What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

Streaming:

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Let me know what you think, Wanderer. Is your opinion different than Brian's?

[Karl Henning]

More Liszt, still!

Rapsodie hongroise, S.244 № 1 in f minor
NY Phil
Lenny

[Drasko]

[bhodges]

I'm quite happy listening to my (2) CD of Grisey's Les Espaces Acoustiques! 

Which recording? I have the Kairos below, but have heard the other one on Accord is even better. In any case, a masterpiece.

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--Bruce

[Harry]

Gentle music from this unknown composer

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/08/gentili-giorgio-c1669-c1737-trio.html?spref=tw

[Brian]

First-Listen Fridays with Lenny!

von Rezniček
Overture to Donna Diana
NY Phil
Lenny

How've you not heard that piece on the radio a dozen times already?!

Fresh from the mail
Schumann
Kreisleriana
Schuch

Ooonly the best.

[North Star]

Ooonly the best.

That is quite possible. Of course, there will always be some room for different interpretations, but ever since I heard this recording of the Kreisleriana, I knew it was good enough for me.

Thread duty
Ravel
Miroirs
Schuch

[Karl Henning]

How've you not heard that piece on the radio a dozen times already?!

Just lucky, I guess 

[Madiel]

Haydn, Symphony No. 101 ("The Clock").

I'm willing to use nicknames when they so clearly relate to the music.

22 symphonies down, only 1 more to go...

[king ubu]

[Madiel]

Haydn again, Symphony no.104.

Phew. Now I just have to figure out for the sake of that Haydn poll (or my own sanity), which of my top 7 become my top 3.

Guess I'll just have to listen to 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102 and 103 again...

[Karl Henning]

Guess I'll just have to listen to 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102 and 103 again...

There are worse fates.

(Not going to suggest any.)

[aligreto]

Brahms: German Requiem [Rattle]....





This is a very sensitive reading from Rattle; it sounds like one is genuinely mourning a bereavement. The orchestral forces seem somehow lighter than other versions but not in a bad way. It is like Rattle is letting the chorus take the full weight of responsibility for the performance. This they certainly do with wonderful singing and once again I really like the balance/texture of the chorus. I have always like this version.

[aligreto]

It's excellent (a tad less incisive than some other versions I like - not a complaint). I saw a splendid performance of it in Vienna recently (during Mass no less). I already have the Hickox/Collegium Musicum 90 Schöpfungsmesse (got it when it was first released) and have listened to most of their issues as they became available; the boxset is in the wishlist for quite some time.

Lucky you 

[Madiel]

There are worse fates.

(Not going to suggest any.)

Heck, there would be far worse fates than listening to the bottom 7 from this run-through. There isn't a bad piece among them (symphonies 82-104), it was just a question of separating the pleasant from the truly moving. Purely subjective of course, but I certainly wouldn't object to hearing any of the "Paris" symphonies for example even though none of them quite made the cut.

[aligreto]

Europadisc has a 25% off offer on all Alsop discs until the 18th.

I think that her Brahms is worth investigating for those who have not heard it.

[Ken B]

I think that her Brahms is worth investigating for those who have not heard it.

In a masochistic fashion? Her 2 is the worst I can recall hearing. I stopped there.

TD
Stravinsky, VC, Hahn/Marriner

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Copland
Symphonic Ode (1928-29)
SFS
MTT

[aligreto]

In a masochistic fashion? Her 2 is the worst I can recall hearing. I stopped there.

No, I am not masochistic, I just happen to like Alsop's Brahms.

[Mandryka]

Andrea Lucchesini plays the very dramatic Berio sonata. A half hour long coherent sweep in which this poor little b flat tries to  overcome a bunch of very nasty attacks by the other notes on the piano.