What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[mahlerei]

And what better way to start the new year than with this:

Gustav MAHLER
Symphony No. 7
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mariss Jansons
Recorded live, 28-30 September 2016, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
RCO LIVE RCO17006 SACD

UK release: 19 January 2018

[BBMmk2]

And what better way to start the new year than with this:

Gustav MAHLER
Symphony No. 7
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mariss Jansons
Recorded live, 28-30 September 2016, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
RCO LIVE RCO17006 SACD

UK release: 19 January 2018

Now that looks super cool, Mahlerei!

[mahlerei]

Now that looks super cool, Mahlerei!

Hi Bbm

Pretty cool so far

All good wishes for 2018!

[BBMmk2]

Hi Bbm

Pretty cool so far

All good wishes for 2018!

Thanks/! To you too!

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.1, The Sea'.
Elizabeth Gale, Margeret Marshall, Robert Tear,,
Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral, LSO Chorus,
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra,
Richard Hickox.

[Stanfordian]

Mozart - Opera Arias - Peter Schreier
Arias from Don Giovanni, La Clemenza di Tito, Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Cosi fan tutte, Idomemeo, Die Zauberflote
Staatskapelle Dresden/Peter Schreier (tenor soloist & conductor)
Recorded 1989 Lukaskirche, Dresden
Philips

J.S. Bach
6 Sonatas for harpsichord and violin, BWV 1014-19
Giuliano Carmagnola (baroque violin) & Andrea Marcon (harpsichord)
Recorded 2000 Sala del Conclave, Isola di San Giorgio, Venice
Sony Classical
Such glorious music!

[richardfinegold]

I don’t like to dampen any ones New Years joy but I’ve always found Jansons Mahler well played—with Orchestras like the Concertgebouw and the Bavarians, how could they not be?—but very episodic. He plays individual sections well but always seems to lack a vision about the overall purpose
At any rate I’m nursing a hangover with the help of Chopin via Radio Venice. I’m trying to work up the fortitude to go exercise at Gym but it’s 6 degrees below Fahrenheit.

[BBMmk2]

I don’t like to dampen any ones New Years joy but I’ve always found Jansons Mahler well played—with Orchestras like the Concertgebouw and the Bavarians, how could they not be?—but very episodic. He plays individual sections well but always seems to lack a vision about the overall purpose
At any rate I’m nursing a hangover with the help of Chopin via Radio Venice. I’m trying to work up the fortitude to go exercise at Gym but it’s 6 degrees below Fahrenheit.

Stay in! (baby it's cold outside, as an old popular song said!)

[Alison]

I don’t like to dampen any ones New Years joy but I’ve always found Jansons Mahler well played—with Orchestras like the Concertgebouw and the Bavarians, how could they not be?—but very episodic. He plays individual sections well but always seems to lack a vision about the overall purpose
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Very true.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Very true.

[BBMmk2]

Very true.

Strange. I'm with Mahlerei, here.

Messiaen
La nativite du Seigneur; Offrande du Saint-Sacrement
Andrew Canning(Raffami organ Uppola Cathedral)

[Bryn]

Hi Bbm

Pretty cool so far

All good wishes for 2018!

I like my Mahler 7s somewhat hot, rather than cool. How would you compare this one to the Berlin Gielen?

[pastoralguy]

Starting as I mean to go on...

Bach. Goldberg Variations.

I'd intended to listen to Beatrice Rana's recording but I can't find it amongst the mass of CDs on my table so Murray Perahia will have to do!

[mahlerei]

I like my Mahler 7s somewhat hot, rather than cool. How would you compare this one to the Berlin Gielen?

Hi Bryn

Cool in the colloquial, street-cred sense, not the musical one Will have to haul out the Gielen - which I like very much - but I shall be comparing Jansons' new M7 with his BRSO one from 2007. He recorded another, also in 2007, that's part of his 13-CD radio set.

[mahlerei]

Very true.

Ali

I'm not a Jansons fan, but without giving too much away, this M7 is full of surprises...

[Petrushka]

I can't find it amongst the mass of CDs on my table!

Been there, done that! Was forced to clear my table of the mass of CDs for the festive period but, make no mistake, they'll be back.