What are you listening to now?

[Harry]

Haydn Piano Trio E major Hob XV:28 played by the Trio di Trieste





Sarge

That is a performance I keep close to my heart. I have to dig it out again of my collection! Trouble is I have problems to locate it, to many piles of CD'S everywhere in my house!

[Harry]

Its good to see that so many recordings of yesterday are bought and played by the young ones on GMG, but then I do not know the age of most of the members. I only know for sure that this month I reach the magical 60

[SonicMan46]

Jordi Savall - decided to pull out the discs below for some exotic music today -   Dave

 

[Sergeant Rock]

That is a performance I keep close to my heart.

Yes, it's a beauty. The whole box is a treasure.

I have to dig it out again of my collection! Trouble is I have problems to locate it, to many piles of CD'S everywhere in my house!

I can empathize. I was looking for a Boulez/Cleveland Debussy disc today, one that doesn't yet have a number and shelf assignment, and couldn't find it among the vast piles of CDs littering my abode 

Sarge

[Harry]

Jordi Savall - decided to pull out the discs below for some exotic music today -   Dave

 

Two of my fav recordings of Savall.

[Florestan]

This is the chamber piece that convinced I could like chamber music. Before hearing it (at age 19) I was mainly interested in bombastic orchestral pieces and opera. But, like you, I had the most intense emotional reaction to the Brahms Trio when I first heard it (at a live chamber concert at Ohio University. I went for an Ives Violin Sonata but fell in love with the Brahms).

Excellent! 

Listening to it now, played by the Trio di Trieste





Sarge

A very fine performance.

[Florestan]

Jordi Savall - decided to pull out the discs below for some exotic music today -   Dave

 

That´s a fabulous disc, including the liner notes.

Speaking of which, I had a magnificent experience a few years ago, hearing Savall and Hesperion XXI live in Bucharest playing several pieces from that disc and others from Cantemir´s book not on it. The most touching moment was when the lights were turned off and Montserat Figueras´ voice was heard in the dark singing a lullaby (she had died just days before that concert and I greatly admired Savall´s strength and commitment to music and audience --- I´d have understood, and accepted, had he cancelled the concert, yet he insisted on delivering it as scheduled). A great artist with a great, often unusual but always superbly performed, repertoire.

[Karl Henning]

I actually listen to Игорь Фëдорович:

Concerto in D
Strings of the London Philharmonic
Robt Craft

[aligreto]

Monteverdi: Quatro Libro Dei Madrigali [La Venexiana]....

[aligreto]

You can gauge for yourself  :

https://www.youtube.com/v/Wi9tDgPNHMU

All six are on YouTube...cute how in the sixth Abbado vanishes from the stage...

As opposed to you, though, I am a fervent admirer of Abbado...

OK, yes, that performance was impressive and enjoyable. What I especially liked was the way that the Vivaldian influence was emphasised in the Andante. I will certainly check out the rest of those YouTube videos. Thank you again 

[jlaurson]

JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-3 [Abbado]....

I may have listened to this set about four times since I got it on LP many years ago for completist reasons. But I never warmed much to it. Abbado's later set with the Mozart orchestra expresses more zest for life and has a better lineup.

My sentiments entirely. It was a major disappointment for me when I first got it; plodding and listless, which are not adjectives one would ascribe to the music of JS Bach. I do not know the later version that you mention.

That early Abbado recording of the Brandenburgs caught my attention when I saw it some time ago in a B&M store. It seems I didn't lose much by not picking it up. The later one with the Orchesta Mozart on DG is a stupendous achievement IMHO. Really, really enjoyable perfomances of the six, with great soloists.

Indeed, not! That was a surprise ingredient in the Sony/RCA Abbado box (Forbes review of that thing) -- and man, it did not please.

Bach? Yes. Abbado hasn't recorded much Bach. Late in life he put the Brandenburg Concertos down on disc with his Orchestra Mozart – successfully, but then it's probably principal violinist and baroque specialist / conductor-in-his-own-right Giuliano Carmignola who does all the historically informed heavy lifting. Abbado has also recorded the Brandenburgs early in his career – and this effort at La Scala is included in the box; the earliest recording (1976) in this collection. It's quite bad, actually, and in its own way a historical recording. Namely in the 'curiosity' way: "Oh, that's how Bach was performed, back then." Except of course that Bach wasn't necessarily performed that way. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, tepidly (1964, Telarc), and Karl Richter, boldly (1967, Archiv) had already set another standard, and Trevor Pinnock (Archiv, 1982) and Christopher Hogwood (Oiseau-Lyre/Decca, 1984) were only around the corner.

TD:

Brahms, Ballades


#morninglistening to #Brahms #pianomusic on @LaDolceVolta w/#GeoffroyCouteau, in chronolog... http://ift.tt/2cZXFUQ

Liszt, Unstern! et al.


#morninglistening to late #Liszt w/#AlfredBrendel on @deccaclassics, specifically #Unstern... http://ift.tt/2cKIEXF

And Mahler earlier:


#morninglistening to a #goldenoldie #Mahler recording from @RTV_Slovenija's orchestra unde... http://ift.tt/2cgvcsb

[Christo]

Eivind Groven, Draumkvedet (The Dream Poem) for soloists, choir and orchestra, from 1963.
Per Dreier conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Brighton Festival Chorus and three soloists:

Again, for the second time, four weeks later. Draumkvedet is one of those choral-orchestral 'folk song ballads' comparable to Zoltán Kodály's Spinning Room or Estonian Ballads by Veljo Tormis.

[Christo]

That´s a fabulous disc, including the liner notes.

Speaking of which, I had a magnificent experience a few years ago, hearing Savall and Hesperion XXI live in Bucharest playing several pieces from that disc and others from Cantemir´s book not on it. The most touching moment was when the lights were turned off and Montserat Figueras´ voice was heard in the dark singing a lullaby (she had died just days before that concert and I greatly admired Savall´s strength and commitment to music and audience --- I´d have understood, and accepted, had he cancelled the concert, yet he insisted on delivering it as scheduled). A great artist with a great, often unusual but always superbly performed, repertoire.

Congrats with Dimitrie Cantemir - own this splendid CD too and love it, liner notes included. 

[hpowders]

Just listened to Marie-Claire Alain performing Bach preludes and fugues for organ.

A very nice way to spend a couple of hours! 

[Karl Henning]

Although only MIDI as yet

http://www.youtube.com/v/yCYUN9zjhlg

[Florestan]

Congrats with Dimitrie Cantemir

Thanks. He was one of the most learned men of his time, full member of the Royal Academy of Berlin.

His name is among those who were considered to be the brightest minds of the world on a plaque at the Library of Sainte-Genevieve in Paris, next to those of Leibniz, Newton, Piron, and other great thinkers.

These are also good:

[Brian]

First listen to the Hans Gál symphony cycle!

[frenchyboy]

Currently listening to this concerto by Rodolfo Arizaga :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgeEPRSPkzw

[San Antone]

First listen to the Hans Gál symphony cycle!

Fascinating.  I hadn't heard of this composer so I read the Wiki article on him, and went to find some of his music.

Thanks for posting this.



TD:

Hans Gal Piano Trio Op. 18

[aligreto]

Alfvén: The Mountain King....