dave

[Henk]

[Todd]

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, 877 Version, Ed. W. Carragan, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner

[Henk]

PC no. 4

[Iota]

Agon

An inspired patchwork of musical fragments so fresh they seem destined to stay that way forever.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The Reiner recording is my fav! 
I, too, will do a comparison among William Steinberg, Bohm, Lenny, and Reiner. Maybe even Karajan 1959 too! 😄


Ed: I read in a book that among Reiner's students, nobody but one student made a grade A. That "A" student was Lenny. (My memory may not be accurate).

@Karl Henning

Surveyed some recordings of Zarathustra. I think I like Reiner, Tennstedt, Steinberg, and Sawallisch.

[Todd]

FC.

[Karl Henning]

JS Bach

BWV 117, « Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut »
BWV 119, « Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn »

[VonStupp]

Giuseppe Verdi
Messa di Gloria (1833)
Libera Me (1869)
Pater Noster & Ave Maria (1880)
Tantum Ergo in F & G Major
Laudate Pueri
Qui Tollis
Verdi SO & Chorus - Riccardo Chailly

Boy, does this early version of Verdi's Libera Me sound wrong. Fun to hear an early version, but when the music goes in a different direction than the one I am used to at the end of Verdi's final Requiem setting, my eyebrows raise concernedly.
VS

[Karl Henning]

Giuseppe Verdi
Messa di Gloria (1833)
Libera Me (1869)
Pater Noster & Ave Maria (1880)
Tantum Ergo in F & G Major
Laudate Pueri
Qui Tollis
Verdi SO & Chorus - Riccardo Chailly

Boy, does this early version of Verdi's Libera Me sound wrong. Fun to hear an early version, but when the music goes in a different direction than the one I am used to at the end of Verdi's final Requiem setting, my eyebrows raise concernedly.
VS

That type of experience is quite the head-fake!

TD: H/T to @Brian

[Karl Henning]

BWV 119, « Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn »

Fun period brass in this 'un. Not super-enamored of the tone qua tone, but the variety is nice.

[JBS]

Tonight's program


Symphonies 5 and 6

String Quartets 1 and 2

No single ensemble, or even label (not even Tudor), has recorded all of Raff's quartets, which is a shame, because the four quartets the Liepziger SQ did for MDG are excellent, and it seems the sort of cycle that would do well as a set.

[Madiel]

Orders have started arriving in the mail. I'll start with the Haydn homage and see if I do all three.



Edit: the Haydn one is superbly done. I can't remember whether I'd listened to the whole thing before, it might have been a long time ago. But all the composers are using the same initial formula, so you can really hear the shift as each one starts yet it feels very integrated, and Fingerhut's playing is full of character.

Second edit: the Faure one is the next that was produced, in 1922, and the musical style has definitely jumped forward. Florent Schmitt's contribution is rather wild!

This really is a good album. The only tiny fault is that there are no words in the booklet for the 2 songs. Otherwise, very well worth it.

[Symphonic Addict]

No single ensemble, or even label (not even Tudor), has recorded all of Raff's quartets, which is a shame, because the four quartets the Liepziger SQ did for MDG are excellent, and it seems the sort of cycle that would do well as a set.

CPO has recorded all of his 8 string quartets, played by the Mannheimer Streichquartett: