What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

Englund: Piano Concerto No. 1....





First listen and what exciting and energetic music and very well performed.

[North Star]

Très aimable.

It's an easy hit?

[Karl Henning]

It's an easy hit?

If the Schoenberg Op.42 lacks anything, it must be a rimshot 

[North Star]

If the Schoenberg Op.42 lacks anything, it must be a rimshot 

Hah!

Thread duty

Haydn
String Quartets, Op. 33
Quatuor Mosaïques

[Wanderer]

This is the piece to suggest to the "I can enjoy some Schoenberg, only none of the serial works, thank you very much" set.  Très aimable.

Are you familiar with the Skalkottas piano concertos, Karl? They can be even more engaging.

[Karl Henning]

Are you familiar with the Skalkottas piano concertos, Karl? They can be even more engaging.

Not as yet, Tasos; I am sure that I ought to be 

[André]

Bruckner: symphony no. 9. Kubelik and the BP, then Schuricht and the WP.

Danielpour: Celestial Night. Urban Dances. Philharmonia Orchestra, Zdenek Macal (Sony).

[HIPster]

Bruckner: symphony no. 9. Kubelik and the BP, then Schuricht and the WP.

Hi Andre,

Listening to the Ninth as well:

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I am just forming an interest in the symphonies of Bruckner.  This recording was recent purchase and even though it's not well-regarded in the Bruckner thread, I quite like it.

Danielpour: Celestial Night. Urban Dances. Philharmonia Orchestra, Zdenek Macal (Sony).

Is this a recommended starting point for Danielpour?  Thanks.

[Brian]

First listen to any of Šejna's Dvořák recordings.

[André]

Hi Andre,

Listening to the Ninth as well:

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I am just forming an interest in the symphonies of Bruckner.  This recording was recent purchase and even though it's not well-regarded in the Bruckner thread, I quite like it.

Is this a recommended starting point for Danielpour?  Thanks.

I haven't heard the 9th under Abbado. But his big grin on the cover seems quite inappropriate to the music at hand. What was DGG thinking ? 

Danielpour: yes, it's a good starting point, although I think this one is even better:

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It was originally released on Delos with a different cover art. I like this disc very much.

[Brian]

Inspired by aligreto, revisiting an old friend in Einar Englund.



Like aligreto, I'm listening to Symphony No. 2 "Blackbird" and Piano Concerto No. 1.

[HIPster]

I haven't heard the 9th under Abbado. But his big grin on the cover seems quite inappropriate to the music at hand. What was DGG thinking ? 

Danielpour: yes, it's a good starting point, although I think this one is even better:

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It was originally released on Delos with a different cover art. I like this disc very much.

Thank you! 

Both are wislisted.

I have a hunch that DGG was more into marketing Abbado first and foremost here.

[NikF]

Mahler: 4th - Bernstein/NYP.

[Mirror Image]

Mahler: 4th - Bernstein/NYP.

Very nice. Love that symphony, especially that performance.

[listener]

Composers whose Surnames Start with an "S"
SVEINSSON: 3 Piano Trios        Hyperion Trio
SIBELIUS:  Incidental Music to "Jedermann" op. 83   2 Serious Melodies for violin and Orch. op.77   In Memoriam op. 59
Turku Philharmonic Orch.    Segerstam, cond.
Bernard STEVENS:  Piano COncerto   Dance Suite  Variations
Martin Roscoe, piano    National S.O. of Ireland,  Leaper, cond.
Johann STAMITZ: 3 Orchestral Trios op. 1, op. 4/1
NZ. Chamber O.   David Armstrong, cond.
The Stevens disc - easy 20thC., modal modern, not hard to follow with lots of variation in orchestration and rhythm.
Sveinsson's Trios sound academic dodecaphonic

[Mirror Image]

I haven't heard the 9th under Abbado. But his big grin on the cover seems quite inappropriate to the music at hand. What was DGG thinking ? 

Quite agreed. Horrible cover and Abbado isn't up to par as a Brucknerian either. He doesn't have the right feel for this composer at all. Personally, I never understood why him and Bernstein even conducted Bruckner. Bernstein's recordings of Bruckner's 9th are some of the worst recordings of this symphony I've ever heard. Talk about no feeling whatsoever for the composer.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Konzertmusik, Op. 50. Great stuff.

[Brian]

Quite agreed. Horrible cover and Abbado isn't up to par as a Brucknerian either. He doesn't have the right feel for this composer at all. Personally, I never understood why him and Bernstein even conducted Bruckner. Bernstein's recordings of Bruckner's 9th are some of the worst recordings of this symphony I've ever heard. Talk about no feeling whatsoever for the composer.

Well, I know what I'm listening to tomorrow. 

[Mirror Image]

Well, I know what I'm listening to tomorrow. 

Handel's Messiah?

[aligreto]

Sibelius: Finlandia and Rautavaara: Cantus Articus from this CD....