What are you listening to now?

[Todd]

Now I've arrived at the last three physical recordings in my collection, which was sort of the point.  These three are all quite new, and I wanted to hear how they stack up to some recordings I've owned for a while.  Fazil Say is first.  He plays the Adagio at a leisurely pace, but one that still sounds forward moving, and being a most decidedly willful pianist, he doesn't wait long to introduce personal touches like foreshortened trills, or dynamically varied trills, and robust, but effective, rubato.  (And vocalizing, lots of vocalizing.)  In the first minuet, Say sort of explodes out of the gate, but he ends up never playing too fast, and there's a sense of playfulness.  There's even more in the second minuet, and the return of the opening material is speedy and exaggerated a bit for effect.  Say then plays the Allegro in a fairly straight-forward manner, with hefty dynamic contrasts and accenting his main personal touches.  Say's Mozart is definitely not run of the mill, though it may be too interventionist for some.  The sonics certainly cannot be faulted.

[vandermolen]

A wonderfully insightful performance. It conveys a greater sense of inevitability than the Previn I think, enjoyable as that was. I didn't 'get' A Sea Symphony for many decades. Bought the Boult boxed set on LP when I was still at school c.1972. Finally got to appreciate the work in my 50s 
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Vaughan Williams was a bit obsessed with the poetry of Walt Whitman. He was introduced to it, whilst a student at Cambridge, by the philosopher Bertrand Russell.

[aligreto]

Pettersson: Symphony No. 2 [Francis]





So I have begun what will be a slow odyssey. This is a first listen to any Pettersson work for me. OK, Symphony No. 2 is is an early work. Yes I get the angst already but I do not find it overpowering or overwhelming. I like the musical language which is engaging and not burdensome.  I find the scoring interesting but not as much as that of Schnittke. So, in general terms, there is a lot yet to come but so far so good.

[vandermolen]

Pettersson: Symphony No. 2 [Francis]





So I have begun what will be a slow odyssey. This is a first listen to any Pettersson work for me. OK, Symphony No. 2 is is an early work. Yes I get the angst already but I do not find it overpowering or overwhelming. I like the musical language which is engaging and not burdensome.  I find the scoring interesting but not as much as that of Schnittke. So, in general terms, there is a lot yet to come but so far so good.

Try No.7

[aligreto]

Try No.7

I will, I promise 

[Sergeant Rock]

Vaughan Williams Symphony No.9 E minor, Haitink conducting the LPO




Sarge

[aligreto]

JC Bach: Symphonie concertante with Two Violins and Cello in E flat major [Halstead]





This is the final instalment of this particular CD. I admire the lyrical quality and the Haydnesque poise of JC Bach's orchestral music and none of the works on this CD leave anything to be desired in both of those departments.

[Brian]

First listen to this new one:



Will be of very great interest to anyone who likes baroque music, anyone who likes HIP violin, and anyone who likes staring at that photo and wondering how she held the violin up so straight in that pose. The performer is a student of Monica Huggett.

Includes:
Nicola Matteis Jr. and Sr.
Pedro Lopes Nogueira
Locatelli
Thomas Baltzar
Corelli
Pisendel
Biber

[aligreto]

First listen to this new one:



Will be of very great interest to anyone who likes baroque music, anyone who likes HIP violin, and anyone who likes staring at that photo and wondering how she held the violin up so straight in that pose. The performer is a student of Monica Huggett.

Interesting as I qualify on all accounts 

[Spineur]

Hanns Eisler is the 4th member of the Viennese school with Schoenberg, Berg and Webern.  The Ernste Gesange is a lieder for small orchestra.  The other lieder on the CD are for barytone and piano.  They were all composed in exile during WW2 in his Hollywood notebook.   Matthias Goerne is really impressive in this repertoire

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[Judith]

Mahler Symphony no 1
Klaus Tennstedt
LPO

Very full and vibrant recording.

From the symphony box set which I love.

[Mahlerian]

Schoenberg: Three Pieces for Piano
Pi-Hisien Chen
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[Spineur]

César Franck and Gabriel Fauré violin sonatas Christian Ferras & Pierre Barbizet

[Traverso]

Richard Strauss



Oboe concerto in D
Manfred Clement Oboe
Staatskapelle Dresden

[San Antone]

Robert Schumann : The Complete Works for Wind & Piano
Stanley Drucker, Joseph Robinson & L. William Kuyper

[Jamie]

Stravinsky, Symphony in three movements from this...

[Spineur]

Dvorak quintets, Pavel Haas quartet and friends

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[André]

I wonder if there's a common thread linking these two works ? Apart from being composed on latin texts, I can't find one.

[Sergeant Rock]

Satie played by Anne Queffélec




Sarge

[Baron Scarpia]

I wonder if there's a common thread linking these two works ? Apart from being composed on latin texts, I can't find one.

They both have a chorus?

Having the same ensemble type seems to be a common way of grouping works in those days, like when they put together Strauss' Metamorphosen and Beethoven's grosse fuge because they were both for string orchestra. Lots of violins on the cover.