What are you listening to now?

[Sadko]

Definitely a composer that needs to be more know.
I have a mixed harpsichord/ fortepiano disc by Carole Cerasi (Metronome)

How about this recording, is it on a period instrument?

Q

[Nebra/Piquero]

Luck for me, pity for you - a modern instrument

It is a very nice series of three recordings. Such a lot of musical ideas in the pieces, a real pleasure to listen to.

[Wakefield]

Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax
R. Strauss: Sonata for Cello & Piano, Op. 6
Britten: Sonata for Cello & Piano, Op. 65

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Again. Great interpretation, especially in Britten: a quite more substantial and mature composition than the Strauss.

Perfect matching between Ma and Ax, recorded in ideal sound quality. 

[Sadko]

Schubert

Symphonies 1 & 2

Staatskapelle Berlin
Otmar Suitner

[Sergeant Rock]

Wagner Rienzi Overture, Szell conducting the Cleveland




Sarge

[Que]

[Nebra/Piquero]

Luck for me, pity for you - a modern instrument

It is a very nice series of three recordings. Such a lot of musical ideas in the pieces, a real pleasure to listen to.

I quite agree with you there.

Q

[Wanderer]

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Superb, splendid, magnificent, dazzling, quintessential Mozart. Add whichever superlatives suit you. That's how good this is.

[listener]

a couple of discs from Naxos that are on top of the pending pile
STAMITZ Clarinet Concerto no. 1      Double Clarinet (sic, read 2 Clarinet-) concerto
Clarinet and Bassoon Concerto
Kálmán Berkes, clarinet and director     with Tomoko Takashima and Koji Okazaki   cl.2 / bssn.
Nicolais Esterhazy Orch.
and POULENC: Piano Music - Promenades, 8 Nocturnes, 3 Intermezzi, Suite in C
Olivier Cazal, piano
(image from Alexander Nevsky. not a double clarinet)

[Sadko]

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Superb, splendid, magnificent, dazzling, quintessential Mozart. Add whichever superlatives suit you. That's how good this is.

Interesting. Some things by Currentzis I found equally exciting, others surprisingly not working at all for me.

[Todd]

An outstanding disc in every way.  Almost certainly one of my purchases of the year.

[Pat B]

Just finished disc 2:

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Mozart: 3 Masses (Peter Neumann)

A recent acquisition. I have been trying (without much success) to cut back on duplicating repertoire. I knew I had K.427 (Gardiner), and I might not have bought this if I had remembered that I also have Harnoncourt's K.337. But I'm glad I forgot that, because this set is really fantastic.

Hat tip to Sergeant Rock.

[Harry]

New acquisition. First listen. Que and Hipster alert. See review.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/02/guerrieri-agostino-c1630-c1684-sonatas.html?spref=tw

[Lisztianwagner]

A month has passed since Abbado's death; so:

Claude Debussy
La Mer

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[mc ukrneal]

New acquisition. First listen. Que and Hipster alert. See review.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/02/guerrieri-agostino-c1630-c1684-sonatas.html?spref=tw

And a great cover too!

[Harry]

And a great cover too!

Yes Neal, you belong in the alert list too, sorry for not mentioning you.
The cover is a blast yes, I admit when I saw this I wanted it, regardless the music on the CD.
As it turned out, this is sublime music, and that is putting it mildly.

[Sadko]

François Couperin

Pièces de clavecin des Livres I & II

Frédérick Haas (harpsichord: Hemsch 1751)

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[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Stanford's The Blue Bird. I don't own this album BUT this particular work is available as a free download on their website. Incredibly beautiful performance and probably the best one I've heard yet. This is the same performance I was going on and on about many months ago.

[Todd]

Some LvB violin sonatas with Mr Grumiaux.  Great stuff.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Jeu de cartes. Not my favorite performance of this ballet, but still a worthwhile performance. I prefer Craft here. Chailly's is quite good as well.

[TheGSMoeller]

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 4. Awesome work and great performance.