What are you listening to now?

[listener]

IVES: the Three Orchestral Sets
Malmö S.O. and chamber Chorus   James Sinclair, cond.
HANSON: Symphony no.4, "Merry Mount" Suite, Serenade, Lament for Beowolf, Pastorale
Seattle S.O, NY Chamber Symphony of the 92nd Street Y.     Gerard Schwarz, cond.

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Symphonic Variations [Sejna]....





The performance of the Symphonic Variations is very robust and played with great expression; a wonderful performance.

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Lélio, ou le Retour à la Vie Op. 14b
Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale Op. 15

Digging into this box set for the first-time. I've owned this set for a year or so. First-rate music and performances. Got to love ol' Hector.

[HIPster]

Some outstanding Handel ~

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Thanks to Harry for forcing my hand with this purchase! 

My benchmark Water Music.  Really superb.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Taking my cue from the Fidelio discussion above. Mackerras/Scottish Chamber Orchestra, wonderfully casted!




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[ritter]

Taking my cue from the Fidelio discussion above. Mackerras/Scottish Chamber Orchestra, wonderfully casted!
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Indeed it looks very well casted. I'll take note of this one (and so should Spineur, I daresay  )

THREAD DUTY:

There's little music I find as refreshing for a warm summer evening as Igor Feodorovich's Concerto in E-flat major, Dumbarton Oaks. So tonight, before going to bed, I'm listening to it twice.

First, in the composer's own reduction for piano four hands...

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...and then in the orchestral version

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Happy Fourth of July to all our friends in the US, and good night to those of you this side of the Atlantic...

[king ubu]

[Kontrapunctus]

I prefer his romantic approach more than Schiff's straighter, non-pedaled approach after comparing them.

[Todd]

Disc 5.  The Hungarian Dances and Opp 78 and 79 works.  The Dances fare relatively better, being clean and rhythmically crisp.  The other works are certainly well played, but they lack something. 

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An outstanding 8th that fits on one disc. Even better! This recording deserves the acclaim it received. Makes me kind of wish Boulez had conducted at least the rest of the mature symphonies. Sigh...

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I'm currently listening to fireworks. Evidently, people have nothing better to do. I mean it's not like it's the 4th of July or anything.

[Spineur]

Indeed it looks very well casted. I'll take note of this one (and so should Spineur, I daresay  )

Thanks a lot Ritter and dancing diverimento.

So its going to be between Abbado&Mackerras

[Todd]

The Fourth.  I avoided buying this symphony individually because of Renee Fleming, and sure enough, she's not at all to my taste in the finale.  That's too bad because Abbado's light, swift, transparently balanced conducting makes even Boulez seem a bit opaque.  It's not as pristine as a studio effort, though.

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Listening to Mazeppa, S 100. Great stuff.

[Autumn Leaves]

Tonight's listening:



Symphony #6

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Listening to Mazeppa, S 100. Great stuff.

I really want to listen to this set soon!

[ritter]

Listening to the world première (in NYC on May 7th, 1977) of George Crumb's stunning Star-Child, with Irene Gubrud (sop.), and conducted by Pierre Boulez, David Gilbert, James Chambers, and Larry Newland. From this set that arrived today:

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Couldnt wait - listening to Hungarian Rhapsody #5

[Madiel]

Disc 3.

It's scarily obvious that you're going to reach the end of this set before I do.

I started in March 2012.

[Harry]

New acquisition. It might have been a corker, but is is not to be, a teacher of Vivaldi that falls far beneath his pupil's  excellence. So he was a good pedagogue but not so good as a composer.



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