What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Love it!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

This work too!

[Traverso]

Bach

Toccatas

[Brian]

First listens to both these works.

[Spotted Horses]

I needed something short and uplifting. Martinu's Overture did the trick, Belohlavek.

[88]

Olaffson's playing is mesmerizing. Some might find a few of his tempos a bit brisk, but he is still able to bring out the various voices.

[Roasted Swan]

First listens to both these works.

That's not a shoddy line-up of players in the Octet!

[Brian]

I needed something short and uplifting. Martinu's Overture did the trick, Belohlavek.

I listened to Les fresques and Parables this morning and boy, did that music sound like an exile in an unfamiliar land in ways that unsettled me.

[Kalevala]

First listens to both these works.

Oh, interesting!  I don't know that Enescu work, but I'm a bit surprised that you haven't heard Bartok's first VC before now.  I have an older CD with Kyung Wha Chung and Solti with it and the second one.

How did you find it to be?

K

[Brian]

Oh, interesting!  I don't know that Enescu work, but I'm a bit surprised that you haven't heard Bartok's first VC before now.  I have an older CD with Kyung Wha Chung and Solti with it and the second one.

How did you find it to be?

K

I liked it a lot. The Second Concerto is challenging for me because it feels long and relatively unstructured, but this one has a nice one-two punch of moods. The Enescu is interesting - sometimes four players drop out to form a quartet instead of octet, and then they come back. The slow movement leads into a really exciting finale.

[DavidW]

First listens to both these works.

Never heard the Enescu octet before? You're in for a treat!

[Kalevala]

I'll have to check out the Enescu work. 

K

[88]

Beethoven SQ Op.131.

[ritter]

I'll have to check out the Enescu work. 

K

Please do so, Kalevala. I'm confident you'll enjoy it. And the there's the wonderful, later Dectet for winds.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

[AnotherSpin]

"Ode to Joy" today.

[Lisztianwagner]

Pyotr Iliych Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6

Evgeny Mravinsky & Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

[Rinaldo]

To say I'm fond of similar experiments would be a lie. To say this one's not quite effective would be another.

[Cato]

Thanksto Dayton Classical Radio:



Bizet:  L'Arlesienne Suite II 

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn {sturm und drang" "paris" & "london" symphonies, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century,  Frans Brüggen CD3