What are you listening 2 now?

[Roasted Swan]

A first listen to this disc yet again picked up for pennies in a local Charity Shop;



What a tremendous and great fun disc.  Lucky these young (well they were when this was recorded 20 years ago!) players to get the opportunity to record this kind of repertoire.  As a non wind player I didn't know any of this repertoire but it is such good fun.  Brilliant writing; exciting, full of colour and drama, infectious rhythms, mmemorable tunes - what's not to love.  Excellent Chandos recording too.  Definitely one to hear if you have the chance - seriously good light music.

Then another Chanods - from their early years;



I've said it before - these early Chandos recordings were technically superb and the (then) SNO pre-Jarvi play up an absolute storm for Gibson.  Of course he's probably best known now for his fine Sibelius but in his day he was something of a Berlioz specialist.  Again these are exciting performances played with tremendous energy and attack in just great opulent Chandos sound.  An absolute winner.

[Karl Henning]

A first listen to this disc yet again picked up for pennies in a local Charity Shop;



What a tremendous and great fun disc.  Lucky these young (well they were when this was recorded 20 years ago!) players to get the opportunity to record this kind of repertoire.  As a non wind player I didn't know any of this repertoire but it is such good fun.  Brilliant writing; exciting, full of colour and drama, infectious rhythms, mmemorable tunes - what's not to love.  Excellent Chandos recording too.  Definitely one to hear if you have the chance - seriously good light music.

Then another Chanods - from their early years;



I've said it before - these early Chandos recordings were technically superb and the (then) SNO pre-Jarvi play up an absolute storm for Gibson.  Of course he's probably best known now for his fine Sibelius but in his day he was something of a Berlioz specialist.  Again these are exciting performances played with tremendous energy and attack in just great opulent Chandos sound.  An absolute winner.

Very gratifying for me to see all the Berlioz love!

[AnotherSpin]

Schmetterling is the german word for butterfly.

I know

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Granados – Danzas Españolas. Luis Galve.

[Karl Henning]

[André]

The Bruckner 3rd is an arrangement for piano 4-hand by Mahler. The Liszt arrangement is from the composer's hand.

An impressive program and an interesting window into the arrangers' minds. Mahler didn't think pianistically and yet he composed all his works with a piano at his disposal.  The result of this arrangement is convincing.  Liszt could think equally in pianistic and orchestral terms.

While I had the orchestral originals at the back of my mind, the piano arrangements achieved a linearity that helped follow the musical argument very clearly. Excellent sound image.

[AnotherSpin]

Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4
Quatuor Bozzini

[Que]

Revisiting this 1st volume in the Codex Chantilly series by Kees Boeke et al. Unfortunately I now have some reservations about Jill Feldman's singing that didn't occur to me during my earlier encounter with this recording  (but did in later listening to other recordings with her). Probably not a deal breaker.

[Christo]

Heard a live performance of Dona Nobis Pacem (1936) for the third time in my life, this time in the beautiful Amsterdam Dominicus Church with local forces, and coupled with Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time (1939) -- which I had never heard live before (for good reasons: I love Tippetts' symphonies, but not this huge but unsuccesful rhapsodic commentary 'on his time').

Found out afterwards that of the six extant versions I like this one most. Recommended:

[Que]

I auditioned this recording on Spotify and revisiting this now on disc is rewarding: very impressive. Another recording which I could revisit around Easter!

[Mookalafalas]

  Slowed. Even spiritual. Works for me...

[Mookalafalas]

I'm listening to both the Cortot and Rubinstein boxes.  There's no theme, no schedule, no conscious overlap.  I may work my way through one or both boxes, or I may not. 

  A very attractive program...
   I may try a bit of that myself.

[Que]

The Cuillier recordings of Leclair violin concertos in this series on the tiny, now defunct French Adda label (later merged with ACCORD) remain unbeaten IMO. Warner did a (small) reissue but only of the concertos opus 7. Fortunately for me this 2nd volume of the original issue has three of the opus 10 concertos.

[Mandryka]

  Slowed. Even spiritual. Works for me...

Booklet here

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/12/000172121.pdf

[Mandryka]

Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4
Quatuor Bozzini

There's also this

https://elsewheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/continuit-fragilit-r-sonance

[Harry]

The Cuillier recordings of Leclair violin concertos in this series on the tiny, now defunct French Adda label (later merged with ACCORD) remain unbeaten IMO. Warner did a (small) reissue but only of the concertos opus 7. Fortunately for me this 2nd volume of the original issue has three of the opus 10 concertos.

Looks interesting, but unfortunately only one release on Qobuz, opus 7. Well I have to do with that, no choice really.

[vandermolen]

Arthur Meulemans 'Pliny's Fountain' etc. A very enjoyable CD:

[Harry]

Jean Marie Leclair.
Concertos for Violin, Opus 7, 1-5.
Daniel Cullier Violin.
Ensemble Stradivaria.
Recorded: 1999?

Following @Que enthusiasm for Daniel Cullier, I found this recording on Qobuz, but it was the only one. All the other volumes of Leclair's Violin concertos are not to be found. Plenty of other contenders though.
I found these performances very accessible, and brilliantly played. A good balance in expression, performance and sound. Would love to hear more of Cullier's art but alas.

[vandermolen]

Heard a live performance of Dona Nobis Pacem (1936) for the third time in my life, this time in the beautiful Amsterdam Dominicus Church with local forces, and coupled with Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time (1939) -- which I had never heard live before (for good reasons: I love Tippetts' symphonies, but not this huge but unsuccesful rhapsodic commentary 'on his time').

Found out afterwards that of the six extant versions I like this one most. Recommended:

Great stuff Johan!
That's a fine disc. I've seen both works live, which is always a powerful and moving experience.

[Mookalafalas]