What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mahler10th]

All Paavo had to do was sharpen his Baton before recording - he didn't.  Great that Paavo did it, but sad he doesn't meet the finer points.  I may have to step in and get it done the way I want to hear it. 0:)

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Decided to take this to the Dacha.

Acknowledged, read, and already made a comment.

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If you have more to say of this performance, John, I should be interested.

Karl, I really need to go back and listen again, but a few thoughts come to mind: 1. this performance is extremely well-played, 2. Salonen conducts with more of a wild abandonment that I'm not so used to hear in him, and 3. the last movement is one of the best I've heard in quite some time. These are just first impressions. I've only listened to it once. I seriously wish he would do a Shostakovich cycle.

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Listening to The Fairy's Kiss. Lovely ballet.

[Karl Henning]

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Listening to The Fairy's Kiss. Lovely ballet.

And a sweet performance of it!

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And a sweet performance of it!

+1

[Lisztianwagner]

Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations

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[listener]

my other Zvi Zeitlin cd surfaced and wants a listen
Verne REYNOLDS  Sonata...   COPLAND  Sonata ...   Lukas FOSS  3 Short Pieces...
DRUCKMAN Duo       ...    all for violin and piano
and Samuel ADLER Canto III for violin alone
Barry Snyder, piano except for Foss playing his own piece
then RIISAGER   Études - ballet after Czerny
Qarrtsiluni, op. 36      Erasmus Montanus Overture  op. 1
Danish National Radio  S.O.,  Rozhdestvensky, cond.
Fritz AUSTIN: Scenes d'Oslo     Sven LANGE  Contes de Fées
6 waltzes by KRANE, THOMMESSEN and DANIELSEN
Norwegian Radio Orch.,  Ølvind Bergh, cond.
and a 'Greatest Hits' sort of disc of GRIEG and SIBELIUS
London Proms Symphony Orch.     Mackerras cond.
and a reminder that the summer London Proms start Friday and can be accessed on  the internet.  Watch for the time difference for your area.

[Karl Henning]

Anyone else have this disc? I love it!

Nielsen
Three Motets, FS139 (1929)
Danish National Radio Chamber Choir
Stefan Parkman, director

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Anyone else have this disc? I love it!

Nielsen
Three Motets, FS139 (1929)
Danish National Radio Chamber Choir
Stefan Parkman, director

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I own it as well and, yes, it's very good. The Sleep is especially haunting.

[Karl Henning]

To-morrow could easily be a Nielsen day . . . .

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Now re-listening:

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Listening to Symphony No. 4.

[Karl Henning]

You know this already, but the CSO brass in that recording are a joy forever.

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You know this already, but the CSO brass in that recording are a joy forever.

Absolutely.

[Papy Oli]

good evening all 

Received this one couple of days ago :

Francois Couperin - Premier Livre de Pieces de Clavecin
CD1 - Premier Ordre (Olivier Beaumont).

Yep, 43 years old for the rest of today!!   

Happy Birthday Tony Boy ! 

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Listening to Hamlet.

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Listening to Five Pieces for Orchestra. One of those Schoenberg works that really resonated with me when I first heard it many years ago.

[Lisztianwagner]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto

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Listening to Three Orchestral Pieces. Pure Expressionistic ecstasy.

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Listening to Violin Concerto No. 2 with Kyung-Wha Chung. Amazing performance.