What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Deserves more then a "like". Outstanding in all respects.

Yes, great performance. I have only few recordings of Fremaux though.

[Traverso]

Beethoven



Symphony No.5

[Number Six]

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (and more)
Fiedler, Boston Pops w/ Earl Wild

[Que]

Is her voice really quicksilver? 

Nope... quite matronly actually! 

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Glazunov Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 5 and The Kremlin, Op. 30

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Symphonies CD 14
Symphony No. 31 in D major 'Paris' (first version), K.297/K.300a*
Symphony No. 35 in D major 'Haffner' (second version), K.385*
Symphony No. 38 in D major 'Prague', K.504*
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing this entire Schoenberg Craft recording:



Absolutely incredible music, but I expect no less from Arnie. I wish I could've found all of the original issues of this Schoenberg Craft series on Koch, but I'm lucky to have the Naxos reissues.

[AnotherSpin]

[Iota]

Bach: St Matthew Passion,
Bach Collegium Japan, Suzuki

What a thing of magnificence and emotional power the St Matthew Passion is. All of which is conveyed beautifully and with a sense of real drama in this luminous recording. Excellent contributions from band and singers too. Suzuki as conductor and Bach is an invariably memorable encounter in my experience.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Robert Haas
Münchner Philharmoniker, Sergiu Celibidache

[ritter]

Some seasonal listening..

Le Concert Spitituel, led by Hervé Niquet, perform Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Leçons de Tenébres de la Semaine Sainte de 1692, followed by Cinq méditations de la Carème.



CD3 of this set:

[Symphonic Addict]

Some almost unknown choral and vocal works by Saint-Saëns (except Le Déluge). Pretty nice, but not the composer at his best.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version with some Modifications by Bruckner. Ed. Albert Gutmann
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Some almost unknown choral and vocal works by Saint-Saëns (except Le Déluge). Pretty nice, but not the composer at his best.

For me, the most exquisite piece from this 2-CD set is La nuit, Op. 114. Truly a marvel and rather Impressionistic.

[ritter]

The classic recording of Pierre Boulez's Structures for two pianos, Livre 1 and Livre 2, by the Kontarsky brothers.

[Lisztianwagner]

Roberto Gerhard
Libra
Gemini
Leo

David Atherton & London Sinfonietta

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Franck Le Chasseur Maudit

[VonStupp]

Granville Bantock
The Song of Songs
Pierrot of the Minute
Overture to a Greek Tragedy
Wilderness and the Solitary Place

Elizabeth Connell, soprano
Kim Begley, tenor
William Prideaux, baritone
Royal PO - Vernon Handley

The last of Hyperion's Bantock series. I do have Handley's Omar Khayyám to fish out as well.
VS



The Shulamite Maiden (1893)
Gustave Moreau

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Atterberg Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op 10 "West Coast Pictures"

[foxandpeng]

Camargo Guarnieri
Symphony 4, 'Brasilia'
John Neschling
Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra
BIS