What are you listening to now?

[Mister Sharpe]

Curiously, Adolfe Biarent is not in New Grove or any of the online updates.  Must have a word with them...

Rapsodie wallonne for piano and orchestra (1911) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07V7eVTcn1w

[San Antone]

Wuorinen : Second String Quartet

[ritter]

Joining the "Transatlantic Michaël Levinas at the piano festival" with this:

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Sounds excellent to me. Very clear articulation, judicious use of pedal, and the music flows very naturally. As Mandryka said above regarding the WTC2, each variation here also has its own character (well, of course that is much easier here than in the WTC ). Most enjoyable.

[Sergeant Rock]

How is that account of the Op.29, Sarge?

I love it. It's slower (the first and fourth movements two minutes slower), more "romantically" expressive than Craft's version. I have not heard Boulez.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Glass Violin Concerto No.2 "The American Four Seasons", Alsop conducting the LPO with Robert McDuffie, violin




Sarge

[Spineur]

I downloaded this 6 CD box of the Labeque sisters from qobuz.  All the material in this box had been previously released on individual CDs.   I started my listening with the two first discs.

The Schubert D940 fantasy is played a bit more softly than in the Perahia/Lupu version.

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Another interesting version of this piece is the Gilels Father/Daughter duo.  Gilels daughter soften the sharp edges of her father and together their playing is a complete success.

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The Mozart K. 448 is also nice, but does not top the Kocsis/Ranki version, which I like most.

CD 2 has Brahms hungarian rapsodies, Dvorak slavonic dances, Fauré Hello Dolly, and a number of small and fun pieces.  Its excellent although I wish there would be complete sets not bits and pieces.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Finishing up the 4th. Really outstanding performance. Certainly one of the best I've heard without a doubt. This Rozhdestvensky cycle is shaping up to be my go-to cycle for these symphonies. My two favorite cycles may very well end up being Rozhdestvensky and Haitink. I do like Kondrashin's a lot as well, but the audio quality kind of kills my enjoyment of that particular cycle.

[aligreto]

Concluding Vivaldi's Ottone in villa [Antonini] with Atto terzo....





Crisp, taught playing and wonderfully strong and engaging vocals, both of the highest order throughout, as one would expect here.

[San Antone]

Glass Violin Concerto No.2 "The American Four Seasons", Alsop conducting the LPO with Robert McDuffie, violin

Please don't make me vomit by associating Glass's name with actual classical music.      



Thread duty:

Boulez : "...explosante-fixe..."

[Mandryka]

Ryo Terakado etc in Opfer, with some unusual voicing in the solo ricercar à 6 from Masahiro Arita, which is played in a granitic way (an adjective which people used to use for Klemperer, or was it marmoreal?) This came today and it has caught my attention.

[Sergeant Rock]

Listening to an interview with Karl Henning, featuring his music. Currently Out in the Sun playing on WJFF.


Sarge

[North Star]

Listening to an interview with Karl Henning, featuring his music. Currently Out in the Sun playing on WJFF.


Sarge

+1
http://www.wjffradio.org/wjff/themes/wjfftheme/external/jwplayer/WJFF_flash.htm

[Mirror Image]

Listening to an interview with Karl Henning, featuring his music. Currently Out in the Sun playing on WJFF.


Sarge

I'll have to check this interview out later. It's great to see Karl getting some much deserved recognition in the media.

[Mahlerian]

I love it. It's slower (the first and fourth movements two minutes slower), more "romantically" expressive than Craft's version. I have not heard Boulez.

Sarge

My preferred rendition is this one, actually:



The Boulez is somewhat hard-edged.

Thread duty:

Boulez: Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna
BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Boulez

[Mahlerian]

Listening to an interview with Karl Henning, featuring his music. Currently Out in the Sun playing on WJFF.


Sarge

Having finished Rituel, I'm now listening to this as well!

[Sergeant Rock]

My preferred rendition is this one, actually:

Thanks. I will check that out.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Please don't make me vomit by associating Glass's name with actual classical music.   

I could call it Glassical...is that better? 

Sarge

[San Antone]

I could call it Glassical...is that better? 

Sarge

Hah! Better.

[Keep Going]

Please don't make me vomit by associating Glass's name with actual classical music.

Oh boo. Glass is a legend. 

[Mirror Image]

Oh boo. Glass is a legend. 

In his own mind.