What are you listening to now?

[San Antone]

LISZT : The Complete Songs, Vol. 5 - Allan Clayton (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)



I've been buying these as they have come out, and I think this may be the last installment.  What an enjoyable collection!

[Ken B]

LISZT : The Complete Songs, Vol. 5 - Allan Clayton (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)



I've been buying these as they have come out, and I think this may be the last installment.  What an enjoyable collection!

Liszt's songs are great and almost unknown. Clash with the pop image I guess.

[JBS]

Listening to an all-Ligeti concert from last Saturday on BBC3, including Augustin Hadelich in the Violin Concerto, and Nicolas Hodges in the Piano Concerto.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002zts

--Bruce

How was Hadelich in the VC?  Todd posted this upcoming release a couple of days ago.


TD
Before
LvB Symphonies 2 and 4
Kempe conducting Munich Philharmonic
Now
WAM Symphonies 35 and 36 ["Haffner" and "Linz"]
Cherubini Overture to Anacreon
Karajan conducting Berlin Philharmonic

[Mirror Image]

I had a couple of Ibragimova recordings on Hyperion and found her violin tone insufferable. Don't know whether to blame her or the recording engineer (or both). One was the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for violin unaccompanied.

I couldn't disagree with you more. I have her in several recordings and have loved what she brings to the musical table. Her Ravel, Szymanowski, and Prokofiev are superb.

[Mirror Image]

One more work before bed...

Roussel
Serenade, Op. 30
Paul Verhey (flute), Janneke van der Meer (violin), Henk Guittart (viola), Viola de Hoog (cello), Erika Waardenburg (harp)



I always seem to run into the same problems with Roussel. I find so much of his music unmemorable (to be rather simplistic with my criticism) and many times when there's no melody, a composer can create a fascinating harmonic sound-world, which can continue to keep the interest of a listener, but with Roussel, I feel like there's just nothing I can latch onto.

[Que]

Morning listening:

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Absolutely lovely music, with a prominent role for the flute, but relatively lightweight in the realm of Alessandro Scarlatti.

Q

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Pretty sure that it was Jens who put me onto this, and it's a beauty

That's at least very likely! http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2007/05/dip-your-ears-no-80b-bruckner-6.html

TD:


#morninglistening to #Schoenberg #StringQuartets on #BISRecords w/@gringoltsilya / #GringoltsQuartet

: http://a-fwd.to/6xSMyAH

w/ soprano @malinhartelius

Hard but totally comprehensible #20thCenturyClassical music.

[Kontrapunctus]

Op.5 today. A wonderful recording.

[San Antone]

BERNSTEIN : Symphony no. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" | Marin Alsop, Jean-Ives Thibaudet, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

[vandermolen]

BERNSTEIN : Symphony no. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" | Marin Alsop, Jean-Ives Thibaudet, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

It's a work that I've increasingly come to appreciate over the past couple of years. I listen to it almost as often as 'Jeremiah' which is one of my all time favourite works.

[Madiel]

I couldn't disagree with you more. I have her in several recordings and have loved what she brings to the musical table. Her Ravel, Szymanowski, and Prokofiev are superb.

I know a number of us have the Ravel disc and are very happy with it.

Or maybe it's just you and me, and I'm fantasising a whole cohort of other listeners. But I thought there were a few of us.

[Madiel]

Prokofiev, Winter Bonfire



Pretty certain I've not only not heard this before, but not heard of it before. Peter and the Wolf is not the only narrated children's story that Prokofiev composed.

[Maestro267]

MacMillan: Symphony No. 3 ("Silence")
BBC PO/MacMillan

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 (for the left hand)
Kun Woo Paik (piano)/Polish NRSO/Wit

[Biffo]

Sibelius: Rakastava - Barbirolli/Halle; Luonnotar - Dorati/LSO with Gwyneth Jones (soprano) - prompted by the Sibelius thread

Later,
Bridge: Phantasm for Piano & Orchestra - Kathryn Stott with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley

[Madiel]

Faure songs from 1870-73.

Which means some (but not all) from opuses 2 to 10. The opus numbers were retroactively fitted to various things after someone said "hey, they're publishing your stuff regularly now, you need to start doing opus numbers". It's a bit of a mess, with songs clearly related to each other not grouped together. There isn't even an opus 9.

The highlight for me is L'absent (op.5/3). Aubade (op.6/1) is utterly charming, and Tristesse (op.6/2) has a melody to die for.

[Traverso]

Schumann

Piano Quintet
Piano Quartet
Andante and Variations Op.46

[San Antone]

Always a favorite recording of Les Noces -



Also, Renard and Ragtime are great fillers.

[Mirror Image]

I know a number of us have the Ravel disc and are very happy with it.

Or maybe it's just you and me, and I'm fantasising a whole cohort of other listeners. But I thought there were a few of us.

NikF owns it as well and loves it.

[Florestan]

NikF owns it as well and loves it.

Count me in.

I also have their complete Mozart violin sonatas cycle and love it as well.

[Harry]

Ciacconas, Canzonas & Sonatas.
Violin music from the Collection Partiturbuch Ludwig 1662.
Harmonie Universelle, Florian Deuter.

Beautiful music. Not much time to listen, but for one there was time.