What are you listening to now - I ?

[Roehre]

Today:

Dukas (R3: CotW):
Etude-vocalise „Alla Gitana” (p.1909)
Piano sonate in e-flat minor (1900)

Liszt (Hyperion/Howard vol.2):
2 Ballades S.170-171
2 Legends S.175
Berceuse S.174
Impromptu S.191
Klavierstück in A flat major S.189
2 Polonaises S.223

Schönberg:
Variations for wind band opus 43a (1943)

Blacher:
Divertimento for wind orchestra opus 7 (1936)

Hartmann:
Symphony no.5 “Concertante” (version for wind orchestra) (1950)

[StephenO]

New pressies that arrived in the post :-)

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 & 3
RLPO/Petrenko

Walton: Belshazzer's Feast
LSO/Davis

Walton: Symphony No. 1
LSO/Davis

Good choices!

Me - currently listening to Sibelius 7 (LSO/Davis)

[Roehre]

Today:

Dukas (R3: CotW)
Variations, Interlude and finale on a theme by Rameau

Liszt (Hyperion/Howard New Discoveries 3):
Wilde Jagd : Scherzo S.176a
28 Album-leafs
Wagner-, Berlioz- and Wielhorsky-transcriptions

Massenet:
Suite for orchestra no.7 “Suite alsacienne” (1881)

Debussy:
Nocturnes
Berceuse élégiaque

[BBMmk2]

Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 6. San Francisco Symphony, Blomstedt.

[Petrushka]

Glanert: Theatrum Bestarium
Concertgebouw/Stenz

Beethoven: Symphony No 9
Concertgebouw/Jochum

[Bryn]

Beethoven - Grosse Fuge, in "Moving Surround" on this DVD-Audio:



It has to be heard to be believed. Bizarre just does not begin to describe it. Fortunately I also have the straight forward CD version of the same recording. The "Real Surround" version on the same DVD Audio disc is not so bad. It simply puts the listener in the middle of the quartet, with violins front left and right and viola and 'cello rear left and right respectively, but the "Moving Surround" not only has the four instruments moving around (virtually, of course) but wandering off into caverns etc. As I said, it has to be heard to be believed. I do like the performances, however.

[Roehre]

Today:

Dukas (R3: CotW)
Sonnet
Goetz von Berlichingen
La Péri
Villanelle
Plainte, au loin, d’un Faune

Liszt (Hyperion/Howard New Discoveries 3) i.a.:
Romancero espagnol S.695c
2 Pieces from Christus S.498c
Magnificat S.182a
3 Chansons S.510a

Takemitsu:
Requiem for Strings (1957) (R3: Po3)

Larcher:
Violin concerto (2008/’09) (R3: Po3)
[British Premiere of a concerto which IMO lacks harmonic as well as rhythmic tension, and sounds like a 1960s Penderecki piece after André Rieu has ironed out the biting bits)

[Bryn]

Beethoven - Grosse Fuge, in "Moving Surround" on this DVD-Audio ... It has to be heard to be believed.

So here is a 2 channel sample (taken from the 4 channel "Moving Real Surround" mix without any other modification apart from encoding to mp3) of the final 89 seconds of that Grosse Fuge recording.

[As ever, scroll down to the bottom right and use the "slow" option, ignoring the attempts to get you to pay.]

[Tapiola]

Listening to a 78 rpm of the Fete des Vignerons Festival in Vevey, Switzerland, 1927.

Magical.

[Threni]

Martinu: Symphony No. 3
RSNO/Bryden

Martinu: Symphony No. 4
RSNO/Bryden

[Dave2002]

Bryn

Have you heard that Auryn quartet disc? Is it really good? I guess that's your copy in the sample maybe?

This morning: Schnittke: Viola Concerto, Bashmet et al - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Concertos-Vi...9334664&sr=8-1

Recently: Mahler Symphony 1: Dudamel, LAPO (good, apart perhaps from the last movement)

Mahler Symphony 1: Abbado, BPO - On balance probably much better in the last movement than above.

Various songs, including:

Mahler: Ruckert Lieder (various artists)

Faure: Cinq melodies de Venise [no accents?]

Quilter Fair House of Joy - Ferrier, also Susan Bullock.

[Threni]

New Dudamel disc of Tchaikovsky fantasy overtures. Was very good :)


Now onto Glazunov symphonies

[Bryn]

Bryn

Have you heard that Auryn quartet disc? Is it really good? I guess that's your copy in the sample maybe?

Dave, I have the Auryn Beethoven string quartets survey in both Stereo CD and DVD Audio "Real Surround Sound" versions. The "Real Surround Sound" has its moments. Te "Moving Real Surround Sound" is bizarre, and an experience I would not want to repeat very often. The stereo CDs are very fine. I think it a shame that Tacet did not offer a straight, quartet in front of you, option on the DVD Audio discs.

[BBMmk2]

IMO, the Mahler bpoi/Abbado cycle is the best on the market at the moment.

N/S Solti's classic recording of Verdi's Aida.

[Threni]

Nielsen: Symphony No. 2
Blomstedt

Haydn: Seven Last Words from the Cross
Ferencsik

Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Rattle