What are you listening to now?

[Jubal Slate]

Gorgeous
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[Pat B]

Beethoven: symphonies 3, 4, 5, 8. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf. RCA. Good, solid performances that could be first choices at the price (cheap).

That was my first 4th. He does a weird thing where the last 3 measures before the first transition are halved. AFAIK it is not supported by any version of the score. It works reasonably well on its own terms, but it took me a long time to un-imprint it.

TD: Haydn: String Quartets op. 54 (Festetics/Arcana).

[Moonfish]

Mahler: Symphony No 4              Grist/NYP/Bernstein

[Mirror Image]

Mahler: Symphony No 4              Grist/NYP/Bernstein

Excellent performance of a gorgeous symphony.

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Symphony No. 3. Really gorgeous work.

[Moonfish]

Excellent performance of a gorgeous symphony.

I thought so as well!    Reri Grist did great in the last movement. The 4th was the first Mahler symphony I was really drawn to years ago, but I cannot quite put my finger on why.  Overall, I am very pleased with the Bernstein/NYP cycle. Great stuff!

[Que]

Nothing better than to wake up in the morning to the lovely sound of "copulating skeletons".   



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[Moonfish]

Vaughan Williams:
Serenade to Music
Partita for double string orchestra
Sinfonia antartica               Hargan

Royal Liverpool PO & Choir/Handley

Ahh, I am in love with Sinfonia antartica!     I feel myself out on the ice, lost, cold and immersed in whiteness.... Help!

[Moonfish]

Mahler: Symphony No 5           NYP/Bernstein

[Moonfish]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3        Haskil/Boston SO/Munch

[Florestan]

Last night

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Goldberg Variations

Transcendental and mystic: a journey to the center of the soul. Desert island pick.

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Galante ma non troppo.

[Moonfish]

Last night

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Goldberg Variations

Transcendental and mystic: a journey to the center of the soul. Desert island pick.

Lovely choice, Florestan! I so admire Tureck's Bach.  Definitely one for THE island! 

[listener]

SCHUMANN: the 3 Violin Sonatas    opp. 105,121,WoO.2
Christian Tetzlaff, violin    Lars Vogt, piano
COSTE: vol. 2 of the Naxos series, opp. 2-6
Frédéric Zzigante, guitar

[Florestan]

No. 8

[Florestan]

Lovely choice, Florestan! I so admire Tureck's Bach.  Definitely one for THE island! 

Have you heard Vladimir Feltsman´s very idiomatic GV? It got rave reviews and apparently it´s quite a different approach from Tureck´s. I´m going to spin it tonight for a contrast.

[Florestan]

Field´s praises were sung by none other than Franz Liszt and boy, was he right!

[Hiker]

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String Quartet No.3 (Mishima) drew me in and now SQ No.5 is providing much pleasure.

[Green Destiny]

Giving this one a spin too - first listen for me



Liking this work very much - I will definitely listen to it again soon.

[Moonfish]

Have you heard Vladimir Feltsman´s very idiomatic GV? It got rave reviews and apparently it´s quite a different approach from Tureck´s. I´m going to spin it tonight for a contrast.

No, I haven't heard Feltsman at all!    It seems like Nimbus has reissued a large number of his recordings. I'm thinking about picking up his WTC. Would you recommend it? Please report back on the GV. I doubt it can rival the poetry of Tureck although the sound is bound to be much better. Hmmm, Feltsman's Bach seems quite interesting.....

[Florestan]

No, I haven't heard Feltsman at all!    It seems like Nimbus has reissued a large number of his recordings. I'm thinking about picking up his WTC. Would you recommend it?

Haven´t heard it yet.

Please report back on the GV.

Will do.

EDIT: Just listened to Aria and the 1st variation and I already feel that in terms of poetry he is right up there with Tureck. The tempi are faster, though, and the ornamentation richer. I will have the whole of it tonight, sounds very promising.

Actually, the whole thing is on Youtube so you can judge for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/v/NqRREOdUzt0