What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[hautbois]

Debussy
Berceuse héroïque
Zoltán Kocsis

Love the orchestrated version of this!

Currently listening to:


Howard

[ChamberNut]

I listened to the exquisite Mendelssohn SQ# 2 in A minor yesterday.  (Emerson SQ)

[marvinbrown]

Listening:

  Excellent! Simply Excellent!

  marvin

[Brian]

Wunderbar!

I'm having a very serious day indeed today. Currently listening to the Brahms Fourth Symphony, in a taped live concert of Carlos Kleiber and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. And up next is my maiden listen to the Dvorak Requiem, with Karel Ancerl and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

[Christo]

  Excellent! Simply Excellent!    marvin

Seconded. In the meanwhile - after a visit to Kazakhstan with a fair amount of Kazakh and Uyghur music and also a mostly-Kazakh-forces performance of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin in Almaty's Opera and Ballet Theatre - listening again to Lennox Berkeley's superb Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1948), a long time favourite:

                   

[karlhenning]

Dukas
L'apprenti sorcier
Michel Béroff & Jean-Philippe Collard

A delightful bonus on the Debussy/Ravel two-fer.

[Brian]

the Dvorak Requiem, with Karel Ancerl and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

Wow; the Mors stupebit makes it abundantly clear how much influence Dvorak would have on the younger Czech generations, particularly on Janacek's own Glagolitic Mass.

[drogulus]

 
    Hanson
     Symphony No. 5 "Sinfonia Sacra"
     Schwarz/Seattle SO

     This is a single movement 15 minute work that's very much in the vein of the 3rd and 4th symphonies. Mosiacs is also a powerful piece. The concerto and 7th symphony haven't made much of an impression.
     

[Brian]

Whatever you do, do NOT listen to this recording.

[Dundonnell]

Whatever you do, do NOT listen to this recording.

Now you just knew that we would fall for that one, didn't you

Excrutiating is one word-a very polite word for what I just heard

[Brian]

Now you just knew that we would fall for that one, didn't you

Excrutiating is one word-a very polite word for what I just heard

A series of words for it is "An actual Swedish high school band from Örebro attempts to play music" 

[Dundonnell]

The Swedish Chamber Orchestra is based in Orebro and Jussi Bjorling, the great Swedish tenor, was born there.

Oh dear!

[karlhenning]

Not really listening at the moment . . . puttering with my Sansa Fuze.  Hoping to get more use out of it now 

[Kullervo]

4 and 5 (first listen to these particular performances)

[SonicMan46]

Dinner music tonight, stimulated by the Magnard thread - some delighful woodwind chamber works from the 1890s:

Andre Caplet (1878-1925) & Alberic Magnard (1865-1914) - Woodwind Quintets w/ the Aura Ensemble (piano + flute, clarinet, oboe, & bassoon - just love that combination!) - wonderful late 19th century French wind music! 

 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

[Que]

Q

[lukeottevanger]

Nice.  How's that recording? I'm afraid I always go back to Blachut for this (complete and utter) masterpiece, but this is one I'd be interested in hearing.

[Harry]

Disc VI, from this box, containing the following works.
Symphonic Études opus 13.
Five variations, opus posth. 13.
Night pieces opus 23.
Skizzen fur den Pedalflugel, opus 58.
Jorg Demus, Piano.

It is beyond me, why this box is getting so little attention. First of all the recordings are good to very good. Secondly Demus is a musician of great standing, and this box is a major accomplishment on all counts. Thirdly, the interpretations are so close to that of Kempff, only with some more drive to it, and a tad more passion. But the insights into Schumann's music is phenomenal, at least for me. And then the fact that I pay'd for this 13 disc box only 16 euro's, makes this not only a enormous bargain, but has become my reference in terms of Schumann's piano music.

Good morning to you all my friends.

[The new erato]

It is beyond me, why this box is getting so little attention.

Perhaps because it is out of print? At least I didn't find it on jpc........