What are you listening to now?

[Todd]

[Mirror Image]

Piano Quintet No. 2, H 298 -

[Mirror Image]

The 3rd:

[You did it]

I gave in 


Not a work I can ever avoid, it seems 😬


Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring

[Monsieur Croche]

Brahms, Sonatas for Piano & Viola - Yuri Bashmet & Mikhail Muntian.

Much as I enjoy Brahm's symphonic works I'm beginning to think of Brahms more as a fine chamber composer.

I am alone in this way of thinking?

I'm on board, i.e. my feeling of the most prominent mid to late romantics is that their more overt concert works for large ensembles are preoccupied with some idea they had of grandeur, and there was also, overall in the times, a general fascination with 'gigantism.'  Those larger and more overt works strike me as somehow labored and self-conscious, and it is in the chamber works where I think we find 'the real person,' or at least the one who is not consciously aware of grandeur, gigantism, the public, etc.

[ritter]

First listen to this new acquisition:

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[Que]

Morning listening is a continuation of this set:

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Third Book of Psalms (1614)

Q

[ludwigii]

Let's try this other edition of Violin and Harpsichord sonatas

J.S.BACH

Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord BWV 1014-1019

Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Robert Hill

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[You did it]

Due to a prompt, Pavel Haas' Quartets 1 & 3 off this:

[Que]

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Q

[You did it]

Xenakis Choral Music:

[San Antone]

[eljr]

FROM HONG KONG: SIMON RATTLE CONDUCTS STRAVINSKY, RACHMANINOV AND CHIN
Berliner Philharmoniker

Live stream via Digital Concert Hall

[Christo]

[aligreto]

Josquin: Missa sol fa re mi [Phillips]....

[amw]

K576 sounds even better in FLAC. This set is definitely proving to be worthwhile; there is an intimate and self-absorbed quality to the performances miles away from the more extraverted, public-facing "concert" performances Pires recorded for DG. This sounds more as though she's playing the sonatas at home for herself or maybe a few friends, simply out of love for the music—very "period"-appropriate, except that almost all the period performances I've heard lack this intimacy and sound scaled for the concert hall.

Next sonata to be determined by algorithm.

update: it is K311 and I am fine with that as well

[Que]

K576 sounds even better in FLAC. This set is definitely proving to be worthwhile; there is an intimate and self-absorbed quality to the performances miles away from the more extraverted, public-facing "concert" performances Pires recorded for DG. This sounds more as though she's playing the sonatas at home for herself or maybe a few friends, simply out of love for the music—very "period"-appropriate, except that almost all the period performances I've heard lack this intimacy and sound scaled for the concert hall.

Next sonata to be determined by algorithm.

update: it is K311 and I am fine with that as well

That's an excellent set! 

If you're still interested in the physical form: it was reissued on Brilliant Classics.

Q

[eljr]

Kronos Quartet
Winter Was Hard

Release Date 1989
Duration01:07:27
Genre
Classical
Styles
Chamber Music
Recording Date1987 - 1988

[Que]

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Q

[aligreto]

Haydn: Nelson Mass [Hickox]....





The choral singing is wonderful.