What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Prompted by the Bax thread:

[Cato]

This just appeared by chance on YouTube: great stuff!


The always surprising George Crumb: Pastorale Drone for Organ:

[Karl Henning]

Dmitri Shostakovich
October, op. 132
Suite on Words of Michelangelo, op. 145a
Six Romances on Verses by British Poets, op. 140

Ildar Abdrazakov, bass
BBC Philharmonic - Gianandrea Noseda

A different take on these orchestrated songs compared to the Leiferkus/Järvi I heard a while back. This one is much faster!

Don't think I have heard October before. An odd pairing, but I am glad to have heard it.
VS

Great piece, great recording. The idea is not original to me ... I think I had it from @Herman  ... The Michelangelo cycle is a kind of bookend to the Fourteenth Symphony.

TD:

Shostakovich

Symphony № 11, « 1905 » Op. 103
West German Radio Symphony
Rudolf Barshai

[pjme]

So somebody at that radio station really enjoys the work!  It would be unusual to program it again after only a month!

Only the Interlude has ever been recorded. 

[Cato]

Only the Interlude has ever been recorded.

Yes, on the Marco Polo CD:

[Bachtoven]

Tremendous playing and sound, but I'm a little suspicious that there is no applause and not a single cough or any audience sounds. The recording also omits Schoenberg's Suite for Piano that she opened with, and slightly changes the playing order.

[Symphonic Addict]

La Tombelle: Piano Quartet in E minor (I Giardini)

Anyone who enjoys Fauré's piano quartets, may find much pleasure with this piece too.

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich

Symphony № 11, « 1905 » Op. 103
St Petersburg Phil
Vladimir Ashkenazy

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich

Symphony № 11, « 1905 » Op. 103
West German Radio Symphony
Rudolf Barshai

Shostakovich

Symphony № 11, « 1905 » Op. 103
St Petersburg Phil
Vladimir Ashkenazy

It's not a horse race (we all know that) but my hot take is that of the two, Ashkenazy/St Pete is markedly better.

[Symphonic Addict]

Herrmann: Souvenirs de voyage, for clarinet quintet

Quite awesome! Delighted to hear this wonder.

[Karl Henning]

Herrmann: Souvenirs de voyage, for clarinet quintet

Quite awesome! Delighted to hear this wonder.

Great piece! I need to revisit it!

[Mapman]

Sibelius: Symphony #5
Bamert: BBC SO

An average performance. Like many performances, the final chords are rushed.

[Symphonic Addict]

Great piece! I need to revisit it!

Rapturously gorgeous indeed!

[Symphonic Addict]

Barber: Piano Sonata

The music itself has remarkable ideas, and given that it is in my favorite key (E-flat minor), it's double special to me.

Now that I've come to think about that, there are other two magnificent piano sonatas in the same key: the ones by Janacek and Dukas.

[DavidW]

SQ No. 1

Meh!!!

Vibrato-less, feeling-less, metallic-cum-strident sound.

Fans of genuine Tchaikovsky, avoid!

I haven't heard it but my fav is the Borodin Quartet and I liked my recent listen to Danel.  Someday (probably soonish) I'll listen to the Jerusalem Quartet, which I suspect will please both of us.  They always have a warm, bold way of playing.

[DavidW]

Inspired to listen... this is such a great performance!

[Brian]

I haven't heard it but my fav is the Borodin Quartet and I liked my recent listen to Danel.  Someday (probably soonish) I'll listen to the Jerusalem Quartet, which I suspect will please both of us.  They always have a warm, bold way of playing.

I bought the Quatuor Danel complete Tchaikovsky cycle a few years ago - it includes Souvenir de Florence - and it is a truly strange reading of all the works, but compelling. Unexpected phrasing choices and surges of passion but also chilliness. I should listen again. I couldn't decide how to feel except for intrigued.

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[AnotherSpin]

[steve ridgway]

Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances