What are you listening to now?

[Mahlerian]

Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 23
Glenn Gould

[ritter]

Well, OK then 

Arnold Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Piano, op. 23 - Paul Jacobs

[Sergeant Rock]

Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 23 Glenn Gould

Well, OK then 

Arnold Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Piano, op. 23 - Paul Jacobs

Me too.




Sarge

[Mandryka]

Stanley Ritchie plays BWV 1004. once again I was struck by the way he makes the music come alive through the interplay of voices, rather than just through long singing melodies. He does this partly through the rhetorical (short cell) articulation, but also by exploiting the sonic qualities of the violin, which is very characterful in all registers , especially lower (I'm sorry if that's keyboard speak - you know what I mean I hope!) The tempos seem to help create the impression of spontaneous music making.

A brief and unscientific selective comparison with Fernandez and Terakado suggests that his contrapuntal style is not ubiquitous (guarding my words there), and if that's right he brings something new and interesting to the game.

[Sergeant Rock]

Schoenberg Suite for Piano op.25, Glenn Gould




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 23
Glenn Gould

Well, OK then 

Arnold Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Piano, op. 23 - Paul Jacobs

Me too.




Sarge

A fine way to prepare for Advent I, eh?  0:)

[Mahlerian]

A fine way to prepare for Advent I, eh?  0:)

Well, Schoenberg did write more Christmas music than most agnostics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf8sqv6Gyz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR94CiqtFLs

[Karl Henning]

Well, Schoenberg did write more Christmas music than most agnostics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf8sqv6Gyz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR94CiqtFLs

I love the Weihnachtsmusik, especially!

http://www.youtube.com/v/yR94CiqtFLs

[Sergeant Rock]

Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No.1 op.9, Sieghart conducting Wiener Concert-Verein




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

A fine way to prepare for Advent I, eh?  0:)

Indeed...I always listen for the "Jingle Bells" quote in op.23 

Sarge

[Dee Sharp]

Schoenberg: Piano Music. Op. 11, Op.19 Pollini.

[prémont]

Tread duty:

Dieupart. Six suites for harpsichord.
Fernando Miguel Jaloto
Harpsichord by Klinkhammer after Labréche, A = 408 Hz.
Brilliant Classics doubleCD.

These suites are inventive and skilfully crafted and artistically at least at the level of d´Angelbert.
Jaloto's interpretation is naturally flowing, expressive and beautiful. Recorded sound is state of the art.
So I can not recommend these CDs too much.

[kishnevi]

Quail-thanksgiving dinner went excellently well; preceded by Pumpkinparsnipapplesoup, served with Lardowalnutcognacbrusselssprouts and zestyorangecranberries, followed by a surprisingly successful Appleappleapplepie with triplezestwhippedcream.


#morninglistening to #MaxReger w/Bernhard Buttmann, far and away the most attractive Reger... http://ift.tt/2fnEMeR

Love this series! Vol.1 hooked me; v.4 continues the journey; must explore the two between.

I don't think I can write a review without resorting to puerile humor... But Benny, as no one calls Prof. Buttmann, just brings out the inner Bart Simpson in me.

It is good music--I went through the not actually complete Naxos set not long ago--but Reger seems to have no objection to that sort of humor.
TD
Schubert
Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in a minor D821
Introduction, Theme and Variations Flute and Piano on "Trockne Blumen"  D 802 op post. 60

Klaus Stock arpeggione
Hans-Martin Linde transverse flute
Alfons Kontarsky fortepiano
CD 32 of the Arkiv Analogue box
I think this may be the first time I have heard a performance of the sonata with an actual arpeggione.

[Todd]

Sonata 3.  It reaffirms, if reaffirmation were needed, that this is one of my purchases of the year.

[North Star]

First listen (to these recordings)
Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen*
Rückert-Lieder^
Kindertotenlieder"
Thomas Quasthoff*, Violeta Urmana^, Anne Sofie von Otter"
Wiener Philharmoniker
Boulez
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From this recent arrival
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[SimonNZ]

Charles Avison: Concertos in Seven Parts Done From the Lessons of Domenico Scarlatti - Cafe Zimmermann

[prémont]

I strongly suspect I got that from Tully Potter's liner notes.

In this box??

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Warner%2BClassics/2564601931

Because I own an older release of the Brandenburgs and suites.

[Sergeant Rock]

Strauss/Schoenberg Kaiserwalzer for string quartet, flute, clarinet and piano; and then Arnie's Op.29 Suite.




Sarge

[Todd]

[Spineur]

Film opera on Rimsky Korsakov, The Tsar bride

Most of the roles (but not all) are doubled actor/singer

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Great actors, sets, costumes, chorus.  The cinematography is fantastic.  Direction: Yevgeny Svetlanov, bolshoi opera orchestra.
Only the mono sound leaves to be desired.

Gripping film-opera.  A masterpiece.