What are you listening to now - I ?

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Verdi: Othello
Karajan

Which one, Threni? Del Monaco/ Tebaldi or Vickers/ Freni?

Currently listening to the Advent Service from St John's on R3.

Stanley, I don't suppose you've got the RCO Anthology for 1960-70 on your shelves?

[Stanley Stewart]

Please don't tempt me, IGI! I'm giving the 1960-70 set serious thought - a seasonal indulgence is the excuse. I got my recent set from MDT, last week. Initially, they had problems with the distributor but managed to resolve this within a week or two.

[Roehre]

JSBach:
Cantata Wachet aus ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 (for Trinity 27, the last Sunday before Advent)
Cantatas BWV 61 and 62, both “Nun kommt der Heiden Heiland “, for Advent 1 (today)
Weirdly enough there aren’t any Bach cantatas for Advent 2 and 3.

Beethoven:
Grosse Fuge (Ardittis – thanks Bryn)

Stravinsky:
Pulcinella-suite
Piano concerto
Ebony concerto

Tippett:
Suite in D (1948)

Vieru:
Symphony no.3 “La un eutremur” (Earthquake) (1977)

Bruckner:
Windhaager Messe (Mass in C) (1842)

[Nick Armstrong]

Repeat listening to Maria João Pires playing Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu (Impromptu No.4) in C# Minor Op.66.... very close to my heart and events going on at the moment, and breathtaking playing. At 1:32, Pires makes time stop by lingering on a particular note in the tender central section... and yet it doesn't seem tugged around.

Magical

(From this album: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/DG/E4575852 )

[Threni]

Which one, Threni? Del Monaco/ Tebaldi or Vickers/ Freni?

Currently listening to the Advent Service from St John's on R3.

Stanley, I don't suppose you've got the RCO Anthology for 1960-70 on your shelves?

It was Freni, very good indeed. Only just getting into my oepras so as you may have noticed from previous posts starting with Verdi.

However my two favourite composers tonight:

Stravinsky: Concerto for Two Pianos
Frith & Hill

MacMillan: The World's Ransoming
MacMillan: Confession of Isobel Gowdie
LSO/C Davis
MacMillan: Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis
MacMillan: Exsultet
MacMillan: Mairi
MacMillan: The Gallant Weaver
MacMillan: The Birds of Rhiannon
BBCPO/MacMillan
Stravinsky: Songs
Boulez

[johnb]

Elgar Violin Concerto - Znaider, Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis

[Petrushka]

Schubert: Symphony No 1
BPO/Karajan

Sibelius: Kullervo Symphony
Bournemouth SO/Berglund

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

This evening, Bach's Cantatas BWV 61, 62 and 36 (for the First Sunday in Advent) - Monteverdi Choir/ Gardiner

Now spinning Chopin Nocturnes courtesy of Arthur Rubinstein.

[mercia]

Strauss 1001 Nights Waltz (courtesy of Radio 3)

[verismissimo]

Stravinsky Symphony in E flat op 1. Such tosh.

[mercia]

Moeran String Quartet no 1 (courtesy of Radio 3)

[Roehre]

today:

Skalkottas:
Symphony The Return of Odysseus” (1942)

Liszt:
Christus (Oratorio S.3, 1860s)

Bantock:
Pagan Poem

Mathias:
Flute Sonatina

Goossens:
The Breath of Ney

Leighton:
Serenade for flute and piano in C

[BBMmk2]

Dyson The Canterbury Pilgrims

Holst: The Cloud Messenger

[Suffolkcoastal]

Love the Holst BBM, I admit to never having heard the Dyson though I have recordings of a number of his works.

Am currently listening to Verdi: Il Trovatore, haven't heard it for years and finding it very enjoyable. I have a real problem with early Verdi (pre Rigoletto) but admire his later operas. Perhaps I should give some of the earlier ones another try sometime.

[Mahlerei]

The Orozco-Estrada Mahler 1, a live recording from the Musikverein. Much too excitable and very closely recorded as well. Of recent releases Tennstedt's BBC Legends is still the one to beat.