What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Although the timings do not indicate it, subjectively it feels slower, with a darker tone colour than usual in Mozart and somehow "Brucknerian". But I admit it may just be a prejudice on my part, because "it is Celibidache".

Interesting, thank you!

[Brian]

Wow, this CD is amazing. It's like Prokofiev, Martinu, Respighi, and Rimsky-Korsakov hanging out at a block party.



Casella
Introduzione, aria e toccata
Partita for piano and orchestra
La donna serpente, suite

[Karl Henning]

Holmboe
Symphony № 12, Op.175 (M.338)
Århus Symphony Orchestra
Owain Arwel Hughes

[asin]B0000016P9[/asin]

[jlaurson]

Earlier:


J.S. Bach
Mass in B-Minor
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
U.Selbig, S.Krumbiegel, E.Wilke, M.Petzold, G.Schwarz
Leipzig Baroque Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

The Mass in B-minor has nice singing... but as a whole it isn't terribly convincing. Correct and a touch sluggish. Mah.

Since:


J.S. Bach
St John's Passion (IV, 1749)
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
R.Holton, M.Rexroth, M.Ullmann, G.Schwarz, H.Boehm
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

Considerably better in conception!



L.v. Beethoven
String Quartets v.1
(18/6, 95, 135)
Audite SACD
German link - UK link

...Christoph Biller, the 16th Thomanercantor since Bach, says that God can't be known (hence faith), but he can be felt—in Bach. Bach—and I agree wholehearted, although "without invisible means of support" myself—is next to Godliness. Part of what makes Bach stand apart is that deep, quasi-spiritual sense one gets from his music... a feeling Romain Rolland might have described as "oceanic": A sense of rightness, universal like a mathematical proof...


Bach is Next to Godliness, the Flute Not

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/04/bach-is-next-to-godliness-flute-not_8.html

[Wakefield]

Thomaskantoren vor Bach
Cantors at St. Thomas's before Bach



now also here:



An easy recommendation. 

[Fafner]

Mozart - Violin Concertos No. 3-5
Olivier Charlier
Prague Chamber Orchestra

[The new erato]

Wow, this CD is amazing. It's like Prokofiev, Martinu, Respighi, and Rimsky-Korsakov hanging out at a block party.



Casella
Introduzione, aria e toccata
Partita for piano and orchestra
La donna serpente, suite

Have you heard the Chandos Casella discs? I feel they are even better (sound + playing).

[Karl Henning]

Thomaskantoren vor Bach

I love how (to my ears, as I've seen the film) this seems to suggest Die Stille vor Bach.

[listener]

another set in the box set play-through
HAYDN:  Symphonies 85 in B^b  "La Reine", 90 in C
The Orchestra of Naples    Dennis Vaughan, cond.
MOZART:  Symphonies 8 in D, K.47    and  40 in g -  2^nd version K.550
Academy of Ancient Music      Jaap Schröder,  Christopher Hogwood
BUXTEHUDE:  Organ Music for Whitsunday and Trinity 
Ulrik Spang-Hanssen, organ  ( Vichy )
and for variety music for 4 horns by HINDEMITH (Sonata -1952), MITUSHIN, TSCHEREPNIN
players from the Chicago Symphony.

[Fafner]

Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 8
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

[Lisztianwagner]

Just back after finishing:

Pyotr Il'ych Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4
Symphony No.6

[asin]B00004SA8B[/asin]

[kishnevi]

Yundi (Li) playing Beethoven Sonatas (Pathetique, Moonlight, Appassionata)

First two sonatas, at least, are nice,  mellow.  Pretty.  Perfect  music for the spa to play while you're getting a massage, but not much more.   There's not even an excess of romantic overplaying to make it interesting.

Hold on--this is the first movement of the Appassionata, and even that's given a (relatively) mellow, relaxed reading.

[ETA: the pace does pick up in the last movement, but it's too late to save this one: the last movement is merely fast and pretty.)

I didn't have high expectations for this one, which is a good thing because what expectations I had are not being met. 

[Opus106]

Much of it part of Maiden Listen Monday

Boskovsky leading the Wiener Phil. in that hideous made-up tradition during the 1979 New Year's Day Concert.

[Karl Henning]

“Papa”
Symphony № 15 in D, Hob.I/15
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Adam Fischer

[Lisztianwagner]

Much of it part of Maiden Listen Monday

Boskovsky leading the Wiener Phil. in that hideous made-up tradition during the 1979 New Year's Day Concert.

That's wonderful to see you listening to a New Year's Concert, Nav, and the 1979 one is absolutely great.

[Karl Henning]

“Papa”
String Quartet in F, Op.77 № 2 (Hob.III/82)
Kodály Quartet

[asin]B000001455[/asin]

[Karl Henning]

“Papa”
String Quartet in F, Op.77 № 2 (Hob.III/82)
L'Archibudelli

[Opus106]

That's wonderful to see you listening to a New Year's Concert, Nav, and the 1979 one is absolutely great.

It was a fun half an hour or so. I took a break after Wein, Weib und Gesang, the Berg transcription of which I've listened to an unhealthy number of times in the last few months.

Now: Emanuel Ax plays Hob. XVI/46, the sonata in A-flat major.

[Papy Oli]

good evening 

More Beethoven/Wand tonight :

Beethoven - Symphony No.3 and symphony No.8
Günter Wand / NDR SO

[Papy Oli]

And 4th and 5th from the same forces