What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[George]

Exactly the version that came to mind!

We knew that, David. 

[Que]

Q

[Harry]

Robert Schumann.
Complete Solo Piano works, Volume XIII.

Abegg opus 1.
Papillions, opus 2.
Sonata opus 22.
Jorg Demus, Piano.

[Sergeant Rock]

Exactly the version that came to mind!

I was wondering, David, after you'd heard, and enjoyed Bernstein's DG Second, if your opinion of Ash's Third might undergo a revision. No?

Sarge

[not edward]

Shostakovich: Symphony #15 (Moscow Philharmonic/Kondrashin).
Love this performance....till I heard Kondrashin in this work the only performances that worked for me were slower ones (Sanderling, for example).

How different is the Staatskapelle Dresden/Kondrashin one on Profil compared to this one? (ie: is it worth having both?)

[Henk]

Well, it's a pastoral piece;  one doesn't want turbo-charging here.

That makes it more clear for me. Listening it again now. But I'm curious about the Ashkenazy.

[Peregrine]

Chopin, 3rd Piano Sonata. Zhukov (1998)

[rickardg]

Gulda/Kapustin/Weissenberg and others
Marc-André Hamelin - piano
In a State of Jazz

A wonderful record without jazz in the traditional sense but nevertheless very jazzy, Guldas pieces are particularly charming.

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all 

Franz Berwald - Sinfonie sérieuse No.1
Dausgaard / Danish NRSO / Brilliant

[Papy Oli]

Franz Berwald - Sinfonie Capricieuse No.2
Dausgaard / Danish NRSO / Brilliant

I start to really like that boxset 

[Harry]

Miaskovsky.

Symphony No 1 & 25.

Awesome, absolute bliss

[karlhenning]

Holmboe
Symphony No. 7, Opus 50
Symphony No. 8, Sinfonia boreale, Opus 56
Aarhus Symphony
Owain Arwel Hughes

[SonicMan46]

Last few days, I've been spending some 'listening' time w/ Luiza Borac and George Enescu's solo piano music:

Three Piano Suites, Nos. 1-3, Op. 3, 10, & 18 on the Avie label, recorded beautifully in 2003.

Piano Sonatas & Other Works - 2CD set on same label; CLICK on the images for listings & MusicWeb reviews; she is wonderful! 

 

[Don]

Last few days, I've been spending some 'listening' time w/ Luiza Borac and George Enescu's solo piano music:

Three Piano Suites, Nos. 1-3, Op. 3, 10, & 18 on the Avie label, recorded beautifully in 2003.

Piano Sonatas & Other Works - 2CD set on same label; CLICK on the images for listings & MusicWeb reviews; she is wonderful! 

 

Borac's recordings turned me on to Enescu, especially the one with the suites.  Now I'm a strong Enescu enthusiast, deriving great pleasure from his chamber and orchestral works in addition to his piano pieces.

[Bogey]

5th was enjoyable...7th rolling out now.

[Valentino]

BWV 71 - Gott ist mein König.
Who am I to argue? Terrific stuff. There is a sense of occasion that appeals very much to me here.

[mn dave]

I'm listening to the Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic and Sanguine Symphony by Nielsen. (op. 16)

Same forces as yesterday: Blomstedt and the Danish RSO.

[Christo]

Holmboe
Symphony No. 7, Opus 50
Symphony No. 8, Sinfonia boreale, Opus 56
Aarhus Symphony
Owain Arwel Hughes

My uneducated guess would be, that the Ninth will be more to your taste ... 

For a change, listening to Luís de Freitas Branco's First Symphony (1924), especially the wonderful Andante. Great exchange of strings and woodwind, not unworthy of Dvořák or Braga Santos.
 
                                 
           

[mn dave]

Nielsen 3

I am really enjoying these, taking them in order like this. First listens.

[mozartsneighbor]

Dufay -- complete secular music
This set is one of the few early music sets I return to on a very regular basis. Why Dufay's secular music, mainly chansons, has such a hold over me is difficult to explain. But at least I know I am not the only one who is entranced by this deceptively formulaic and simple music -- my brother, who was the one who alerted me to the set, is also nuts about it!