What are you listening to now?

[king ubu]

new stuff getting first play - last night disc 1:

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now Vol. VI (KV 482, KV 492 and Rondo KV 382):

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[Bogey]

Lucky you! Seems like a nice set indeed - I love the Prades recordings he made, despite the limited sound quality.

Q

I have the first box set from Music and Arts, but need to snag Vol. 2 down the road.  They are wonderful and the selections are one amazing performance after another.

TD:

Another Serkin morning only this one is "Guaranteed High Fidelity".   

[San Antone]

[Karl Henning]

Just me & the jet-setters:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Струнный квартет № 2 Ля мажор, соч. 68 [ String Quartet № 2 in A, Opus 68 ] (1944)
The Emerson String Quartet

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[Karl Henning]

Just me & the jet-setters:

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Струнный квартет № 2 Ля мажор, соч. 68 [ String Quartet № 2 in A, Opus 68 ] (1944)
The Emerson String Quartet

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Now (for instance) in the Recitative & Romance, I hear warmth & intensity;  a wonderful tension between the chaste accompagnando instruments and the both passionate and tender soloist in the foreground;  there are drama and contrast in this performance, and I do not find anything remotely "slick" about it.

[Drasko]

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[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Music of the Spheres. Such an incredible work.

[Todd]

[Pat B]

Now (for instance) in the Recitative & Romance, I hear warmth & intensity;  a wonderful tension between the chaste accompagnando instruments and the both passionate and tender soloist in the foreground;  there are drama and contrast in this performance, and I do not find anything remotely "slick" about it.

C'mon Karl. It's the Emerson Quartet. Wouldn't it be easier to just say it's "slick" or "sterile" or something like that?

TD: Bruckner 8 (VPO, Giulini on DG).

[Karl Henning]

C'mon Karl. It's the Emerson Quartet. Wouldn't it be easier to just say it's "slick" or "sterile" or something like that?

It would be easier.  But I wouldn't mean it 

[Mandryka]

Robert Bates plays Titelouze's Ave Maris Stella. I'm particularly impressed by the way Bates tells a good story with the complex music in the 4th verse, he makes it readable, followable. For some reason I've started to enjoy Bates's Titelouze more than ever before, even though I miss some singing. The music seems much more interesting that Louis Couperin's organ pieces, a generation after.

[Bogey]

[Camphy]

Holmboe, Chamber Symphony 1

[Wakefield]

J.S. Bach: Actus Tragicus [Cantatas BWV 106 131 99 56 82 & 158]
The Bach Ensemble
Joshua Rifkin

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There is on Amazon an interesting review by Stephen McLeod, possibly the same person who is currently a well-known singer. Only quibble: hardly Koopman can be mentioned as a supporter of Rifkin's theories.

[Moonfish]

CPE Bach: Piano Works                              Ana-Marija Markovina

CPE Bach Pilgrimage!

Disc 6 from
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[listener]

all on vinyl:
J. Serafini ALSCHAUSKY: Waltz Aria no.2 for trombone and orchestra    Ferdinand DAVID: (better known for his violin concertos) Concertino in E^b op. 4      BLOCH: Symphony for Trombone solo and full orchestra
Armin Rosin, trombone   Berlin Radio Symphony Orch.    Uros Lajovic, cond.
KENNAN:  Three Pieces for Orchestra   BERGSMA: Gold and the Señor Commandante
Bernard ROGERS: Once Upon a Time   
Eastman-Rochester Symphony     Howard Hanson cond.
IVES: Symphony no.2   Decoration Day  Variations on 'America'
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring    BERNSTEIN: Candide Overture  GERSHWIN: An American in Paris
Los Angeles Philharmonic       Zhubin Mehta, cond.

[San Antone]

Ernst Levy - Liszt Sonata in B Minor

[Moonfish]

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[Christo]

A beautiful Elegia ('Eresia' in Basque) 'In Memoriam' (1930) by Jesús Arambarri:

[San Antone]

A little navel-gazing, but I am enjoying it on the most part.