What are you listening 2 now?

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Where has this recording been all my life? Stunning!

I can only nod my head along with your own. One of the Mahler 2nd performances. In fact, you've inspired me to revisit this performance as it has been far too long.

[Linz]

Rued Langgaard Symphony No. 4 "Lovfaid" (Fall) Despairing forest murmur, Symphony no. 5  (Version I ) , Summer Legend Drama: . CD 3
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard

[ChamberNut]

Back to this box set, which may as well be shaped as a cornucopia. As it is an endless bounty of riches!

Disc 12

[VonStupp]

Eugene Goossens
Orchestral Works
Melbourne SO - Sir Andrew Davis

Haven't done anything with Sir Eugene's music before. I also see Handley has done quite a bit of it as well.

This program is an intelligent mix of light and serious, mostly orchestral miniatures, and would be an excellent entry point.
VS

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Beautiful artwork

I really like the cover art.

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Now playing Mahler's 2nd with Klemperer, Schwarzkopf et. al. --- from this Warner/Tower Records hybrid SACD set:

[brewski]

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 (Quatuor Ébène, live from the Evian Festival in 2020). The more I hear from this group, the more I like them — among a ton of great ensembles out there.

[Mapman]

Brahms: Piano Concerto #2
Richter; Leinsdorf: Chicago

I'm impressed with this performance, and with the quality of the recording!

[André]

Walter's Unfinished has been cherished and revered from its first release and has never been out of the catalogue. It is warm, soothing, reflecting on tragedies past instead of reenacting them. The playing of the NYPO is gruff in a good way: accents and edges are not smoothed, rythms are pointed. Fine work from the timpanist (adds weight to the balance and gravitas to the progress of the musical argument (second mvement especially).

The fifth starts unusually slowly but in a light, almost airborne way that allows for precise articulation of the notes (flute scampering above violins). This is smiling, easygoing Schubert.

The disc concludes with Beethoven's Leonore III overture. Not exactly in the same mood as the Schubert symphonies. This is dynamic, dramatic stuff, reins tightly held by the conductor. The famous trumpet call is brashly defiant. It's also an earlier recording (1954), therefore in mono. Fortunately it's very clear and well detailed. I would have welcomed more thundering timpani at the end, Karajan-style but overdoing things was never Walter's style.

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NP:

Bach
Wer Weiß, Wie Nahe Mir Mein Ende, BWV 27
Matthew White, Dorothee Mields et. al.
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

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NP:

Bach
Christus, Der Ist Mein Leben, BWV 95
Hans Jörg Mammel, Dorothee Mields et. al.
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

[JBS]

Mozart
Piano Concerto in B Flat Major No 27 K595

Andreas Staier pianoforte Kern after Walter

Clarinet Concerto in A Major K622

Lorenzo Coppola clarinet d'amour Gueroult after Lotz/Stadler

Freiburger Barockorchester
Gottfried von der Goltz dir.

[steve ridgway]

Scriabin: Marche Funèbre From Sonata No. 1 .

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A nice change of pace after the double dose of Bach cantatas:

Barber
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
New York PO
Thomas Schippers

[steve ridgway]

Webern: Four Pieces For Violin And Piano

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More Barber:

Symphony No. 2
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Alsop



I wouldn't make the claim that this symphony is a masterpiece, but I do not think it deserved the harsh criticism from the composer and his demand for it to be burned by his publisher seemed over-the-top. It's a fine work with some gorgeous moments, especially the middle movement, which he salvaged and turned into a tone poem titled Night Flight, but it's nice hearing it in its original incarnation. This symphony has been recorded a few times, but I haven't heard any of those other performances as I doubt this Alsop could be bettered.

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Anagamin

[hopefullytrusting]

Backhaus/Bohm/VPO playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 (Live, 1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3OfvqpgCw&pp=ygUNYmFja2hhdXMgMTk2Nw%3D%3D

Backhaus's hands are amazing. They seem to act on their own. They body has its own memory; its own mind. Backhaus is a shell, but his hands - are alive. It is awe-inspiring!

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Last work for the night:

Schubert
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat, D 960
Uchida

From this set -

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Visions De L'Amen - Pour 2 Pianos.

My music player picked me four great classical pieces in a row .