What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Morning listening on Spotify:



Very nice, particularly the music. The perfomances are colourful and idiomatic, but just a bit too big and heavy.

[Florestan]

Morning listening on Spotify:



Very nice, particularly the music. The perfomances are colourful and idiomatic, but just a bit too big and heavy.

Well, they are grands motets, after all. 

[Lisztianwagner]

What do you think? I don't think I've heard any of Rosbaud's recordings, of anything. Are these in mono or stereo?

It's wonderfully good, Rosbaud's interpretation is rather faceted, airy and fluent, beautifully grandiose, but also intense, profound and powerful, even rugged; nonetheless there aren't excesses in majesty, energy or lyricism, his approach is always clean and solid; there are also great transparency and clarity in the textures as well as a splendid control and balance of the orchestral tones. Rosbaud was superb in Germanic music, especially in Mozart, Mahler and Schönberg in my opinion.
They are mono recordings, but remastered, the sound quality is very fine.

[Traverso]

Bach

Yesterday I wondered which piece for organ I like best. Today's choice is BWV 522 with its jubilantly festive opening. The music surges through me and fills me with a true "joie de vivre".
There are of course many other pieces but this one always goes straight to the heart with a mixture of joy and a touch of sadness.

I listen to the whole recording of course....
True life is accepting the light and dark sides of it.

And how happy I am with this beautiful rendition .

 

[Mandryka]

Ibragimova and Tiberghien. Wigmore. Schumann sonatas. Being broadcast on BBC later this week I think,  maybe now too. Packed. Typical Wigmore audience of pre covid times - retired, comfortable, English, they know every note of the music. Turn off your phones and suppress your coughs, says the chirpy BBC commentator. Bye.

[Todd]

The Chopin.

[Florestan]

Symphony No. 1 in G minor Op. 13 "Winter Daydreams"

 

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica
Bergen PO, Andrew Davis

[Que]

Well, they are grands motets, after all. 

Even bigger than that! 

Now:

 

[Traverso]

Schütz

CD 15

Anderer Theil Kleiner Geistlichen Concerten
Volume 1

[Florestan]

[Traverso]

Corelli

CD 7

Violin Sonatas

[Karl Henning]

Even bigger than that! 

Now:

 

Tangentially, hat-tip to @Gurn Blanston

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Scriabin Prometheus 7-Piano Transcription, Chitose Okashiro.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

[Mandryka]

https://hisakohiseki.es/en/bio/recomendaciones

Hisako Hiseki played the Hatto Granados - so it is excellent, obvs.

[Traverso]

Locatelli

CD 8

Violin Concertos  L'Arte del Violino Op.3

[DavidW]

[Leo K.]

Amazing emotionally cool performances that are right up my alley.

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube, first listen to this particular performance, Bruckner/Tintner for me as well:
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 3

Georg Tintner & Royal Scottish National Orchestra