What are you listening to now?

[wintersway]

[Que]

Time for some real harpsichord music......

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Disc 2 with the Toccatas for harpsichord. Léon Berben plays a wonderful instrument by Keith Hill, after Christian Zell, Hamburg 1728. Great disc on the newish small Dutch quality label Ramée.

Q

[The new erato]

Smallscaled and intimate:

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[Mandryka]

Rosalyn Tureck (DG) plays BWV 885, G minor. She makes the final moments of the fugue sound like a release from suffering, the emotional tone changes from despair to confidence and security. I enjoyed the prelude less.




In the final moments of the prelude of 885, Valery Afanassiev is so poignant with the music in the treble voice, I almost couldn't believe my ears. I  enjoyed the  fugue less.



Ton Koopman's ornamentation and voicing in the G minor prelude are a revelation. The ornaments seem to add to the feeling of sweet anguish (of Jesus?), the trills are are like a suffering hand's feeble tremor - astonishing.



Glen Wilson is ominous in the prelude of 885, the way he plays the rhythmic moftif, it made me think of the hammer and nails of the crucifixion. The pleading treble voice at the end receives no comfort. The fugue is played energetically, full of static electricity, and makes me think of a mind turning, distressed by terror. At the conclusion of the fugue, we find something much less comforting than Tureck - but something which is maybe more true. The anguish and turbulence are transformed into grim determination and strength.

[wintersway]

[Que]

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Q

[wintersway]

[Sergeant Rock]

Beethoven "Moonlight" played by Glenn Gould




Sarge

[Que]

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphonies Nos. 35 B flat and 38 C major, Pinnock conducting the English Concert




Sarge

[Madiel]

Valses nobles et sentimentales

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EDIT: This is such marvellous music. Spice added to every chord.

[Sergeant Rock]

Listening to a couple of waltzes by Gregory Moeller (Monkey Greg): Inside Waltz and The Passion of Beckett Zayd.


Sarge

[Brian]

Bizet's Symphony in C (Lenny/NYPO) and Schumann's Symphony of Spring (Chailly/Leipzig, ed. Mahler).

[Harry]

Smallscaled and intimate:

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A very fine disc indeed!

[Harry]

Beautiful music and ditto performance.


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[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. Great performance!

[ritter]

Now:



Listening to Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. Great performance!

Indeed... topnotch Bartók! I should re-listen to this sometime soon...it's been ages..

[Harry]

Had he lived longer, he might have been a formidable composer in its own right. You may hear these qualities in this recording, I did.

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[SonicMan46]

McEwen, John (1868-1948) - String Quartets & Orchestral Music performed by those on the cover art - actually I own all 3 volumes of the string quartets; he was quite prolific in the SQ genre w/ 17 numbered ones listed HERE - Dave


 

[Harry]

McEwen, John (1868-1948) - String Quartets & Orchestral Music performed by those on the cover art - actually I own all 3 volumes of the string quartets; he was quite prolific in the SQ genre w/ 17 numbered ones listed HERE - Dave


 

A fascinating composer. These SQ are very special indeed.