What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

soulpope, I'm curious which Segerstam Sibelius cycle you prefer: Danish National SO or Helsinki PO?

Danish National SO hands down .... adventurous Sibelius with with edges but still a natural flow ....

[Referentzhunter]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

This RCA LP is Ormandy's second recording of Sibelius' Second Symphony. His first, for Columbia/Sony, is considered a "classic," but I like this later interpretation too.

indeed one of the classic's (Columbia Sony).

Edited November 12, 2019 by Referentzhunter

[Referentzhunter]

So nice to listen to. She has such a nice flow... 

Soler / Eight Sonatas * Granados / Seiz Piezas Sobre Cantos Populares Espanoles

[Referentzhunter]

15- 32- 6 Variations on an Original Theme * 32 Variations on a Walz of Diabelli

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Referentzhunter said:

So nice to listen to. She has such a nice flow... 

Soler / Eight Sonatas * Granados / Seiz Piezas Sobre Cantos Populares Espanoles

👍Yes👍 ....

[Marzz]

On 11/11/2019 at 8:24 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

Now included in this box:

Yes, that's the one  Good value too. I already had about half of the recordings and was still worth the price of the box for me. 

 

Just enjoyed the superb Dvorak/ Janacek / Martinu - Lieder disc from that set - Rudolf Firkusny with Gabriela Benackova.

next up Dvorak: Lieder - Bernada Fink & Roger Vignoles (harmonia mundi)

[soulpope]

59 minutes ago, Marzz said:

Just enjoyed the superb Dvorak/ Janacek / Martinu - Lieder disc from that set - Rudolf Firkusny with Gabriela Benackova.

👍Yes👍 ....

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Piano Sonata D.840

Dvorak - String Quartet No.12, Op.96 "American"

[Chuck Nessa]

Bartok Four Pieces for Orchestra, which is new to me, from this set

[Referentzhunter]

[soulpope]

Earlier today  ... :

[Marzz]

Frank Martin - In Terra Pax (rec.1963) & Violin Concerto (rec.1955) (cond. Ansermet) (Decca)

 

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[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

This afternoon:

[Larry Kart]

My first wife and I caught a Niquet performance of works by Charpentier in Paris some 12 or 15 years ago in the chapel of Les Invalides. The way the music rose to the large room's very high domed ceiling was magical; Charpentier was a master of manipulating sounds in space. Delighted, I wondered in passing what Morton Feldman would have made of what I was hearing. Walking to the performance  down a boulevard, we passed a mansion in which lots of elegantly dressed people had gathered for a party in brightly lit rooms. Later on we learned that it had been the home of the late cosmetics empress Helena Rubinstein.

[Marzz]

Trombone works from these 2 discs (Christian Lindberg) (BIS)

Frank Martin (Sonata for trombone and piano), Paul Hindemith (Sonata for trombone and piano) and George Walker (Concerto for trombone and orchestra) are the standouts for me.

   

[Alexander Hawkins]

For me now - the absolutely masterful Chopin Etudes (opp.10/25 and the Nouvelles Etudes) from this.

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, Alexander Hawkins said:

For me now - the absolutely masterful Chopin Etudes (opp.10/25 and the Nouvelles Etudes) from this.

Excellent ....

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Piano Trio No.1, D.898

[Referentzhunter]

Disc 2 & 3

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[Marzz]

Hindemith - Das Marienleben - Juliane Banse (soprano) (Alpha)

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[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Marzz said:

Hindemith - Das Marienleben - Juliane Banse (soprano) (Alpha)

Helmchen is excellent here ....

[Referentzhunter]

Mozart, Sonatas Nos. 9t/m11

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[Referentzhunter]

More Albeniz from disc 4