What are you listening to now?

[Ken B]

Pssst. Ken -- did you get my math joke?
I have the same problem with Bach! For me, I think it is because he wrote so much music that it makes it difficult to know where to start. I recently heard the Brandenburgs played by the Concerto Italiano (the CD cover with the deer in the parking garage) and I liked it very much. Then I heard Art of Fugue and a few other things. I liked them all, but I'm stumped.

Currently:

Yes. Still trying to think of a snappy comeback. 

Start anywhere with Bach. BBurgs are good, orchestral suites, WTC, organ P&F, cantata 106, French Suites, Christmas Oratorio if you want some specifics.

[Harry]

A marvelous but sadly neglected composer, apart from Erato he is a admirer too. Apart from him, no one seems interested in this composer on GMG. How sad.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/12/arnell-richard-symphony-no-3-and-new.html?spref=tw

[The new erato]

Yes. Still trying to think of a snappy comeback. 

I gave you some cues if you are Abel to find them.

[Mirror Image]

I have the same problem with Bach! For me, I think it is because he wrote so much music that it makes it difficult to know where to start. I recently heard the Brandenburgs played by the Concerto Italiano (the CD cover with the deer in the parking garage) and I liked it very much. Then I heard Art of Fugue and a few other things. I liked them all, but I'm stumped.

I wouldn't mind getting one of the Gardiner sets at some point, although, knowing my own inclinations and so forth, it might be years before I decide to jump on the Bach bandwagon.

[Henk]

I wouldn't mind getting one of the Gardiner sets at some point, although, knowing my own inclinations and so forth, it might be years before I decide to jump on the Bach bandwagon.

Kudos, John.

[Brian]

A magnificent Shosty Sixth.



Clocking in at 29 minutes, this is notable for Jurowski's urgency and the London trombones and tuba, which really whip the scherzo's climax into a terrifying Tenth-style frenzy I haven't heard in any other recording.

[North Star]

Schubert
String Quartets no. 13 in d minor, D. 810 Death and the Maiden & 14 in a minor, D. 804 'Rosamunde'
Takacs Quartet
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[Obradovic]

Songs from one of the greatest melodists

[mc ukrneal]

A marvelous but sadly neglected composer, apart from Erato he is a admirer too. Apart from him, no one seems interested in this composer on GMG. How sad.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/12/arnell-richard-symphony-no-3-and-new.html?spref=tw

Is there one disc with which it would be best to start? I just don't him well enough...

[Mandryka]

https://open.spotify.com/album/6uCYPs5P58OcZnQS0u3Rbs

Tatrai Quartet play Beethoven op 18/3.  I never knew this existed before today, I think it's a real special performamce.

[Harry]

Is there one disc with which it would be best to start? I just don't him well enough...

You could start with the third  symphony, a marvelous work, or his only violin concerto. His ballets are also a good starting point, but start with the third symphony.

[EigenUser]

I've listened to the orchestral version of Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie No. 1 probably like five times today. Schoenberg was a genius. Time for a different angle of the same piece: a piano duet.
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[Sergeant Rock]

Grieg Piano Concerto, Fleisher, Szell, Cleveland




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 3 in a minor, op. 44.  Nikolay Golovanov conducting the Great Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and TV in a raw and raucous 1948 Soviet recording.

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Love Golovanov.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Magnard Symphony No.3 B flat minor op.11, T. Sanderling conducting the Malmo SO




Sarge

[Ken B]

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[EigenUser]

Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
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[North Star]

Schubert
Piano Trio No. 2
Trio Dali
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[EigenUser]

Enough of the 2ndVS for now (Schoenberg's CS and PL and also the Berg VC). Feldman's Piano and String Quartet.
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[listener]

all on vinyl
ARNELL:  The Complete Organ Music
comprising (Classical) Sonata no.1 op.19  Sonata no.2 op.21   Baroque Prelude and Fantasia op.34   A Fugual flourish op.42 Variations on "Ein feste Burg" op. 89  Three Related Pieces op.104
Nicholas Jackson organ  ( St. Giles, Cripplegate and Clare College. Cambridge)
DEBUSSY:  Fantasie for piano and orch, Clarinet Rhapsody, Saxophone Rhapsody, Danses: Sacrée et profane 
Aldo Ciccolini, piano   Guy Dangain, clarinet  Jean-Marie Londeix, sax.   Marie-Claire Jamet, harp
French National Radio Orch.,  Martinon, cond.
There are SQ matrix numbers, confirming the SQ logo, the format is not mentioned anywhere.
BACH: Goldberg Variations
Alexis Weissenberg, piano