What are you listening to now?

[NikF]

Rachmaninov: Piano Trio No. 2 - Borodin Trio.

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Rachmaninov: Piano Trio No. 2 - Borodin Trio.

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One of my favorite works from Rachmaninov and that particular performance is my reference recording.

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Still in Barber-ville -

Piano Sonata, Op. 26

[NikF]

One of my favorite works from Rachmaninov and that particular performance is my reference recording.

I've not owned it for all that long and so it might have been you I noticed mention it, leading to the purchase.

[Mirror Image]

I've not owned it for all that long and so it might have been you I noticed mention it, leading to the purchase.

Yeah, I've posted this recording on this thread several times. I hope you enjoy the performances as much as I have.

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Le Damoiselle elue

Sublime work. I also loved the arrangement for vocalists, chorus, and piano that appeared in the DG Complete set.

[NikF]

Yeah, I've posted this recording on this thread several times. I hope you enjoy the performances as much as I have.

Thanks. Yeah, in particular the second movement of that performance was really quite moving without becoming depressingly doleful. And I love it when everything comes together like that.

[listener]

New disc(s) of new music from Houston TX
Karim AL-ZAND   Visions from Another World       Reena ESMAIL: Teen Murti for String Orch.,
Derek BERMEL: Murmurations     Anthony DI LORENZO: Jabberwocky, Anthem of Hope: Houston Strong
Marcus MARONEY:  Concerto for Chamber Orchestra
ROCO Ensemble, Houston   

[NikF]

Drigo: Pas de Trois - Bonynge/LSO.

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Larisa Lezhnina in her Kirov days as the Fairy Doll from Die Puppenfee was a real charmer.


And I think a final listen for the evening -

Balakirev: Islamey (orchestrated by Lyapunov) - Svetlanov/USSR Academy Orchestra.

[SymphonicAddict]

For me, the most accomplished symphony from Spain. It's sheer joy to listen to this, and it has an epic feel to it, mixed with some rustic airs. The performance does justice to the work.

[Que]

Morning listening:



I wasn't even aware that Neapolitan composer Francesco Durante had written harpsichord music. "A significant number of works", according to the booklet. I would be happy if more would get recorded, because I definitely like what I hear.... very inventive stuff. Durante was a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti and Domenico's contemporary.

Q

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Thanks. Yeah, in particular the second movement of that performance was really quite moving without becoming depressingly doleful. And I love it when everything comes together like that.

Good to hear, man. Glad you enjoyed it.

[Traverso]

Matthew Locke

Psyche

[Daverz]

A very fine recording

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I haven't spent much time with any of Haitink's many other recordings of No. 3, so I'll venture no comparisons.

[Irons]

According to the notes with this LP, when an older Liszt wrote the third book of his travels he had "renounced woman and took up religion" which implies the two are connected ?! Very odd. That aside, this is not barnstorming Liszt but introverted, I find the music spiritual which is I guess what he meant. Another oddity (there is more) for some obscure reason he associated the cypress tree with morbidity. My favourite of the seven parts is the most melancholy and dark, "Aux cyprés de la Villa d'Este: Threnodie (4-4)" which is the third of the set. I thought it strange that the second also sports the same title. So strange, a worthwhile quiz question. Hats off to GMG forum members, for as I could not be possibly more stingy with clues, they deduced the correct answer.

[ritter]

....Another oddity (there is more) for some obscure reason he associated the cypress tree with morbidity....

In Spain (and possibly in Italy as well) cypresses are traditionally planted in cemeteries, which could explain the connection.

EDIT: I've checked and, yes, cypresses are commonly used in cemeteries in Italy as well. Apart from religious reasons (the cross of Christ is supposed to have included cypress wood), there's a practical one; the cypress's roots seem to grow vertically (i.e. downwards) and not expand horizontally, thus eliminating the risk of them penetrating  tombs and caskets.

[pjme]

I was being a bit cute in my original post.  I was already somewhat familiar with Bour's career, and specifically his recording of the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with Grumiaux, a live Bruckner First, and, of course, his Ligeti recordings as used in Kubrick's 2001, and have previously praised his recording of the Berg Violin Concerto with Accardo.  It sounds like there are many treasures in those radio archives.

It was with this LP that I discovered Jolivet.

Bour had indeed a most amazing and interesting repertoire. And a wise, reassuring head aswell.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/283130-Ernest-Bour?page=1

[Florestan]

In Spain (and possibly in Italy as well) cypresses are traditionally planted in cemeteries, which could explain the connection.

Don't know about Italy, but Turkey certainly.

[ritter]

Don't know about Italy, but Turkey certainly.

Bună dimineață, Andrei.

See my edited message above, if you will.

[Florestan]

Your friend ritter does indeed disagree... . Albéniz IMHO does something miraculous in Iberia (which I was listening to just yesterday) , delving deeper into Spanish folk music and flamenco (for instance, the fascinating Rondeña uses rhythms of the petenera alternating with an habanera—and all this at a point in history when flamenco still hadn't been academically "institutionalised"). But Albéniz not only does that, he elevates everything (even in a descriptive piece like El Corpus Christi en Sevilla) to pure music, and to pianism of the highest calibre. Granados is much more romantic, sentimental and imbued with a salon spirit (all good things in your book, I know). I still enjoy him, though...

Can't disagree with anything of the above (don't get me wrong, I think Iberia is masterpiece). The irony is that of the two Albeniz was far more of a romantic than Granados, at least in outward appearance, manners and lifestyle (Granados was thoroughly bourgeois in this respect --- not a criticism but an observation, mind you) and wrote far more salon music than him.