What are you listening to now?

[Brian]

What wonderful works, yes? I find her music to have such beautiful flow. I wish she were programmed more too...

Farrenc is absolutely wonderful, and all of her chamber music is worth a place in anybody's collection. I love this stuff, and the Sextet too.

Now, a CSO/Barenboim party:

[SonicMan46]

Brian - I've been a Louise Farrenc fan for a number of years and own about a half dozen discs - enjoy the Piano Quintets and have the Linos Ensemble recording shown below - just checking Amazon to see 'what new' may be available of her works - another PQs CD 'popped up' w/ an Italian group recorded in 2013 (below right; review from MusicWeb reprinted HERE - impressed w/ the comments, so just ordered from Amazon, $10 Prime) - otherwise, not a whole lot new since my last perusal - Dave

 

[SonicMan46]

Schumann, Robert - Violin Sonatas - up now a new arrival w/ Isabelle Faust & Silke Avenhaus, which will be followed by a recording already in my collection - Ulf Wallin & Roland Pöntinen on BIS - Dave

 

[Tsaraslondon]

As was mentioned, a favourite of Alan's. He knows Teresa Cahill. She provides something very special in the Spirit of England. I think it is the favourite of the discs that I was involved in, within the chorus. Gibson was very hit or miss, but he usually produced something special for Elgar, Sibelius and Berlioz. The setting was Paisley Abbey near Glasgow and it provides a good spacious acoustic for each work, enabling them to breathe.

Mike

I remember seeing Teresa Cahill as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier with Scottish Opera in Newcastle. There too she floated and soared in Sophie's high-lying phrases.

It was a memorable night, with Dernesch quite special as the Marschallin and Anne Howells a dramatically superb Octavian. It was the first time I'd heard or seen the opera, and I was so overwhelmed that I went back to see it for its next and last performance in Newcastle.

[aligreto]

Vanhal: Sinfonia in C major....

[Que]

Yes, I recall you have been for years the strongest supporter of this version here. I think Hengelbrock has a special touch in vocal sacred works. His version of Die Schöpfung is still my favourite.   

Funny that you mention Die Schöpfung.
I had a very similar experience with that piece - many trail and errors and my quest ended with Hengelbrock (pointed in the right direction by you  ).

Q

[kishnevi]

Farrenc is absolutely wonderful, and all of her chamber music is worth a place in anybody's collection. I love this stuff, and the Sextet too.

Now, a CSO/Barenboim party:

And a symphony #3 party, as well.

TD

First listen to a newly landed recording
Janine Jensen violin
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Brahms Concerto in D Op. 77
W/ Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Bartok Concerto No. 1. BB 48a
W/ London Symphony Orchestra

[king ubu]

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That's such an awesome performance of Beethoven's mass!

[Brian]

Wow. This goes in the shortlist of Top Five Saint-Saens Recordings for me.

Why don't I work up the list!

- Organ Symphony + stuff. Daniel Barenboim (DG)
- Piano Concertos. Anna Malikova (Audite)
- the final sonatas for woodwinds. Canada's National Arts Centre (Naxos)
- hmmmm...probably need the cello concertos and Carnival of the Animals here...?

[Karl Henning]

William Schuman -- 'Cello Concerto, 'Song of Orpheus.'
...imo, if not his finest, one of his finest works.

https://www.youtube.com/v/E3FdppWLMJQ

Listening here.

[Monsieur Croche]

Lucas Foss -- pieces using other composer's music, some more, some less, re-worked....

Measure for Measure for tenor and orchestra; texts from Shakespeare with music of the Italian-Jewish renaissance composer Salamone Rossi
https://www.youtube.com/v/7sGlzIr13uo

Symphony of Chorales [Symphony no.2, 'materials' from J.S. Bach in final movement.]
https://www.youtube.com/v/IU1p4Em0hzQ

Baroque Variations, Handel, Scarlatti, and J.S. Bach.
https://www.youtube.com/v/AtQ9XZ7f_Rg

[NikF]

Prokofiev: 7th Symphony - Martinon/ORTF

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Martinon's take on Prokofiev is perhaps less robust than what I prefer, but it certainly doesn't lack charm - and that's a nice alternative to hear.

[Karl Henning]

William Schuman, Sixth Symphony

https://www.youtube.com/v/j__9i8bE0yA

And listening here, too.

[Sergeant Rock]

Wow. This goes in the shortlist of Top Five Saint-Saens Recordings for me.

Why don't I work up the list!

- Organ Symphony + stuff. Daniel Barenboim (DG)
- Piano Concertos. Anna Malikova (Audite)

Those recordings are at the top of my S-S list too. I've had Barenboim's Organ Symphony for nearly thirty years...have not found a better performance.

Sarge

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Your favorite violin concerto of all-time?

Well, in the moment of listening to it I was feeling that there was nothing better than this that I could have been listening to at that time. I also love Adès's and Ligeti's and Pateras's violin concertos, but The Lost Art of Letter Writing ticked all the boxes for me for what I wanted to listen to right then.

[NikF]

Prokofiev: String Quartets 1 & 2/Quintet In G Minor - Russian Quartet.

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[North Star]

Prokofiev: String Quartets 1 & 2/Quintet In G Minor - Russian Quartet.

Embarrassing that I still don't own a recording of these works. How do you find the performances here?

[Brian]

Embarrassing that I still don't own a recording of these works. How do you find the performances here?

All you need to know about the Prokofiev quartets is, there's a Pavel Haas Quartet CD.

[SimonNZ]

Bach's Magnificat - Thomas Hengelbrock, cond.

[aligreto]

Bax: In the Faery Hills....