What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

Beethoven Violin Sonatas starting with #10:

[Linz]

Franz Schubert The Piano Sonatas, Wilhelm Kempff CD 5

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Cyril Huvé - Beethoven and Mendelssohn piano works.

[AnotherSpin]

[Linz]

Felix Mendelssohn Complete Piano Quartets,  Quartetto Klimt CD1

[Traverso]

Haydn

Symphonies 93-99 & 100 "Military"

Haydn and Davis,Haydn with witt and a smile

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1880 (aka 1878/80) - Ed. Robert Haas, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, Hermann Abendroth

[Spotted Horses]

More Martinu Chamber music, from this collection:



The Oboe quartet is a lovely neo-Baroque/neo-Classical piece. The Clarinet quartet, for Clarinet, horn, cello and side drum is very quirky, but entertaining. The Mazurka Notturno sounds a lot more like a nocturne than a Mazurka. The Nonet (no 2) for winds and strings is just flat-out brilliant. All beautifully performed and recorded.

From another Praga release, two dances from Spalicek, arranged for piano. Makes me want to seek out the full ballet.

[Symphonic Addict]

Guarnieri: Piano Trio

Given how scarce recordings of his chamber music are, glad I found this one. It sounds like late Guarnieri: a short, angular, moderately acerbic yet worthwhile composition.

[Linz]

Carl Pilipp Emanuel Bach The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 21
Miklós Spányi

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.5

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Todd]

Holy crap, Amazon shows that I purchased this fifteen years ago.

Disc two.

[Mandryka]

The most beautiful sarabande from the fifth suite that I can remember hearing. Lute stop on one keyboard; horizontal not chordal. The gigue is also knockout. Nishiyama's set is peak French Suites.

[Daverz]

Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite - Felix Slatkin/Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

Yes, the music can be kitschy, particularly "On the Trail", but I don't think I've heard a more terrifying storm in music.  The recording is in what seems like limited stereo from 1956 but is super vivid.  In fact, it sounds like a glamourous Hollywood production from the 1950s, and fits the music like a glove.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flst Msjor, 1878 Version Ed. Robert Haas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan CDs 1 and 2

[Harry]

The most beautiful sarabande from the fifth suite that I can remember hearing. Lute stop on one keyboard; horizontal not chordal. The gigue is also knockout. Nishiyama's set is peak French Suites.

Not on Qobuz I am afraid, at least not in my country. Plenty of her recordings there, but not this one.

[JBS]

Before


The Opus 31 trilogy

Now


My first listen to this CD left me feeling rather meh, but with repeated listens it's grown on me.

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky: Cantata For 5 Instruments, Female Chorus, Mezzo-Soprano And Tenor



Nicely instrumented songs .

[Que]

One of the discs I brought back from Japan:

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki: Cello Concerto No. 2



Churns and pounds along at a relentless pace .