What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Well, I know that GMG's M Forever would have made a big fuss about yet another evidence for the American ignorance of Central European music.

But --- de mortuis nihil nisi bene. May God rest him in peace.

It can be attributed to ignorance, I suppose, though really I knew Janáček to be the correct composer, and failed to modify the copied text appropriately. 

[Florestan]

It can be attributed to ignorance, I suppose, though really I knew Janáček to be the correct composer, and failed to modify the copied text appropriately.

My God, Karl! --- surely you didn't take my posts seriously at all, I should hope. They were all tongue-in-cheek. The last thing in the world one can accuse you is ignorance of all things 20th century music.

[Karl Henning]

My God, Karl! --- surely you didn't take my posts seriously at all, I should hope. They were all tongue-in-cheek. The last thing in the world one can accuse you is ignorance of all things 20th century music.

No, not with any seriosity, rest easy!

[Harry]

Venice Preserv'd.
Monteverdi / Gabrieli / Cavalli / Grandi.
See back cover for details.
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood.
Emma Kirkby and Judith Nelson, Sopranos.
Nigel Rogers, Tenor.
Recorded: 1982, Venue unknown to me.

Would you believe me if I said I am lost for words to describe this gorgeous recording? Well I am, this is devastatingly beautiful, and superb recorded. Emma Kirkby and Judith Nelson are my favourite Sopranos from that time.

[Karl Henning]

*cough* there's a Mr Janacek wants a word....

It's a fair cop!

[Spotted Horses]

Same price on presto, but presto also offers lossless (flac, etc) for 11 bucks and change.

And Qobuz has the lossless files for $9 and change. I listened to the first movement of "Fresques" on Apple Music and it was very fine.

[Karl Henning]

Decided to skip ahead and also do a double dose of DSCH

Kondrashin/Moscow Philharmonic*
Symphony 13 in B Flat Minor Op 113 "Babi Yar"
Artur Eizen bass
Bass Group of the Russian State Choral Chapel
Recorded 1967

Symphony 14 Op 135
Yevgania Tselovalnik soprano
Yevgeny Nesterenko bass
Recorded in 1974

*Credited in Op 135 as Ensemble of Soloists of the Moscow Ph.S.O.

I'll join you, though I was wondering about the date of the Leningrad recording....

[JBS]

I'll join you, though I was wondering about the date of the Leningrad recording....

The recording date for the Seventh was 1975.

But I'm now listening to an excellent Eighth Symphony (Op 65), to which is appended The Sun Shines On Our Motherland Op 90, of which I have no memory even though I've listened to this set before.

[Brian]

Pure fun, and criminally neglected! Every Tchaikovsky lover should have this one, I reckon.

[brewski]

From the Queen Elisabeth Competition in September, Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1, with violinist SongHa, conductor Antony Hermus, and the Belgian National Orchestra. Quite liking her approach — lovely tone, immaculate intonation. And there are at least two more performances of the same piece by other contestants from the competition on YouTube.

(Argh, small caveat: YouTube interrupts the performance with some noisy commercials. Easy to squelch, but still.)

-Bruce

[Florestan]

Pure fun, and criminally neglected! Every Tchaikovsky lover should have this one, I reckon.

In seek-and-capture mode it goes, many thanks my friend!

Although, tbh, I'm as straight as an arrow... 

[JBS]

The recording date for the Seventh was 1975.

But I'm now listening to an excellent Eighth Symphony (Op 65), to which is appended The Sun Shines On Our Motherland Op 90, of which I have no memory even though I've listened to this set before.

And now that I listened to it, I can say Opus 90 is the best choral work John Williams ever wrote...because it would fit very well with the dancing Ewoks of Star Wars VI.

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Faust-Symphonie
Totentanz

Leonard Bernstein & Boston Symphony Orchestra

Pianist: Krystian Zimerman

[Linz]

Franz Schubert Wilhelm Kempff Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon CD9

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Stoika Milanova died a month ago aged 79.

I didn't know about her death. I found this obituary article. Omg, she was a student of Oistrakh! I will check her Bach and Prokofiev (unless you talk out of it).

https://www.thestrad.com/news/obituary-former-oistrakh-violin-pupil-stoika-milanova/18685.article

[Kalevala]

I didn't know about her death. I found this obituary article. Omg, she was a student of Oistrakh! I will check her Bach and Prokofiev (unless you talk out of it).

https://www.thestrad.com/news/obituary-former-oistrakh-violin-pupil-stoika-milanova/18685.article

I hadn't heard of her before now.  Was she, by any chance, related to the opera singer Zinka M.?

K

[NumberSix]

Edna Stern: Schubert On Tape
"4 Impromptus Op. 90; 6 Moments musicaux Op. 94"

[Symphonic Addict]

String quintets by Mozart and Bruckner. Both works are of the exact same length, are cut in 4 movements and place the menuetto/scherzo second. Vibrant performances, excellent sound.





Sternefeld was one of Belgium's foremost composers. The Mater Dolorosa pieces just serve as reminder of the beauty and pathos of Sternefeld's opera. Gorgeous music, suffused with tenderness, tragedy and more tragedy. His 1st symphony was written in 1943 while in hiding (he was of jewish descent). It's a full-fledged War Symphony, as tragic and raging as those of Honegger (3) or Vaughan-Williams (6).

The disc is completed by a fine, moving Elegy (Paraphrase on Kol Nidrei) and a rambunctious set of Variations on Frère Jacques for winds/brass and percussion. It's a hoot.

I have yet to hear the other works apart from the symphony from that Klara recording. As to the symphony, it receives a very convincing and arresting interpretation.

[Symphonic Addict]

Beethoven: String Quartet 7 and Hess 34 (arr. from his Piano Sonata No. 9)

The 7th is one of my all-time favorite works and is delivered here with such precision and elegance. I really love that piece. The another quartet is a very welcome rarity of sorts.

[Daverz]

Stoika Milanova died a month ago aged 79.

Sorry to hear that.  Her recording of the first Shostakovich concerto has been in my collection for more than 30 years.

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