What are you listening to now - I ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mozart Prague Symphony (my favourite Mozart Symphony) / ASMF Marriner.

Mine, too!

Today:
Bach: Cantatas BWV 4 & 5; Leonhardt/Harnoncourt and all the other boys in the band.

Nono: No Hay Caminos .... Andrei Tarkowskij, "Hay que caminar" sognando, Camintes ... Ayacucho; Arditti & Jennings; etc /Pomerico. (KAIROS)

Stockhausen: Kontra-Punkte, Refrain, Zeitmasse, Schlagtrio; Ensemble Recherche/Rupert Huber. (WERGO)

[Beef Oven]

Robin Trower, Bridge of Sighs. 1974, Chrysalis.

[EdgeleyRob]

Shostakovich Violin Concertos.
No 1 Viktoria Mullova / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Andre Previn.
No 2 Gidon Kremer / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa.



Great little set this IMVHO,I wonder what our resident DSCH experts think.

[Beef Oven]

This morning - Nicholas Maw, Odyssey, Rimon Sattle CBO,
now Humble Pie - Not 'n' Nasty Rockin' the Winterland.

[Petrushka]

Schubert: Symphony No 4 'Tragic'

Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Eberhard Waechter (baritone)
Wiener Singverein
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan

[Russ_H]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8
Dresden Staatskapelle/Jochum

Mozart Piano Quartet, K493
Brendel and members of the Alban Berg Quartett

[Alison]

Elgar: Violin Concerto
James Ehnes
Philharmonia/Davis

Mahler: Symphony No 2
Dresden Staatskapelle/Haitink

[maestro267]

Martinu: String Quartet No. 5
Martinu Quartet

[Petrushka]

Mahler: Symphony No 2
Dresden Staatskapelle/Haitink

Ah, glad to see you got this! What do you think? For me, the dynamic range is enormous and I had initial problems in finding the right volume setting but very impressive once I did. The final climax was overwhelming! Haitink's interpretation has hardly changed since his 1968 Concertgebouw reading and none the worse for that. The off-stage brass is perfectly 'placed' in the Dresden performance as well, best on disc I'd say. The percussion crescendo as the graves open was pretty earth-shaking and nearly had me pinned to the back wall!

[Beef Oven]

Wagner, The Twilight of the Gods. ENO, Goodall, Chandos.
Over 2 and a half hours into it and I think I must leave Act 3 for tomorrow - getting tired!

[John Skelton]

Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 transcribed Liszt: Yury Martynov (Érard piano 1837): ZigZag Territoires. This is fascinating and very imaginatively played; fascinating as an autonomous work, fascinating as Liszt's reading of Beethoven.

Stockhausen, Inori: Elizabeth Clarke / Alain Louafi / Suzanne Stephens / Maria Bergmann / SWRF Orchestra / Stockhausen: Stockhausen edition, vol. 22.

[DublinJimbo]

Boccherini: Cello Quintets
Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (second cello)

[Dave2002]

Bruckner 8, Hamburg Radio SO, Carl Schuricht on Urania via Spotify.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

A bit of a Norrington evening:

Mozart - Symphony No.41 'Jupiter' - LCP, though I shall LA to tomorrow's BaL winner
Bruckner - Symphony No.9

[Dave2002]

Think I've got that Norrington Mozart Jupiter somewhere. As I recall it's ludicrously fast. I'm guessing the new one isn't so extreme.