What are you listening to now?

[amw]

Currently: Daniel-Ben Pienaar's Tempest.

I honestly feel pretty good about being able to learn this sonata to a performance standard but maybe that's overconfident for someone who still struggles with scales and arpeggios.

I also feel pretty good about Pienaar's performance of it—a refined, well-rounded tragedy that never sounds affected, where fate always triumphs over drive. Very un-Tempest-like, if one's thinking about the original play, but there's a good reason the title is apocryphal.

[Harry]

How is that, Harry? 

Q

There you go.
http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/05/fasch-johann-friedrich-1688-1758.html

[Que]

There you go.
http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/05/fasch-johann-friedrich-1688-1758.html

Thanks, I will chrck this in out! Particularly the period brass sounds attractive. 

Q

[Florestan]

[GioCar]

An all round great CD. Have you checked out his youtube channel? He has uploaded an enormous amount of brilliant stuff! https://www.youtube.com/user/fujikuramusic/videos

No I haven't, but thank you very much for the link!
Actually I'm discovering now this composer (who was completely unknown to me) thanks to some references you made here some times ago 

[king ubu]

Just finishing a first listen - excellent!

[Harry]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/06/bruckner-anton-1824-1896-symphony-no-2.html?spref=tw

Symphony No 2. First listen, New acquisition.

[king ubu]

Change of pace, another first listen:

[PerfectWagnerite]

Opp 23 & 24.

I thought I have this recording...it is actually in this box set"

[Harry]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/06/brresen-hakon-1876-1954-orchestral-works.html?spref=tw

[Karl Henning]

Wonder who the violist is . . . .

[Todd]

[cilgwyn]

Wonder who the violist is . . . .

Those frumpy,woolly sweaters just a bad memory.........

 

I have got that one myself,mind! The cd on the right,not the sweater!!
And look at what I'm listening to,now!!



I actually did buy it for the Bax String Quartet (there aren't that many recordings!) and the combination of the Elgar and Bax intrigued me. I would have preferred a pastoral scene or painting on the front,though! Thank goodness for good old plain,brown packaging!! Kerenza Peacock (third right) has recorded a cd of Josef Holbrooke. That one has a grasshopper on the front.

[Harry]

Third rerun.

[cilgwyn]

On now. I love this music. A nice view of Pine trees on this one. People tend to enthuse about Bax's orchestral music;but his chamber and instrumental music is equally satisfying. In fact,I think I marginally prefer it.

[prémont]

Wonder who the violist is . . . .

Yuri Bashmet

[kishnevi]

Just finishing a first listen - excellent!

Never heard of that set before but it looks promising! Some of both of their best works 

It is a good one--I liked the Ligeti portion better than the Bartok, but I seem to prefer L. to B. in general.

TD
Prokofiev PCs 1 and 2
John Browning with the BSO under Leinsdorf
[asin]B01MR43GNH[/asin]

[Harry]

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2017/06/obrien-charles-1882-1968-complete_23.html?spref=tw

First listen. New acquisition.

[cilgwyn]

Third rerun.

Henry Cotter Nixon! Third time lucky? Perhaps the music will finally "click" with you,Harry?!! I have heard about this composer before,at the Art Music Forum.

[Harry]

Henry Cotter Nixon! Third time lucky? Perhaps the music will finally "click" with you,Harry?!! I have heard about this composer before,at the Art Music Forum.

Well he has many bright ideas, and some beautiful melodies to show for, but he leaves you dissatisfied, mainly because his music is derivative, and clearly shows a shortage of his own creativity. Many composers are represented in a lesser way,... and the recording is not good. On my review near field monitors it sounds better, but clearly shows the defects of the engineers work.
But I will nevertheless buy all the forthcoming releases of his music. That much I like him anyway.
Have a good weekend my friend.