What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

I see your digital download finally arrived in the mail.

[Florestan]

The pure and crystalline voice of Maria Cristina Kiehr is heavenly.

[prémont]

Sweelinck his sources and influence vol.1

Wrong organ on the picture (van Hagerbeer, Alkmaar and not Amsterdam featured on the CD)

[Traverso]

Wrong organ on the picture (van Hagerbeer, Alkmaar and not Amsterdam featured on the CD)

oeps....you are right

[Traverso]

Telemann

CD 1

[Mandryka]

Has the pianist behind the mask been identified?

The imperishable St Joyce's version.

It is illegitimate and therefore worthless.

A really impressive Quejas - @Todd let me know if you want it.

It could be Hisako Hiseki but time modified - I just can't tell. Hiseki's Goyescas is well worth checking out anyway, if you're up for an introspective approach.

[Harry]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)
Hamlet Op.67a - Overture & Incidental Music.
Russian National Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski.
Recording venue: DZZ Studio 5, Moscow, 25-27 September 2007.

If you want the composer at his best, this would be the first entrance before tasting the rest. Even though Hamlet is a piece that is not that often recorded, it is still a masterwork pur sang. I would consider this performance as the very best that I ever heard. Jurowski is a magician, and this orchestra his obedient servants. For this combination delivers, note after note, incessantly beautiful music. The playing is so precise, delicate and powerful by turns that I am almost agog at the standard of musicianship on display. It is since long very high on my list. Whenever I need Pyotr, I will dive for Hamlet to heal my wounds and gladden my heart. Absolutely. SOTA sound and performance.

[71 dB]

John Adams - Shaker Loops etc.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop
Naxos 8.559031

[71 dB]

James Aikman - Violin Concerto / Ania's Song / Saxophone Concerto
Charles Wetherbee, violin
Taimur Sullivan, saxophone
St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Lande
Naxos 8.559720

[Lisztianwagner]

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No.3

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach  Keyboard Music, Vol. 6, Miklos Spanyi

[Karl Henning]

[Karl Henning]

It's Monday!
This may or may not be a Maiden Listen:

Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky
Symphony № 5 in D, Op. 18 (1919)

[JBS]

[DavidW]

[Bachtoven]

[NumberSix]

Now streaming on Presto:



Variations
Joanna Kacperek

R & C Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin, Dutilleux

[Linz]

Schubert  Fantassie,  David Fray
Piano Sonata in G major D.894
Hungarian Melody in B minor, D.817
Fantasia in F minor for Piano Four Hands D.940 with Jacques Rouvier
Allegro in A minor for Four Hands D 947 with Jacques Rouvier

[Bachtoven]

By the way, Presto Classical is having an up to 60% off sale on Hyperion recordings--I'll happily enjoy buying Marc-Andre Hamelin's Beethoven "Hammerklavier" at a reduced price when it comes out this Friday!

[Todd]

Polonaises.