What are you listening to now - I ?

[gradus]

Bit of a Beecham evening:
Scherezade
Messiah excerpts
Brigg Fair
The performances are all you could wish for and the EMI recordings are very good indeed.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Sir Tom Allen singing Hugo Wolf (Virgin Classics twofer paired with a Brahms recital). He's a bit high for me to sing along with (Hans Hotter is my perfect duet partner) but still very pleasing.

Though were she in earshot, Mrs MartinePecheur would probably feel 'non-singalong' to be a considerable advantage of Sir Tom's disc

[Bryn]

Beethoven Op. 109, 110 & 111 - Alexei Lubimov (fortepiano by Alois Graff, 1828). Um, WOW!

[BBMmk2]

The current BBCMM cover cd of Mahler's 8th

'Allegri Misserre'. Tallis Scholars, Peter Philips.

The latest imstalment from that great festival in Lugano. Last years. Marttha Argerich & Freinds.

[EdgeleyRob]

Britten Cello Symphony/Sinfonia da Requiem/Cantata Misericordium - Britten/Rostropovich/Fischer-Dieskau .

[Mahlerei]

d'Indy: Orchestral Works Vol. 4
Iceland SO/Gamba

I have Vols 1 & 4 but will now add 2 & 3 to my wihlist.

[Threni]

Stravinsky: Threni
Concertgebouw/Haitink (live 18/2/68)

Not managed to get hold of that one Petrushka. Very rare haha

[BBMmk2]

Not managed to get hold of that one Petrushka. Very rare haha

Was that part of that massive boxed set?

Currently spinning: Byrd. 'Music for Holy Week & Easter'. The Cardinal's Musick, Andrew Carwood.

[Threni]

Ye it was brassbander, so second hand on amazon is rediculous for just one piece!


Just booked for this in Birmingham in June so thought I'd spend an evening listening to it:

Wagner: Das Rheingold
Karl Bohm

[Threni]

Wagner: Die Walkure
Karl Bohm

[BBMmk2]

First thing this morning before the kiddies turn up:

Bliss: Piano Concereto8; March of Hommage. Philip Fowke*(piano), RLPO, Atherton.
Hymn to Apollo; Cello Concerto*; Colour Symphony; Checkmate. Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley.

This evening:-

Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor. (Taken from the Domingo 70th Birtrhday Collection).

[Roehre]

Today:

Bruckner:
Symphony in B-flat (1869)- sketch for 1st mvt

Nozeman:
6 Sonate per violino-solo e bc opus 1 (p.1725)

[Petrushka]

Mahler: Symphony No 8
BBCSSO/Runnicles

BBCMM CD

Not as good as I'd hoped. Recording level is too low necessitating a hefty lift of the volume control and therefore robbing the performance of impact. Soloists are too distantly recorded.

[Auferstehen2]

What else?

Vaughan Williams - The London Symphony, No 2, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley.

Mario

[BBMmk2]

Mahler: Symphony No 8
BBCSSO/Runnicles

BBCMM CD

Not as good as I'd hoped. Recording level is too low necessitating a hefty lift of the volume control and therefore robbing the performance of impact. Soloists are too distantly recorded.

Glad I was'nt the only one who thought those pointers to, Petroushka