What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Yvonne Lefébure Unissued Recordings, Vol. 3.

[foxandpeng]

Jennifer Higdon
City Scape
Concerto for Orchestra
Robert Spano
Atlanta SO

I like what I've heard of Jennifer Higdon so far. Her Viola Concerto is worth having.

[vers la flamme]

Robert Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust, WoO 3. Antoni Wit, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir

[Todd]

The first couple discs.

[DavidW]

Btw, and relating to the concerts thread: I've been listening to Mahler's 1st twice during the last two editions of Enescu Festival --- not by my choice but by being invited to attend. If this year I'll be invited one more time (they'll be playing M1 twice this year, go figure!) I'll decline, much as I like it. 

I almost never get to hear Mahler live because no matter where I live I've always attended local concerts and they rarely have enough musicians to tackle Mahler.  I had a chance to hear the first this season, but I was too busy.  The only Mahler works I've heard live are Das Lied von der Erde and the second symphony.

[DavidW]

Thread duty.  Some charming piano trios.  Don't think I've ever heard anything by Pleyel before.

[Bachtoven]

Excellent!

[SonicMan46]

Thread duty.  Some charming piano trios.  Don't think I've ever heard anything by Pleyel before.

Hi David - been a big fan of Pleyel - my collection attached (about 20 CDs) - the Prussian Quartets are worth hearing - also a Pleyel Society w/ a lot of information.  Dave

[vers la flamme]

I almost never get to hear Mahler live because no matter where I live I've always attended local concerts and they rarely have enough musicians to tackle Mahler.  I had a chance to hear the first this season, but I was too busy.  The only Mahler works I've heard live are Das Lied von der Erde and the second symphony.

Mahler is one of my favorite composers, and I've sadly never seen anything of his in concert. The ASO is doing the 5th symphony in a few months, so hopefully I will make it to that. I'm still kicking myself for passing on the 8th a few years ago, back when I thought the 8th was "not for me"; now, it's my favorite of them all.

Edit: Actually, Mahler's 5th is a week from Thursday, and I got my ticket

[Cato]

Mahler is one of my favorite composers, and I've sadly never seen anything of his in concert. The ASO is doing the 5th symphony in a few months, so hopefully I will make it to that. I'm still kicking myself for passing on the 8th a few years ago, back when I thought the 8th was "not for me"; now, it's my favorite of them all.

Edit: Actually, Mahler's 5th is a week from Thursday, and I got my ticket

Can you come to Ohio on May 27th?

The Cincinnati Symphony is performing Mahler's Eighth Symphony at 7:30 P.M.!!!  Tickets from $50.00 ( a bargain!) are still available!

Great acoustics, no matter where you sit!

[vers la flamme]

Can you come to Ohio on May 27th?

The Cincinnati Symphony is performing Mahler's Eighth Symphony at 7:30 P.M.!!!  Tickets from $50.00 ( a bargain!) are still available!

Great acoustics, no matter where you sit!

Wow, maybe! I've got a cousin in Cincinnati who might let me crash on his couch, and it's only about a 7 hour drive for me

Thanks!

[Symphonic Addict]

Harris: String Quartet No. 2 'Three Variations on a Theme'

I'm not much of a fan of this composer, but this work is definitely interesting and worth listening.

[DavidW]

I'm still kicking myself for passing on the 8th a few years ago, back when I thought the 8th was "not for me"; now, it's my favorite of them all.

Could be worse.  In grad school I had tickets for the Pacifica Quartet performing some Beethoven late string quartets.  I forgot about the tickets and the concert and missed the performance!!

[Karl Henning]

I almost never get to hear Mahler live because no matter where I live I've always attended local concerts and they rarely have enough musicians to tackle Mahler.  I had a chance to hear the first this season, but I was too busy.  The only Mahler works I've heard live are Das Lied von der Erde and the second symphony.

On the drive back from Clemson University, where the orchestra played a piece of mine, we stopped in Charlottesville (I wanted to show my wife and mom-in-law UVa ... I kind of wonder, now, how I managed to park by Old Cabell Hall) and by the strangest coincidence, the orchestra was playing a concert, and we heard the finale of the Mahler First. At Symphony Hall in Boston, I've heard Ozawa lead the Sixth, and the rightly disgraced Levine lead the Ninth.

[Mapman]

Maiden-Listen Monday!
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #5, Op. 10/1
Stephen Kovacevich

This was a lot of fun! I liked the moment in the development of the 3rd movement where Beethoven introduces a theme similar to the opening of his 5th symphony.

[Cato]

Wow, maybe! I've got a cousin in Cincinnati who might let me crash on his couch, and it's only about a 7 hour drive for me

Thanks!

Here is a link:

https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/Smartseat/Index?itemNumber=13092#/seatmap

[Symphonic Addict]

Nielsen: Springtime in Funen, for soloists, chorus, children's chorus and orchestra

A pretty work, but not much more than that I'm afraid.

[JBS]

Another new recording

[Peter Power Pop]

I love Springtime in Funen.

Nielsen: Springtime in Funen, for soloists, chorus, children's chorus and orchestra

A pretty work, but not much more than that I'm afraid.

[Bachtoven]

He's a superb player and is captured in excellent sound on this SACD.