What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

Oops, this is not an experience I like to repeat. It threw me so much in turmoil, that I will stop listening for today.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/02/mahler-gustav-1860-1911-symphony-no-2.html?spref=tw

[Todd]

Marcela Roggeri, an Argentine pianist who studied under Bruno Gelber, playing some works by Soler.  Roggeri opens the disc with the magnificent Fandango in D minor, an almost eleven minute long, rhythmically vibrant, and energetic work that practically yells out "Spain!".  One can positively hear the castanets in the keyboard.  Why this work is not more popular is a mystery.  Roggeri then proceeds to offer fourteen sonatas, some of which overlap with Marie-Luise Hinrichs' selections on her EMI disc.  Sometimes Roggeri is slower, sometimes faster, but generally, her playing is more direct and rhythmically forceful.  Her tone is generally attractive, and this is a superb live recital, but the playing lacks the same degree of nuance and flexibility that Hinrichs brings to her playing.  Considering just SR 24, Hinrichs takes over twelve minutes and Roggeri over eight, but Hinrichs imbues the music with more of everything other than speed.  Don't get me wrong, Roggeri is superb, and this disc by itself would be good enough to set me off on a search for more Soler, but Hinrich's playing is magical.   I need me some more Soler. 

Excellent live sound of the Transart variety (close, clear, clean, a bit lean).

[San Antone]

Oswaldo Golijov : Tenebrae
ODEON quartet in Moscow 2013

https://www.youtube.com/v/y2koeE44svc

[Brian]

Hinrichs

She has a second Soler recital on CPO.

[Todd]

She has a second Soler recital on CPO.

I know.  I tracked down a reasonably priced, used copy, and it is on its way to my mailbox.

[Brian]

I know.  I tracked down a reasonably priced, used copy, and it is on its way to my mailbox.

OK, good! Her other CPO recital is a composer I've never heard of.

I'm pulling up the EMI recital for streaming this lunch hour.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



An Outdoor Overture
Billy the Kid
El Salon México
Rodeo

A sensational disc all-around.

[kishnevi]

Oops, this is not an experience I like to repeat. It threw me so much in turmoil, that I will stop listening for today.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/02/mahler-gustav-1860-1911-symphony-no-2.html?spref=tw

You are paying the price of having good audio equipment!
My cheap CD player minimized all those flaws. I certainly didn't notice Inbal's vocalizing.

TD
From the EMI Complete Poulenc set
Aubade*
Les Biches** °
Les Animaux Modeles*
Bucolique**
*Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire
**Philharmonia Orchestra
°Ambrosian Singers
All four works conducted by Georges Pretre

[San Antone]

Golijov : 'Azul' for cello, obbligato group and orchestra (Live)

https://www.youtube.com/v/RgCA8zTeFOQ

Wonderful work, finely wrought.

[Harry]

You are paying the price of having good audio equipment!
My cheap CD player minimized all those flaws. I certainly didn't notice Inbal's vocalizing.

Yes of course you are right. I hear all, and that's not always a blessing.

[NikF]

Dutilleux: Chamber Music.

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At this moment the flighty piece (and I've known a few of those in my time...) that's the Sonatine for Flute and Piano is charming it's way around the room. Good stuff.

[Todd]

OK, good! Her other CPO recital is a composer I've never heard of.

She has a thin discography.  That CPO disc is of Anton Eberl.  Not sure I want to try it.  She also transcribed some Hildegard von Bingen for piano, and that holds more interest for me, and she has a disc of Bach and some of her own compositions that could be worth hearing.

[Mirror Image]

Yes of course you are right. I hear all, and that's not always a blessing.

I'd love for you to hear any of the Colin Davis (aka Sir Grunts-a-lot) LSO Live recordings sometime. Davis apparently is singing a different tune than what's actually being played by the orchestra! Distracting to say the least.

[Harry]

I'd love for you to hear any of the Colin Davis (aka Sir Grunts-a-lot) LSO Live recordings sometime. Davis apparently is singing a different tune than what's actually being played by the orchestra! Distracting to say the least.

Wow, that's even worse. Good to tell me, I know now to avoid him. It threw me off totally, so much so that I stopped listening after one of Inbal's grunts.

[Mirror Image]

Wow, that's even worse. Good to tell me, I know now to avoid him. It threw me off totally, so much so that I stopped listening after one of Inbal's grunts.

I mean sometimes an occasional grunt is fine or noise from the conductor, but when it actually disrupts the flow of the music, then it becomes a problem for me.

[kishnevi]

She has a thin discography.  That CPO disc is of Anton Eberl.  Not sure I want to try it.  She also transcribed some Hildegard von Bingen for piano, and that holds more interest for me, and she has a disc of Bach and some of her own compositions that could be worth hearing.

Interesting. I did a quick Amazon search, which did not show the CPO CDs nor the Hildegard and Bach recordings, but did show her CDs devoted to Scarlatti, Satie, and Guilbaldina, two Argentine focused CDs, and a duo piano recording of Copland.

[Todd]

Interesting. I did a quick Amazon search, which did not show the CPO CDs nor the Hildegard and Bach recordings, but did show her CDs devoted to Scarlatti, Satie, and Guilbaldina, two Argentine focused CDs, and a duo piano recording of Copland.

I was referring to Hinrichs, not Roggeri.  Roggeri has never recorded for EMI or CPO.

[kishnevi]

I was referring to Hinrichs, not Roggeri.  (Roggeri has never recorded for EMI.)

Well, that explains the different results!

[San Antone]

Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
- Miloš Nikolić, clarinet

https://www.youtube.com/v/4bG3rt4v6n4

Growing up Jewish in Argentina is not easy.  I think it is a very valuable contribution to the classical music world have works like this one by Golijov.  Making lemonade, as it were ...

Of course the release by David Krakauer is the reference recording.

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Nocturne for String Orchestra in B major [Neumann]....





I have not heard this work before and I found it to be beautifully written. Yearning but not mournful, it sings away into the night with wonderful string writing. The recording is clear and revealing.