What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

[Harry]

Marin Marais.
Pieces de Viole.
Suites in a, from Book 2; Suites in c, F, & g from Book 3.
Jerome & Pierre Hantai, Alix Verzier.
Recorded 1996.

Superb performances, in almost SOTA sound. A pleasure to listen to.

[Traverso]

Purcell

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE - Keyboard Concertos - own the 4 CDs below with Spanyi on tangent piano + a period instrument band; there are 20 or so recordings of these works (40 of the solo pieces!) - also own Michael Rische's 7 discs on modern piano, plus a few other performers (total of about 3 dozen of the orchestral works).  CPE Bach wrote over 60 KB concertos (a small number are 'sonatinas w/ orchestra', plus about 8 were arranged for flute, cello or oboe) (Source).  Dave

[Maestro267]

Time for my annual tradition of listening to music I've discovered/bought recordings of this year.

2024 Year in Review, Part 1
Piano Music

Bax: What the Minstrel Told Us; Dream in Exile; In the Night
Eric Parkin (piano)

Debussy: Préludes, Livre I
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10; Ballade No. 4; Scherzo No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 3
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ferit Tüzün - Anatolian Suite.

[Bachtoven]

[Lisztianwagner]

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.7

Rafael Kubelik & Berliner Philharmoniker

[JBS]

CDs 2 and 3 from

Recordings made in 1993.

[Bachtoven]

I ordered 3 CDs produced by Stereophile magazine, and this one arrived today. Not too surprising given the people at the helm, the sound is excellent. This is probably the least bright Steinway I have ever heard. The extensive booklet notes mention that the two E.A.R tube mics in a Blumlein array accurately recorded the sound. Silverman is a great pianist.

[André]

While interesting and certainly worth hearing, these early opuses from Lajtha's output don't really point to the truly original and accomplished works from the composer's maturity. VG performances and excellent sound.

[Bachtoven]

No.35 and 36 from this superb SACD set.

[Bachtoven]

Typical Chandos mid-hall perspective, but the music is great, and so is the playing.

[Madiel]

Currently 2/3 of the way through listening to/watching Mozart's opera Idomeneo. After hunting across Youtube I found one where someone has done a good job with English subtitles (a performance from Drottingholm in Sweden, I think originally a TV broadcast).

I'm quite enjoying it. Though one can never quite get away from the "stand and sing an aria" nature of opera at the time they're doing a reasonably good job of making it interesting.

[Que]

[vandermolen]

Maazel's rendition of Sibelius's 2nd Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic (from the set below) is a masterpiece of power and emotion. This symphony, which I've explored in countless versions, never ceases to draw me back. Its triumphant finale foreshadows the future victories of the numerically small but spiritually great Finnish people over the vast empire of Asiatic barbarians.

That's a great set.

[vandermolen]

Grace Williams: Four Illustrations from the Legend of Rhiannon

[Que]

2nd disc.

[Iota]

Rachmaninov: Preludes Op. 23

More jewels from the SR canon, bathed in the glow of his rich harmonic language and endless network of meltingly lovely countermelodies, these are performed with great dexterity and charm by Bax.

[Traverso]

Bach