What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

An example of one of those extraordinary oddments which would have escaped me entirely, if I had not sprung for the Concertos &c. box:

W.C. Handy
St Louis Blues, Concerto grosso (arr. Alfredo Antonini)
Louis Armstrong, tr
Louis Armstrong Quintet:
  Edmond Hall, cl
  Trummy Young, tn
  Billy Kyle, pf
  Dale Jones, bass
  Barrett Deems, drums
NY Phil
Lenny

[Brian]

Whoa, Karl, I guess I need to listen to that when I get back to the big box?

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Super serious profound listening today:



Only on track 1 (Iosif Ivanovici's Erzherzog Carl Ludwig March) but it is outrageously catchy.

[Karl Henning]

Whoa, Karl, I guess I need to listen to that when I get back to the big box?

The words from both Lenny & Louis after the performance are touching.

[Brian]

Super serious profound listening today:



Only on track 1 (Iosif Ivanovici's Erzherzog Carl Ludwig March) but it is outrageously catchy.

After a few duds, giving up on this one. Today feels like a Haydn day.

[Wakefield]

Rameau: The Sound of Light
Musicaeterna
Teodor Currentzis

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This is not the kind of thing I usually would enjoy. But this time I did it.

Many Currentzis' decisions have no more justification than his personal taste. But it has worked out for me and created, as a result, an enjoyable programatic disk, based on Currentzis' almost mystical conception about Rameau. Take it or leave it, the performers and sound quality are top-notch.     

[Drasko]

[HIPster]

Rameau: The Sound of Light
Musicaeterna
Teodor Currentzis

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This is not the kind of thing I usually would enjoy. But this time I did it.

Many Currentzis' decisions have no more justification than his personal taste. But it has worked out for me and created, as a result, an enjoyable programatic disk, based on Currentzis' almost mystical conception about Rameau. Take it or leave it, the performers and sound quality are top-notch. 

Thanks, Gordo!  Just added this to the wish list. 

Thread duty ~
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Margret Köll, a rising star in the world of historical harps, joins Il Giardino Armonico founder Luca Pianca to present a musical experience conceived on the model of the old master instrumentalists and improvisers who were capable of adapting all kinds of music to the needs of the moment. The title Giants refers to the composers presented on this recording, who are truly musical giants. Monteverdi began the Baroque era, Bach brought it to an end 150 years later, and both have left us masterpieces of immense artistic value. This CD guarantees a fresh look into this music via the surprising sound combination of lute and harp.

[Mandryka]

Sergio Vartolo plays early Italian music -  mostly Trabaci, but also some Andrea Gabrieli, Claudio Merulo etc -   on a wonderful organ at Lanvellec. This is from 1986 which I think (but I'm not sure) is earlier than his complete Trabaci. There's a tremendous spirit of abandon and adventure in his way of playing here. You can imagine that Gesualdo himself would have appreciated Vartolo's style.

The title is interesting, Préludes à la fugue. In the booklet Vartolo emphasises that the tradition which culminated in Bach's Art of Fugue had its origins in the south -- Spain, Portugal and Italy.

[NikF]

Koechlin:  Ballade pour piano et Orchestre - Rigutto/Myrat/Monte Carlo Philharmonic.

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[Karl Henning]

Calling Ray . . . .

"Wolferl"
String Quartet in D, « Hoffmeister » K.499
The Amadeus Quartet

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[Brian]

Haydn appreciation day for me!

So far:

Quatuor Mosaiques
Op. 76 No. 4
Op. 77 No. 1 - nickname "The Sarge's Favorite"

Cologne Chamber orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl
Double concerto (Ariadne Daskalakis, violin; Harald Hoeren, harpsichord)
Trumpet concerto (Jurgen Schuster)

[Sergeant Rock]

Op. 77 No. 1 - nickname "The Sarge's Favorite"

Sarge

[SonicMan46]

Haydn, Joseph - Keyboard Sonatas w/ Ronald Brautigam - BOY, I cannot believe that there are now 5 sets of these works in my collection (Buchbinder, Schornsheim, Beghin, and the newest, Derzhavina) - Dave   

[Karl Henning]

Александр Николаевич [ Aleksander Nikolayevich (Skryabin) ]
«Поэма экстаза», соч. 54 [ Le Poème de l'extase, Opus 54 ]
NY Phil
Boulez

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[Wakefield]

Haydn, Joseph - Keyboard Sonatas w/ Ronald Brautigam - BOY, I cannot believe that there are now 5 sets of these works in my collection (Buchbinder, Schornsheim, Beghin, and the newest, Derzhavina) - Dave   

... and if you added the Brilliant Classics set, you would get a bunch of additional interpreters and beautiful historical instruments (or replicas of).   

[Karl Henning]

Bartók
Zene húros hangszerekre, ütőkre és cselesztára [ Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta ] (1936) Sz. 106, BB 114
BBC Symphony
Boulez

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[Karl Henning]

Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No.1 -  Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.

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Big band (Op.9b), or the original chamber scoring?  And what do you think of the piece/performance?

[Brian]

Sonic Dave made me do this!



Sonatas Nos. 59, 62, "Un piccolo divertimento," and the "Variations on Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser"

[Karl Henning]

Sonic Dave made me do this!



Sonatas Nos. 59, 62, "Un piccolo divertimento," and the "Variations on Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser"

Sweet!

Thread Duty:

Probably my favorite bassoon opening of all time —yea, even above Le sacre du printemps.

Bartók
Táncszvit, Sz. 77, BB 86 (1923)
NY Phil
Boulez

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[NikF]

Big band (Op.9b), or the original chamber scoring?  And what do you think of the piece/performance?

Op. 9b

This piece was (kindly) recommended to me in this thread and I've yet to hear another performance to compare it to.
As for the piece itself, until relatively recently Schoenberg was off-limits to me - my frame of reference didn't extend enough for me to be able to listen to his music. But...time and patience always win and so now I'm finding the chamber symphony a thrilling exercise in emotional highs and lows, with the former nearing over the top - so much so that there are moments in which some of it even seems almost 'wanton'! That's about the best way I can describe how it sounds to me.
Thanks for asking!