What are you listening to now?

[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to #Haitink & @RCOamsterdam in #Bruckner on
@DeccaClassics

: http://a-fwd.to/8bdu7QK

- his 1981 recording of the #9th #Symphony.

[Karl Henning]

Takemitsu: Toward the Sea III for alto flute and harp

That is a title which seems to have been made for the French:  Vers la mer.

[Karl Henning]

Villa-Lobos
String Quartets Nos. 6, 1, & 17
Cuarteto Latinoamericano

Love those quartets.

[Karl Henning]

Tonight
Ogawa playing Satie on an 1890 Erard
... excellent performance, but I realized 75 minutes of Satie can become vexatious

(* chortle *)

[Karl Henning]

(Be patient;  I am weighing the matter.)

http://www.youtube.com/v/lGwbobnHhDE

[North Star]

G'day, Karl!

Thread-duty First-listen Friday
Poulenc
Capriccio d'après Le bal masqué, for 2 pianos, FP 155 (1952)
Sonata for 2 pianos, FP 156 (1953)
Francois Chaplin & Alexandre Tharaud
from disc 3 from this set, superb so far
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[Karl Henning]

Cheers, Karlo!

[vandermolen]

Rubbra - Piano concerto, op. 85



Tippett - Symphony No. 1

Both recordings I enjoy as well.

[vandermolen]

Is this a collection of Lenny's most indulgent recordings? My gawd, the Sibelius is absurdly slow. And the Nimrod Variation... Why does every beautiful slow movement have to turn into a dirge with Bernstein?

TD:


#morninglistening - now geographically correct - to #RVW's #SinfoniaAntartica in honor of yesterday's #WorldPenguinDay!

: http://a-fwd.to/4f51ogu

w/@LondonSymphony under #BrydenThomson on @chandosrecords (@RVWinfo, RVWSociety, @RVWtweets)
Thomson's VW set is excellent and rather underrated IMHO.

[Traverso]

Bach Cantatas

CD 22

[Sergeant Rock]

Vaughan Williams String Quartet No.2 A minor played by the Maggini




Sarge

[Florestan]

That is a title which seems to have been made for the French:  Vers la mer.

Indeed, it would have been a double nod to Debussy.

[Sergeant Rock]

Cage String Quartet in Four Parts (1950) played by the LaSalle Quartet

https://www.youtube.com/v/hGMVqix_w4w


Sarge

[Biffo]

Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat major, D960 - Marc-André Hamelin - not sure what to make of this. The slow tempo adopted in the first movement I find unsettling rather than simply too slow. Hamelin takes the long exposition repeat which means that, with a slow-ish Andante sostenuto, there is over 30 mins of slow music and the sonata is unbalanced.

[Mandryka]

Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat major, D960 - Marc-André Hamelin - not sure what to make of this. The slow tempo adopted in the first movement I find unsettling rather than simply too slow. Hamelin takes the long exposition repeat which means that, with a slow-ish Andante sostenuto, there is over 30 mins of slow music and the sonata is unbalanced.

I'm quite curious about this because of his Feldman. Are you generally uncomfortable about versions which take the repeat and play it slow -- Richter, Afanassiev? For what it's worth I rarely bother with the last two movements, whoever's playing,  they don't seem to have much to do with the first two and they don't seem to be as interesting.

[Undersea]

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Schubert: String Quartet #15 In G, Op. Posth. 161, D 887

Chilingirian Quartet

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[Biffo]

I'm quite curious about this because of his Feldman. Are you generally uncomfortable about versions which take the repeat and play it slow -- Richter, Afanassiev? For what it's worth I rarely bother with the last two movements, whoever's playing,  they don't seem to have much to do with the first two and they don't seem to be as interesting.

I don't have Afanassiev or Richter so can't comment on them. Of the various versions I have Brendel, Lewis and Haebler omit the repeat and Brendel is the version through which I got to know the work so it has probably coloured my views. None of the others are as slow as Hamelin (22mins approx) and only Serkin (x2) breaks 20 mins (just). I don't find any of them excessively slow. Pollini is probably my current favourite. There is something else about the Hamelin, not just the slowness, I don't like but I can't put my finger on it.

[Mandryka]

. . . there is something else about the Hamelin, . . .  I don't like but I can't put my finger on it.

This is how I feel about a lot of Hamelin's work, maybe all.

[Sergeant Rock]

Rachmaninoff Symphony No.2 E minor, Rozhdestvensky conducting the LSo




Sarge