What are you listening to now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.4

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[madaboutmahler]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.4

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Pounds table! :p

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Cello Concerto, love this recording.

[North Star]

Ilaria, your report on Suk's About Mother is late

Thread duty

Debussy
Jeux, L. 126
Images, L. 122
Printemps, L. 61
Martinon & ONdF

[Brian]

Praga is the oddest of labels. They have superb modern studio production, released some great recordings (mostly by Prazak Quartet); then they have access to regular treasure trove of legit historical recordings from Prague Spring, but still they'll occasionally indulge in some blatant piracy (like those notorious Melodiya studio recordings with superimposed coughs and applause and passed as live).

They even stole Michelangeli's studio Ravel Concerto from the EMI record label and tried to pass it off as a new find. I have no idea how the piracy side of Praga exists alongside the great new productions side of Praga.

[Lisztianwagner]

Ilaria, your report on Suk's About Mother is late

Pressiert's den Herrn? I'll report it soon, don't worry.

[The new erato]

They even stole Michelangeli's studio Ravel Concerto from the EMI record label and tried to pass it off as a new find. I have no idea how the piracy side of Praga exists alongside the great new productions side of Praga.

I'm ashamed to admit I bought one pirated Melodiya issue (Shostakovich's Song of the Forest) before wising up.

[Harry]

More gorgeous Monteverdi...........

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/09/monteverdi-claudio-sesto-libro-dei.html?spref=tw

[Brian]

Andsnes plays Beethoven



#2. Will try No. 5 after my meeting.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Today's musicologists are quick to point out deficiencies and weaknesses in the original works. While doing so they evidently lose sight of two remarkable facts: Rossini was not yet a teenager when they were written. Even more, he had scarcely begun concentrated musical studies. The extent to which he was already familiar with the music of Haydn and Mozart is open to conjecture. It could hardly have been more than a limited acquaintance, though in later life he referred to the latter composer as 'the admiration of my youth, the desperation of my mature years, the consolation of my old age'. Whatever Rossini's earliest influences, few would dispute that, as a twelve-year-old, Mozart produced nothing of greater stature. Mendelssohn reached fourteen before he completed the agreeable twelve String Symphonies and it was not until well into adolesence, aged sixteen or so, that he completed the Octet and Midsummer Night's Dream overture, works so often upheld as examples of surpassing early maturity.

La ringrazio tanto, Florestan, for the link to Hyperion's illuminating discussion of the Rossini String Sonatas.  Is Rossini on any GMGer's favorite composer list (as in Top Ten)? Speak-out if so.

[Ken B]

Oh! Didn't know Bizet was a lady!  Now I must change my "favourite women composers" vote!

Cue Henny Youngman: That was no lady, that was my Bizet!

[EigenUser]

Debussy
Jeux, L. 126

woohoo!

I heard the Gloria from Beethoven's Missa Solemnis earlier, but I don't know what to listen to next. Either Honegger's Symphony Liturgique or Rach 4 (my friend keeps telling me that I'd like Rach 4, but I keep forgetting to listen to it).

[North Star]

woohoo!

I heard the Gloria from Beethoven's Missa Solemnis earlier, but I don't know what to listen to next. Either Honegger's Symphony Liturgique or Rach 4 (my friend keeps telling me that I'd like Rach 4, but I keep forgetting to listen to it).

Listen to both... (not simultaneously)

[Mandryka]

Leipzig Quartet play Schönberg's 3rd quartet. I have a love/hate relationship with the music, but tonight, in this expressive performance, it sounds wonderful and emotionally deep - strange ineffable emotions. I'm even enjoying the third movement, the intermezzo, which normally I find very challenging.

[ritter]

Leipzig Quartet play Schönberg's 3rd quartet. I have a love/hate relationship with the music, but tonight, in this expressive performance, it sounds wonderful and emotionally deep - strange ineffable emotions. I'm even enjoying the third movement, the intermezzo, which normally I find very challenging.

I must revisit the Schoenberg quartets, which I haven't listened to in ages. How is the Leipzig? They did a concert last year here in Madrid of Bartok and C. Halffter (world premiere of the 8th Quartet), and I found them first-rate! 

Something nice and pleasant chez ritter tonight, after a long day's work:

[SonicMan46]

Chopin, Frederic - Etudes & Waltzes w/ Abbey Simon & John Khouri, the latter on a piano from Chopin's time - Dave

 

[amw]

I must revisit the Schoenberg quartets, which I haven't listened to in ages. How is the Leipzig? They did a concert last year here in Madrid of Bartok and C. Halffter (world premiere of the 8th Quartet), and I found them first-rate! 

The Leipzig Quartet is superb in Schubert, Brahms, Lutosławski, Haydn and everything else I've heard, I do not doubt that their Schoenberg is also first-rate (though for me there are no substitutes for the Arditti Quartet's recording).

This is extraordinary:

[Drasko]

I'm ashamed to admit I bought one pirated Melodiya issue (Shostakovich's Song of the Forest) before wising up.

But they can also be a force for good, that's why it's so baffling. For instance they've just released Kondrashin's post-premiere recording of Shostakovich 13th, the uncensored one. Who knows how they got their hands on that tape but it's fantastic news since that is historically significant document (beside being superb performance of the work, and reportedly in better sound than ever) which hasn't been available in decades, and even when it was available it was on relatively obscure Russian Disc label.

on a different note

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

An accidental Rossini-fest sprung-up here weed-like, ma nessun rimpianto.

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[North Star]

In memoriam Christopher Hogwood

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[listener]

SIBELIUS Symphony no. 5, En Saga
Bournemouth S.O./ Berglund
BARTÓK: Suite for 2 Pianos  op. 4b   14 Pieces from ;Mikrokosmos;
John and Richard Contiguglia