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Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, opera section, Zerbinetta's Aria. A delightful performance streamed LIVE from the MET. Sirius Satellite Radio or thru the MET's own Real-audio stream.

--Sixtus

Villa-Lobos: 2 Choros (bis), W227, in the par lui-meme recording with Jacques Neilz and Henri Bronschwak. Currently nearing the end of No.1. I've never heard of either of them, but the playing is brilliant Both of them play with an incredibly fast vibrato, but it's fine enough (i.e. the tone doesn't fluctuate much) so that instead of crimping the sound (as fast vibrato usually does), it makes it blossom out to an amazing degree. In other words, they both are approaching Oistrakh-dom.

Alfonso und Estrella (Just for you, Aldona
I saw a recording with Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, DFD, etc....and ordered it without having seen which opera...even better now...

perlnerd666 wrote:Alfonso und Estrella (Just for you, Aldona
I saw a recording with Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, DFD, etc....and ordered it without having seen which opera...even better now...

That's the best recording!!!
(And I've heard 3 now.)
I LOVE that opera. Definitely Schubert at his best - you can tell he was really desperate to break into the opera market, and gave it everything he had. Pity he was working with such a poor libretto.

Aldona

Rimsky-Korsakov; Overture on Russian Themes, Op. 28

Moscow Symphony Orchestra under Igor Golovschin

Josef Rheinberger- Organ Concerto No. 1 in F major: I. Maestoso

Paul Skevington, organ with the Amadeus Orchestra under Timothy Rowe

very underrated piece of organ music...

Charles Ives: Set of Five Take Offs for Piano. Alan Mandel, Piano.

Just when you think it is going to be a tonal Ives work, he slams you with that second chord. Awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgySp0ikkc

Ritter - Organ Sonata no 2, op. 19 - Christopher Howerter, Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Yewj2UQtw

Medtner: Sonata-Ballada in F sharp minor, Op.27, played by Marc-Andre Hamelin. Currently on the second movement.
For (fairly) conventional tonality, his piano sonatas are pretty...interesting...

Johannes Brahms- Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn: Finale

Munich Festival Orchestra under John Rosten

One of my favorite finales ever written. I am currently at the part where the cellos start their mesmerizing set of triplets.

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Majr, K. 622. David Shifrin on clarinet, Gerard Schwarz conducting. Nothing beats the classics.

I'm listening to Oistrakh play the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

Wagner- Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg arranged for band

United States Marine Band under Colonel Albert F. Schoepper

Prokofiev: Symphony No.2, 2nd movement (theme and variations). Valery Gergiev conducting the London Philharmonic. Absolutely magnificent.
I find that Prokofiev's other symphonies (i.e. not the First or Fifth) are sadly largely neglected on American concert programmes...

A moment ago, I was listening to myself playing Bach's fifth trio sonata, BWV 529. Not exactly Koopman, and I don't have a pedal board, but still nice.