What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Chopin: Bolero (Ashkenazy)

An Anglo-Celtic man in Australia is listening to a French-Polish composer's rendition of a Spanish dance. And it's a Romanian's fault.

[Florestan]

Chopin: Bolero (Ashkenazy)

An Anglo-Celtic man in Australia is listening to a French-Polish composer's rendition of a Spanish dance. And it's a Romanian's fault.

Ain't cosmopolitism great?

[Karl Henning]

Many moons ago (late 1960's ?) Michael Ponti performed one of the Scharwenka piano concertos and other works on a VOX record.

I recall it was a BIG concerto, and Michael Ponti was the pianist for the job!

I found this on YouTube: it says 1971.  So I must be thinking of some other recording from the late 1960's.

Too late for First-Listen Friday, but I'm in!



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[kyjo]

Brun: Symphonies 1 and 2

After Frankel's symphonic traversal, Brun is the next composer in that matter. I had previously admired and liked his powerful first symphony in the epic key of B minor, and now the impression I get of it is even bigger. This is a great piece, quite cohesive in its development. Both the first and the second symphonies show some expressions we might call 'Brahmsian' and it's more accentuated in the latter. Brun benefits development over melodies and it shows in both symphonies. In the first one I don't miss the great tunes, but in the second one I do a little.

Most of Brun's symphonies that I know (I haven't heard No. 1) don't quite satisfy me in the memorability department, but there's usually enough interesting development and "quirkiness" to keep my interest. I do wonder if a finer orchestra than the Moscow Symphony could make a better case for these works, but to be fair they sound better than they did in the Malipiero symphony cycle on Marco Polo/Naxos, for instance.

[Karl Henning]

JS Bach

BWV 113, « Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut »
BWV 114, « Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost »

[Madiel]

Dvorak: Piano Trio no.3, op.65

[Symphonic Addict]

Robert Hermann: Symphony No. 2 in B minor
Sándor Veress: Symphony No. 1

Two pretty individualistic pieces that don't resemble much any other music by other composers.

[AnotherSpin]

[hopefullytrusting]

Now, this is a recording. I'm also starting to figure out why I find some works boring.

[Madiel]

Mozart: Concerto (no.10) for two pianos

[Madiel]

Dvorak: Theme and variations for piano, op.36

[71 dB]

Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3 & Lyric Suite
Hugo Wolf - Italian Serenade
New Zealand String Quartet
Naxos 8.557374

[Cato]

While discussing the Dvorak Piano Concerto and old recordings of it, I was reminded of a puckish company called CROSSROADS, whose album covers were often quite funny, and one of the best was for the Dvorak Symphony #7, showing a timpanist goofing off and watching a T.V. set on his kettle drum, while the rest of the orchestra sawed away at the symphony!



And so I revisited that work!

[Karl Henning]

JS Bach

BWV 115, « Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit »
BWV 116, « Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ »

[Madiel]

Janacek: Capriccio ('Defiance')



I haven't listened to anything in this box (which is most of my Janacek collection) in a very long time. Indeed, I seem to  have only listened to one Janacek work in the past 7 years.

[Lisztianwagner]

William Walton
Violin Concerto

Tasmin Little (violin)
Edward Gardner & BBC Symphony Orchestra

[Todd]

[DavidW]

[Madiel]

Brahms: Violin sonata no.3

[Traverso]

If this is true, then a re-recording of the AoF would be nice.

I think it may relates more to his personal experience more than another performance.