What are you listening to now?

[jlaurson]

J.S. Bach
Organ Works v.VIII
Margaret Phillips
Grote Kerk, Leeuwarden (C.Mueller, 1727)
Regent
German link - UK link

[Brian]

First-Listen Fridays!

And the first listen ever to this composer.

Englund
Symphony № 5 « Fennica »
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Eri Klas

Don't miss the glorious parody of Shostakovich which I think is on that CD.

[Wakefield]

Badura-Skoda at his best:


Mozart: Pièces pour le pianoforte
Paul Badura-Skoda, pianoforte Johann Schantz, Vienna ca. 1790

Instrument, performer, style and sound quality are just superb. 

[Sergeant Rock]

How are the Auryn recordings?

Like taking a spin in a smooth-riding, lush limo. Broad tempos (that work especially well for the stately "march" of op.77/1's first movement). Very un-HIP, almost Romantic in style. Ravishing tone in a resonant space (I've seen some negative criticism about the sonics).

Sarge

[Gurn Blanston]

Badura-Skoda at his best:


Mozart: Pièces pour le pianoforte
Paul Badura-Skoda, pianoforte Johann Schantz, Vienna ca. 1790

Instrument, performer, style and sound quality are just superb. 

Is that a new release, Gordo?

[Karl Henning]

Don't miss the glorious parody of Shostakovich which I think is on that CD.

Is that in the Great Wall Suite?

First listen to this recording:

Nielsen
Symphony № 6 « Sinfonia semplice » (FS 116, 1924–25)
Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
Theodore Kuchar

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[Wakefield]

Is that a new release, Gordo?

No, Gurn. It's the sixth (and last) disc of the cycle of solo keyboard works (principally piano sonatas) on Astrée. 

[Brian]

Is that in the Great Wall Suite?

Yes. Looked it up: "March a la Shostakovich." Based on the Ninth Symphony.

[jlaurson]

And now the B-Side


J.S. Bach
Organ Works v.VIII
Margaret Phillips
Grote Kerk, Leeuwarden (C.Mueller, 1727)
Regent
German link - UK link

[Gurn Blanston]

No, Gurn. It's the sixth (and last) disc of the cycle of solo keyboard works (principally piano sonatas) on Astrée. 

I have a 5 disk box of the sonatas, but it didn't include this. At least, I don't think it did. Why am I not home so I can check on this stuff? 

[listener]

DELLO JOIO: The Triumph of St, Joan Symphony
VILLA-LOBOS: Erosion,  The Origin of the Amazon River
The Louisville Orchestra     Robert Whitney, cond.
On a Columbia LP, appears to have pre-dated the orchestra forming its own label (or maybe inspired them to form their own?)
William PENN: Fantasy        Karyl Louwenaar, harpsichord
                           4 Preludes for Leslie Howard Stevens          Stevens, marinma
Olly WILSON:  Echoes for clarinet and 2-channel tape      Phillip Rehfeldt, clarinet
Russell PECK:  Automobile
HANDEL: Israel in Egypt
Heather Harper, Patricia Clark, Paul Esswood, ..  Leeds Festival Chorus, Engl.ish Chamber Orch.,  Charles Mackerras, cond.

[Geo Dude]

Going to see about the rest of this disc this morning.




I've noticed an uptick in people spinning discs from that Mosaiques Haydn set since I mentioned it in the Haus a few days ago.  Perhaps I started a ripple effect...

Other than the Decca++ Britten complete works, and maybe Badura-Skoda's fortepiano Schubert sonatas, I am sure that the (boxed?) reissue of the Mosaiques' Haydn will be the must-have release of 2013 for me.  Assuming that's even a reality.  (My only source was an email from a Naive employee to a member of another classical forum.  I think they might have mentioned the Mozart as well....?)  The Haydn would be the absolute one new release I would have to have this year, if were forced to choose at gunpoint. 

I certainly hope this is true.  I managed to get in just under the wire on the Op. 64-77 box and the Op. 20 & 33 box is still in print--I'll probably pick it up some time this month or next--and I'm currently in the process of getting their set of Mozart's Haydn Quartets for a reasonable price, but it would great to have that stuff easily accessible again for everyone.

Oh, and agreed on the Badura-Skoda Schubert, I have it pre-ordered from Amazon France.

[Wakefield]

MOZART | Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 (version for piano and string quartet)
Wallisch, Gottlieb - piano
Piatti Quartet 



I just wish he had used a fortepiano.  Otherwise, an excellent recording.

I'm sure this is what you're looking for:



Original versions, though.

[SonicMan46]

Beethoven, LV - Piano Concertos (all), Violin Concerto, & Cello Sonatas w/ Weil, Immerseel, & Bylsma - another listening to this superb 5-disc box over the last two days -

[Lisztianwagner]

Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Symphony No.3

http://www.youtube.com/v/yWpmcz73VjI

[North Star]

I've noticed an uptick in people spinning discs from that Mosaiques Haydn set since I mentioned it in the Haus a few days ago.  Perhaps I started a ripple effect...

I certainly hope this is true.  I managed to get in just under the wire on the Op. 64-77 box and the Op. 20 & 33 box is still in print--I'll probably pick it up some time this month or next--and I'm currently in the process of getting their set of Mozart's Haydn Quartets for a reasonable price, but it would great to have that stuff easily accessible again for everyone.

Oh, and agreed on the Badura-Skoda Schubert, I have it pre-ordered from Amazon France.

Listening to the disc with Op. 64, Nos. 1, 3, 6, gorgeous stuff. Amazing that I've managed to go over a year without listening to any of the Op. 64.
The Op. 20 & 33 box is something I definitely want to get at some point - and the Badura-Skoda ought to be very nice, too..

[prémont]

I was waiting for something more controversial, say, Staier, Rosusset. 

I have to confess that I own all Rousset´s Bach except the W F Bach Klavierbüchlein.

And I did not dare to mention Staier, because you recently wrote about him as being you favorite performer, even if I did not believe my own eyes.

This is really stupid, but what I really disliked was the DVD, where the female singers are wearing all their jewels.

Well, I can say that not relevant, distracting visual details are the main reason why I am less fond of DVDs.

[prémont]

1. Bach: DIE KUNST DER FUGE [Menno van Delft]
2. Bach: TOCCATAS [Menno van Delft]
(quite by coincidence, I see now that these two recordings are/were favorites of Premont's...maybe not first-favorites, but up there...I am relieved...autodidacts and box-set dilettantes wander through life insecure...)

Yes certainly, particulary van Delft´s Kunst der Fuge. Of all harpsichord versions I know (as much as 24 versions), I rank his among my favorite five, the four others being Leonhardt II (DHM), Moroney I (Harmonia Mundi), Messori (Brilliant Classics) and maybe Rieger (CAvi).

The Leonhardt plays Bach box is rather cheap at JPC (18 EURO), and contains among other jewels his second Kunst der Fuge:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Gustav-Leonhard-spielt-Bach/hnum/2791767

[Wakefield]

I have to confess that I own all Rousset´s Bach except the W F Bach Klavierbüchlein.

Me too, the notebook included. How about consistency, eh? 

And I did not dare to mention Staier, because you recently wrote about him as being you favorite performer, even if I did not believe my own eyes.

Oh yes, but it was about a disc as fortepianist, called Hommage à Bach (devoted to Schumann). Highly recommendable, indeed; as recommendable as the Schumann's piano & violin sonatas performed with Sepec. 

[Wakefield]

Yes certainly, particulary van Delft´s Kunst der Fuge. Of all harpsichord versions I know (as much as 24 versions), I rank his among my favorite five, the four others being Leonhardt II (DHM), Moroney I (Harmonia Mundi), Messori (Brilliant Classics) and maybe Rieger (CAvi).

I would like to listen to Moroney II. 

Robert Hill is also very good.