What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Florestan]

Bruckner

Symphony No. 3 in D minor

Jochum / SKD

No sooner had the Second shone a ray of hope for me than came along this monster: with its chaotical meandering and incessant alternance of forte fortissimo with pianissmo, experiencing it was --- dare I say it? --- profoundly boring. This time not even the Scherzo could redeem it for me. I could hardly wait for the end, but even that was disappointing: abrupt and unexpected, as if Bruckner himself decided to finally cut short a too long affair.

Three gone, six more to go and the prospects are dim.

[Que]

CD 5: Henry Purcell, The Fantazias & In nomines.

Good morning.

Q


PS This set is still a very good bargain on Amazon .

[Florestan]

Tchaikovsky

Piano Sonata in G major op. 37

Richter

[Harry]

A major D 959.
B flat major D 960.

[Florestan]

Ignaz Moscheles

Piano Concerto No. 3 in G minor op. 58

Michael Ponti, Othmar Maga / Philharmonia Hungarica

[Florestan]

Anton Arensky

Piano Concerto in F minor op. 2

Grigory Ginzburg, Sergei Gorchakov / All-Union State Orchestra

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Gabriel Pierne

Piano Concerto in C minor op. 12

Marylene Dosse, Matthias Kuntzsch / Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra

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Wilhelm Stenhammar

Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor op. 23

Janos Solyom, Stig Westerberg / Muenchner Philharmoniker

[Florestan]

The folly goes on... 

Giovanni Sgambati

Piano Concerto in G minor op. 15

Jorge Bolet, Ainslee Cox / Nuernberg Symphony Orchetra

[Florestan]

Still more. 

John Field

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major H27

Benjamin Frith, David Haslam / Northern Sinfonia

[Florestan]

Don't stop me now...  0:)

Franz Berwald

Piano Concerto in D major

Niklas Siveloev, Okko Kamu / Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

[Florestan]

On and on...

Friedrich von Flotow

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor

carl Pettersson, Hans Peter Wiesheu / Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra

[Florestan]

Ferdinand Hiller

Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor op. 69

Michael Ponti, Louis de Froment / Luxembourg Radio Orchestra

[DavidRoss]

Bruckner  Symphony No. 3 in D minor  Jochum / SKD

No sooner had the Second shone a ray of hope for me than came along this monster: with its chaotical meandering and incessant alternance of forte fortissimo with pianissmo, experiencing it was --- dare I say it? --- profoundly boring. This time not even the Scherzo could redeem it for me. I could hardly wait for the end, but even that was disappointing: abrupt and unexpected, as if Bruckner himself decided to finally cut short a too long affair.

Three gone, six more to go and the prospects are dim.

Ah...but your patience is about to be rewarded.  1, 2, and 3 have little merit in my ears.  The rest required sustained effort, but I finally came around to wanting to hear each of them occasionally just for the sake of hearing them and not out of a sense of duty.

[Florestan]

Ah...but your patience is about to be rewarded.  1, 2, and 3 have little merit in my ears.  The rest required sustained effort, but I finally came around to wanting to hear each of them occasionally just for the sake of hearing them and not out of a sense of duty.

I have high hopes of 4, 8 and 9.

Thread duty:

Mili Balakirev

Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor op. 1

Malcolm Binns, David Lloyd-Jones / The English Northern Philharmonia

[karlhenning]

Ravel - String Quartet in F

Ad Libitum Quartet
Naxos

Good morning, Ray! Great name for an ensemble!

[karlhenning]

Andrei! You are the wildman! 

[Florestan]

Andrei! You are the wildman!  

I've never heard any of those concerts before and I was enjoying each and every one immensely. There's so much more in the piano repertoire than the warhorses...

[ChamberNut]

Good morning everyone!

Karl, love that performance (Ravel SQ in F by Ad Libitum Qt)

Florestan - Did you break the recording for most consecutive "What are you listening to?" posts?    I guess everyone else was sleeping. 

[Florestan]

Florestan - Did you break the recording for most consecutive "What are you listening to?" posts?    I guess everyone else was sleeping. 

Good morning Ray!

Perhaps I did. Actually I could hardly wait for someone to interrupt me.