What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

As Mandryka already pointed out, this recording contains another anonymous English mass: the Missa veterem hominem, like the Missa caput on vol. 4 also from the 1440s and closely related. Good stuff...

Since I had too little time yesterday for a full, extensive listen - another run this morning.

[pjme]

Yvonne Minton.

Thanks! And another great voice: Margaret Price

[Iota]

Haydn: Piano Trio No. 27 in Ab Major, Hob.XV:14

What a lovely Adagio this has.

[Linz]

Paganini 24 Caprices

[Traverso]

A lovely recording with glorious wind playing.

[Cato]

Today on the morning classical radio:

Mozart:  Symphony No 34 in C K338

Excellent performance on NAXOS, Barry Wordsworth, Capella Istropolitana

I have not heard this in many years:

Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite Op60

On RCA, a clear and energetic performance with Eduardo Mata conducting the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Karl recently mentioned a book about music in Russia during the malign atmosphere of the Communists.

 Music and Soviet Power

One understands that, precisely because of the constantly oppressive and murderous atmosphere, music like Lieutenant Kije was perhaps more needed than ever before.

[Brian]

a 77-minute compilation recital featuring Amy Beach, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Charles Ives, William Kroll, Manuel Ponce, Stephen Hartke, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Howdy Forrester, Eddie South, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. There are pops hits (Bernstein is "Somewhere," Copland is the "Hoe-Down") and more serious works - the Hartke is a 20-minute new commission, the Ives is Sonata No. 4, the Adams is Road Movies, and the Beach is a really lovely Romance that is at the peak of her repertoire.

[pi2000]

Enescu 3d sonata for violin and piano Tassilo Probst-Maxim Lando (Into Madness..)

[DavidW]

I didn't end up getting into this until this morning. That made the sixth too bombastic for my decaffeinated brain! But the 9th hit the spot just right.

[DavidW]

[Mandryka]

Looks cool when it's spelt like that. It reminds me of a beautiful plant called Paeonia-mlokosewitchii

[Brian]

Wow, the Concertgebouw is sounding Maximum Great in this Firebird with Colin Davis. Crank up the volume!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Khachaturian - Gayene.

[Todd]

...the Hartke is a 20-minute new commission...

Hmmm.

TD: 

[DavidW]

I accidentally discovered one of the greatest recordings for both symphonies, played with white heat intensity:

[Lisztianwagner]

First listen to:

Franz Liszt
Années de pèlerinage, première année, Suisse

Pianist: Michele Campanella

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Heinz Rögner

[André]

Khachaturian - Gayene.

I accidentally discovered one of the greatest recordings for both symphonies, played with white heat intensity:

A take no prisoners approach to the 9th (8th), which I love. If you can get it, try Otmar Suitner's Berlin Classics version. Terrific.

[foxandpeng]

Malek Jandali
Symphony 3, 'Hiraeth'
Pavle Despalje
Zagreb PO

Jandali is proving to be quite a discovery. This is a fine and really satisfying piece of music with tension, beauty, drama and emotion.

[André]