What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

This is a (digital) reissue by Far Bernardo of an ORF recording from 2011, so it predates the "Metamorfosi Trecento" recording by the same ensemble.

Is it too light for you?

Too light, I wouldn't say. Perhaps "too much"? I liked it, much better than Mala Punica, but La Reverdie isn't a favourite.

Ensembles I like sofar in this repertoire: Tetraktys, Ensemble Syntagma, Continens Paradisi, Ensemble Perlaro, Palatino87, La Morra and La Fonte Musica.

[Madiel]

Today's non-randomized Schumann piano sample:



Op.9 and Op.6, plus little pieces that Schumann decided not to include (many of them published later in op.99 and op.124)

Another one I rather liked. Uhlig retains a respectable position in the "race".

[Mandryka]

Do they use period instruments?

They do, and they use period bowing and ornamentation.
 
They say they were inspired by Giovanni Battista Viotti's bowing style (I think it's called Grand détaché porté)

[Harry]

Max Bruch.
Chamber Music.
See back cover for details.
Goldner String Quartet.
Recorded: 2015 in Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk.

In Bruch's comparatively small chamber music oeuvre, there are several musical treasures to discover.  And these undoubtedly include the Piano Quintet in G minor and the Swedish Dances op.63 in their original version for violin and piano. Needless to say that the performances are sublime, and hard to surpass in expression and technical skills. I enjoyed all the works enormously. Fine sound too.

[Mandryka]

This is a (digital) reissue by Far Bernardo of an ORF recording from 2011, so it predates the "Metamorfosi Trecento" recording by the same ensemble.

Too light, I wouldn't say. Perhaps "too much"? I liked it, much better than Mala Punica, but La Reverdie isn't a favourite.

Ensembles I like sofar in this repertoire: Tetraktys, Ensemble Syntagma, Continens Paradisi, Ensemble Perlaro, Palatino87, La Morra and La Fonte Musica.

I think if I had to make a pick I'd choose Studio der Fruehen Musik -- I like Andrea von Ramm! And I like Gothic Voices too.

[Mandryka]

Hey Mandryka - well, never heard of the group, sorry -    On Spotify, only 2 of the works are offered (K.406 & K.593) - on Presto, same as a DL?  Dave

Do they use period instruments?

I just found this movement from K516

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3K0jSUNhQI

[Traverso]

Mozart

piano concertos  20 & 21

[Madiel]

Mozart: Music for a pantomime, K.446 (completed by Franz Beyer)



It's not completely clear but I get the impression that Mr. Beyer did a heck of a lot of filling in of Mozart's sketches. The result is enjoyable enough.

[Iota]

Enescu: Piano Sonata No.3 in D major, Op.24/3
Can Çakmur (piano)

The slow movement of this sonata deserves serious consideration I think, like bells falling slow motion through a crystal clear air, with the profusion and infinite variety of sounds that is their way. The way the theme from the first movement barges into matters in the last movement caught my ear this time too. Enescu's very particular style is attracting me more each time I listen to him at the moment.

[Florestan]

[Madiel]

Another Mozart fragment, and I enjoyed this one a lot: the Oboe concerto in F, K.293 (one movement completed by Robert Levin)

[ChamberNut]

Stop it! 

[Florestan]

Stop it! 

I can't. 

[Madiel]

Schumann duets for soprano and tenor

Op.34 (1840) and op.78 (1849)

[Harry]

Arthur Butterworth, Symphony No 1, opus 15.
Malcolm Arnold, Organ Concert, opus 47.
Ruth Gipps, Symphony No.2.
Ulrik Spang-Hanssen, organ.
Munich PO, and Royal Aarhus Academy Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock.
1-5 Recorded at Arco Studios München, 1998 & 6-8 Recorded at Gellerup Church Aarhus, 2001. Organ Concert.

Superb performances and ditto sound. All three works are in good hands with Bostock

[Florestan]

[ritter]

Enescu: Piano Sonata No.3 in D major, Op.24/3
Can Çakmur (piano)

The slow movement of this sonata deserves serious consideration I think, like bells falling slow motion through a crystal clear air, with the profusion and infinite variety of sounds that is their way. The way the theme from the first movement barges into matters in the last movement caught my ear this time too. Enescu's very particular style is attracting me more each time I listen to him at the moment.

I love that sonata, particularly the wonderful slow movement you singled out (there's' even some hints of jazz in it, I venture to say). I must confess, though, that --as is often the case with Enesco-- for me, the last movement outstays its welcome, and meanders unnecessarily for many bars, adding nothing to the development, and unbalancing the whole structure. Same happens in the (otherwise superb) Piano Quintet in A minor, op. 29.

I remember having introduced the work (in the Cristian Petrescu recoding) to my piano teacher many years ago. She told me she found it wonderful, but also that it seems as if "the composer had gone berserk in the last movement". 

But, as you say, the reappearance of the opening theme in this final movement is a very interesting turn.

[Madiel]

Possibly I haven't met my daily Mozart quota yet, given the massive influx of discs in the past week or so. So a bit more before bed (if I can sleep in this weather...)



K.186 (for 10 winds) and K.253 (for 6 winds), constituting Side A of the LP.

I actually rather like listening to things that were once LPs in this way. For one thing it gives you a manageable chunk of music.

[Florestan]

[ritter]

Spanish pianist plays piano music by Georges Enesco: Prélude et fugue (from 1903), the Piano Sonata No. 3 in D major (1935), and the Pièce sur le nom de Fauré (1922).