Your Easter listening - as most of us have a few days off

[Barbirollians]

Going to the seaside - taking Annie Fischer ICON box , Boult's VW box , Petrenko's Shostakovich 14 , Gardiner's old DG St Matthew Passion and Radu Lupu's Kreisleriana disc with me - what is your proposed Easter listening ?

[Richard Tarleton]

I'll be giving the Hilliards' Gesualdo Tenebrae a spin.....

[Alison]

Mendelssohn symphonies with Edward Gardner.

And Liszt at the Opera (Louis Lortie).

I quite fancy giving Elgar's The Apostles an airing if I can find it!

Happy Easter one and all.

[Barbirollians]

Mendelssohn symphonies with Edward Gardner.

And Liszt at the Opera (Louis Lortie).

I quite fancy giving Elgar's The Apostles an airing if I can find it!


Happy Easter one and all.

Do let us know about the Gardner disc - I still have not heard a performance of the Reformation that has converted me to the work . I love the Italian Symphony though.

[Black Swan]

I'll be giving the Hilliards' Gesualdo Tenebrae a spin.....

Same here.
Also Thomas Luis de Victoria

[teamsaint]

this is my intended list all things being equal. However, given that folks are visiting in vast numbers,I expect this list to exit window style.

Haydn . Seven last words. Borodin quartet.

Some more of my new Ornette Coleman 6 cd set.

Walter piston Symphonies 6/7/8. Louisville orchestra.

Hopefully work my may through some more Schnittke Symphonies.

Also rather more likely to hear some more of the Harmonia Mundi " Music of the Enlightenment" set.

But I'll probably get distracted by some excellent board recommendations. All to the good though.

Happy Easter listening to all.

[Nick Armstrong]

Do let us know about the Gardner disc - I still have not heard a performance of the Reformation that has converted me to the work . I love the Italian Symphony though.

I waxed lyrical about it here: http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...347#post385347

It's a stunner on every level, I think

[verismissimo]

Viviana Sofronitsky's HIP set of Mozart piano concertos - which I'm already enjoying greatly. And a 2 x CD set of the Aussie soprano from the 1970s, Nance Grant.

[Rolmill]

The Hogwood disc of Mozart's Coronation and C minor masses just arrived today (thanks vinteuil!), so that will be first on the list. After which, as much of the following as family and other commitments will allow:

JSB's St John Passion (New College).
Biber's Mystery Sonatas (Holloway).
RVW Dona Nobis Pacem (Hickox).
Vasari Singers' Music for Holy Week (Lotti, D Scarlatti, Palestrina, Allegri etc).
L'Arpeggiata's Via Crucis.
Gabrieli Consort's Easter Mass in Venice

Then I intend to continue meandering through from the Oistrakh complete EMI recordings box (backlog from Christmas!).

[EdgeleyRob]

Do let us know about the Gardner disc - I still have not heard a performance of the Reformation that has converted me to the work . I love the Italian Symphony though.

Not even BPO Karajan Barbs ?,sublime Andante.

My boss very kindly sent me home today with some work to do over the weekend!,but it'll be time and a half and only a few hours.

Main listening project will be the Henze Symphonies,BRSO Janowski.

[Petrushka]

Recent purchases include the Karajan Vienna PO set 1946-1949, the Giulini London Years box and the Karl Böhm symphonies set. Only the Giulini set is completely unknown to me (the Rossini Overtures aside) and it's full of treasures.

Anybody wanting to hear a live 1970 St Matthew Passion under Eugen Jochum can find one here: http://concerthuis.radio4.nl/concert...hum?work=18178

I doubt if I'll have the time for this or Parsifal.

[Barbirollians]

Not even BPO Karajan Barbs ?,sublime Andante.

My boss very kindly sent me home today with some work to do over the weekend!,but it'll be time and a half and only a few hours.

Main listening project will be the Henze Symphonies,BRSO Janowski.

I have that on cassette somewhere and will dig it out - I remember finding the Rhenish with which it was coupled somewhat stodgy but have no memory of the Reformation recording.

[jayne lee wilson]

Panufnik, David Matthews, Venzago's Bruckner, Segerstam's Reger.... as time and energy allow ...

Yes, that Gardner/CBSO Mendelssohn 4 and 5 is a great Chandos CD! A trim and agile band in a very palpable, spacious, reverberant acoustic (Town Hall Birmingham), playing with great passion and energy... just occasionally I craved a little more character or textural individuality from soloists or orchestra at lower levels... which I found on the MDG Gold disc of Mendelssohn 1/5 with Musikkollegium Winterthur/Thomas Zehetmair... this one is much more idiosyncratic though; MJ in IRR was pretty negative about it, RC in Gramophone loved No.5, less so No.1... I preferred 1 to 5! Quite the consensus then...

But crucially - I really want to hear them all again... sometime...

[kea]

[Pabmusic]

I've just finished Sakari Oramo's wonderful (truly!) recording of Elgar 2 with the Royal Stockholm PO, complete with organ pedal.

I'm not going to restrict myself to Elgar, but I might well give Oramo's Dream a spin.