What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[johnQpublic]

Bach - Solo Violin Sonata in a minor (Sitkovetsky/Orfeo)
Telemann - Water Music (Goebel/Archive)

[Peregrine]

[Sergeant Rock]

Previously:




Currently: the D minor:




Sarge

[mikkeljs]

I just discovered Lili Boulanger  I don´t understand why she have never been talked about on gmg, so far I know. Her Psaume 130 and Faust and Helene is realy fantastic works of enormous strength.

[Lethevich]

Britten - Peter Grimes (Vickers, C. Davis, Covent Garden, Warner DVD). Listening to sound only ATM. This opera is so remarkable, just this one recording has made it shoot up into my favourites. It's probably the saddest and most claustrophobic work I know, at least among the ones that don't try too hard to be extreme.

Currently: the D minor

The best one

[Sergeant Rock]

The best one

Indeed...but I like the rustic (peasant dance) elements in the first movement of the Kaiser too. In fact, the entire opus 76 is a miracle.

Sarge

[Mark]

Silence. My wife and baby are sleeping ... at last.

[SonicMan46]

Beethoven - Piano Trios w/ Chung Trio; a re-listening for me - this is just a great bargain (2-CD package for $12 on Amazon USA) - great review on MusicWeb - 

[FideLeo]

[wilhelm]

[Drasko]

[Renfield]

By far my favourite Schumann 4th.

[Bonehelm]

By far my favourite Schumann 4th.

Is the Schumann the one with BPO or PO?

[Renfield]

Is the Schumann the one with BPO or PO?

BPO; the Brahms is with the Philharmonia.

[Peregrine]

Love that set!

[BachQ]

Brahms op. 15 in d minor (Bruno Leonardo Gelber / Decker)

[Solitary Wanderer]

Piano concerto #23

&

Rachmaninov ~  Symphony #2 Handley/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

[Lilas Pastia]

I just discovered Lili Boulanger  I don´t understand why she have never been talked about on gmg, so far I know. Her Psaume 130 and Faust and Helene is realy fantastic works of enormous strength.

She has been mentioned here and there. Every time someone 'discovered' her, in fact .  But unfortunately she still roams the outer fringe of the repertoire and has never made it to the core. Like Guillaume Lekeu she died very young and her production was therefore rather limited. There's a fine DG disc of her choral works.

[Solitary Wanderer]

You like it, then?

It's more intimate than my top choice (Sveshnikov's very first recording of the work from 1965), and has vastly better sound. The only slight quibble I have is that I'd have preferred a more reverential, pleading performance from the soloist in the 'Bless the Lord, O my soul'.

I didn't give it my full attention as LOML decided she needed help wrapping a large, oddly shaped gift for mailing to my niece, so it ended up as background music.

I liked what I heard, but I will listen again without interuption 

[bhodges]

Villa-Lobos: Sinfonietta No. 1 (1916) (Carl St. Clair / Stuttgart)

--Bruce