What are you listening 2 now?

[Daverz]

A mini Prokofiev-fest

Piano Concerto No. 5

The Love for 3 Oranges Suite



The Prodigal Son - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, The USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra



Symphony No. 7

This includes the alternate ending (after the original quiet ending).

[Madiel]

Les mariés de la tour Eiffel



As noted elsewhere, the CD turned up today just after I'd given up on it.

There's a card inside I can mail to Chandos for a chance to win a free CD. I suspect it's a little dated.

[Spotted Horses]

It is a fabulous piece, one I've loved for many years. Hear it alongside the three Parables, another of his luminous late orchestral works.

I got to Les Fresques by wandering out of my survey of Martinu Chamber music (which started with the string quartets) first into the Rhapsodie-Concerto for Viola and orchestra, then the Concerto for two string orchestras, then the Parables (Ancerl), and finally to Les Fresques. A agree the Parables is a haunting work, not often recorded. Besides Ancerl I only know of recordings by Belohlavek and Netopil. Are there others I should know about?

[hopefullytrusting]

Listening to my favorite version of Bach's Goldberg Variations: Chiara Massini on the harpsichord

[Harry]

Listening to my favorite version of Bach's Goldberg Variations: Chiara Massini on the harpsichord

For starters, the good looking woman on the cover art, is also very beautiful, Sarge would say definitively a BABE.

[Florestan]

For starters, the good looking woman on the cover art, is also very beautiful, Sarge would say definitively a BABE.

And he'd be lambasted/reported for sexism...

[Madiel]

There are times when I'm a little tempted to start telling you all which guys on covers I find attractive.

[Florestan]

There are times when I'm a little tempted to start telling you all which guys on covers I find attractive.

AFAIC, you can do it alright. Beauty has no gender. 

[Mandryka]

@prémont - did you give me this transfer? Wonderful recording!

[Mandryka]

AFAIC, you can do it alright. Beauty has no gender. 

Be careful what you wish for. I mean, what would you do if someone confessed to finding this attractive sexually speaking?

[Madiel]

Aaaaand straight away someone basically goes from finding a different gender attractive to finding a bestial figure attractive. Charming.

I'm reasonably confident that my taste in men is quite similar to the tastes of a lot of women. But on this forum we might have difficult in verifying that.

[prémont]

Listening to my favorite version of Bach's Goldberg Variations: Chiara Massini on the harpsichord

Yes, an impressive recording. I bought it as a download from Presto, but two variations (XV and XXIX) were missing. Unfortunately, Presto couldn't provide them from the label, which was quite frustrating. Nonetheless, I received a refund.

[prémont]

@prémont - did you give me this transfer? Wonderful recording!

Yes, I think so.

[prémont]

For starters, the good looking woman on the cover art, is also very beautiful, Sarge would say definitively a BABE.

Starters? In what respect? 

[Madiel]

Poulenc: Le bal masqué

[Florestan]

what would you do if someone confessed to finding this attractive sexually speaking?

I would question their sanity.

[vandermolen]

Morton Gould conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Charles Ives' Orchestral Set No. 2 and Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut (the second piece of the Orchestral Set No. 1, "Three Places in New England").

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On CD 9 of the big Ives box.

I have that CD in a fine Morton Gould RCA boxed set.

[vandermolen]

A seasonal offering
Bax 'November Woods' + Symphony No.2
RSNO, Lloyd-Jones
November Woods is lower key that the Boult recording on Lyrita but still very enjoyable:

[Traverso]

Bach

Goldberg Variations

A recording from 1991, how time flies, EMI no longer exists and people have buried themselves more in their opinions.(not because of that)
This is a very attractive performance, although Leonhardt remains my benchmark as far as the harpsichord is concerned. I always have the feeling that Frans Brüggen once described years ago as "A man of our time? Actually not, or better: he is timeless. He is one of the last patricians. And for me he is the personification of Bach, Leonhardt is Bach".
Perhaps it is strange to post here a recording with Bob van Asperen as performer and to praise his teacher in this way.


 

[Traverso]

Fot those who are interested.....

Bach  French Suites  Bob van Asperen

You will find this recording not much cheaper....




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