What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

What a remarkable influence music can have when not feeling well, which happens more often than I would like, this music then lightens up for 70 minutes my world. Recommended.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/09/klughardt-august-1847-1902-chamber-music.html?spref=tw

[Brian]

Presumably a Karl Pick

[Harry]

I certainly don't do this often, but now I feel I have to. This is not a box I would recommend, in fact I would more boldly say, do not waste your money on it. Better still, wait for a better interpretation, and recording.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/09/gabrieli-andrea-153233-1588-complete.html?spref=tw

[North Star]

Test-drive Tuesdays

Pēteris Vasks
Viatore
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Katarina Andreasson

Musica Adventus for string orchestra
Riga Sinfonietta
Normund Sne

Vox Amoris for violin and string orchestra
Kathrin ten Hagen
Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen
Johannes Klumpp
https://www.youtube.com/v/gVPm5ChoUS0  https://www.youtube.com/v/paRg7uR8Xgc   https://www.youtube.com/v/vPWFPYWBxcM

[Karl Henning]

Elgar
Symphony № 1 in A^b, Op.55
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sinopoli

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[Brian]

Simply gorgeous watercolor sketch by Felix Mendelssohn.



Uh, and he wrote the music too.

[Todd]

Having another go.  One can safely say that Barenboim recorded the concertos with Dudamel.

[Karl Henning]

Simply gorgeous watercolor sketch by Felix Mendelssohn.



Uh, and he wrote the music too.

For a second there, I misread that as Ugh, and he wrote the music too.

[Maestro267]

Bantock: The Cyprian Goddess (Symphony No. 3)
Royal PO/Handley

Villa-Lobos: Piano Concerto No. 1
Ortiz (piano)/Royal PO/Gomez-Martinez

[Brian]

What is up with the top line of this album cover?

[The new erato]

A picture scan that went wrong?

That is a disc I would like to own BTW.

[listener]

BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture, Symphony no.2
Columbia S.O.,  Bruno Walter, cond.
SIBELIUS: Rakastava, op. 14   6 Songs from op.18    2 Songs op.65  Den höga himilen op.107
and other songs for mixed chorus a cappella
Jubilate Choir    Astrid Riska, cond.

[ritter]

What a wonderful, wonderful work! Listening to it twice in a row:

The 1917 (discarded) version for full orchestra:


The final 1923 version for four pianos and percussion, in French translation by C.F. Ramuz:


"chez ma Nastasie, la démarche est légère, sa pelisse est un drap d'or avec un col de castor"


EDIT: Now followed by a real rarity, from late in Stravinsky's career:


Jean Sibelius (arr. Igor Stravinsky): Canzonetta Op. 62a - Avanti Chamber Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (cond.)

[Drasko]

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[Mandryka]

Leonhardt's DHM Goldbergs. I'm starting to see something fundamental about Leonhardt, and it has to do with his attitude to virtuosity. For Leonhardt the virtuoso element is very secondary. It's the same in his DHM Scarlatti  Other artists make the acrabatics of playing the muisc really obviously impressive.

This is a really special performance for me. Almost perfect, even from the point of view of instrument and engineering. My only reservation is to do with the (lack of) repeats, I'm not sure what I think about repeats here.

[Brian]

A picture scan that went wrong?

That is a disc I would like to own BTW.

The Columbia logo looks right, however. It's odd.

As for playing, the quartet performance is clearly a great one. Vigorous, muscular. I held off on the quintet, for now, because I got tempted to one of my old, treasured favorites:

[SimonNZ]

Telemann's Die Donnerode - Richard Hickox, cond.

[Sadko]

Khachaturyan

Piano concerto in D flat

Peter Katin (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Hugo Rignold

[Sadko]

Korngold

Symphony in F sharp
"Much ado about nothing" suite

LSO
Previn

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[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Vox Amoris. So gorgeous and exquisitely performed. Harry, have you received your Vasks Wergo recordings yet?