What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Referentzhunter]

44 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

I grew up with Ciccolini's Satie and got them all, but since I heard Jean-Joel Barbier I find them too artificial.

I think Satie is such an enigma that can not be grasped (don't know of this is a correc translation). As a person elusive but a little superficial at times. 

44 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

I grew up with Ciccolini's Satie and got them all, but since I heard Jean-Joel Barbier I find them too artificial.

but i think i prefer other recordings to ... listening now to your preference 'Jean-Joel Barbier'.

Edited July 26, 2025 by Referentzhunter

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

String Quartet No.4  and  No.8

[HutchFan]

Now on my turntable:

Mahler: Sym. No. 6; Adagio from Sym. No. 10 / Kubelik, Bavarian Radio SO (DG, 1969)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Partitas No.1, 2, & 4

[HutchFan]

[mjzee]

Riccardo Muti - The Complete Warner Symphonic Recordings, disc 87.  Works by Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss.

[HutchFan]

More Brahms:

One of my desert-island discs.

 

[HutchFan]

Disc 2 - Roussel: Syms. Nos. 2 & 3

 

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

Eugene Ormandy/The Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Legacy, disc 11.

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Disc 1 - Symphonies No. 1 "Spring" and No. 3 "Rhenish"

 

[HutchFan]

I'm now listening to Mahler's Third Symphony, as heard in this set:

 

Remember the original album cover, illustrated by Maurice Sendak?   

 

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

More Mahler:

Disc 7 - Symphony No. 5

An outstanding performance by Klaus Tennstedt and the LPO.
 

Edited July 29, 2025 by HutchFan

[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

Disc 1 - works by Chopin

 

[Peter Friedman]

Vol.1  Piano Sonatas No. 39, 47, 31, 49

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[Peter Friedman]

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[Chuck Nessa]

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