What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Karl Henning]

'Tis the month, some more!

Дмитри Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
String Quartet № 8 in c minor, Op.110
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet

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[Wakefield]

[springrite]

erato, what do you think of Sgambati? I thought it enjoyable but pretty disposable.

...like condom...

Now listening:
Carter:
Dialogue
Boston Concerto
Cello Concerto
ASKO Concerto
(Hodges, Sherry, Knussen)

[The new erato]

erato, what do you think of Sgambati? I thought it enjoyable but pretty disposable.

Pretty much my take as well. A nice romantic wallow I think I reported on my first listening (along with a wish for a remake of the Malipiero symphonies instead of more Sgambati).

[Sadko]

Wagner

Tristan und Isolde

Birgit Nilsson
Wolfgang Windgassen
Grace Hoffman
Hans Hotter
Arnold van Mill
Wolfgang Sawallisch

Bayreuth 1957



EDIT: Just finished the overture and reached the opening of act I: I really like Sawallisch's conducting.

[Sergeant Rock]

Mozart Symphony #41 C major, Jaap ter Linden conducting the Mozart Akademie Amsterdam




Sarge

[madaboutmahler]

Good evening, everyone!

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Serenade for Strings
Listened twice! Such beautiful music. One of my favourites!

[madaboutmahler]

Was very pleasantly surprised. There are a few minor miscues (the horns don't whoop loudly enough in the first movement's coda, the double bass solo in the funeral march isn't a solo) but overall a good account. Very different: the first couple movements are extremely pastoral, with a heavy stress on Baltimore's surprisingly rich string section, and the finale is almost as exciting as they get (it's no Jansons from the blind listening game, but it comes close). I'd be happy to hear this again, which I really didn't expect to say.

Thank you for posting your thoughts on this, Brian - very interesting!

A little Elgar before I go off to the zoo that I call work:



Listening to Dream Children. A lovely work.

Absolutely! Another my favourite gems from Elgar's output.

Now:
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Pomp and Circumstances
Brilliant

[Lisztianwagner]

Pyotr Il'ych Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty

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[Conor71]

Quote from: madaboutmahler on Today at 02:00:29 AM

Good evening, everyone!

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Serenade for Strings
Listened twice! Such beautiful music. One of my favourites!

I agree, one of my favourite peices too! 

[Conor71]

Good morning all - next I will listen to Disc 1 of this newly arrived and very much anticipated set. It seemed to take forever to arrive, just over 1 month!. I cheated a bit and listened to the 1st Disc once already this morning while I was ripping the set to my iTunes - very good I thought and as ususal with this composer the music was very colourful. Today I am going to listen to music all day, its going to be awesome!     Im not sure what I will play, maybe just some of the new stuff which has arrived over the last few weeks. Next up I will listen to the last Disc of the Milhaud set - I have really enjoyed this one and I dont think I have a composer quite like this one in my collection


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[Lethevich]

Celebrating the return of Sara by listening to the "Stumbling Goat" (Haydn #78) and Pettersson 14.

That ridiculously accurate memory

Played today: Ireland's PC (Naxos), and a ton of Elgar. Beyond all reason I still cannot get into the first movement of the 1st symphony.

[TheGSMoeller]

[Sadko]

Tchaikovsky

String quartets 1 & 2

Keller Quartet

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[Gold Knight]

Ralph Vaughan Williams--Symphony No.7 {"Sinfonia antartica"}, featuring the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir and soprano Norma Burrowes led by Adrian Boult.
Ralph Vaughan Williams--Symphony No.8 in D Minor, once again performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Boult.

[Sadko]

CD 2 of this nice set:

Tchaikovsky

String Quartet No. 3 & Souvenir de Florence (for string sextet)

Keller Quartet (András Keller, Janós Pilz, Zoltán Gall, Ottó Kertész)
Kim Kashkashian
Miklós Perényi

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from the following set, another version from my Handel Messiah collecton ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD1 from the following set, another version from my Handel Messiah collecton ...

I have not listened to this version of Handel Messiah in a good number of years.  Now I really appreciate the late Anthony Rolfe Johnson was indeed a very outstanding tenor ...

[Coopmv]

This is the version I have.  The Philips version is probably a later version since it was not available when I bought my Erato version ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing the following CD from my Handel collection.  This is a far better version than the one by Marc Minkowski IMO ...