What are you listening to now?

[jlaurson]

The organ disc on this set:

  G. Ramin
Cantatas, St. John Passion, Organ Works
Berlin Classics / Eterna
German link - UK link

Dated, but endearing.

[Que]

A recent purchase.

Q

[val]

SCHUBERT:       Moments Musicaux D. 780          / Clifford Curzon

A delightful version, the most natural and poetic that I know. This CD, including an extraordinary interpretation of the Sonata D 850 is one of the supreme recordings ever made regarding Schubert's piano music.

All the other versions, even the best (Brendel, Nat, Egorov) never gave me such a pleasure.

[Lisztianwagner]

First listen to this composer:

Reinhold Gliere
Symphony No.3

http://www.youtube.com/v/4jBt0M4L4Qs

Such a wonderful, impressive work, I loved it!

Now:
Robert Schumann
Symphony No.4

http://www.youtube.com/v/M3kmE250i2A

[TheGSMoeller]

And I love The Canticles. I have Britten's own recording on Decca. What a great idea to embark on a Britten-fest, Greg. He's such an inventive composer - my fave of the Brits, in fact.

Very much agreed, DD.
An aspect of Britten I've always found fascinating is that he never really had a distinctive sound or style. For example, put some of his operas next to each other, Noyes Fludde, Turn of the Screw, Midsummer Nights Dream and Death in Venice, and compare the musical atmosphere from each. Totally different, but each one's musical language is precisely catered to the theme of the story. And Britten achieved this with just about everything he composed. His music has always struck me as timeless, heavily influenced from past eras while composing with 20th Century ideals which created sounds that constantly looked forward into the future.

[jlaurson]

Mozart from a Boston outfit:


  W.G. Mozart
"The Mozart Sessions"
Concertos Nos. 12, 13, Church Sonata K336 arr. for piano & orchestra
Markus Schirmer / A Far Cry
Paladino
German link - UK link

[Geo Dude]

A recent purchase.

Q

Thoughts on this?  I haven't been able to find any info on it.

[Sergeant Rock]

Some vinyl Haydn this early Saturday afternoon: the "Drumroll" Mogens Wöldike conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Ditters String Quartet #2 B flat played by the Franz Schubert Quartet




Sarge

[Cato]

Finally I have the time to write something here!

Yesterday I heard most of this CD, and was very impressed: the Bagatelles and the First Sonata are both fine works and played masterfully:

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It also contains the 9 Inventions, Piano Sonata #2, and the 10 Etudes.

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon 

Listening to Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (Solti / Chicago SO).

[Papy Oli]

More from the above Bartok CD.

Divertimento and The Miraculous Mandarin - Suite

[Wakefield]

J.-J. Froberger: Suites & Toccatas

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1623/1745 Ruckers harpsichord of the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Neuchâtel.

This lady should be very seriously considered for every harpsichord lover.

The adjective "mandatory" comes one time and again to my mind.

[Geo Dude]

Last night's listening:



Someone, I believe Octave, asked me about this.  Frankly, I like it more than the Manze/Egarr recording; the recording is a bit drier, which is to my taste, but I also like Kurosaki's playing more than Manze's.  Kurosaki has a Podger-esque tone, sweet but unadorned and unromanticized, which is very much to my taste in Baroque music, and his playing has more of a rhythmic edge than Manze's.  The beautiful melodies still come through, but that bit of extra bite helps keep me interested.



I picked this up recently based on Giordano Bruno's review on Amazon in spite of the negative reviews; I'm glad I did, I like it.


(Sonata No. 1, Partita No. 1)

I have to admit that I appreciate these pieces more than love them and I'm hoping that Podger can open them up for me.  Time will tell, but I'm not quite there yet.

[TheGSMoeller]

Schoenfield: Four Parables

[Bogey]

http://www.1.fm/station/baroque

[SonicMan46]

Philips, Peter (1560/61-1628) - Keyboard Works, V.1 & 2 w/ Siegbert Rampe on a wide assortment of period instruments, some original and others restored and copied - includes organs, clavichord, virginal, & harpsichord; excellent notes by Rampe who states that one goal in this project was "to convey an idea of how the keyboard instruments used in this era sounded...using restored original instruments from the 15th to 17th centuries..". 

For those interested, see Classical Net 1, Classical Net 2, Music Web, and Harry (2007) - Dave

 

[Que]

Philips, Peter (1560/61-1628) - Keyboard Works, V.1 & 2 w/ Siegbert Rampe on a wide assortment of period instruments, some original and others restored and copied - includes organs, clavichord, virginal, & harpsichord; excellent notes by Rampe who states that one goal in this project was "to convey an idea of how the keyboard instruments used in this era sounded...using restored original instruments from the 15th to 17th centuries..". 

For those interested, see Classical Net 1, Classical Net 2, Music Web, and Harry (2007) - Dave

 

Sounds like an interesting composer!

Q

[Todd]

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I could no longer put off buying this disc.  Thank goodness.  It's up to the extremely high standards of the first four volumes.  This will surely be the finest complete Haydn cycle on the market when done, at least on modern piano.

[Opus106]

I could no longer put off buying this disc.  Thank goodness.  It's up to the extremely high standards of the first four volumes.  This will surely be the finest complete Haydn cycle on the market when done, at least on modern piano.

Bavouzet's recital from this year's Schwetzingen, one among many Haydn sonata recitals from different performers, is awaiting its first listen. It's available here[MP3], if you're interested.

[threadduty]In the meanwhile, Berezovsky plays Liszt's Transcendental Études, from a 2011 recital also including Chopin (Scherzo #1, Polonaise Fantasy and some of the Op. 10 etudes); Brahms' HD#5 is the encore.[/threadduty]