What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Ives
Piano Sonata № 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-1860
Alexei Lubimov

[kyjo]

Cras's piano quintet knocks my socks off.

As it does mine! Excellent work! One of many great French piano quintets. Have you heard Biarent's?

[asin]B00006835L[/asin]

A turbulent, passionate work that would appeal to any admirer of late-romantic chamber music.

[Karl Henning]

Jn Cage
Seventy-Four (version 2)
American Composers Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies

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[Karl Henning]

Jn Cage
Seventy-Four (version 2)
American Composers Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies

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I may be mixing and matching threads, but If you like Scelsi, then (meseems) you will also like this piece of Cage's.

[Brahmsian]

Copland

Ceremonial Fanfare

Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

El salon Mexico
Dance Symphony
Rodeo - Four Dance Episodes

Dorati
Detroit Symphony Orchestra

London

[asin]B000004284[/asin]

[Sadko]

Corelli

Concerto grosso no. 8 in G minor Op. 6

Krasnoyarsk State Chamber Orchestra
Mikhail Arkadiev

[springrite]

I may be mixing and matching threads, but If you like Scelsi, then (meseems) you will also like this piece of Cage's.

I felt the same for Forty-Seven.

[Pat B]

He got involved in a discussion on the Bach cantatas website about his French Suites

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NonVocal/Klavier-French-Brookshire-Brad.htm

He says there "Ideally, a good Bach performer should project both order and spontaneity; but it is hard to achieve this combination." I think he succeeds in BWV 815 -- as you probably know I'm interested most in performances where the order seems very close to failing, but doesn't. I'm not so sure that he's quite that. But anyway I like his way about thinking about Bach performance there.

I was just reading that. I agree, that's a good guideline. But it looks like someone named Uri Golomb made that comment, and it was about Gould.

[TheGSMoeller]

Jn Cage
Seventy-Four (version 2)
American Composers Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies

[asin]B00004RKK4[/asin]

+1
That was my first Cage disc, still gets played a good bit.

[Sadko]

Bach

The Well-Tempered Clavier I

Maurizio Pollini

[asin]B002LL13AM[/asin]

[Brahmsian]

First Listen Friday! - Performance

Mahler

Symphony No. 4 in G major

Dame Margaret Price - soprano

Jascha Horenstein
London Philharmonic Orchestra

EMI Classics

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*Meh......not a fan of this performance.  Too slow and plodding.  Much prefer the jauntier, faster Tennstedt/LPO/L.Popp studio recording

[milk]

As it does mine! Excellent work! One of many great French piano quintets. Have you heard Biarent's?

[asin]B00006835L[/asin]

A turbulent, passionate work that would appeal to any admirer of late-romantic chamber music.

Thanks! It's on my list!

[kyjo]

Thanks! It's on my list!

You're welcome. Not to bombard you with questions (I have a habit of doing this), but are you familiar with this superb disc?

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The Hahn quintet is a beautiful, melodious work, but the Vierne quintet is the main attraction here. A torrentially emotional and almost despairing work, it is nothing short of a masterpiece. It's easily one of my favorite piano quintets in the repertoire.

[milk]

You're welcome. Not to bombard you with questions (I have a habit of doing this), but are you familiar with this superb disc?

[asin]B00005QIT5[/asin]

The Hahn quintet is a beautiful, melodious work, but the Vierne quintet is the main attraction here. A torrentially emotional and almost despairing work, it is nothing short of a masterpiece. It's easily one of my favorite piano quintets in the repertoire.

Thanks Kyjo. I have this one:

I've been enjoying this performance of Vierne's quintet very much. There is also a lot of other attractive chamber music on this release.

[kyjo]

Thanks Kyjo. I have this one:

I've been enjoying this performance of Vierne's quintet very much. There is also a lot of other attractive chamber music on this release.

I believe I own that set. I'll have to dig it out sometime!

[Sadko]

Bach

Concerti for three and four pianos BWV 1063 - 1065

Tatiana Nikolaeva, Mikhail Petukhov, Marina Evseeva, Sergei Senkov (pianos)
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Saulius Sondeckis

[Sadko]

Chopin

Études op. 10

Maurizio Pollini

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[kishnevi]

Hmm.  The Arietta from the 32nd Sonata (played on a 1920 Bechstein) was downright jazzy in places;  the Bagatelles (1820 Brodmann) were excellent; the main attraction,  the pair of Diabellis (one on each instrument), I'm much less decided about, and while the sound of the instruments was of course noticeably different,  I'm not sure there were any other important  differences between the two performances. The artist photos in the liner booklet, showing Schiff playing in what seems to be a very sumptous dressing gown/bathrobe,  are slightly odd.  (He does seem to have aged noticeably in the last few years.) Further listens will be required before anything like a final opinion can be rendered.

[Sadko]

Chopin

Piano concerto in F minor, Op. 21

Svyatoslav Richter
USSR SO
Evgeniy Svetlanov

Moscow 1966

[not edward]

I may be mixing and matching threads, but If you like Scelsi, then (meseems) you will also like this piece of Cage's.

It's a great example of entirely different methods of composition and notation producing very similar results.

It might be worth mentioning Nono's A Carlo Scarpa, architetto ai suoi infiniti possibiliti and No hay caminas, hay que caminar..., two works which explore a rather similar soundworld, though with an atmosphere of claustrophobic tension that's largely absent in the other two composers (though I hear something of it in Cage's incredibly slow, unison Sixty-Eight). For those Nono pieces, I can't recommend the live Gielen recording enough:

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Thread duty: much more towards the mainstream, all with the Vienna Philharmonic: Maazel's Sibelius 7, Giulini's Bruckner 9 and Boulez's Mahler 6.