What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Robert Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze; Kreisleriana / Géza Anda (DG)

I've never heard anyone play this repertoire better than Anda. 

Would concur regarding "Kreisleriana", nevertheless outstanding Schumann readings ....

[soulpope]

Recorded @ Royal Festival Hall in November 1991 .... 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Now on my turntable:

Brahms: Four Serious Songs and other vocal works / Janet Baker, André Previn, and others (Angel, 1978)

[HutchFan]

More BRAHMS:

Brahms' first orchestral work is wonderfully assured for someone who's just dipping his toe in the pool.

Down a silly rabbit hole: The image on this album cover should feature the young, virile, clean-shaven Brahms -- not the weary, old, big-bearded sage.  For example:

An image like this one is much more accurate timeline-wise. 

Sorry not sorry for the pedantry!   

 

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.5

[HutchFan]

[Referentzhunter]

[mikeweil]

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 46.

[HutchFan]

Hermann Scherchen - The 1950s Haydn Symphonies Recordings (DG, 2003)
Recordings originally made for Westminster with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Wiener Symphoniker

Disc 3: Symphonies No. 93; No. 94 "The Surprise"; and No. 104 "London"

I was reading in the liner notes that, at the time of their release, musicologist H. C. Robbins Landon described these recordings as "brilliant, intellectual, honest, uncompromising, and eccentric."  

I'd say those words sum up Scherchen's music-making in general.   

 

[Referentzhunter]

[Peter Friedman]

K.515  and  K.516

[Ron S]

Saint-Saens, Symphony No. 3 / Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" / French Military March / Danse macabre / Carnival of the Animals

Eugene Ormandy, E. Power Biggs (organ, symphony), Philadelphia Orchestra, Miscellaneous classical stars, e.g., Entremont, Tortelier, Ma, etc. (Carnival) (Sony)

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

14 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

K.515  and  K.516

Outstanding ....

[HutchFan]

Copland performed by his foremost advocate.  

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 as heard on this set:

Containing three TOP-TIER symphony cycles -- Beethoven's (with the LSO), Brahms' (with the LPO), and Bruckner's (with the Staatskapelle Dresden) -- this set is heard often at my house.   

 

[mjzee]

Reinhard Goebel Complete Archiv box, disc 32.

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

Disc 2: Schumann Symphony #4, Beethoven Symphony #4, Leonore Overture #3.

[Ron S]

Nielsen, Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5

Michael Schonwandt, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Dacapo)