What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

After spreading Book I into three sessions and being reminded of the delights contained therein, I am now doing the same with Book II.

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartComplete Clavier-Concerte
Concert 15 B-Dur KV 450
Concert 16 D-Dur KV 451
Anima Eterna, Jos van Immerseel

[Traverso]

Mozart

You can love music for all sorts of reasons. Mozart is a composer of a special category, with minimal means,   great results.
What would I like to hear in my last hours.....Mozart is at the top of my list as Bach is. Mozart once said in one of his letters," ach....fröhliche Musik kenne ich nicht "
I would gladly  swap his "Jupiter" for all Mahler, Bruckner or Shostakovich symphonies.
Exaggerated, not at all, I just want to emphasize how much I admire this last one by Mozart, if only he had lived longer, Mozart, even at the end of his life still a promise of what would never come.

piano Concerto No.22

[SonicMan46]

Scarlatti, Domenico (1685-1757) - Guitar & Duets on the recordings below - own about 34 discs of Scarlatti, 21 w/ Belder in his 3-disc releases (bought cheaply at BRO and JPC) and the rest on piano/fortepiano.  Reviews attached for the interested - the guitar recordings excellent; the viola d'amore + harpsichord different with the reviewers complaining mildly about the sound, but I like the combination (will certainly not be to everyone's taste, so forewarned).  Dave

   

[Jo498]

Beethoven, piano sonatas op. 81a and 90, Emil Gilels, DG (1970s)
They are really very good, the only "fault" might be a bit of moderation in all things, i.e. the finale of "Les Adieux" is not completely bursting with exultation and the first movement of op.90 more melancholy than angry.

[Cato]

Scelsi I have not visited for a while: it is high time to listen again!

And speaking of modern Italian composers:

Goffredo Petrassi: the 8 Concertos for Orchestra!!!

For all the concertos, see:


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D14bmfCxVXUKhauuegNEsB98vjWy4Db

[Daverz]

Villa-Lobos
Uirapurú - a magical score (new Alto release)

Stokie seems to cut about half the music. 

[Florestan]

Mozart once said in one of his letters," ach....fröhliche Musik kenne ich nicht "

Ahem... that was Schubert.

I would gladly  swap his "Jupiter" for all Mahler, Bruckner or Shostakovich symphonies.

I too, without hesitation.

[Traverso]

Ahem... that was Schubert.

I too, without hesitation.

Ahem too  , my source is Karl Böhm, years ago I had a LP on wich Böhm talked about Mozart,if I'm wrong it is his fault,not mine.

[Florestan]

Ahem too  , my source is Karl Böhm, years ago I had a LP on wich Böhm talked about Mozart,if I'm wrong it is his fault,not mine.

I'm positively sure it's his fault.

Mozart could have never claimed he didn't know happy music. Schubert did claim that, but he already had one foot set on Romanticism, ie on conceit and oretentiousness.

[vandermolen]

Stokie seems to cut about half the music. 

Didn't realise that and I should as I wrote the notes 

[Linz]

Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra, op.30, Don Juan, op.20 and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28, The Royal Philharmonic Orcchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

[JBS]

In German from October 1956.

[ritter]

Oliver Knussen conducts Elliott Carter: Dialogues (w. Nicholas Hodges, piano), Boston Concerto, Cello Concerto (w. Fred Sherry) and ASKO Concerto. Various orchestras.



All these works were written after the composer had turned 91!

[Daverz]

Didn't realise that and I should as I wrote the notes 

Well, half the music would be an exaggeration.  Here are the timings of the recordings of Uirapurú I have:

Stokowski/Everest: 14:09
Carvalho/Delos: 20:54
Mata/Dorian: 18:56
Karabtchevsky/Naxos: 19:22

One I haven't heard: Wagner/Bridge: 18:18

Maybe Stokie just plays it much faster than everyone else?

EDIT: James Miller in Fanfare writes: "The versions by Eduardo Mata, Eleazar de Carvalho, and Wagner are complete; the ones by Ricardo Averbach, Efrem Kurtz, and Leopold Stokowski make a cut of about four-minutes' duration (it's approximately three-and-a-half minutes in)."

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1868 Linz version - Ed. Thomas Roeder
Symphony No.  2 in C Minor, 1872 First concept version. Ed. William Carragan, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, François-Xavier Roth

[DavidW]

Act 1

[JBS]

Horatio Parker
Organ Concerto in E Flat minor Opus 55 (1901-02)

Wayne Oquin
Resilience (2015)

Christopher Rouse
Organ Concerto (2014)

Charles Ives
Variations on "America" (1891/92, rev. & ed. E Power Biggs 1949)

Ives wrote the Variations, which are for organ alone without orchestra, when he was 14, 2 or 3 years before he went to Yale and became one of Parker's first students there. Parker's concerto was written for and premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1902, with the composer as soloist.

[AnotherSpin]

[Symphonic Addict]

Horatio Parker
Organ Concerto in E Flat minor Opus 55 (1901-02)

Wayne Oquin
Resilience (2015)

Christopher Rouse
Organ Concerto (2014)

Charles Ives
Variations on "America" (1891/92, rev. & ed. E Power Biggs 1949)

Ives wrote the Variations, which are for organ alone without orchestra, when he was 14, 2 or 3 years before he went to Yale and became one of Parker's first students there. Parker's concerto was written for and premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1902, with the composer as soloist.

And, what about the music itself?