What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

I hereby apply for right to first refusal from John.

I'll never part with my Schnittke. His music finally clicked with me and I've been a fan ever since. Sorry, Paul.

[Sadko]

Sibelius

Symphonies 1 & 2

Moscow RSO
Rozhdestvensky

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[kishnevi]

I quite like this disc, Jeffrey. Good to see your sentiments match my own. Silvestrov is a very cool composer. Do listen to his Symphony No. 5 at some point. It's essentially a long adagio (about 45 minutes in length). Check out the Saraste performance. It's on YT if you want to give it a sample. Not sure if it will be your 'cup of tea' but I certainly enjoy it especially after a long, hectic day at work.

Thanks.   I have a strong suspicion, BTW, that you would definitely like the Lopes-Graca.

[Mirror Image]

Thanks.   I have a strong suspicion, BTW, that you would definitely like the Lopes-Graca.

I probably would, Jeffrey. I generally like 20th Century Portuguese composers so I'll have to give him a try at some point.

[TheGSMoeller]

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[springrite]

I'll never part with my Schnittke.

(...in the style of really really cheap movie...): You mean, OUR Schnittke.

[Fafner]

Mahler - Symphony No. 6
NYPO, Bernstein

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[Sadko]

Brahms: Hungarian dances
Dvořák: Slavonic dances

Berliner Philharmoniker
Karajan

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[Wanderer]

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[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian Concert Overture: For Valor, Tony Rowe conducting the National SO of Ireland and Comedy Overture: Doctor Merryheart, Adrian Leaper conducting




Sarge

[Harry]

Brahms, Complete Piano Works, volume X.
Idil Biret, Piano.

Four Songs, Transcriptions from Die Schone Magelone.
Waltzes, opus 39, Second version.

[kishnevi]

Just started:
D. D. Shostakovich.  String Quartets 13-15    A. Schnittke String Quartet 3
Pacifica Quartet

The Schnittke is turning out to be the best part of this recording (The Soviet Experience Part IV)
This does not mean anything negative about how the three DSCH quartets are recorded--well done indeed--but does mean how good the Schnittke is.

[Karl Henning]

The Schnittke is turning out to be the best part of this recording (The Soviet Experience Part IV)
This does not mean anything negative about how the three DSCH quartets are recorded--well done indeed--but does mean how good the Schnittke is.

+ 1

[North Star]

Good day, everyone!

I hereby apply for right to first refusal from John.

I'm pretty sure I've claimed it some time ago, unlikely as it is to be of any use. 

Schwammerl
Symphony No. 8 Unfinished
Mackerras & OAE
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[Fafner]

Sibelius - Violin Concerto
Jasha Heifetz
Chicago SO, Walter Hendl

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[Mandryka]

Rainer Oster plays BWV 654

Oster tells an excellent story, the music flows and ebbs, it's always basically moving forward as if to a goal. The voices twerk sexily around each other.



Bernard Foccroule plays BWV 654

I don't feel that there are mini-climaxes, that there's interaction and awareness amongst the voices, it doesn't seem to move towards a goal like Oster's.

[Cato]

For my students as part of the countdown to Christmas: the Sanctus from the Missa Prolationum by Ockeghem...

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...and from the Requiem by Franz von Suppe

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Tomorrow the Sanctus from the Mass #3 by Bruckner!

[springrite]

...and from the Requiem by Franz von Suppe

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Uh! So I am not the only one!


Now:
Turina: Danzas Fantasticas; Sinfonia Sevillana; La Procesion del Rocio (Cincy, Lopez-Cobos)

[SonicMan46]

Balakirev, Mily (1837-1910) - Piano Music - culling out & expanding my collection of these works w/ the discs below - all performances by the British pianist, Nicholas Walker who seems to have made the composer his specialty.  ASV CDs recorded in the late 1990s; the other new (2012) and I assume will be an ongoing project?  Dave

   

[Fafner]

Verdi - La Traviata
Moffo, Tucker, Merrill
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Fernando Previtali

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