What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

[Mapman]

Haydn: Symphony #68
Harnoncourt: Concertgebouw

[Spotted Horses]

Mozart String Quartet KV458, Quatuor Mosaïques



What a delight it is to return to a work like this, that I used to listen to obsessively and knew bar by bar back in the day. After a break it seems new, yet familiar. This quartet is brilliant from start to finish but the Adagio, which comes third, is particularly miraculous. The performance is satisfying.

The seating plan seems to be first left, viola right, second violin and cello in the back row.

I reported that the Mosaiques recording of KV465 was strange, with first violin right, second violin left. I found that the uncharacteristic arrangement was present in the reissue shown below:



The original issue a normal soundstage with first violin in the left second violin on the right.



This applies to the version on Apple Music streaming. I don't know if the channel switch is also present on the physical media.

[DavidW]

I've found a blindingly intense version of Shostakovich's 4th!!

[Traverso]

Bach

and another fine recording....

[Spotted Horses]

Bach, Cantata BWV3, Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien

A very fine Cantata which doesn't seem to get much attention, it mostly appears in the complete cycles. I enjoyed the aria for Bass and continuo (with a wonderful Bachian bass line) and especially the haunting duet for alto and soprano with Oboe d'Amore I and II obligato.



The picture is the complete Cantata edition, but I actually have it in the Teldec complete Bach Edition, but in the end I streamed it. Modern life.

[Kalevala]

I've found a blindingly intense version of Shostakovich's 4th!!

Cool!   

How's the sound?

K

[Karl Henning]

I've found a blindingly intense version of Shostakovich's 4th!!

Superb!

[Daverz]

Cool!   

How's the sound?

K

It's vivid stereo.  The big (BIG!) moments come through well.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

[JBS]

Actually, IIRC, Stravinsky quoted Scriabin referring to Schubert as "musique pour les jeunes demoiselles". 

Maybe Schubert was responding to Goethe.

Die ewig' Weibliche zeiht uns hinan.

[DavidW]

Cool!   

How's the sound?

K

Surprisingly great!

[Linz]

Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Op. 14, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Franfurt, Eliahu Inbal CD1

[Karl Henning]

Constantine Silvestri conducting the Dvořák Seventh. 

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Les Préludes
Mazeppa

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Iota]

Wow ! 😳 Anyone ever said some Mozart or Schubert works were too feminine ?
Go Ethel Smyth, go !

Indeed! What kind of meaningless cr*p is that? Too masculine for what? Perhaps the reviewer was a regular at Mr. Cholmondley-Warner dinner parties. 

[ritter]

Esteban Sánchez plays Manuel de Falla:

[Linz]

Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Op. 10, Carnival Overture Op. 92 and Symphonic Variations Op.78
Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi;

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1889 Version (aka 1888/89) Ed. Leopold Nowak, London Philharmonic Orchetra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pancho Vladigerov: Stage Music.