What are you listening to now?

[Christo]

Excellent composer, superb music.

Fully agreed, perhaps my favourite Dutch composer (certainly as a person). 

[Harry]

Fully agreed, perhaps my favourite Dutch composer (certainly as a person). 

Agreed, he was an amiable person. I am collecting all CPO recordings.

[Harry]

Some of my lifeblood....Ballet music, the greatest of them all, at least from this composer.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/prokofiev-sergei-romeo-and-juliet.html?spref=tw

[North Star]

Martinů
Symphonies nos. 2 & 6
Bělohlávek  & BBCSO
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[Brahmsian]

Some of my lifeblood....Ballet music, the greatest of them all, at least from this composer.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/11/prokofiev-sergei-romeo-and-juliet.html?spref=tw

Some of mine as well, mon ami! 

[Brian]

3 and 7:

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Q

That has been on my List for a while now; what did you think of it Que?

[aligreto]

Disc 2 from this set....





Sonatas Nos. 7-12.

[Que]

That has been on my List for a while now; what did you think of it Que?

I already had some Duphly discs by Jean-Patrice Brosse, so I am familiar with the music. Rousset does a cross-section of Duphly's oeuvre.
Playing is, as usual with Rousset, elegant, virtuosic, brilliant and dazzling....but fortunately Rousset's style is for some time now not longer over-the-top and out-of-breath. This is perfectly balanced. 

All good news, but there is a catch here....this recording is out of print....   I would recommend tracking a copy down soon...

Q

[Brian]

Someone mentioned Rheinberger recently, so I'm trying out a random sampling of his piano music.

Sonata No. 3
Klaviervortrage Op 53
Fantasiestuck, "Hoch geht die See"
Improvisation on Die Zauberflote
Aus den Ferientagen, Op. 72



Right now I'm starting with the sonata. It seems like the recorded sound is not too great (like early '80s digital) and the pianist is not exciting, but the music is. In the hands of someone like Julius Katchen, Krystian Zimerman, or Jonathan Plowright, this could be really terrific stuff.

The other works were recorded later so maybe there will be a favorable change in the sound.

[listener]

a combination not likely to be duplicated today :
MOZART: Symphonies 1 -5  Kk 16-19 22
Philharmonic S.O of London,  Leinsdorf cond.         Westminster mono LP's
re-visit:  BALAKIREV: Tamara    IPOLITOV-IVANOV:  Songs of Ossian
USSR State Radio Orch.,  --- Golovanov, cond.
and a couple of discs featuring the clarinet:
WEBER: Variations op. 33 PIXIS: Variations on a theme from Seyfried's Nikas am Scheidewege, op. 19
ROSSINI: Fantaisie and Variations (c.1826) SPOHR: Fantaisie and Variations on a theme by Danzi ( string quartet op. 6/4)  REISSIGER: Duo Brillant op.130,  DONIZETTI: Studio primo (clarinet solo)
Colin Bradbury, clarinet ( Boosey & Hawkes, 1970)  Oliver Davies, piano
KROMMER: Concerto op. 36, WEBER: Concertino op. 26  WAGNER::  actually by BAERMANN: Adagio DEBUSSY: First Rhapsody
Jack Brymer, clarinet   Vienna State Opera Orch.   Felix Prohaska, cond.

[North Star]

First listen (this recording)

Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Boult
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[SonicMan46]

Someone mentioned Rheinberger recently, so I'm trying out a random sampling of his piano music.

 

Right now I'm starting with the sonata. It seems like the recorded sound is not too great (like early '80s digital) and the pianist is not exciting, but the music is. In the hands of someone like Julius Katchen, Krystian Zimerman, or Jonathan Plowright, this could be really terrific stuff.

The other works were recorded later so maybe there will be a favorable change in the sound.

Hi Brian - well, I was at least one who mentioned the piano box - I have his chamber music collection and enjoy - the back cover states that these works were recorded between 1990 & 2004 - will look forward to your further comments; the 10-CD box is selling for about $35 on the Amazon USA MP at the moment.  Dave

[Brian]

Hi Brian - well, I was at least one who mentioned the piano box - I have his chamber music collection and enjoy - the back cover states that these works were recorded between 1990 & 2004 - will look forward to your further comments; the 10-CD box is selling for about $35 on the Amazon USA MP at the moment.  Dave

The sound quality did increase after CD 1! Must be moving ahead from 1990 to the 2000s that did the trick.

All the music I've heard so far from it has been very good. The Mozart "improvisation" was a lot of fun. But yes, it is fun to fantasize about someone like Gilels playing this music...

[mc ukrneal]

The sound quality did increase after CD 1! Must be moving ahead from 1990 to the 2000s that did the trick.

All the music I've heard so far from it has been very good. The Mozart "improvisation" was a lot of fun. But yes, it is fun to fantasize about someone like Gilels playing this music...

The first disc seems to be a bit pingier and a bit colder in sound, but this is really only noticeable when compared to other performances. In and of itself, it is perfectly listenable.  Lethe was the one who actually noticed this one (that long ago) when it came out. I don't feel the performance is lacking either and I've listened from top to bottom a bunch of times.

[Que]

From the box set:



Q

[The new erato]

Finally getting started on this set:

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after playing disc 2 from this:

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[aligreto]

I already had some Duphly discs by Jean-Patrice Brosse, so I am familiar with the music. Rousset does a cross-section of Duphly's oeuvre.
Playing is, as usual with Rousset, elegant, virtuosic, brilliant and dazzling....but fortunately Rousset's style is for some time now not longer over-the-top and out-of-breath. This is perfectly balanced. 

All good news, but there is a catch here....this recording is out of print....   I would recommend tracking a copy down soon...

Q

Thank you for that.

[aligreto]

Mozart: String Quintets K. 406 & K. 174...





Two particularly fine performances of the Allegros in both K. 406 & K. 174.

[ritter]

Assorted chamber music by Nikos Skalkottas (by both of them, the Hellenic folklorist and the Germanic twelve-tone modernist  ):

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