What are you listening to now?

[aligreto]

Hey mate - I got side-tracked (again) by Bach so I havent done any further listening to the Langgaard (but I will get to it eventually!)

Absolutely no problem with being side-tracked by Johann Sebastian 

[Que]

I know.....Passion Tide is behind us, but I intended to listen to Alessandro Scarlatti's Stabat Mater and never got to it...
Too much seasonal music to fit into a tight  listening schedule....so, why not now? 

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Did I mention my ever growing esteem for Alessandro Scarlatti as a composer? 

Q

PS Naïve throws, apart from full liner notes, in as a bonus my preferred performance of the Pergolesi - a "no brainer".... 

[king ubu]

From the Argerich Sony box ... and I guess this - to be more exact, the Fantasie Op. 17 - may be the first moment where I'm really buying into her playing. Different from my preferred Schumann (Richter, Horowitz), but excellent all the same, I think. Let's see if more such moments appear, but from experience I'd rather doubt it.

[aligreto]

Boccherini: Flute Quintets, Op. 17 Nos. 1-3....





This is wonderful, inventive, entertaining and very engaging music both lyrically and harmonically that is definitely worth exploring for anyone who is not familiar with it.

[aligreto]

I know.....Passion Tide is behind us, but I intended to listen to Alessandro Scarlatti's Stabat Mater and never got to it...
Too much seasonal music to fit into a tight  listening schedule....so, why not now? 

[asin]B000LE0TEW[/asin]
Did I mention my ever growing esteem for Alessandro Scarlatti as a composer? 

Q

PS Naïve throws, apart from full liner notes, in as a bonus my preferred performance of the Pergolesi - a "no brainer".... 

Always a problem, but a nice problem to have 

[Que]

Always a problem, but a nice problem to have 

Indeed, I'd like all my problems to be like that...

Next up - a recent bargain:

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Q

[king ubu]

Joining in the late Easter listeners with this disc, just bought as it was mentioned here a while back:



First few minutes are most promising indeed!

[Drasko]

Schuricht's studio Brahms.

[Que]

Continuation of this excellent 4CD set with keyboard music from the transitional pre-Classical, "Galant" period by Johann Wilhelm Hässler, who studied with Christian Kittel, one of JS Bach's last pupils:

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The Sechs leichte Sonaten fürs Clavier (1780) on disc 4 are played on a clavichord after Christian Gottfried Frederici (1765) and a square piano by John Broadwood (1798).

Q

[king ubu]

one of the many Glossa and alpha discs that arrived in the past few days (evil, evil sales at presto's) - first listen

[Madiel]

First listens to the unexpectedly powerful Mutations from Bach and the intermezzo from Vanessa.

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[Florestan]

Joining in the late Easter listeners with this disc, just bought as it was mentioned here a while back:



First few minutes are most promising indeed!

One of the best Passions I've ever heard.

[aligreto]

Schubert: Symphony No. 4 [Goodman]....





I have always liked the textures and sonorities in this set and these are amply displayed in this work. One's attention is drawn, in particular, to the brass and woodwind sections.

[aligreto]

Indeed, I'd like all my problems to be like that...

Q

Wouldn't we all 

[aligreto]

One of the best Passions I've ever heard.

Noted 

[Cato]

In recent days and weeks...

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I cannot praise this CD enough, especially for the performance of the great Ballade for solo piano.  Andsnes will at times make you think he is playing the work on bells, especially during Variation XIV, but there is delicacy, yearning melancholy, as well as sprightly bounding joy.



I first met Chronochromie through a perusal of the score, and found it to be highly eccentric.    That opinion has not changed, and after 50 years I still think Et Exspecto does not benefit from bird song, but...  Other parts are quite fine!

[Florestan]

Noted 

And if in doubt, ask Que! 

TD last night:



after having read this article:

Eric Sams - Literary Sources of Hugo Wolf's String Quartets

Some might object to such treatment of music as a some sort of journal intime, but Wolf's works under consideration certainly warrant it. It might not be true, but it is at least possible.

[Florestan]

In recent days and weeks...

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I cannot praise this CD enough, especially for the performance of the great Ballade for solo piano.  Andsnes will at times make you think he is playing the work on bells, especially during Variation XIV, but there is delicacy, yearning melancholy, as well as sprightly bounding joy.

A vastly underrated work, to be sure. Have you tried Grieg's songs? Together with Mendelssohn's, they might very well be the best kept secrets of the genre. I cannot praise them highly enough. The Norwegian language has such a peculiar inner rythm and musicality that I have been able to understand the mood and feeling of any given song before reading the translated text. Amazing.

[Drasko]

[Todd]

Disc one.