What are you listening to now?

[Wakefield]

Mozart inspired by Bach, the result is bound to be special:

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Pictured is the currently available reisue, mine has a different cover.

Q

Now it's available this new release:



These are the pieces included:

[SonicMan46]

Foerster, Josef (1859-1951) - Piano Trios w/ the Janáček Trio - last few weeks I've doubled my modest collection of this composer's works - really enjoy the chamber music but not sure how much more is available (also have the complete SQs) - Dave

[Karl Henning]

Now it's available this new release:



These are the pieces included:

So most of the disc is Bach (arr. Mozart), yes?  Not that that isn't special  0:)

[North Star]

So most of the disc is Bach (arr. Mozart), yes?  Not that that isn't special  0:)

Tangentially, I'm listening to...
Vivaldi & Sassonia
Concertos (arr. Bach)
Foccroulle

[Wakefield]

So most of the disc is Bach (arr. Mozart), yes?  Not that that isn't special  0:)

Yes! It would be a nice touch to arrange some Mozart's à la Bach. 

[Karl Henning]

Chopin
Two Nocturnes, Op.27
Abbey Simon

[North Star]

Chopin
Nocturne 0p. 48/1
Bart van Oort ( Erard 1837)
https://www.youtube.com/v/YpD4RdLHz9M

[Mandryka]

Dino Ciani plays Chopin's nocturne op 62/1.

This is a favourite performance of a favourite bit of Chopin, I remember when I first discovered it and being very excited. Somehow the music making communicates the single minded focus of Ciani's physical and spiritual powers on the task of realising an idea, a vision.

[Karl Henning]

As suggested by Karlo:

Chopin
Nocturne in c minor, Op.48 № 1 (1841)
Abbey Simon

[Brian]

Boris Berezovsky plays the great Tchaikovsky Second Concerto.



Superb, subtle pianism, but the orchestra and conductor are terribly uninspired. Though Scherbakov's reading on Naxos is not quite as interesting pianistically, it's preferable to this overall. I still haven't heard Stephen Hough. Some of the "classic" old accounts that gut the slow movement (e.g. Gilels) don't even deserve consideration; the full slow movement is just too good to reduce.

The solo piano stuff is predictably much better.

[North Star]

As suggested by Karlo:

Chopin
Nocturne in c minor, Op.48 № 1 (1841)
Abbey Simon

How is Simon's Chopin, Karl?


Thread duty

Chopin
2 Nocturnes op. 27
Bart van Oort ( Erard 1837)
https://www.youtube.com/v/SWQMbsQgLQE

[Karl Henning]

How is Simon's Chopin, Karl?

Buttermilk, Karlo.

Thread Duty:

Jehan Alain
Le jardin suspendu, JA 71
Marie-Claire Alain

[Mandryka]

Chopin
Nocturne 0p. 48/1
Bart van Oort ( Erard 1837)
https://www.youtube.com/v/YpD4RdLHz9M

I find what he does in the last third really eloquent, the short phrases like speech rather than song. There's a famous one by Gilels from 1944, but totally different in that final section. I played both today and I found myself very moved by Oort.

[bwv 1080]

I like that Oort recording quite alot.  His Mozart recordings on Brilliant are also favorites of mine

[Brian]

I've decided to make today Berezovsky day. Have never heard the Hindemith pieces before!

[Mandryka]

I like that Oort recording quite alot.  His Mozart recordings on Brilliant are also favorites of mine

Yes agreed about the Chopin and in fact I like his Haydn too. I'm gonna have to hear a whole lot more Chopin on old pianos.

[Mandryka]

I've decided to make today Berezovsky day. Have never heard the Hindemith pieces before!

I think that's the most fun and friendly Ludus Tonalis I've ever heard.

[listener]

from the Concertgebouw boxes, MARTINU: Symphony no.6  (Fantaisies sumphoniques)
Wolfgang Sawallisch, cond.
then REGER: Intro & Passacaglia in d,  FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue & Variation op.18
MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in c olp.65/2   LISZT: P&F on BACH
and new to me  August Gottfried RITTER (1813-1885): Sonata no..3 op.23
Joachim Dalitz, organ    Jehmlich 1985, Berlin Schauspielhaus

[Todd]

Vingt Regards.  Tonally dark, with lots of bass, Ms MacGregor plays well, but it just doesn't match up to Serkin or Knapik, or Beroff or Osborne.

[Ken B]

Some Bach organ music from Vernet to start my day.

My favourite set.