What are you listening to now?

[madaboutmahler]

Good evening, everyone!
Just back from listening to:
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Absolutely incredible. Such glory, power, passion and beauty.

[Sadko]

And now something very different, an old favourite:

Shostakovich "The Dance Album"

Philadelphia Orchestra
Chailly

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[mc ukrneal]

And now something very different, an old favourite:

Shostakovich "The Dance Album"

Philadelphia Orchestra
Chailly

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That be a good one! Just a great program, wonderfully played and in excellent sound.

[Karl Henning]

Another first listen:

Holmboe
Chamber Concerto № 2, Op.20
Mikkel Futtrup, vn
Eva Østergaard, fl
Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Hannu Koivula

[Sadko]

That be a good one! Just a great program, wonderfully played and in excellent sound.

Yes, entertaining and in good quality. Some of the tunes became nasty earworms, so often I played the disc.

[SonicMan46]

Georgie Handel for the afternoon -

 

[Papy Oli]

Good evening 

1st listen - Atterberg - Symphony No.7

[prémont]

Bach, for starters:
*995 is Bach's own transcription listed under the lute pieces, rather than 1012 in Hopkinson Smith's transcription.

A small correction: BWV 1011, not 2012.

[North Star]

Elgar
Falstaff
A. Davis & BBCSO
[asin]B0009VYP92[/asin]

Earlier:

Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor
Hamelin
[asin]B004NWHVD0[/asin]

[Karl Henning]

And, because Paul is in!:

Holmboe
String Quartet № 8, Op.87
The Kontra String Quartet

[asin]B003NEQAMC[/asin]

[listener]

FINZI: In Years Defaced (song Cycle)   5 song arrangements
Violin Concerto, Prelude, Romance
John Mark Ainsley, tenor     Tasmin Little, violin   City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox, cond.
a really screwed up booklet, some appears to be in Danish about songs by Jóns, and Danish/Engish texts for some. If you're paying full price check it.  I see an address for Chandos, may write them for a replacement of the booklet.  I probably could e-mail, but I think letters have more force.
RACHMANINOFF:  Monna Vanna (act 1 of a uncompleted opera), Piano Concerto no. 4  - 1st version
William Black, piano     Iceland Symphony Orchestra     Igor Buketoff, cond.
DOBRZYSKI String Quartet no. 1     MONIUSZKO  String Quartets 1 & 2
Kwartet Camerata

[Fafner]

All the national categorizing in the other thread made me want to listen to the most obligatory piece of Czech classical music:

Bedřich Smetana - Má Vlast
Česká filharmonie, Václav Talich (1954)

[asin]B000OQDRS2[/asin]

[jlaurson]

This one:

One Paris, one Chunnel (the great 88), one London, in brilliant performances. A like new copy can be had from Amazon DE for €12.95.
Sarge

listening to it now... I can see why you like the Hobbit! He maketh mighty musicke.

[sheffmark]

Mahler - Symphony No 4 in G Major



Sublime from start to finish!

[Lisztianwagner]

Frederick Delius
A Song of Summer

http://www.youtube.com/v/JUgfHSINV7Y

[Fafner]

Mahler - Symphony No 4 in G Major



Sublime from start to finish!

That is possibly the first ever Mahler I listened to, about 15 years ago. Great stuff!

EDIT:

Thread duty:

One more historical recording of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Václav Talich:

DVORAK, A.: Symphony No. 6 / SUK, J.: Serenade in E flat major / Into a New Life
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Talich (1938)

[Mirror Image]

Frederick Delius
A Song of Summer

http://www.youtube.com/v/JUgfHSINV7Y

A gorgeous work through and through. One of Delius' last for orchestra.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Florida Suite. Outstanding performance.

[TheGSMoeller]

Haydn: 103
Fischer

[Mirror Image]

Now:

Now listening to North Country Sketches. Love this work.