What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Still only MIDI:

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZSMo90L5xJA

[Daverz]

Still only MIDI:

https://www.youtube.com/v/ZSMo90L5xJA

It's not a string quartet?

[Todd]

[NikF]

Shostakovich: 24 Preludes And Fugues - Tatiana Nikolayeva.

[asin]B00UJNWVJG[/asin]

Another listen to 1-4 after hearing them performed tonight.

[Kontrapunctus]

More Aimard Bach. Despite what "critics" say, I don't think he over-intellectualizes them.

[Mirror Image]

Fresh from the mail
Debussy
Préludes
Aimard
[asin]B077TR4QSX[/asin]

Pounds the table!

Maiden-Listen Wednesdays -

Mompou
Suburbis
Josep Colom

[anothername]

[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to #Bach #cantatas w/ the @VLuminis on @alpha_classics / @outheremusic

: http://a-fwd.to/7mbMu82

Happy birthday, #JSB!

#BWV106 #BWV150 #BWV131 #BWV12

Favorites galore: One of the best Cantata releases in a while!

[RebLem]

On Wednesday, 22 MAR 2018, I listened to one CD.

Robert Schumann (1810-56):  |Tr. 1-4, Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 47 (1842) (26'39)  |Tr. 5-8, Piano Quintet in E Flat Major, Op. 44 (1842) (29'04)--Quatuor Schumann (Tedi Papavrami, violin, Christoph Schiller, viola, Francois Guye, cello, Christian Favre, piano), Guyla Stuller, second violin in Op. 44.  Rec. 10-13 JUN 2008, L'Huere bleue, La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.  An aeon CD.

These two works, both involving piano and strings, and in the same key, have often been described as creative doubles.  Per Wikipedia,
"John Daverio has argued that Schumann's piano quintet was influenced by Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, a work Schumann admired. Both works are in the key of E-flat, both feature a funeral march in the second movement, and both conclude with finales that dramatically resurrect earlier thematic material.
"By pairing the piano with string quartet, Schumann "virtually invented" a new genre.[4][6] Prior to Schumann, piano quintets were ordinarily composed for keyboard, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. (This is the instrumentation for Schubert's Trout Quintet, for example.)
"Schumann's choice to deviate from this model and pair the piano with a standard string quartet lineup reflects the changing technical capabilities and cultural importance, respectively, of these instruments. By 1842, the string quartet had come to be regarded as the most significant and prestigious chamber music ensemble, while advances in the design of the piano had increased its power and dynamic range. Bringing the piano and string quartet together, Schumann's Piano Quintet takes full advantage of the expressive possibilities of these forces in combination, alternating conversational passages between the five instruments with concertante passages in which the combined forces of the strings are massed against the piano. At a time when chamber music was moving out of the salon and into public concert halls, Schumann reimagines the piano quintet as a musical genre "suspended between private and public spheres" alternating between "quasi-symphonic and more properly chamber-like elements."

More importantly, these musicians understand this music.  A few weeks ago, I reported on performances of all Schumann's chamber works in a set from Warner Classics, which most critics panned.  After hearing these recordings, I understand why.  As played by the Quatuor Schumann, this music reaches into your soul.  It is deeply fulfilling in a way I find hard to describe.  I can tell you this is a CD I will not just put on the shelf and forget about.  I will return to it again and again.

[Harry]

CD II .

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/01/bach-js-complete-organ-works-ligia_19.html?spref=tw

[Florestan]

Halleluja & L'imperiale

Celebrating Haydn's resplendent triumph in the corresponding thread. 

[Florestan]

Now on to the other winner:



30 & 41

[Karl Henning]

It's not a string quartet?

Nay;  in this its original guise, it is an "easy symphonic band" piece;  but I have also since arranged it as an easy orchestral score.

[Harry]

CD 6.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/03/fete-du-ballet-compendium-of-ballet_19.html?spref=tw

[Karl Henning]

JSB
Vn Cto in E, BWV 1042
Rachel Podger
AAM

[asin]B0000007F0[/asin]

[Traverso]

Now on to the other winner:



30 & 41

I like these recordings very much.

[Traverso]

Bach Trauer music,a beautiful disc ,different from the Trauer Ode ( it is a reconstruction) .It is really a pity that Andrew Parrott doesn't make more Bach recordings nowadays.

[Sergeant Rock]

Halleluja & L'imperiale

Celebrating Haydn's resplendent triumph in the corresponding thread. 

Composers I supported came in first and second. I'll join you in celebrating: Haydn 53 and the finale to Mahler 7.






Sarge

[Florestan]

I like these recordings very much.

Very good. 

TD

[Florestan]

Composers I supported came in first and second. I'll join you in celebrating: Haydn 53 and the finale to Mahler 7.

I'm perfectly happy with top 5. Can't say Mahler is a favorite, but every time I listen to his music, especially live, I just love it; and S3 is in my top 5 symphonies. 

On the other hand, it saddens me no end to see how bad Schubert and Beethoven fared (don't even mention Chopin)...