What are you listening 2 now?

[ritter]

Driving back home this afternoon from the suburbs of Madrid, I caught Reynaldo Hahn's Piano Concerto on the radio, just a few bars after the beginning. The performance was first rate (the soloist, that is). At the end, the presenter (after labelling the concerto as "adorable"  ) said this was the most recent recording of the work, that of William Youn with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valentin Uryupin.

[Madiel]

Thought you might find Gielen's live video recording of the Mahler 9 of interest:

There's a DVD in the box. As per the cover of the box.

[Iota]

Hard to say, it came to me spontaneously. The idea that the dog was being pulled along by its owner while it wanted to sniff around longer seemed like a funny image to me, certainly not meant with an insulting intention.

If it feels that whay I will avoid such expressions in the future.

As far as I'm concerned you can conjure up your expressions whenever you fancy, I find them always colourful and very often illuminating.

[Iota]

Leusink's a bit of a pariah among the cognoscenti partly because they don't like the rough and ready quality -- you know what they're like -- but also because he makes quite a bit of cash out of his Bach concerts (people like Bach in Holland so he can sell tickets in little towns in the middle of nowhere)  but pays his singers a pittance, and apparently treats them shabbily (horrible food, one night cheap hotels with uncomfortable beds, third class travel. punishing regime  etc.)

Am very sorry to hear the about treatment of his singers. I will see if it slightly puts me off him when I next listen.

[Traverso]

As far as I'm concerned you can conjure up your expressions whenever you fancy, I find them always colourful and very often illuminating.

It seems that I'm in good company,  thank you for the kind words.

[AnotherSpin]

Bruckner 7th

[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No.13

Borodin Quartet

[ando]

There's a DVD in the box. As per the cover of the box.

Yes, of course. Volume 6 is one of my favorite in the SWR series.

[Bachtoven]

Wilder has very successfully transcribed several piano works by Mozart and Haydn, including Mozart's K.626b discovered in 2018. His playing is excellent, but it sounds like a home recording to me. A little digital reverb would likely improve the sound.

[ChamberNut]

Marvelous, wondrous work with incredible orchestration! I do happen to prefer this performance over the Zinman.

[Daverz]

Haydn: Symphony No. 22 "Philosopher" - Dorati/Philharmonia Hungarica

The cor anglais is mic'd to sound huge.  The oboe quacks like a duck.  I'll try again later to listen past these flaws.   

Listening inspired by this negative Grammophone review of the Salonen recording of No. 22, which recommends the Dorati.

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/haydn-symphonies-nos-2278-and-82

EDIT:  Moved on to Klumpp.  Ok, I suppose it's in the nature of the cor anglais to sound loud against a small ensemble (as the French horn usually does).  But that Philharmonia Hungarica oboe is still very quacky.

[prémont]

As far as I'm concerned you [Traverso] can conjure up your expressions whenever you fancy, I find them always colourful and very often illuminating.

Count me in.

[Karl Henning]

Marvelous, wondrous work with incredible orchestration! I do happen to prefer this performance over the Zinman.

Interestingly, that's an orchestra which has appeared in one of the Jens and Joe podcasts. A fine band, and Segerstam is a fine director.

[Daverz]

Interestingly, that's an orchestra which has appeared in one of the Jens and Joe podcasts. A fine band, and Segerstam is a fine director.

We lost him in October. 

Check out that photo on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Segerstam



Segerstam long before he turned into the elder Brahms.

Thread duty:

Goldmark: VIolin Concerto - Joshua Bell, Los Angeles PO, Salonen

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, NDR-Sinfonieorcchester, Günter Wand

[ChamberNut]

Now listening to:

Tres obras de juventud, for piano
Homenaje "Pour le tombeau to Paul Dukas"

Jean-François Heisser

From this delectable set!



Original release

[Karl Henning]

We lost him in October. 

Check out that photo on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Segerstam

So we did. I felt a little something, casting that verb in the present tense. 

[pjme]

Marvelous, wondrous work with incredible orchestration! I do happen to prefer this performance over the Zinman.

This was the very first cd I ever bought...

[ChamberNut]

This was the very first cd I ever bought...

Ah, that is very interesting!  I have not heard "Le buisson ardent", nor the other works listed!

[Number Six]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Norrington, London Classical Players