What are you listening to now - I ?

[Alison]

Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 in c minor; CSO/Haitink

HD

I fancy you prefer the earlier LPO account. Somehow Haitink allows me to lose concentration as I listen to the Chicago Fourth.

[Stanfordian]

Schubert: Mass No. 2
Gounod: Solemn Mass (Saint Cecilia Mass)
Luba Orgonášová (soprano); Christian Elsner (tenor); Gustáv Beláček (bass)
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons
Recorded live 2007, Herkulessaal, Munich
BR Klassik

‘Bei dir Allein!’ - Schubert Songs
Camilla Tilling (soprano) & Paul Rivinius (piano)
Recorded 2010 Potton Hall, Suffolk
BIS SACD

Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Vic Dickenson, Teddy Wilson, Freddie Green, Gene Ramey & Jo Jones:
‘Jazz Giants 56’
Verve (1956)

[Pianorak]

Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonatas 1 & 2
Maria Lettberg - superb playing and beautifully recorded.
(Capriccio)


Gabriel Fauré
Nocturnes 1 to 7 - can't believe I ever liked those
Impromptus 2 to 5 - bravura performances of these brilliant pieces
Kathryn Stott
(hyperion)

[pastoralguy]

Mozart. Divertimentos K. 136, 137 & 138. The Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan. 'Big Band' Mozart that's not heard these days but, boy, is it well played?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Really? I haven't heard it for a long time but I remember the end of the second movement being a bit of a mess in that recording...

Yes, the Snare Drummer's aim fails him/her a few times, doesn't it! Spoils the rhythmic reduction of the main Scherzo motif. Wonderful recorded sound for the Tuba/Contrabassoon presentation of the Trio tune at fig147, though.

[HighlandDougie]

Taking a break from the Callas-fest:

James MacMillan: A Deep but Dazzling Darkness & Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Gordan Nikolic, Colin Currie, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic/The Composer

Jonathan Harvey: Madonna of Winter and Spring
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic/Peter Eötvös

George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon & Antara
Ross Pople, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark Elder/London Sinfonietta, The Composer

I'm still not wholly sure about MacMillan as a composer (I think that Edashtav had it about right in a post on him some months ago) but V,V,E wears well. The Jonathan Harvey is, to my ears, a masterpiece, as are the two Benjamin pieces, which are great personal favourites.

I was going to play Harrison Birtwistle's Earth Dances but somehow after the Benjamin it wouldn't have seemed quite right.

'Lucia di Lammermoor' here I come.

[Black Swan]

Taking a break from the Callas-fest:

James MacMillan: A Deep but Dazzling Darkness & Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Gordan Nikolic, Colin Currie, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic/The Composer

Jonathan Harvey: Madonna of Winter and Spring
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic/Peter Eötvös

George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon & Antara
Ross Pople, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Mark Elder/London Sinfonietta, The Composer

I'm still not wholly sure about MacMillan as a composer (I think that Edashtav had it about right in a post on him some months ago) but V,V,E wears well. The Jonathan Harvey is, to my ears, a masterpiece, as are the two Benjamin pieces, which are great personal favourites.

I was going to play Harrison Birtwistle's Earth Dances but somehow after the Benjamin it wouldn't have seemed quite right.

'Lucia di Lammermoor' here I come.

Very interesting. I to share your opinion of MacMillan as with you excepting V, V, E. I do not know the other pieces but do have several Harvey CD's and enjoy them very much.
I also do not know Benjamin's work but have considered buying the disc you are listening to today.

[Black Swan]

Today I am listening to a new CD that arrived today.

La Lira D'Esperia II
Galicia
Alfonso X O Sabio - Anonimos
Dancas, Cantigas & Cantos da terra

Jordi Savall
Pedro Estevan

I also see that an excerpt is featured on tomorrow's BAL.

[Roehre]

Today I am listening to a new CD that arrived today.

La Lira D'Esperia II
Galicia
Alfonso X O Sabio - Anonimos
Dancas, Cantigas & Cantos da terra

Jordi Savall
Pedro Estevan

I also see that an excerpt is featured on tomorrow's BAL.

Are there also extracts from King Alfonso's Canigas de Santa Maria included?

[Black Swan]

Roehre,

Included: Ductia de Santa Maria.

Evidently, this is a CD following La Lira d'Esperia which was released 20 years ago. I will have to read the booklet to learn more.

[Bryn]

Following on from the Daniel Raiskin recording of Shostakovich's 4th Symphony, String Quartets 1 to 3, plus the Duo for Violin and Viola by Arthur Lourie (Utrecht String Quartet, of which Daniel Raiskin was the violist).

[Petrushka]

Bruckner: Symphony No 8
Wiener Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwangler

Recorded in the Musikverein, Vienna, 70 years ago this very day, October 17 1944.

[Roehre]

Today:

Bartok:
Concerto for orchestra

Henkemans:
Violin concerto (1950)

Ockeghem
Au Travail suis
Missa Au Travail suis

[Dave2002]

Beethoven:
String quartet no 10 in E flat, "Harp", Op 74
A very early recoding by the Tokyo quartet from 1971, shortly after the quartet was formed.

http://open.spotify.com/album/59PlCEHrfRh0aNeHOQFVdr

[soileduk]

Pehr Nordgren

Sinfonia No.7

Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Juha Kangas.