Topic: What are you listening to?

[k a rl h e nn i ng]

 

I got a very nice letter this week, and that very piece figured in't.

[mn dave]

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 1 in F minor, op. 10

Philadelphia/Ormandy

[Barak]

Has anyone Heard of this Kraus guy? He is fantastic!

If I look at the list of works included, I find a couple that appear on the Musica Sveciae issue I have (by the Lysell Quartet), but the rest seems to be different. And Quartet 2 is in B Major, whereas the Lysell play it in B Flat. I'm a bit confused here.

In any case, they are quite good, if not up to the level of Haydn's contemporary Op. 33 set.

[mn dave]

Schumann

Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129

Ma/Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Davis

[Brian]

If you like really large-scale Romantic, virtuoso piano concertos you ought to like York Bowen's 4th

It is 42 minutes long and was described by the eccentric composer, pianist and critic Sorabji as the greatest work for piano and orchestra ever written by an Englishman!

I am not going to start a thread(whew!) about York Bowen(1884-1961) but there has been a recent splurge of interest in this extremely old-fashioned romantic British composer recently with recordings of all four of his piano concertos, the violin, viola and horn concertos and the 2nd symphony. The late Vernon Handley was going to record the 1st and 2nd symphonies for Chandos but the sessions had to be cancelled owing to his deteriorating health.

Frankly, Bowen's music is too conservative even for me! I don't particularly care for romantic piano concertos anyway and have bought the Bowen discs because I collect British orchestral music(or am clinically insane ) but if you like that sort of thing then you will like this sort of thing

I have Bowen's viola concerto and may give it a try - I figure that a romantic concerto for viola is already pushing at least one envelope, so it may be worthwhile...?

[Que]

Listening to this disc:                                       From the 15-CD Leonhardt set:

       

Q

[Wanderer]

Korngold's exquisite chamber music for this beautiful - sunny yet rather misty - morning. A good day to everyone! 

[val]

MOZART:     Serenades K 375 & 388        / Soloists of Europa Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Schneider

One of the best versions I know of this two masterpieces. The soloists have not the same quality of those of Brymer with his London Wind Soloists, but Schneider gives a perfect articulation and there is a life in this version that we never find in the one of Brymer.

[erato]

MOZART:     Serenades K 375 & 388        / Soloists of Europa Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Schneider

One of the best versions I know of this two masterpieces. The soloists have not the same quality of those of Brymer with his London Wind Soloists, but Schneider gives a perfect articulation and there is a life in this version that we never find in the one of Brymer.

To bring your posts up to 1000 val, what label is this?

Me; I'm having a first listen to vol 27 of the Gardiner Bach Cantatas on SDG. The previous volume I listened to, vol 5, was superb.

[Harry]

Korngold's exquisite chamber music for this beautiful - sunny yet rather misty - morning. A good day to everyone! 

That is a excellent start for the morning especially when it is misty!

[Harry]

Good morning to you Tasos, and all of good will.

I start this morning with some miscellaneous works from the Composer Luigi Boccherini.

String Quintet opus 30, No. 6. "La Musica Notturna delle strade di Madrid".
String Quartet opus 44,4, No. 65. "La Tiranna".
Notturno, No. 7, "La Bona Notte".
String Quintet opus 36, No. 6. "Quintetto dello Scacciapensiero".

Musicians: Mayumi Seiler, Silvia Walch, Diemut Poppen, Richard Lester, Howard Penny.
Recorded in 1993.

Again no negative remarks, it is well played, and recorded, and shows Boccherini in most showy colors, without loosing the sense of the quality of the works presented here.

[Harry]

This is a disc you simply would not want to miss! The second volume already, and keeping the same quality in his composing. No. 4 in C minor is a very strong work, that gives you many hints to Dvorak & Tchaikovsky, but without loosing his identity over it. A worthwhile addition to any collection. Well recorded and performed.

[val]

erato

To bring your posts up to 1000 val, what label is this?

The label is ASV (Academic Sound and Vision). It was recorded in 1986. I suppose it is one of the last recordings of Schneider (he died in 1993).

[Wanderer]

Hiya, Harry! 




This just arrived. 

Disc no.40 (I'm listening to boxsets backwards, countdown-style) is already spinning in the CD-player. Réminiscences de Johann Strauss.

[Harry]

Hiya, Harry! 




This just arrived. 

Disc no.40 (I'm listening to boxsets backwards, countdown-style) is already spinning in the CD-player. Réminiscences de Johann Strauss.

This box will take you quite some time my friend.

[Harry]

Dutch Organs from 1511-1896.
Volume XI.
Works by: Giovan Battista Cervellini, Andrea Lucchesi, John Stanley, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, played by Gerrie Meijers on a Matthias de Crane organ 1770.
Mozart, played by Geert Bierlings on a Johannes Mitterreither organ 1773.
Johann Christian Kittel, Mozart, Jan Welmers, Anton Heiller, played by Wout van Andel, on a Ludwig Konig organ 1776.
Handel, Telemann, JS Bach, played by Stef Tuinstra, on a Albertus Anthoni Hinsz organ 1777.
Geert Bierling, Marpurg, Mozart, played by Okke Dijkhuizen on a Gideon Thomas Batz organ 1779.

Most excellent.

[Harry]

Dutch Organs, from 1511-1896. Volume XII.

Works by: J.S. Bach, played by Sietze de Vries, on a Lambertus van Dam organ, 1784.
August Heinrich Wenck, Jean Baptiste Boutmy, played by Peter van Dijk on a Antonius Friedrich Gottlieb Heyneman organ 1781.
Krebs, CPE BAch, played by Wim Diepenhorst on a Johannes Pieter Kunckel organ 1784.
Jacques Boyvin played by Harm Jansen, on a  Guillaume Robustelly organ 1785.
Mendelssohn, played by Reitze Smits, on a Andries Wolfferts organ 1786.

Beautiful music making.

[Harry]

Dutch Organs 1511-1896.
Volume XIII.
Works by: Sietze de Vries, played by Sietze de Vries on a Johann Friedrich Wenthin organ 1787.
J.S. Bach, played by Okke Dijkhuizen on a Frans Caspar Schnitger jr. and Heinrich Hermann Freytag organ 1792.
Johann Christoph Kellner, H.W. Tauscher, Marianus Konigsberger, Franz Anton Maichelbeck, Mozart, played by Theo Jellema, on a Albertus van Gruisen organ 1795.
Johann Mattheson, CPE Bach, Soler, played by Conny van der Maten on a Johannes Stephanus Strumphler organ 1803.
Cor Kee, Marius Monnikendam, Christian Friedrich Ruppe, played by Dirk Luijmes, on a Jan Reiner Titz organ 1806.

What a sound investment this box is.

[Harry]

Dutch Organs build between 1511 & 1896.
Volume XIV.
Works by Johann Christian Kittel, Friedrich Schmoll, played by Willem van Twillert, on a  Abraham Meere organ 1806.
Gustav Adolf Merkel, Andreas Barner, played by Jaap Zwart jr. on a Rudolf Knol organ 1806.
W.F Bach, Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, played by Stef Tuinstra, on a Heinrich Hermann Freytag organ 1808.
Anonymous 18th century, Marpurg, Knecht, played by Wilhelm van Twillert, on a Abraham Meere organ 1817.
Mendelssohn, Ernst Friedrich Richter, Adolf Friedrich Hess, played by Erwin Wiersinga, on a Nikolaas Anthoni Lohman 1817.

I enjoy this journey very much.

[mozartsneighbor]

Mozart, "Krönungsmesse" KV 317, WP, Wiener Singverein, Karajan (soloists: Battle, Schmidt, Winbergh, Furlanetto)