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Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:39 am
by fergus
Bruckner 5 [Chailly]....

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This was a wonderful, sensitive performance with plenty of “weight”; the strings sounded great and the brass was biting!

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:51 am
by fergus
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Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:25 pm
by fergus
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6....

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Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:46 pm
by fergus
Zemlinsky – Die Seejungfrau [Chailly]....

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On first hearing I really liked this music with its alternative lyrical and turbulent passages.

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:25 pm
by fergus
Mahler – I have concluded Bernstein’s wonderful cycle with Symphony No. 9....

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....the highlight of which was undoubtedly the final movement which was wonderfully played.

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:11 am
by fergus
Palestrina – Missa Hodie Christus natus est....

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Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:24 pm
by fergus
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Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:27 pm
by DaveF
fergus wrote:Mahler – I have concluded Bernstein’s wonderful cycle with Symphony No. 9....
How do you rate it Fergus against other Mahler boxsets? For me anyway, this one surpassed the Bertini set as the best all rounder.

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:19 pm
by fergus
DaveF wrote:
fergus wrote:Mahler – I have concluded Bernstein’s wonderful cycle with Symphony No. 9....
How do you rate it Fergus against other Mahler boxsets? For me anyway, this one surpassed the Bertini set as the best all rounder.
Excellent Dave....I would put it right up there!!!

Re: What are you listening to?

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:20 pm
by fergus
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