What are you listening to now?

[Florestan]

Haydn, Joseph - Early Divertimenti & Music Esterhazy/King Naples w/ Huss and the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien - will spend the next several days on these sets (11 total discs) -   Dave

 

Pure bliss, both.

And if one adds this set



then the joy is multiplied. 

But of course, one can never have too much Haydn.

[Karl Henning]

Сергей Сергеевич [ Sergei Sergeyevich (Prokofiev) ]
«Стальной скок», соч. 41 [ Le pas d'acier, Opus 41 ] (1925-26)
West German Radio Orchestra – Köln
Jurowski

[listener]

recent arrivals, first listen
GINASTERA: Concerto for Strings, Estudios Sinfonicos, Glosses sobre temes de Pau Casals , Iubilum
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin   Arturo Tamayo, cond
String Octets by SVENDSEN  and BRUCH
Tharice Virtuosi 

[Karl Henning]

No surprise:

Сергей Сергеевич [ Sergei Sergeyevich (Prokofiev) ]
«Блудный сын», соч. 46 [ L'enfant prodigue, Opus 46 ] (1928-29)
West German Radio Orchestra – Köln
Jurowski

[Madiel]

Unwinding from a long day with the G major sonata, D.894

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Apparently I've haven't listened to 3 of the last 4 piano sonatas since November 2009...

[North Star]

Brahms
Ballades, Op. 10
Intermezzi, Op. 117
Gould

[ritter]

Good afternoon, Karlo!

Some piano muisc here as well (but homegrown  ):

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The Suite española, op. 47...music I remember from my earliest childhood, even if I haven't listened to it for a while.

[Mirror Image]

Good morning/afternoon all!

Now playing:



Listening to the Oboe Concerto. Fantastic work and performance.

[Karl Henning]

LvB
Symphony № 4 in B^b, Op.60
Gewandausorchester
Masur

[Mister Sharpe]

Wishlisted.

[Karl Henning]

The Harpsichord Concerto is a great little piece.

[aligreto]

Alfven: Symphony No. 4 -





This was indeed a huge improvement for me over Symphony No. 1. It is a really wonderful work for the most part but I do not like the vocal elements. Perhaps different soloists would solve that issue but not sure as I thought that the vocal writing was not as strong as the instrumental writing in this piece.

[GioCar]

Feldman: Piano Piece 1952 (S. Osborne)

How to fill the space around you with just a sequence of tiny, easy, simple notes.

A fantastic piece.

[Spineur]

Brahms, Ein deutsche requiem, Rudolf Kempe, St Edwige Kathedral chorus, Berlin Phikarmoniker.
A Jo498 & aligreto recommendation.

Great chorus.  The sound is quite resonnable considering the recording date

[SimonNZ]

Géry de Ghersem's Missa Ave Virgo Sanctissima - Erik van Nevel, cond.

[king ubu]

earlier, from the big Gould box (arrived today!  )



now, to end the day:

[aligreto]

Monteverdi: Motets [Alessandrini]....

[aligreto]

Brahms, Ein deutsche requiem, Rudolf Kempe, St Edwige Kathedral chorus, Berlin Phikarmoniker.
A Jo498 & aligreto recommendation.

Great chorus.  The sound is quite resonnable considering the recording date

I am glad that you liked the choral singing; it is indeed quite wonderful. This version should be better known.

[André]

Debussy:Pelléas et Mélisande, Ansermet's OSR first version. Danco, Mollet, Rehfuss.

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Varèse: Amériques. 6 different versions. That was a friend's idea of a present for my/our last musical listening session. I don't know if I'll survive the ordeal.

[Kontrapunctus]

I started with disc 2. These are not her early DG recordings--they are from 1960 when she was 18 and were recorded by the North German Radio. The sound is mono but actually is quite decent. Besides, nothing could dim the brilliance of her playing, especially the blowtorch intensity of the last movement of Prokofiev's 7th Sonata. Perhaps too fast for every line to clearly come across, but lordy...