What are you listening to now?

[The new erato]

Definitely. And not exactly overrecorded music either.

[ritter]

I think I'll finish today's listening with something related, some more of Shostakovich's Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87 by Ashkenazy.
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Good evening, Karlo! Probably the only Shostakovich I can say I really like  ... and during my all too brief brief stint with the piano, I  dare say my playing of the F-sharp major prelude wasn't half bad  (of course, I wouldn't even think of attempting the 5-voice fugue  )...

THREAD DUTY:

After the "St. Annethon", enjoying Alberto Ginastera's piano music:

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[North Star]

Good evening, Karlo! Probably the only Shostakovich I can say I really like  ... and during my all too brief brief stint with the piano, I  dare say my playing of the F-sharp major prelude wasn't half bad  (of course, I wouldn't even think of attempting the 5-voice fugue  )...

If you have to limit yourself to one piece from Sh, I can't say this is a bad one to pick..

[Sadko]

Grieg

Folk dances

Håvard Gimse (piano)

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[Sadko]

Mussorgsky

Boris Godunov

Bolshoi Orchestra
Melik-Pashaev
1962

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(I don't know yet how far I'll get.)

[Super Blood Moon]

Good evening. 
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[Todd]

From the Kovacevich big box.  Perfectly good performances of Dvorak, with Mozart's Kegelstatt trio thrown in.

[Super Blood Moon]

Act III
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[jochanaan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y6ZpoQrZzc Mozart Piano Concerto #20.  Robert Levin, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood.

[Artem]

Listened to "The Trout" for the first time and quite liked it.

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This CD has been on rotation for the third evening straight. Some of the pieces remind me of Satie, actually.

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[Todd]

[Sadko]

This CD has been on rotation for the third evening straight. Some of the pieces remind me of Satie, actually.

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It's my all time favourite Lyric Pieces CD.

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[And I did indeed listen to the whole Boris, which I mentioned earlier.]

[listener]

IVES: Symphony no.4
London Philharmonic O., John Alldis Choir,  José Serebrier cond.
on an RCA Q-disc compatible with stereo.  The seating diagram puts the conductor in the centre of a circle of players.  Among other requirements that render the work a budgeting calamity are a chorus, organ, 2 pianos, a piano tuned in quarter-tones and a sixth trumpet who plays for only one bar.
DELIUS: Violin Concerto, Concerto for Violin and Cello
Yehudi Menuhin, violin   Paul Tortelier, cello  Royal Philharmonic Orch.  Meredith Davies, cond.

[SimonNZ]

It's my all time favourite Lyric Pieces CD.

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[And I did indeed listen to the whole Boris, which I mentioned earlier.]

I should probably type this in the smallest, least noticeable font (the Gilels is so universally loved), but:

Daniel Adni's is my preferred set of Lyric Pieces, in fact another desert island album for me.

In fact I quite feel like playing that again now, and so:

[Mandryka]

Igor Levit's Goldberg Variations on a modern piano. He takes all the repeats, the tempos are moderate. He's open to the emotional richness of the music, he's quite reflective in fact. There are some very memorable individual things (like the French Overture, and indeed most of the last third is full of character and individuality) The black pearl is played romantically and pianistically.

He does not have the burnished tone of a mature pianist yet, but you can sense that he's developing his own distinctive piano sound. The voicing tends to be a bit melody and accompaniment (maybe - I may be being a bit unfair there, it's probably better to say that the voicing is natural - as is the rubato and ornamentation.)

[springrite]

Igor Levit's Goldberg Variations on a modern piano. He takes all the repeats, the tempos are moderate. He's open to the emotional richness of the music, he's quite reflective in fact. There are some very memorable individual things (like the French Overture, and indeed most of the last third is full of character and individuality) The black pearl is played romantically and pianistically.

He does not have the burnished tone of a mature pianist yet, but you can sense that he's developing his own distinctive piano sound. The voicing tends to be a bit melody and accompaniment (maybe - I may be being a bit unfair there, it's probably better to say that the voicing is natural - as is the rubato and ornamentation.)

I don't have this one. What do you think of his take on the Partitas?

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Aram Khachaturian's violin concerto. Sergey Khachatryan on violin, Krivine conducting.

An ingenious concerto. One of the great moments for the bassoon comes in the opening of the second movement as it introduces the music, accompanied by another "bassoon moment" roughly mid-movement with more unexpected hijinks. Impressive.

In fact, the entire piece is riddled with these kinds of off-the-wall-but-very-likable moments. Just the thing to impress the commissar flunkies? Dunno, but yes or no the work is better than the flunkies ever deserved. 




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[The new erato]

Lekeu's cello sonata from this set:

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I'll quote myself.

What a monumental and large boned cello sonata this is! This strikes me as the best I've heard from Lekeu and a very fine addition to the repertoire of cello sonatas. It also strikes me as the kind of thing Magnard might have written. I incidentally listened to Magnard's cello sonata a month ago (listening to the Alpha set of complete Chamber Music) without me remembering that it made such a strong impression as this. 

[Florestan]

[Harry]

New acquisition. Superb interpretations of the Cello concertos.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/10/kabalevsky-dmitri-1904-1987-cello.html?spref=tw