What are you listening to now?

[SonicMan46]

Graupner, Christoph (1683-1760) - Partitas, V.1 & V.2 w/ Geneviéve Soly - she has now recorded 7 volumes of Graupner's keyboard works - I've not yet bought other volumes of these works but may?

She plays two different but similar harpsichords (pics below) by Hubbard & Broekman, both dual manuals and after the designs & practices of H.A. Hass (ca. 1730s); reproductions made in 1998 & 2002, respectively - more information HERE, if interested - Dave

 

[Lisztianwagner]

Alfred Schnittke
Peer Gynt

http://www.youtube.com/v/EvuujGi6WFc
Final part

[listener]

KOECHLIN:  Sonata for Horn and Piano op. 70    15 Pieces op.180    assorted short études, etc.
Barry Tuckwell, horn     Daniel Blumenthal, piano
I know what I'm in for, would not suggest this as a starter disc in a collection
BORODIN:  the 3 Symphonies
CSR Bratislava Symphony Orch.,  Stephen Gurzenhauser, cond.

[Mandryka]

Andrea Marcon plays Frescobaldi's Chromatic Toccata from the Sunday Mass in Musical Flowers.

The opening bars are the musical equivalent of a cold steel spike. I like what I'm hearing a lot.

Marcon moves the music forward - you never feel as though you're trapped in the mud.

[The new erato]

Yep. Good stuff.

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[pjme]

Do not forget: december 28th !




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[SonicMan46]

More Graupner this afternoon:

Wind Concerti w/ Antichi Strumenti - horns, flute, trumpets, & bassoon - a 'windy' cornucopia!

Chalumeau Overtures w/ Jean-Claude Veilhan & others on the precursor of the clarinet - love this one!

 

[Wakefield]

Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals (chamber version)
[plus: Variations on a Theme of Beethoven Op. 35/ Polonaise Op. 77]
Philippe Entremont, piano & conductor
Gaby Casadesus, piano
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Alain Marion, flute
Michel Arrignon, clarinet
Régis Pasquier, Yan Pascal Tortelier, violin
Gérard Caussé, viola
Gabin Lauridon, double bass
Michel Cerutti, xylophone
Michel Cals, glockenspiel



First listen of all this. 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Violin Sonata No. 3. Absolutely gorgeous music and performance.

[Que]

Graupner, Christoph (1683-1760) - Partitas, V.1 & V.2 w/ Geneviéve Soly - she has now recorded 7 volumes of Graupner's keyboard works - I've not yet bought other volumes of these works but may?

She plays two different but similar harpsichords (pics below) by Hubbard & Broekman, both dual manuals and after the designs & practices of H.A. Hass (ca. 1730s); reproductions made in 1998 & 2002, respectively - more information HERE, if interested - Dave

 

Hi Dave, you know I love the the series, of which I gathered five out of seven volumes so far. Analekta is not a cheap label...

Compared to contemporary and stylistically related keyboard output by Händel and Telemann, Graupner does very well IMO - his style is highly varied and versatile: it shows depth as well as virtuosity and takes in all kind of influences from outside of Germany, particularly France. Perhaps some might find Graupner's style too fussy or fickle, but I love the stuff.



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First Lassus I hear by Van Nevel and his ensemble. As might be expected the result is more "etched" than the luscious sound blending by Herreweghe, very nice indeed.
And as new erato (thanks! ) already predicted, the mass by Thomas Ashwell is a pleasant surprise - we can trust Van Nevel to come up with very interesting unknown repertoire.

Q

[listener]

first listen to a recent purchase
GOUNOD: music for pedal piano and orchestra
Suite Concertante in A,  Concerto for Pedal Piano in E^b,  Fantasie sur l'hymne national russe   Danse roumaine
Roberto Prosseda, pedal piano    Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,    Howard Shelley, cond.
A lot of work has gone into restoring these pieces which are nice but not much more.
A piano really has only one "stop" unlike an organ, there's not much you can do to change the sound of a note except play louder or softer.   The addition of the pedal part here is mainly harmonic reinforcement, and is rarely heard as a distinct voice.   A curiosity, won't make me agitate for more.

[Que]

Finally some time to catch up with this set!

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With disc 2 the switch from harpsichord to fortepiano is made. Unfortunately Phaia Records doesn't deem it necessary to inform us about the provenance of the instrument.
But on line information on the original issue on Calliope reveals that it is an fortepiano by Ducornet & Way, after Stein.

Musically, disc 2 doesn't disappoint: the quality of the music is quite up to scratch, as is the playing.

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Stravinsky Violin Concerto in D, Viktoria Mullova, violin, Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Phil




Sarge

[GuybrushThreepwood]

One of the very few Bachs on modern piano that I enjoy unreservedly:

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Very nice indeed... I always thought I probably was the only lucky owner of that record in our long and narrow nation :-)

[Sergeant Rock]

Erich Korngold String Quartet No.2 E flat op.26 played by the Brodsky Quartet




Sarge

[Gurn Blanston]

Finally some time to catch up with this set!

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With disc 2 the switch from harpsichord to fortepiano is made. Unfortunately Phaia Records doesn't deem it necessary to inform us about the provenance of the instrument.
But on line information on the original issue on Calliope reveals that it is an fortepiano by Ducornet & Way, after Stein.

Musically, disc 2 doesn't disappoint: the quality of the music is quite up to scratch, as is the playing.

Q

Ah, splendid, Karl. That one is working to the top of my wish list now, nice to hear some feedback on it. I like Edelmann, recordings of his music are rather thin on the ground. I have some on a Pierre Verany disk called 'The Fortepiano in France' that also has some other fine works, particularly Jadin and Hullmandel (my intro to all three, in fact). 

[Mandryka]

Bernard Foccroulle plays BWV 655.

When the cantus firmus finally enters in the pedal towards the end, Foccroulle doesn't change registration. There may be a physical reason, I don't know I can't help think that that was a shame - the entry is the main event of the chorale, and it's really delayed by Bach . . . It's like the music's nearly over and we're on tenterhooks waiting for the big song. Rübsam doesn't change registration either on Philips or Naxos. Astronio does, as does Rogg.

On the positive side, when the cantus firmus comes in, the music in the manuals becomes really ecstatic, like a response to the chorale. I like that. And just maybe that's enough to mark the entry of the choral theme.

[jlaurson]

W.T. Mozart,
Sonatas K. 332, 333, 457 & Adagio K.475
Andreas Haefliger
Sony
German link - UK link

[Gurn Blanston]

W.T. Mozart,
Sonatas K. 332, 333, 457 & Adagio K.475
Andreas Haefliger
Sony
German link - UK link

So Jens, is that disk a CD-R? We have been told elsewhere that Sony's CD-R's have that blue frame. Possibly someone with disk in hand could clear that up.