What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

North German Organ Music - Gustav Leonhardt.

[JBS]

[Mapman]

Dohnányi: Violin Sonata, Op. 21
Hagai Shaham, Arnon Erez

[Pat B]

Streaming Walter Kaufmann's Piano Concerto No. 3 (Blumina, RSO Berlin, Robert-Coleman on cpo). H/T to Brian. I'm hearing more Gershwin than Mahler. Regardless, it's pretty good!

[classicalgeek]

Mendelssohn
Symphony no. 1
Symphony no. 5
Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig
Kurt Masur
(on CD)



Fine performances, if not my favorites.


J.S. Bach
Fantasia in C minor
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
Two-Part Inventions
Three-Part Sinfonias

English Suites nos. 1-3
Angela Hewitt, piano
(on CD)



Excellent as expected!

[steve ridgway]

One rather strange effect, after 3 weeks or so of deep-diving into Messiaen's music, is that all my other favourite music now feels a little lack-lustre.  Favourite piano composers like Debussy or Prokofiev, favourite orchestral composers like Stravinsky or Sibelius - all sounding a bit flat at the moment!

Interesting, I'm also starting to work through Messiaen having managed to access my new Complete Edition CDs by means of a CD reader for my wife's MacBook Air, wireless transfer of the files to my iPad, tag editing with the Evertag app, transfer back and copy to AK Jr music player with cable. This way I only need to grab her laptop for the odd five minutes now and again. I'm looking forward to that Éclairs Sur L'Au-Delà... but it's going to take a while to get there.

Currently listening to Messiaen: Huit Préludes

[Que]

Is this any good Que?

[re: Molinario / Ugo Nastrucci (Brilliant)]

Very nicely done, but I think Paul Beier and O'Dette have the edge here. Ugo Nastrucci did a nice Vincenzo Galilei album!

This morning:



Absolutely terrific. But I also like Rosario Conte (Carpe Diem).

[Harry]

Late Night Lute.
Works from Rosseter, Dowland, Johnson, Goss, Piccinini, Kapsberger, and others.
Matthew Wadsworth, (Lute & Theorbo)
Probably recorded in 2016.
No PDF, no back cover.

Very nicely done, a tad slow, but therefore contemplative to the very core. Well recorded. Good to start the listening morning with.....and finally some sun, I wonder...how long that will last. Note: A piece by a modern British composer Stephen Goss,, I let pass, for me it is inappropriate.

[Harry]

@vandermolen  (Jeffrey) who contributed to the notes in the booklet, very kindly send me this CD.

Miklós Rózsa,
Orchestral works.
Igor Gruppman (Violin), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares.
Recorded, Symphony house, Wellington, NZ, 1992/1993/1996

If I remember vaguely a Gramophone review, a long time ago, with quite an enthusiastic review.  As is confirmed on the back cover. The Violin concerto is smashingly done, committed with restrained passion, and deeply spiritual. The Violin tone is all what one could expect. Gruppman paints a beautiful fiesta. and that is to start with, for the following pieces on this disc follow suite in wonderful interpretations, and remastered to a high degree of fidelity. Yep like it very much.

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Complete Organ Works.
Volume V.
See back cover for the works.
Masaaki Suzuki plays on a Christoph Treutmann organ 1737, Stiftskirche St. Georg, Grauhof, Germany.
Recorded in 2022.

A new release of Bach organ works. I was anticipating it with some eagerness, for it is no secret that I admire Suzuki's performances very much. And this CD is no exception. The recording is superb as in the performance. So far one of the best cycles I ever heard.

[Maestro267]

Gipps: Symphony No. 3
BBC PO/Gamba

The trio of the Scherzo reminds me very much of a passage near the beginning of the first movement of Brian's "Gothic", with a prominent violin solo.

[aukhawk]

I'm very keen to see it performed, the whole thing. I doubt it's going to happen in the UK any time soon, and it's very rare in Europe too. I missed this unfortunately
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/kerry-yong-performs-messiaen/

Hmm well good luck with that.  Peter Hill has obviously moved on (to Bach) but there's Osborne I suppose.  Possibly you have to be a young lion of the keyboard to tackle the Catalogue d'oiseaux - looking at Loriod's two recordings (11 years apart, she was 35 the first time) the second one has much more relaxed tempi.  Mind, her general state of mind and personal situation was much changed which probably had something to do with it.

It's difficult to tell which of the co-authors, Chadwick and Hill, is writing at any given point in the book, but they clearly have slightly different bees in their bonnets.  One of them very much views the Catalogue as a whole, to be performed in the prescribed order, pointing to the symmetry of the seven Livres - 3-1-2-1-2-1-3 - and making frequent reference to Le Courlis Cendré as the Finale with its crashing 11-note chords.  The pieces were not composed in this order, and it is rather belied by early performance practice, notably the first public recital of six of the pieces (it was to be seven but Loriod had insufficient prep time for the lengthy Rousserolle Effarvatte so omitted it) - and by Loriod's first complete recording, which was re-ordered by Messiaen himself to fit onto 6 LP sides.

[Mandryka]

Hmm well good luck with that.  Peter Hill has obviously moved on (to Bach) but there's Osborne I suppose.  Possibly you have to be a young lion of the keyboard to tackle the Catalogue d'oiseaux - looking at Loriod's two recordings (11 years apart, she was 35 the first time) the second one has much more relaxed tempi.  Mind, her general state of mind and personal situation was much changed which probably had something to do with it.

It's difficult to tell which of the co-authors, Chadwick and Hill, is writing at any given point in the book, but they clearly have slightly different bees in their bonnets.  One of them very much views the Catalogue as a whole, to be performed in the prescribed order, pointing to the symmetry of the seven Livres - 3-1-2-1-2-1-3 - and making frequent reference to Le Courlis Cendré as the Finale with its crashing 11-note chords.  The pieces were not composed in this order, and it is rather belied by early performance practice, notably the first public recital of six of the pieces (it was to be seven but Loriod had insufficient prep time for the lengthy Rousserolle Effarvatte so omitted it) - and by Loriod's first complete recording, which was re-ordered by Messiaen himself to fit onto 6 LP sides.

The Diabelli Variations weren't composed in order either. I find the symmetry argument compelling.

[vandermolen]

@vandermolen  (Jeffrey) who contributed the the notes in the booklet, very kindly send me this CD.

Miklós Rózsa,
Orchestral works.
Igor Gruppman (Violin), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares.
Recorded, Symphony house, Wellington, NZ, 1992/1993/1996

If I remember vaguely a Gramophone review, a long time ago, with quite an enthusiastic review.  As is confirmed on the back cover. The Violin concerto is smashingly done, committed with restrained passion, and deeply spiritual. The Violin tone is all what one could expect. Gruppman paints a beautiful fiesta. and that is to start with, for the following pieces on this disc follow suite in wonderful interpretations, and remastered to a high degree of fidelity. Yep like it very much.

Delighted to hear this Harry!

[Todd]

[Brian]

Streaming Walter Kaufmann's Piano Concerto No. 3 (Blumina, RSO Berlin, Robert-Coleman on cpo). H/T to Brian. I'm hearing more Gershwin than Mahler. Regardless, it's pretty good!

It definitely has an appealing jazziness!

[Harry]

It definitely has an appealing jazziness!

Its not yet on the streaming services. Look forward to it. Book marked it as soon as CPO send me a new release list, in the beginning  of this year.

[Traverso]

The recording starts with the rhythmically energetic "Ballo della Battaglia by Bernardo Storace.
This recording comes in a box set that is already oop  .

[DavidW]

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