What are you listening to now?

[mc ukrneal]

I haven't listened to the Legends since college.

Oh, but that is really good!!

[Brian]

Oh, but that is really good!!

Yeah! My favorite used to be No. 3, but now it's No. 5, which sounds exactly like a Scott Joplin rag. One of Dvorak's jazziest works, along with the Humoresque that "quotes" Jeepers Creepers.

[mc ukrneal]

Yeah! My favorite used to be No. 3, but now it's No. 5, which sounds exactly like a Scott Joplin rag. One of Dvorak's jazziest works, along with the Humoresque that "quotes" Jeepers Creepers.

It's one of the reasons I liked this series. I knew practically all of them as orchestral pieces, but these piano versions really give them a bit of a different flavor. It's still Dvorak, but it made me think of them (and him) a bit differently.

[Karl Henning]

Schoenberg
Suite-Septet, Op.29 (1925-26)
Yvonne Loriod, pf
Marcel Naulais, sopranino cl
Guy Deplus, cl
Louis Montaigne, b cl
Jacques Ghestem, vn
Serge Collot, va
Jean Huchot, vc
Boulez, Monsieur le Président

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[SonicMan46]

Schubert, Franz - Piano Sonatas et al w/ Mitsuko Uchida for today (Paul B-Skoda yesterday) - Dave

[Mandryka]

Grigory Sokolov, Chopin op 28, live in Salzburg in 2010 I think. I wonder if this is the recording about to be released by DG.

The sound quality of this radio broadcast is fine. But it really is no substitute for the live experience - the timbre is a very special part of what he does.

The interpretation is much less perfumed and much less Brucknerian than his commercial recording and more lithe -  which I think is a move in the right direction. I find it a moving interpretation, totally rapt and intense, a great musician at the hight of his powers, deep on a psychological level, an epic journey which makes me go damp eyed blah blah blah  - but I seem to be very open to this music right now, and to Sokolov's art, for some reason. Right now I would say this is the most astonishing Chopin playing I've ever heard. There.

The recording is here, if anyone wants to try it.

http://panovnik.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/grigory-sokolov-in-salzburg-2008-2010.html

I'd be interested to know whether people hear 24 separate unconnected miniatures, or one big piece of music in 24 parts. This aspect of the music is really interesting I think.

[Karl Henning]

Webern
Variations, Op.27 (1936)
Yvonne Loriod, pf

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[Ken B]

Pärt, Symphony 3, from the Smurf box.

Now a recent discovery, second listen. I think I am in love.

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Music which I think will appeal to a few here but not most. Minimalist meets maximalism, may the better ostinato win! It is very assertive.

Those who I think might like it, Monkey Greg, torut, milk. I can imagine Sarge too.

Those who I suspect will not include most serialists, Mirror Image, Eigenuser, and Zaubermoonboy.

On Spotify.

[otare]

Harpsichord concertos by Jiří Antonín Benda:

[Brian]

Great Artist + Period Instrument + Live Recital



Schubert D. 899/2
Schubert D. 960
Plus Chopin, R. Strauss, etc.

[Karl Henning]

Berg
Sonata in b minor, Op.1 (1908)
Yvonne Loriod, pf

Yummy!

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[Que]

Harpsichord concertos by Jiří Antonín Benda:

Nice! 



Thread duty - from the box set:



Q

[Pat B]

Henning: Tiny Wild Avocados #2.

[ritter]

Some wonderful film music from perfidious Albion:


William Walton: Henry V (suite, arr. Mathieson) - The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by the composer...

The fourth movement, Touch her soft lips and part, is pure delight (all one and one half minutes of it)... As Anthony Blanche would say , "Very English, very correct, but quite delicious" 

[ritter]

...and more Walton...

The Variations on a theme by Hindemith from this CD:

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[ritter]

...and so as not to leave das Land ohne Musik tonight...

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Alexander Goehr: Since Brass, nor Stone - Colin Currie (percussion), Pavel Haas Quartet

[king ubu]

Had this in the mail a few days ago - disc two right now ... intriguing stuff:

[Mookalafalas]

Quite good.

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[NLK1971]

Who needs orchestras?

Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps for 2 pianos (Ashkenazy/Gavrilov)

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I've been reading Alfred Brendel's Musical Thoughts & Afterthoughts; he makes me want to listen or re-listen to everything he writes about.  RE: Schubert, he says that even as late as 1928, the piano sonatas were so little-appreciated that Rachmaninov could admit to knowing nothing of their existence!

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I have a beret just like his!