What are you listening to now?

[Brian]

Watching my son play on the beach and listening to quartet No.12 Op. 96, American. The Lento is the perfect soundtrack for this, melts my heart and puts a smile on my face simultaneously. Took too long to become familiar with this piece...

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One of my GMG Members' Essentials! And those works are amazing, emotionally complex - both slow movements, really, span a pretty wide range of feeling...

Maybe that will be one of those music-memory associations you always have in the back of your mind.

[kyjo]

Imaginative and colourful indeed! I certainly enjoyed it. I particularly like the use of the piano.

Yes, I love Martinu's use of the piano in his orchestral music as well. It gives it that extra bite and dimension of color.

[Brahmsian]

Faschingsschwank aus Wien

One of my favourite single discs, Annie.  And bonus:  it was a gift from a GMGer.  Amazing performances by Richter. 

[North Star]

A powerful, moving work no doubt. What are your impressions of it, Karlo?

Sorry, I missed this earlier.
I liked it a lot! (my answers to these sort of questions are always much more sparse after a while, particularly with first listens )

Thread duty; first listen:

Schnittke
Symphony No. 8
http://www.youtube.com/v/tgDwmIGTrhk

[Brahmsian]

Glazunov

Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 5 "Slavyanskaya"
Symphony No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 16


Jose Serebrier
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Warner Classics

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Continuing my Glazunovothon! 

[kyjo]

I liked it a lot!

That's all I need to hear!

[SonicMan46]

Well after spending several days w/ Wolfie's Complete SQs w/ Quartetto Italiano - initial hearings of the first 13 'teenage' works, onto:

Beethoven, LV - String Quartets, Op. 18 w/ Alexander SQ (their 2nd 'go around' w/ these works) - also own the performances of the Takacs Quartet (All) & Quatuor Mosaiques (Op. 18) - probably don't need another set but some other relatively 'inexpensive' boxes of these works are available on Amazon, e.g. Emersons & Tokyo SQ - Dave

 

Beethoven LV - String Quartets, Op. 59 - the Rasumovsky Quartets w/ the same group above -

Brahms, J - Clarinet Works w/ the gal above - MP3 DL on my iPod (my YMCA music for the afternoon) - need to burn that to a disc!  Dave

[Wakefield]

J.S. Bach - Sonatas for Viola da Gamba BWV 1027-1029
J, Chr. Friedrich Bach - Sonata in A (from "Musikalisches Vielerley")
Anner Bylsma, violoncello piccolo
Bob van Asperen, organ

[TheGSMoeller]

Thanks to Brian and Annie for the Dvorak/Haas comments and thoughts.
Will begin investigating a Dvorak quartets set soon.

[Mirror Image]

Thread duty; first listen:

Schnittke
Symphony No. 8
http://www.youtube.com/v/tgDwmIGTrhk

Pounds the table! Incredible piece of music. Is this the Rozhdestvensky performance? If not, seek that one.

[Mirror Image]

I've been doing a lot of table pounding today and for good reason! Schnittke, Hartmann, and Martinu getting some listening time. Always puts a smile on my face.

Now listening:



Listening to this recording yet again! Aghh...it's just so awesome. Such haunting music.

[Wakefield]

I went for the download, as well.  I've only spot-listened so far, but agree that it is very enjoyable.

I'll keep posting these discs the next days. I'm sure soon someone will take the bait. 

Now playing:

Haydn - The Piano Sonatas
Ekaterina Derzhavina
9 CDs

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CD3: Nine Small Early Sonatas/ Seven Sonatas from the period 1765-1772

[Wakefield]

+1   One of the rare instances I deviated from Naïve's Vivaldi Edition.

Me, too. Christophe Coin (Naïve Edition) is usually a first choice, but here I prefer Dieltiens (who anyway has recorded just a half of these cello concertos).

Maybe it's worth to mention that Coin had previously recorded a handful of cello concerti with Hogwood/AAM, two of them on a lovely cello piccolo. 

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[mc ukrneal]

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Wonderful disc!

[Mandryka]

French Suite 4, Bradley Brookshire

I think this a seriously good interpretation.

Mostly BB  is tough. angular, even manic. It's like someone trying to say something urgently and intensely. But, in a touch of genius, he lightens up slightly,  softens a little, in the Sarabande, a brief lingering caress in the middle of all the action. It reminds me of the Reconciliation Scene in Strauss's Elektra.

In the fast music this is close to my ideal, more unbuttoned dyonysian duende is hard to imagine. The minuet is astonishing, unforgettable.

Small cell articulation, more striking than Leonhardt even, helps give the feeling of nervous urgency. Counterpoint - you always feel that all the voices are singing from the same hymn sheet.

[Harry]

Wonderful disc!

+1

Brahms Hungarian Dances ( Naxos)

[Que]

I'm sorry to interrupt the ongoing conversation but I was wondering if Que (or someone else) could tell me where I might go to find that collection so far. Preferably in the order it was recorded.

Much appreciated

EDIT: if too much trouble I will hunt it down. I have gogle too. 

Here you go: http://www.antonio-vivaldi.eu


This morning:

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French Baroque by a composer that went his own personal way, see my previous notes HERE.

EDIT: I didn't listen through the entire disc, I'm sticking with my initial reservations about the music....

Q

[Que]

Switched to this old favorite:



My previous notes HERE (no reservations whatsoever.... )

Q

[Harry]

Switched to this old favorite:



My previous notes HERE (no reservations whatsoever.... )

Q

A truly wonderful release, that has been played in my home over and over again.

[springrite]

A truly wonderful release, that has been played in my home over and over again.

Agree.

Not surprised a devotee of Zen likes it.