What are you listening to now?

[Brian]

Preparing myself for Afanassiev's solo Beethoven CD by listening to his Fourth Concerto.

Disc-of-The-Year Alert: Be it known to all and sundry that the ONDINE recording of Sibelius' gnawing, gnashing, gargling Four Legends op. 22 and its sister act Pohjola's Daughter (Lemminkäinenn's female alter ego) have found their definitive recorded impersonation under the hands of Hannu Lintu and his Finnish Radio Symfoniker. In A.D 2015

Fun story about Hannu Lintu! My friend saw him conduct a concert with the Houston Symphony when, between every movement, he dashed off-stage, was gone for 30 seconds, and then dashed back onstage.

After the show, my friend met Lintu and asked him what was going on. Lintu said, "Backstage I have an assistant with a glass of water, so I take a drink of water. And I have an assistant with a lit cigarette, and I take a big drag on the cigarette. Then I come back onstage."

[Brian]

Preparing myself for Afanassiev's solo Beethoven CD by listening to his Fourth Concerto.

God, that was a mistake. Turning it off. Life is too short for this.

[Karl Henning]

Zowie!

[Wanderer]

Lintu said, "Backstage I have an assistant with a glass of water, so I take a drink of water. And I have an assistant with a lit cigarette, and I take a big drag on the cigarette. Then I come back onstage."

One would think that one assistant would suffice for both tasks.

[North Star]

Fun story about Hannu Lintu! My friend saw him conduct a concert with the Houston Symphony when, between every movement, he dashed off-stage, was gone for 30 seconds, and then dashed back onstage.

After the show, my friend met Lintu and asked him what was going on. Lintu said, "Backstage I have an assistant with a glass of water, so I take a drink of water. And I have an assistant with a lit cigarette, and I take a big drag on the cigarette. Then I come back onstage."

One wonders if that was really true. A great story, in any case.

[andolink]

Johann Gottfried Müthel: The 5 Keyboard Concertos
Marcin Świątkiewicz, harpsichord
Arte Dei Suonatori

Axander Goehler: Little Symphony, Op. 15 (1963)
ASKO Ensemble & Schönberg Ensemble/Oliver Knussen

[Moonfish]

Bach: Cantata BWV 202              der Sluys               Apr 17, 1939
Schubert: From Claudeine von Villa Bella           den Boosch-Schmidt            Dec 19, 1940
Brahms: Symphony No 3           Feb 27, 1944

RCO/Mengelberg
 
I certainly could live without these Bach and Schubert recordings, but it was a great performance of Brahms' Third!
               

[Karl Henning]

One would think that one assistant would suffice for both tasks.

If one assistant holds both, a contingency may arise where he must douse the cigarette in the water; and then, where is the artist?    0:)

[San Antone]

[San Antone]

[Karl Henning]

Brahms
Intermezzo in b minor, Op.119 № 1
Karin Lechner

Because, you know, Luke is perfectly right:  it can be Brahms-listening time, anytime . . . .

[San Antone]

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Janáček, Pohádka (Fairy Tale) for cello and piano. Small in scale (11 min.) but rich in inspiration.



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[listener]

COPLAND  Ballet scores: Grogh* and Hear Ye! Hear Ye!  separated by the Prelude for Chamber orch.
*The Cleveland orch., London Sinfonietta       Oliver Knussen, cond.
sound like they would be worth watching as ballets too
RACHMANINOFF: Symphony no. 3, Piano Concerto no. 1
Abby Simon, piano   Saint Louis Symphony Orch.,    Leonard Slatkin, cond.

[Karl Henning]

COPLAND  Ballet scores: Grogh* and Hear Ye! Hear Ye!  separated by the Prelude for Chamber orch.
*The Cleveland orch., London Sinfonietta       Oliver Knussen, cond.
sound like they would be worth watching as ballets too

Very nice disc!

[Wakefield]

Bakfark: Complete Works for Lute (The Lyons Lute Book, The Krakow Lute Book and Miscellanea)
Daniel Benko



It's a shame that this is only available as a digital download. Superb music and performance.

[San Antone]

An excellent recording of an early lai by Machaut.

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[Pat B]

If one assistant holds both, a contingency may arise where he must douse the cigarette in the water; and then, where is the artist?    0:)

Excellent point.

TD: Bruckner 1 (Skrowaczewski).

[aligreto]

Earlier; Zemlinsky, String Quartets 3 & 4....

[Brian]

Johann Gottfried Müthel: The 5 Keyboard Concertos
Marcin Świątkiewicz, harpsichord
Arte Dei Suonatori

How did you like this? MusicWeb just published a rave review.

And sanantonian, how did you like the JLA pieces?

I am availing myself of Ligeti's Lontano, Atmospheres, Piano Concerto, Concert romanesc, and Old Hungarian Parlour Dances.