What are you listening to now?

[Florestan]

[listener]

set for the morning
SOR: Fantaisie op. 10  Thèmes et Menuets op.11   Fantaisie op.12
John Holmquist, guitar
Pleasant enough, but an hour-and-a-quarter without a stop makes one appreciate the shorter playing time of vinyl discs and the break to change sides.
SAUGUET:  "Complete Piano Music"
There is a Sonata lasting about twelve minutes, otherwise it's a collection of short, nice impressionistic pieces.
Billy Eidi,, piano
HAHN: 12 assorted songs and a short collection 'Chansons grises' + 3 songs each by BIZET and CHABRIER  (melodies/songs, not arias)
Rachel Yakar, soprano   Claude Lavoix, piano

[NikF]

Karayev: Seven Beauties suite - Ostankino Radio and Television SO/Abdullayev

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[Karl Henning]

Oops, I was looking for the 'Favorite' button... 

(* chortle *)

[Florestan]

Agostino Steffani - Stabat Mater

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

set for the morning
SOR: Fantaisie op. 10  Thèmes et Menuets op.11   Fantaisie op.12
John Holmquist, guitar
Pleasant enough, but an hour-and-a-quarter without a stop makes one appreciate the shorter playing time of vinyl discs and the break to change sides.
SAUGUET:  "Complete Piano Music"
There is a Sonata lasting about twelve minutes, otherwise it's a collection of short, nice impressionistic pieces.
Billy Eidi,, piano
HAHN: 12 assorted songs and a short collection 'Chansons grises' + 3 songs each by BIZET and CHABRIER  (melodies/songs, not arias)
Rachel Yakar, soprano   Claude Lavoix, piano

That's never happened before - I have all three of those disks! What you say about the Sor, applies, for me, to all three.  Best sampled in tasty portions and not gorged upon.

[Florestan]

https://www.youtube.com/v/Ok7lw1TcoNk

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

(Rubs eyes) Zauber! You're back!

Nah, I just misplaced my invisibility cloak. Seriously, good to see the old hands on deck.

[Florestan]

[Florestan]

After that much vocal music, an instrumental intermezzo is de rigueur. 



Sonate a tre op. 1

[mahler10th]

Good old Britten...

[Brian]

Inspired by a conversation with Karl, I'm listening to the "non-canonical" Schubert symphonies.



Symphony "No. 7" in E, D. 729 (arr. Felix Weingartner from the piano sketches)
Symphony "No. 10" in D, D. 936 (arr. Peter Gulke from the piano sketches)

Rogner conducts 7; Gulke conducts 10.

[Todd]

[SonicMan46]

Haydn, Joseph - Piano Sonatas w/ Ekaterina Derzhavina - first two discs yesterday - will continue today - this may just become my 'go to' collection of these works on a modern piano - excellent.  Dave

[Harry]

Haydn, Joseph - Piano Sonatas w/ Ekaterina Derzhavina - first two discs yesterday - will continue today - this may just become my 'go to' collection of these works on a modern piano - excellent.  Dave

Excellent, I thought you might likes these performances.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Great work and performance.

[aligreto]

Bartok: String Quartet No. 4....

[Brian]

Penelopalooza!

[Mandryka]

Bernhard Klapprott does some Thomas Tomkins. The thing about Tomkins is this: it tootles along in a sort of affable renaissance lyrical way, all very pretty and poetic and then woooosh - the rhythms change, everything becomes unexpectedly intense, and basically the whole thing is like . . .hyper . . .  mad. Listening to Klapprot, all I could think is that I wouldn't be surprised to find that Haydn was influenced by Tomkins, because his music for keyboard can be as unpredictable and as audacious and as intense - at least when played by Ranki. Just like I bet that Haydn was influenced by Jenkins and Lawes. I think Tomkins's keyboard music is at least as interesting as Gibbons - and there's more of it (4 CDs worth by Herr Klapprott.) Really the quality of late renaissance / early baroque British music is astonishing - the best.

Not all the music is like this, and someone suggested to me that as TT got older the music became less audacious. I haven't been able to check this out yet. Neither have I been able to work out how Klopprott chose the program for each of his CDs.


Klapprott's got the hang of this slightly distirbing TT style better than the one other Tomkins recording I know - by Carole Cerasi. She's too lyrical and laid back for me. Klapprott, being less lyrical, is better at showing that TT was writing contrapuntally, so that's good.  I've found something on organ by Hadrian Jourdan on spotify, and I've ordered a recording by Bertrand Cuiller, so we shall see.

[amw]

Inspired by a conversation with Karl, I'm listening to the "non-canonical" Schubert symphonies.



Symphony "No. 7" in E, D. 729 (arr. Felix Weingartner from the piano sketches)
Symphony "No. 10" in D, D. 936 (arr. Peter Gulke from the piano sketches)

Another version of the Symphony "No. 10" arr. by Newbould is on a cd I have with Mackerras. You might enjoy that one as well.

For Symphony "No. 7" the only recording I've heard that I like (there are several) is Marriner's. [It's just not that great a symphony though, easy to see why he got bored with it after the superlative introduction]