What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Good day to all, and may you have a glorious day.
For me this morning as the last 4 mornings the music of,

J.C. Bach.
Symphonies Concertantes, Volume V.

The Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead.

If you like this kind of music you should have it.

[Harry]

Frank Bridge.

Piano Music, Volume II.

Piano Sonata, (1921-1924)
Lament for Catherine, (1915)
Three improvisations for the left hand, (1918)
Three Sketches, (1906)
Moderato, (1903)
Pensees fugitives I: Andante moderato, (1902)
Scherzettinno: Prestissimo, (1902.

Ashley Wass, Piano.

This music takes my breath away. Always been a admirer of the works of Frank Bridge, this second instalment shows yet again what a fine composer he really is. If you start with the Sonata, first movement, you will hear what I am talking about. This determination, and thrust that propells this music in the air is amazing. Clear and flowing lines keep the argument firmly in view, and the building up is very straightforward.
Very good sound, and the performance cannot be faulted.

[wintersway]

Good morning/day to all!

[Harry]

Frank Bridge
Piano Music, Volume II.
Ashley Wass.

Second helping.

[karlhenning]

Ravel : Sonata for violin & piano. beautiful work

One of the sublimest!

[karlhenning]

Good morning, Don!

What are your thoughts on this 'un?

R. Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos

[Bogey]

Good morning folks!

[karlhenning]

Good morning, Bill!

[Harry]

Hugo Alfven.

Suite from the music for the film Synnove Solbakken.
Suite from the music for the film Mans Kvinna.
Elegie, At Emil Sjogren's Funeral.

Norrkoping SO/Niklas Willen.

Most excellent music, and wonderful performance.

[The new erato]

I'm listening to it again. As you say, I think the word for the recording is "gorgeous."

And I mean the music. 

Haven't bought the Brahms - yet - but her Schumann record is amazing. Really love it.

[BachQ]

LvB 7 (HvK) 

[karlhenning]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Opus 65
Prague Symphony
Maksim Dmitriyevich

[Drasko]

[Florestan]

Good day all!

Gabriel Faure

Complete Piano Music, volume I

Impromptus
Theme et variations
Trois romances sans paroles
Valses-Caprices

Kathryn Stott

From my last trip to Paris a few years ago I have a vivid recollection. A late evening over a pedestrian street. Cafes, bookstores, antiques, boutiques, people come and go. Somewhere at the last floor of an immeuble, someone plays a piano and the music overflows through the open window. A tranquil night falls over the scenery.

I've never known what the unseen performer played... until now. All the charms, the melancholy and the joie de vivre of that magic city are in Faure's piano music. While listening to it, yesterday late at night, I opened my window and looked down my street --- it was no more. I saw a pedestrian Paris street, with boutiques and cafes and bookstores...

Extraordinary beautiful music, very sensitive performing, top-notch sound. A ravishing experience.

Highly recommended.

[karlhenning]

Good day, Andrei!

[dtwilbanks]

Another one of Lebrecht's 100 best. A little ways into it and I like.

[marvinbrown]

 Listening to the only   Debussy recording I have (I should get more  ):

 


 marvin

[dtwilbanks]

  Listening to the only  Debussy recording I have (I should get more  ):

 


  marvin

Get some of his piano music, Marvin. Maybe Gieseking.

[Florestan]

Good day, Andrei!

Good day, Karl!

[dtwilbanks]

Good day, eh.