What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

WILLIAM LAWES(1602–1645)
CONSORTS TO THE ORGAN.
See back cover for details.
A Guide to the Perplexed
Phantasm.
Recorded: 2011.

A winner on all counts. Lawes his works broke with musical rules and listening habits of his time, but with their contrapuntally processed thematic constructions, often sprawling harmonies, and a voice leading that is distributed over several instruments. Fantastic performances and SOTA sound. A Lawes disc that should be in every collection. I would say a Reference interpretation.

[Madiel]

Dvorak: String Quartet in A flat, op.105



My only resentment of Jamil Burghauser is that he caused this to be called "no.14" and op.106 "no.13"...

EDIT: I think I appreciate the A flat quartet a lot more now. It's less immediate in its appeal than its G major companion, and so it used to suffer when playing them together. The tempo changes in the 1st movement now feel really natural, the rhetoric makes sense.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Madiel]

I'm listening to Paderewski's piano concerto just before I go to bed, and liking it very much.

(Antoni Wit as conductor again, don't ask me about the soloist right now!) edit: Janina Fialkowska.

[Brian]

I really went for Antoni Wit recordings in the course of the day.

All of this was reasonably good to listen to without any of it really grabbing me. It was interesting to hear a couple of earlier Lutosławski works and I found them slightly more engaging, but then of course I realised they probably weren't all that characteristic. The Moskowski "From Foreign Lands" is rather colourful and probably the most fun listen here. Wieniawski's 2nd violin concerto is quite good.

A day with Antoni Wit is a good day. Wieniawski's Second is one of the forgotten romantic gems that has fallen out of core rep that I'd most like to see back in (Bruch 1 should not hog all the glory!). I too find Lutoslawski's uncharacteristic earlier period to be my favorite - the Concerto for Orchestra, Little Suite, Symphony No. 1, Dance Preludes, Paganini Variations for two pianos, Piano Sonata...I have forgotten the Symphonic Variations and will use this as a reminder to try them again.

[Harry]

Giovanni Felice Sances, (ca 1600-1679)
Dulcis amor Jesu.
Motetti- a 1,2,3,4 voci.
Scherzi Musicali.
Recorded: église de Sart-lez-Spa, 2009.

The singers of the Scherzi Musicali emphasize the compositional structure of this composer through unaffected performance and clear balance amongst them. That's a huge plus in my ears. The presence and beauty of their interpretation is startlingly beautiful, not to say gorgeous, and shows what a fabulous composer Sances actually was. And then the abundance of instruments used to realize the basso continuo is also awesome. And last but not least you got SOTA sound too. Impressive.

[ChamberNut]

I'm listening to Paderewski's piano concerto just before I go to bed, and liking it very much.

(Antoni Wit as conductor again, don't ask me about the soloist right now!) edit: Janina Fialkowska.

Yup, Janina is a Canadian pianist. I have the same recording.

[Brian]

Yup, Janina is a Canadian pianist. I have the same recording.

This is reminding me of the days as a kid when I listened to CBC Radio and they tried to play as many Canadian artists as possible - Norbert Kraft, Janina Fialkowska, Marc-Andre Hamelin, the Vancouver Symphony...

[ChamberNut]

This is reminding me of the days as a kid when I listened to CBC Radio and they tried to play as many Canadian artists as possible - Norbert Kraft, Janina Fialkowska, Marc-Andre Hamelin, the Vancouver Symphony...

I miss those days. In my exploration infancy, I learned a lot from CBC Radio II. At that time, they had terrific and nearly all day classical music programming.

[Spotted Horses]

Krenek, String Quartet No 8. Just weird.



Martinu, some pieces from the Koukl solo piano music series, Volume II



Spring in the Garden, Butterflies and Birds of Paradise, The Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon. The latter brief piece is pure magic.

[AnotherSpin]

Jürg Frey: More or Less

[Karl Henning]

Martinu, some pieces from the Koukl solo piano music series, Volume II



Spring in the Garden, Butterflies and Birds of Paradise, The Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon. The latter brief piece is pure magic.

Yes!

[Traverso]

Pachelbel

[Traverso]

Bach

[André]

The concerto is played by Paul Tortelier. Gerontius is sung by Heddle Nash. I'll write a comment oh the performances in the Elgar thread. Briefly: the concerto is one of the best performances ever (and sounds great even if over 70 years old). There are reasons why this Gerontius from 1945 is a classic, even though it's not the last word in terms of singing and (obviously) sound.

[71 dB]

Live on TV:

Radion sinfoniaorkesterin konsertti, Musiikkitalo. Yle Teema & Fem

Claude Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Claude Debussy - La Mer
Richard Wagner - Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner - Suite from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder, conductor

[Mandryka]

Pachelbel

Here's my favourite Pachelbel Tone 1 fugues, by far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLcvmswgqog

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1890 Thorough revision Bruckner with Joseph and Franz Schalk Ed. Theodor Raettig, Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell

[Number Six]

Hilary Hahn plays Bach

[Lisztianwagner]

Béla Bartók
The Miraculous Mandarin

Pierre Boulez & Chicago Symphony Orchestra