What are you listening 2 now?

[Luke]

to the bolded - me too!

Don't be so hard on yourself!

[Roasted Swan]

Another 50p well spent in a charity shop....



At first glance mildly interesting - after all Vengerov is such a fine player and the Oxford PO are in fact a pick-up band of very good London players.  But hang on a moment - this is the original version of the Sibelius.  Apart from the justly praised version on BIS by Leonidas Kavakos and Osmo Vanska and the Lahti SO I'm not sure anyone else has recorded this have they?  Vengerov did the 'standard' revised version some years ago but he seems to have played this original version several times too....

[Luke]

Another 50p well spent in a charity shop....

At first I thought you referring to Vengerov's assessment of the violin in the cover art....

[Roasted Swan]

At first I thought you referring to Vengerov's assessment of the violin in the cover art....

If I could make a 50p violin sound like he does I'd be very happy.......

[Kalevala]

At first I thought you referring to Vengerov's assessment of the violin in the cover art....

LOL 

If I could make a 50p violin sound like he does I'd be very happy.......

K

[Linz]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 33,

[Iota]

Saw this in the purchases thread and knew I had to stream it.

Hah, I had exactly the same response to @André's post. Not quite sure why, as I know Kernis' name but don't think I'd ever heard a note of his music, but it felt like the time had come.
I've listened to Dreamsongs thus far and am glad to have done so. He's clearly capable of writing some beautiful music when he chooses, and seems nicely engaged in the character of the solo cello in this concerto. A nice discovery.

[ritter]

Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, in a 1956 recording that features two of the performers of the 1941 première at Stalag VIII-A in Görlitz (cellist Étienne Pasquier and the composer at the piano), joined by violinist Jean Pasquier (brother of Étienne ) and clarinettist André Vacellier.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in E Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Robert Haas, Wiener Philharmoniker, Horst Stein

[Madiel]

Bach: BWV 174

In which he reuses and reworks Brandenburg Concerto No.3. As the liner notes say, it's unlikely any people hearing this in the church in 1729 knew that he'd pulled out one of his old numbers.



It's only been 2 weeks since my last cantata. This is progress.

[JBS]

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Symphony 6
Symphony 7
São Paulo SO - Isaac Karabtchevsky

I am finding V-L's symphonies, much like his Piano Concertos, easy and pleasurable to listen to, but difficult to love.

On the other hand, with this recording, I learned about milimetrazação, an unusual composing technique. Something I could try with my students, perhaps.
VS

That's the one where (as the subtitle suggests) he used the profile of mountains in the photo as a compositional guide, correct?

TD


CD 4

Maria João Pires playing Schubert and, in partnership with Martha Argerich, quadrimanual Mozart

Schubert:
Impromptu in A Flat No 2 D935
Impromptu in B Flat No 3 D935 "Rosamunde"
Sonata in A D664
Mozart
Sonata for Piano Four Hands in C K521

The D664 might be of interest to @Mandryka.

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century Frans Brüggen CD7

[Madiel]

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante



Quite possibly a first listen to the work.

[Luke]

What a beauty it is, yes?

[Que]

This arrived on disc yesterday:

[steve ridgway]

Szymanowski: Penthesilea

[Irons]

Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings.



A YT video of John Ogdon and his wife being interviewed by Sue Lawley in the 1970's on British TV  is a painful watch. I recall listening a radio interview decades ago with him being lucid, sharp and funny. A shell of a man with Lawley and in my view cruel to put him through that. Though amazingly he played a Chopin duet with Brenda Lucas brilliantly. The man had gone but the musician remained.   

[Que]

Just released last month!

[Madiel]

Schumann: Liederkreis op.24 (the Heine one)

[Iota]

Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C K279, Sonata No. 2 in F, K280

Fujita brings so much warmth and effervescence to these pieces it's quite irresistible. Full of character and opera buffa wit, the music dances, sparkles and sings its way through under the spell of Fujita's natural charm and scintillatingly perfect execution. Compulsory listening I'd say.
And seeing as once you've started listening to Fujita it's very hard to stop, I topped it off with Liszt's lovely arrangement of Widmung.