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The classical what are you listening to now ? thread.

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Disc 9, D960. In memoriam.
 
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Second listen to disc one. Light, crisp, classical playing from all involved. Schnyder throws in some nice personal touches without going overboard. The real draw, though, is the instrument: the century old Bechstein sounds marvelous. Perfectly balanced, with ravishing, at times shimmering highs, with unique and arresting sustain characteristics. It sounds magnificent through all solid state stuff, but put it through some high distortion 1950s & 1970s era tubes in a headphone amp and listen through cans, and it's an aural treat one doesn't want to end.


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I haven’t listened to any sacred music for the past few months and while listening to this I can’t figure out why not.Mozart’s Dominicus Mass is simply magnificent and almost beyond belief that a 13 year old could compose such a masterpiece...just glorious to listen to.
As it’s so late into the night,I don’t want to wake up the house,but in the morning I’ll clear the room,lock the door, close the windows and then let it thunder out in all it’s glory and do justice to this fabulous recording.

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Good luck - apparently Joan Sutherland asked Tippett what it was about before the first performance - his inability to answer caused her decision never to do modern opera again.

In my opinion that Colin Davis recording is not as well done as the original despite the appalling off-air sound quality. :-

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Making my way through a third listen of this cycle of Shostakovich String Quartets, superb performances from Quatuor Danel.

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H’mm...this is my second listening session with Stravinsky’s sacred music and so far I’m struggling to like it...very thin and sparse compositions to my ears and nothing like the richness of Tchaikovsky’s Russian Orthodox masterpiece Liturgy of St.John Chrysostum,which in my ignorance I imagined it would be.But the other purchasers who reviewed it seem to love it.
Very disappointing so far as I really do like his orchestral pieces but I’ll persist.

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Tonight it will be Paul Lewis on Radio3 playing the Diabelli Variations - I'd prefer a more intimate setting than the RFH but hey-ho it is arguably LvB's greatest.
 
Mahler's 5th... Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

No.... Still don't like it. I find it very difficult to get to the end of the 2nd movement without switching off, because I'm thinking I've heard all this before, recently. In fact just 10 minutes ago during the first movement.

Luckily 3rd movement is one of Mahler's best movements. But the rondo finale goes round and round just a few times too often.

This could be a great symphony if either of the first two movements had been discarded and the finale compressed.
 
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