What are you listening to now?

[Kontrapunctus]

Very powerful music (picture a far more dissonant and violent Scriabin) and very well played. The sound is a bit hollow, though.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Glad you're enjoying it!

Thanks! Yes, hard not to enjoy it the way Kremer and Maisenberg play it. Coming across as one of my favorite pieces by Schoenberg.

[HIPster]

Verso Venezia - Pallade Musica

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[André]

Dates for the 3 works are 1990, 2001 and 2005. Challenging music, but nothing to be really afraid of. This music communicates to the listener.

[kishnevi]

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Performance serms excellent, although I have no other versions to compare it to.  Sonics certainly are excellent.  I would say it deserves the 10/10 it got from Classics Today.

[kishnevi]

On to a complete change of pace
CD 47 of the Mercury Living Presence 3 box.

Moussorgsky Songs and Dances of Death
Tchaikovsky Three Songs
Prokofiev Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Op. 27
G Vishnevskaya, soprano
M Rostropovich piano
First listens to the Prokofiev and possibly the rest (at least, first listen to the piano versions)
Slava's skills at the keyboard are certainly up to the job here.

[HIPster]

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Performance serms excellent, although I have no other versions to compare it to.  Sonics certainly are excellent.  I would say it deserves the 10/10 it got from Classics Today.

Very nice, Jeffrey.  Thanks for the review. 

[Autumn Leaves]

Now playing:



Listening to 2 versions of the Passacaglia & Fugue, BWV 582 - think this may be my favourite Bach work for Organ.
Pretty good fun listening to Bach again today. Also listened to the French Suites and some random P & F's from Walcha's integral.
Will continue to listen to Bach for the rest of the day - happy listening all.

[Wanderer]

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[Madiel]

MI quit.

This is news I missed entirely myself.

Mind you, I see that he's merely said au revoir until December/January. You had me scrambling to look for some dramatic exit and, thankfully, there wasn't one.

[GioCar]

I'm just finishing disk two of Boulez's Schoenberg box, I'm putting Moses and Aaron on next! 

Hey! I have that box in my listening queue as well 

[The new erato]

This fine disc:



Amazon quotes a price of GBP 140, but in fact it is included in a very fine 6CD set with Masur and the Gewandhaus in the regular cycle which sells for less than 10% of that.

[Monsieur Croche]

Luciano Berio ~ Concertino for clarinet, violin concertante, harp, celesta and strings. (1951)

Lovely thing :-)

https://www.youtube.com/v/tMVsTgNqgm8

[The new erato]

Dates for the 3 works are 1990, 2001 and 2005. Challenging music, but nothing to be really afraid of. This music communicates to the listener.

A very fine series, that. For listeners that like the Bartok quartets, this is right up their alley.

[SimonNZ]

Saariaho's Cendres - Wolpe Trio



Bartok's Contrasts - Reginald Kell, Melvin Ritter, Joel Rosen

[aligreto]

Music by Corelli, Ziani, Torelli and Albinoni....

[aligreto]

And as such, it deserves the best in terms of interpretation:

Thank you for that.

[Que]

Vols. 1 & 2  Menno van Delft

I'm wondering if you'll think that Meno van Delft is too Puritan, I found things to enjoy in it, but I have a Puritan tendency.

I find van Delft introvert and reflective.
Never thought of him as being puritan.
The word puritan I would associate with Moroney I e.g.

I would qualify Moroney's Art of the Fugue as puritan, definitely. Different story with Moroney in French or Renaissance music, however.

As to Van Delft's AoF. At the beginning I thought "this is rather on the slow and dry side".... but the level of intensity and expression soon picked up.
It is a nice, reflective and elegant interpretation.

Thanks to you, premont, for mentioning it quite some ago. 

Q

[SimonNZ]

Vasks' Episodi e canto perpetuo - Dmitry Sitkovetsky, David Geringas, Kalle Randalu

[aligreto]

Midsommarvaka [Swedish Rhapsody No. 1] -





A wonderful work, full of contrasts and I really like the orchestration.