What are you listening to now?

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

More Bax : Christmas Eve.

[aligreto]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 [Haitink]....

[listener]

DOHNANYI:  Piano Quintets 1 in c, op. 1  and 2 in e^b op. 26 (that's a nasty key for the string players, 6 flats in the key signature)  Serenade for string trio in C, op. 10
The Schubert Ensemble of London     "Brahms light"
PROKOFIEV Songs - The Ugly Duckling, op. 18 + opp. 23, 35, 68, 104
Carole Farley, sop.  Roger Vignoles, piano

[Dee Sharp]

Szymanowski & Hahn: Works for Violin and Piano/Tasmin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins. Another excellent disc from this pair.  I enjoyed the Szymanowski more that the Hahn who got a bit syrupy but an outstanding recital disc overall.

[SimonNZ]

I loved that movement especially. And thank you! That's my cat. :3

Very pretty! What is the cat's name?


now:



"Conversation Galante" - Musica Antiqua Koln

[Mirror Image]

Now --- a new acquisition:

[Gurn Blanston]

I love the way Podger & Cooper attack this music and break it out of that old 'rococo' mold it was cast in for so long. A lot of Mozart lovers over the last 2 centuries managed to do him more harm than good by making his music 'pretty'. This suits me very well indeed! 

[Mirror Image]

Now:

Rach's The Bells w/ Svetlanov

[Todd]

From the bog box.  Meh+.

[SonicMan46]

I love the way Podger & Cooper attack this music and break it out of that old 'rococo' mold it was cast in for so long. A lot of Mozart lovers over the last 2 centuries managed to do him more harm than good by making his music 'pretty'. This suits me very well indeed! 

Hi Gurn - I own that box and enjoy the performances - have 4 different recordings of these works (but of course all of the others are fewer discs) - guess that my other favorite (w/ 4 CDs) are the ones shown below - Dave

 

[kishnevi]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 11 соль минор « 1905-й год », соч. 103 [ Symphony № 11 in g minor, Opus 103 "1905" ] (1956-57)
LSO
Мстислав Леопольдович [ Mstislav Leopoldovich (Rostropovich) ]

And?
TD
Earlier
Ormandy conducting Tchaikovsky as channelled by Bogatryev
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_in_E_flat_(Tchaikovsky)
And then Variations on a Rococo Theme with Leonard Rose as cellist.
First listen to the symphony, which struck me as a sibling of the ballets more than the other symphonies...which is perhaps why PITch abandoned it, but it desrves to be better known: a melodically inventive piece.
Now
Leonhardt playing Bach's French Suites CD 48 of the SEON box.

[SimonNZ]

From the bog box.  Meh+.

That box has The Music Party's recording of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, doesn't it? Have you played that one yet? I seem to recall that was another of those "overplayed work made fresh again" albums.

[CRMS]

Richard Strauss - Ein Alpensinfonie
Saito Kinen Orch. / Daniel Harding

I had a vinyl recording of this work for decades but rarely played, finding it a bit too repetitive & over-the-top * but after watching a Berlin Philharmonic / Digital ConcertHall broadcast of it with Semyon Bychkov, I found it rather more interesting ... but still repetitive & over-the-top!  That did prompt me to go looking for a good recording of the work ... and I found this one.  Yes it is rather repetitive and over-the-top but fun in small doses!

* - Albeit not as much as the Sinfonia Domestica, but hey ... any piece that calls for 20 horns has something going for it!

[Todd]

That box has The Music Party's recording of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, doesn't it? Have you played that one yet? I seem to recall that was another of those "overplayed work made fresh again" albums.

Yes, and the disc is quite good. 

[Gurn Blanston]

Hi Gurn - I own that box and enjoy the performances - have 4 different recordings of these works (but of course all of the others are fewer discs) - guess that my other favorite (w/ 4 CDs) are the ones shown below - Dave

Hey, Dave,
Yes, Breitman & Rivest are the reigning champs, but they may be in for it for my money! I have Kuijken/Devos and in fact several others, all with their unique approach to the music, but the drive of Podger/Cooper is really a strong point for me.

[Todd]

D899.

[Wakefield]

Hey, Dave,
Yes, Breitman & Rivest are the reigning champs, but they may be in for it for my money! I have Kuijken/Devos and in fact several others, all with their unique approach to the music, but the drive of Podger/Cooper is really a strong point for me.

I bought the ultra complete cycle by Podger and Cooper as single disks and from the first one have been my absolute favourites. The interplay between Rachel and Gary is simply unsurpassable. 

[SimonNZ]

Leif Segerstam's Symphony No.15 "Reflections on the Eclipse" - cond. composer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKqRxgarjdc

[listener]

one of the Johann STRAUSS Jr. discs in the Marco Polo series, no.11, the Perpetuum Mobile is the only familiar piece.

[arkiv]

Leif Segerstam's Symphony No.15 "Reflections on the Eclipse" - cond. composer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKqRxgarjdc

I didn't know this composer.
Now I'm perceiving his #253 "Crazily alone at Christmas, but in the family of universes of sounds" (2011).