What are you listening to now?

[Mahlerian]

The timing difference stems from Norrington's willingness to observe the silliest repeat ever penned in a score. Who would want to march to the scaffold twice ? 

It could be seen as just a continuation of the same march.  It's not as if the whole movement is repeated, just the opening part.  If there's a musical justification for the repetition, that should override any programmatic considerations anyway (I don't mind if the repeat is skipped, but I think taking it builds more tension for the continuation).

Bach: Mass in B minor (Part 1)
Johannette Zomer, Veronique Gens, Andreas Scholl, Christoph Pregardien, Peter Kooy, Hanno Mueller-Brachmann, Collegium Vocale Gent, cond. Herreweghe
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[aligreto]

Atterberg: Cello Concerto [Schneider/Rasilainen]....





This is my first time to hear this work. I really liked it from the disconcerting opening and the continued exciting first movement, through the lyrical, poignant and somewhat forlorn but very appealing slow movement and on to the earnest and compelling final movement.

[Ken B]

Beethoven
Piano Trios
All of them
Beaux Arts Trio
From the 60 cd box

[SonicMan46]

Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin



http://amzn.to/2nfsqI5

Just delightful. Almost voluptuous.   

Hey Gordo - sounds like a wonderful recording just in my 'musical sphere'!    Amazon USA has only a MP3 DL for $10 USD - CD available across the pond but not ready to put together a package - of course, my main concern in purchasing digital options is the absence of the liner notes - I'm sure w/ this release, the notes are of interest and instructive - will I miss much w/o the notes?  About to check to see if H. Mundi might offer their notes online (like Hyperion) - thanks for the posting.  Dave

[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to #Langgaard et al. w/#DanishPianoTrio on @DacapoRecords

http://a-fwd.to/2KbZcp3

#PianoTrios, continuing my enduring love for #RuedLanggaard but also #NielsGade & P.E. #LangeMüller

@SurprisedBeauty Music! ♡☆♡

[Baron Scarpia]

Hey Gordo - sounds like a wonderful recording just in my 'musical sphere'!    Amazon USA has only a MP3 DL for $10 USD - CD available across the pond but not ready to put together a package - of course, my main concern in purchasing digital options is the absence of the liner notes - I'm sure w/ this release, the notes are of interest and instructive - will I miss much w/o the notes?  About to check to see if H. Mundi might offer their notes online (like Hyperion) - thanks for the posting.  Dave

Why do you say across the pond. I see a US marketplace sellers (iDeal, importcds) listing it for $14.

[asin]B06XN5Y83H[/asin]

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

This bloody always happens whenever I listen to too much Wagner................I put on something like this!

[Karl Henning]

This bloody always happens whenever I listen to too much Wagner................I put on something like this!

Too much Wagner is toxic, and Strauss is the perfect antidote.

[listener]

I would love to hear this live. Do enjoy the performance 

also on the program:  Juliet Palmer Secret Arnold and R. Strauss Oboe Concerto in D Major*
There will be over 100 players on stage for the Berlioz, it will be a great sound.  I remember a performance several  years ago that had only one harp. Several members of the youth group have become professionals a short time after graduation so there won't be any easy re-writing for them.

[Daverz]

Stravinsky: Petrushka - Cambreling/SWR Symphony.

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How is the Schmitt? 

[Madiel]

Dvorak, Bagatelles for String Trio and Harmonium

[asin]B000059LOG[/asin]
Simply gorgeous music. Goes on the shopping list (only streaming right now).

[NikF]

How is the Schmitt?

I'm afraid I don't have much to compare it with. And generally my frame of reference isn't all that large. But I can say that this version sounds more authentic in that throughout it's performed at a tempo far more suitable for dancers, rather than something you might hear at a concert. That's not to say it's lacking anything as an audio only experience, because it's vivid and spirited and colourful. The other recording I have is of the original version by Davin/Rhineland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra. That one features a smaller orchestra and in comparison perhaps sounds a little more restrained and detailed.

[kishnevi]

Dvorak, Bagatelles for String Trio and Harmonium

[asin]B000059LOG[/asin]
Simply gorgeous music. Goes on the shopping list (only streaming right now).

Supraphon's recording is in this box
[asin]B00DQF1WSU[/asin]
So I am more interested in the Martinu half of that double CD.

You will be happy to know that looking that up online sparked another purchase.

[SymphonicAddict]

Stabat Mater



An extraordinary work, and certainly one of his most profound ones.


Symphonic Aria for cello and string orchestra, op. 43



The first time I listen to this piece. Achingly beautiful to say the least. It's really really moving.

[kishnevi]

TD

[Mirror Image]

Les noces
Mass
Cantata

Carolyn Simpson, soprano
Susan Parry, alto
Vsevolod Grivnov, Jan Kobow, tenors
Maxim Mikhailov, baritone
RIAS Kammerchor
musikFabrik
Daniel Reuss, conductor



A new acquisition. Sounds great (so far).

[Todd]

Disc six.  Opp 132 and 135.  Sublime music sublimely played.  There's no faulting the Koeckert's playing, but the mono sound presents limitations in the third movement, with the instrumental dialogue limited in aural space.  Op 135 comes off as highly elevated classicism, rather better than what lesser beings might pen.

[RebLem]

On Friday, 26 January 2018, I listened to  6 CDs.


1)  George Gershwin (1898-1937):  Complete Solo Piano Music (59'52)--Angela Brownridge, piano--helios CD, rec. 16-17 NOV 1989, venue not listed.  This CD has 31 tracks, and I'll be damned if I'm going to list them!  Some of the more memorable ones are Swanee, Fascinatin' Rhythm, 'S Wonderful, Strike Up the Band, I Got Rhythm, Overture to  Lady Be Good, Merry Andrew, & Overture to Girl Crazy.

Angela Brownridge is a British pianist whose birth date is apparently a closely guarded secret.  I checked at a number of websites, but they all have the same brief publicity blurb put out by her agent, and it doesn't mention where or when she was born.  She was a scholarship student @ Edinburgh University where she earned a BMus (when is a mystery, as the nuns used to say), and did further study in London with Maria Curcio. 

These are, by and large, idiomatic performances. 


2)  W.A. Mozart (1756-91):  Tr. 1-3,  Piano Concerto 23 in A Major, K. 488 (26'28)  |Tr. 4-6, Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, K. 271 (33'14)--John Browning, piano, Julius Rudel, cond., Orchestra of St Luke's.  Rec. July 1994 @ SUNY, Purchase, NY.  A Musical Heritage Society CD.

The liner notes begin with this statement, in boldface letters: "This recording is dedicated to the memory of Rudolph Firkusny [11 FEB 1912--19 JULY 1994].  His artistry served as a model for many of us and [he] will be sorely missed."

These are strong performances, more romantically oriented than is currently the fashion.


3)  Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950): Tr. 1-3, Symphony 1 in C Minor, Op. 3 (41'30)  |Tr. 4-6. Symphony 25 in D Flat Major, Op. 69 (34'53)--Evgeny Svetlanov, cond., Russian Federation State Symphony Orch.  This is CD 1 of a 16 CD collection of all of Miaskovsky's 27 symphonies and a number or other orchestral works as well, under the direction of Evgeny Svetlanov. 

From Wikipedia: "Between 1991 and 1993 the conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov realized a massive project to record Myaskovsky's entire symphonic output and most of his other orchestral works on 16 CDs,[14] with the Symphony Orchestra of the USSR and the State Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation. In the chaotic conditions prevailing at the breakup of the USSR, Svetlanov is rumoured to have had to pay the orchestral musicians himself in order to undertake the sessions. The recordings began to be issued in the West by Olympia Records in 2001, but ceased after volume 10; the remaining volumes were issued by Alto Records starting in the first half of 2008. To complicate matters, in July 2008, Warner Music France issued the entire 16-CD set, boxed, as volume 35 of their 'Édition officielle Evgeny Svetlanov'.
"In a testimony printed in French and English in the accompanying booklet, Svetlanov describes Myaskovsky as "the founder of Soviet symphonism, the creator of the Soviet school of composition, the composer whose work has become the bridge between Russian classics and Soviet music ... Myaskovsky entered the history of music as a great toiler like Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. ... He invented his own style, his own intonations and manner while enriching and developing the glorious tradition of Russian music". Svetlanov also likens the current neglect of Myaskovsky's symphonies to the neglect formerly suffered by the symphonies of Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner."

These later musings seem to me rather fanciful.  I found the two works on this CD at least to be rather boring.  They seem to be endless reveries for strings, very little for the woodwinds or the brass or percussion to do here.  Everyone seems to be wandering around in a somnolent romantic fog.  If the rest of the symphonies are like this,its going to be torture getting through all 16 CDs.


4-5)  Johannes Brahms (1833-97):  Die schöne Magelone [The fair Magelone], Op. 33, a cycle of 15 songs after the novel 1797 novel by Ludwig Tieck (95'15)--Peter Schreier, tenor, Wolfgang Heinz, speaker,Peter Rösel, piano--2 CD Berlin Classics set.  Music rec. 5/1981 Lukaskirche, Dresden, Germany.  Speaker rec. 9/1981 Berlin.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebesgeschichte_der_sch%C3%B6nen_Magelone_und_des_Grafen_Peter_von_Provence 
This is a song cycle, but it features a speaker as well as two musicians.  The speaker relates the tale between the songs--in German, of course.  So much of the CDs is taken up with his narrative.  The music is exceltionally well done and recorded.


6) W.A. Mozart (1756-91):  Tr. 1-3, Divertimento in D Major, K. 136 (13'51)--rec. 10 APR 1968  |Tr. 4-6, Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Concerto 2 in B Flat Major, Op. 19 (28'47)--rec. 1 JUL 1970 |Tr. 7-10, Symphony 8 in F Major, Op. 93 (25'38)--rec. 13 DEC 1967--John Lill, piano (Tr. 4-6), Rudolf Barshia, cond., Moscow Chamber Orch.  CD 5 of a 10 CD Brilliant set of performances by these forces.  Licensed from Gostelradiofund, Russian Federation.

A fortunately brief noodling exercise from Baby Boy Mozart is followed by more substantial fare.  The Piano Concerto is recorded with more almost Mozartean restaint than is currently the fashion, but is nevertheless a fine performance, but the 8th is the best performance on this CD.  Barshai captures the humorous self parody of the piece with exquisite elan.

[Mirror Image]

[HIPster]

Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin



http://amzn.to/2nfsqI5

Just delightful. Almost voluptuous.   

Here a fair (and short) review:

Gordo, that does look nice!

I'm a fan of the AfAM Berlin. 

Thread duty:

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This recording won me over to JC Bach's music.  Alfredo Bernardini on oboe. 

aligreto, are you familiar with this one?