What are you listening to now?

[not edward]

Having acquired this collection, I had a lot of trouble deciding what to listen to first... so I'm going through it in order.

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So far it's been pretty German: Stockhausen, Hartmann, Reimann, Widmann, Pintscher (everything except the Widmann being new to me).

Now up: disc 3, which is a bit more varied, though of the works on it (Xenakis, Dillon, Furrer and Scelsi) Dillon's La navette is the only one I've not heard.

[Todd]

More Mozart violin sonatas.

[king ubu]

You seem like someone who should listen to Four Saints in Three Acts!

Had to look this up - sounds interesting for sure! Alas, there seems to be no recording currently available (except for those ridiculous fantasy prices on evil A's marketplace).

[Drasko]

Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
Giuliano Carmignola, violin

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I know Carmignola has done a lot of excellent recordings after his departure from the Sonatori; but I have never enjoyed more his playing than when he played with them. 

That was the first period instruments recording of that piece I ever heard. Loved it then, love it now. Still my favorite Four Seasons. Last played it maybe just two or three days ago.

[Ken B]

Had to look this up - sounds interesting for sure! Alas, there seems to be no recording currently available (except for those ridiculous fantasy prices on evil A's marketplace).

For all its flaws you want Thomson's 1947 mono recording of an abridgement. There is a good clip of the first 10 minutes on Youtube.

TD
Robert Moran's absurdly beautiful Trinity Requiem, 2011

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Piston at play: Symphonies 1,2

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[Mookalafalas]

finally making headway into the big Yo Yo box. 

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Listening to Hiketides. I find the last couple of minutes to be some of the most moving in all of music. An elegy perhaps.

[Todd]

[amw]

This Kreisleriana is legit as f#$*ck

edit: Fantasy is also pretty legit, maybe 1-2 cusswords less so at most

[listener]

music on the Brodino Vegezzi Bossi organ of Sacro Cuore Church, Cuneo, Italy
LISZT: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H, transcription of Bach sonata BWV1017- Adagio,  RINCK: Rondo, Polibio FUMAGALLI: Capriccio 'La Caccia', Léonce de SAINT-MARTIN: Carillon de la Suite Cyclique,  BURTONWOOD: Rhapsody, + GUILMANT, BOSSI, DEBUSSY and GURIDI
Massimo Nosetti, organ
-----on DVD:  RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF: Mlada
Bolshhoi Opera      Alexander Lazarev, cond

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Listening to Tevot. Very cool work.

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Listening to Tevot. Very cool work.

[Moonfish]

Verdi: Il Trovatore              Price/Domingo/Milnes/CossottoAmbrosian Opera Chorus/New Philharmonia O/Mehta         

Loved it! I am getting quite fond of Verdi's music!

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Listening to Symphony No. 6. Extraordinary performance from Berglund/Bournemouth SO.

[Moonfish]

Brahms: Symphony No 4; Tragic Overture          Wiener Philharmoniker/Bernstein

[Mookalafalas]

A barrage of Bernstein boxes...

  Am listening to the Piston, Hill and Schuman disc in this:

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Listening to Symphony No. 6. Extraordinary performance from Berglund/Bournemouth SO.

That's an absolutely outstanding collection all around!

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That's an absolutely outstanding collection all around!

Indeed.

[RebLem]

In the last few days, I have listened to the following:

Volume 41 of the complete RCA Toscanini recordings, an all-Beethoven disc with the NBC Sym. Orch. from Studio 8H.   Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 (38:26)--Jascha Heifetz, violin, rec.  11 MAR 1940   |    Piano Concerto 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 (32:37)--Artur Rubinstein, piano, rec. 29 OCT 1944.

I have never been a big Rubinstein fan, except for his Chopin and a few chamber works he recorded with Henryk Szerying and/or Pierre Fournier, and I see nothing in this performance to change my mind.     Heifetz is not one of my favorite violinists either, but that's just a personal feeling; he just doesn't seem an exciting player.  He looked more like a high school basketball coach than a violinist.  Nevertheless, he is one of the great ones; I have absolutely no doubt about that and this performance is particularly subtle and elegant.  It is hurt a bit by the poor sound quality even for 1940--I recall, for example, Mengelberg performances from 1940 that sound better.  My personal favorite Beethoven Violin Concerto is the one by Grumiaux/Galleira, though others have told me other perfomances by Grumiaux which I have not heard are even better.

CD 2 of the 11 CD Sony  box of Schoenberg performances conducted by Pierre Boulez.   Serenade for clarinet, bass clarinet, mandolin, guitar, violin, viola, cello and a deep male voice, Op. 24 (33:54)   |   Five pieces for orchestra, Op. 16 {13:11)   |   Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for string quartet, piano, and speaker, Op.  41 (16:23)--BBC Sym. Orch. in Five Pieces, Ensemble Intercontemporain in the Serenade and the Ode.  John Sirley-Quick, baritone in Serenade, David Wilson-Johnson, speaker on the Ode.

My favorite piece here is definitely the Serenade.  Sharp and piquant, it maintains interest rathe better than the other two two works.

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Listening to Tevot. Very cool work.

Indeed. I really like his VC, too -- even though the opening is a little too close to the opening of Ligeti's.