What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[mc ukrneal]

Now listening to what is often considered to be the first major piano quartet ever written - Mozart of course (Piano Quartet No. 1). A very good recording here with Paul Lewis and the Leopold String Trio on Hyperion.
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[Sergeant Rock]

Brahms Symphony #4 E minor William Steinberg conducting the Pittsburgh SO




Sarge

[Ataraxia]

Prokofiev: Nevsky - Dallas/Word to the Mata

On Spotify.

http://open.spotify.com/album/1JAeaBXDLDZlpRl9kCpo4k

[Lisztianwagner]

Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij
Serenade for Strings

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[Opus106]

FJH
String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76/2 'The Fifths'
Jerusalem String Quartet

It has been a few years since I last listened to this work, and I remember the opening as this slightly slow, moody typically D minor affair, but what I'm listening to right now has this (early) Beethovenian urgency. It's not holding back and attacking! (If that makes sense.)

[Conor71]

Tchaikovsky: Francesca Da Rimini, Op. 32


Listening to Disc 1 of the Symphonic Poems set and then I will play the Pathetique Symphony from the Jansons box.

[madaboutmahler]

Now listening to this, which I found shared earlier on the thread:

http://www.medici.tv/#!/ensemble-percussions-claviers-de-lyon-musicora-2012

Really enjoying this percussion recital!

[Sadko]

Aleksandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov

Dobrynya Nikitich, "Opera-Legend", op. 22
Excerpts

Viktor Morozov (bass)
Matvej Gavrilkin (tenor)
Aleksandra Meshcheryakova (mezzo soprano)
Lyudmila Grudina (mezzo soprano)

Leningrad Radio Choir

Russian traditional instruments (balalaika) orchestra 'Vasiliy Andreev'
G. A. Doniyakh (cond.)

rec. 1959

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 of the following set from my Handel collection ...

[nico1616]

This must be the best disc of Haydn quartets I have ever heard.
And I found it for 5 euros in the bargain bin 

[madaboutmahler]

Now:

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Piano Concerto no.1

[Lisztianwagner]

Listening to Disc 1 of the Symphonic Poems set and then I will play the Pathetique Symphony from the Jansons box.

The Pathetique is my favourite Tchaikovsky's symphony along with No.4, such a very passionate, intense and haunting work; Jansons performs it beautifully, I think he really captured the deep essence of the composition. Please, let me know what you think about this set once you've finished.

[Lisztianwagner]

Thread duty:

Robert Schumann
Symphony No.4

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Berliner Philharmoniker.

Now: Symphony No.1

[The new erato]

Very fine. And the recording is better than on the (good) violin sonatas.

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[Sadko]

Grechaninov

Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

Moscow RTVSO
Edvard Chivzhel

++

[listener]

Disc 2 from the MOZART Piano Trio set by the London Fortepiano Trio - K.502, K.542
- fortepiano from 1797 played by Linda Nicolson, with Monica Huggett violin, Timothy Mason cello
Paul KLETZKI  Piano Concerto, 3 Preludes, Fantaisie in c,
Joseph Banowetz, piano  Russian Philharmonic Orch.      Thomas Sanderling cond.

[madaboutmahler]

Now:

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Piano Concerto no.4

Amazing work!

[Marc]

Furtwängler and his Berliner, allowed back in Britain after the war (1948), rehearsing the Finale of Brahms 4:

http://www.youtube.com/v/leYbb5KZYDg

[Opus106]

Furtwängler and his Berliner, allowed back in Britain after the war (1948), rehearsing the Finale of Brahms 4:

Fiery! I wouldn't have suspected you if you had told that it was from a concert.

(And surprisingly dramatic camera angles for 1948, as far as I've seen footage of orchestras playing from 1948.)

[prémont]

Die Kunst der Fuge, played on organ by Rudolf Scheidegger.



http://www.amazon.com/Bach-The-Fugue-Kunst-Fuge/dp/B006PM5ZSE

I think Scheidegger´s AoF is a wonderful serene and deeply felt interpretation, - one of my favorites.