What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

I'm not that good at comparing performances (unless it is Elgar!), but in my opinion Suzuki is great only with the early sacred cantatas by Bach. Cantatas composed after Mühlhausen are stylistically more different from the middle baroque style of Buxtehude/Bruhns/Kuhnau and need more "explosive" performance style and Suzuki's style is a bit "tame/lethargic."

I politely disagree!

[mahler10th]

Today I was listening to BBC Radio 3, and some music was playing.  I liked it very much, but didn't know it, so I played guess the composer.  Well, I became convinced it was William Alwyn, kind of modern sounding well cut music, and I waited to see who and what it was.  It was Bacewicz, Concerto for String Orchestra (Collins, Ulster Orchestra).  I am not too familiar with Bacewicz, but it wont be long until I am...

[prémont]

I politely disagree!

+1

[Harry]

Today I was listening to BBC Radio 3, and some music was playing.  I liked it very much, but didn't know it, so I played guess the composer.  Well, I became convinced it was William Alwyn, kind of modern sounding well cut music, and I waited to see who and what it was.  It was Bacewicz, Concerto for String Orchestra (Collins, Ulster Orchestra).  I am not too familiar with Bacewicz, but it wont be long until I am...

Good to see you John, keep strong and keep ya ears open

[Roasted Swan]

Yes indeed, a very effective piece! Bravo, @Karl Henning!

Now:



Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22

What a wild and beautiful piece this is. Frankl plays his heart out, meeting it out there on the stormy moor from whence it hails.

Don't know the work or performance but love the description.  I'm off to the moors....... (I may be some time)

[ChamberNut]

Today I was listening to BBC Radio 3, and some music was playing.  I liked it very much, but didn't know it, so I played guess the composer.  Well, I became convinced it was William Alwyn, kind of modern sounding well cut music, and I waited to see who and what it was.  It was Bacewicz, Concerto for String Orchestra (Collins, Ulster Orchestra).  I am not too familiar with Bacewicz, but it wont be long until I am...

Welcome back!    You need to vist the Bacewicz composer thread! I've become a bit of a junky! 

[Harry]

Welcome back!    You need to vist the Bacewicz composer thread! I've become a bit of a junky! 

There are many of us Bacewicz-nites addicts. I confess to ya all, I am addicted since the very first piece I have heard of her, since then I take my daily dose, a hefty dose I must add. And I do not want to detox, no! I will not. Give me more!

[ChamberNut]

There are many of us Bacewicz-nites addicts. I confess to ya all, I am addicted since the very first piece I have heard of her, since then I take my daily dose, a hefty dose I must add. And I do not want to detox, no! I will not. Give me more!

Yes, a near daily injection into the veins is needed. 

[Traverso]

Chopin

Ballades & Impromptus

 

[Harry]

Chopin

Ballades & Impromptus

 

Great performances, I cherish that set!

[Traverso]

Great performances, I cherish that set!

That make

Great performances, I cherish that set!

It's a shame there are so few recordings with Magaloff

[Harry]

That make
It's a shame there are so few recordings with Magaloff

I agree, I have just a few in my collection. Bought them together with this great box, no CD's but elpee's
A hefty box I took home, but boy did I enjoy them. Years later I replaced it with CD's, which was time for I literally played them so much that they became unplayable. Even though I used Lenco clean, a little tube with fluid that cleaned while playing. I could do longer with my moving coil element in my Denon turntable.

[Karl Henning]

Today I was listening to BBC Radio 3, and some music was playing.  I liked it very much, but didn't know it, so I played guess the composer.  Well, I became convinced it was William Alwyn, kind of modern sounding well cut music, and I waited to see who and what it was.  It was Bacewicz, Concerto for String Orchestra (Collins, Ulster Orchestra).  I am not too familiar with Bacewicz, but it wont be long until I am...

Hi, Johnnie! What a delight!

TD:
First-Listen Fridays!

[pjme]

Lumieres du Chant Byzantin.
Divna, et le Choeur Melodi.
Recorded: Monastery Vavedenje, Serbia, 2008.
Could not find a back cover alas.

Much needed Spiritual food for my soul. Divna is a very good choice if it comes to Orthodox music.

Divna Ljubojevic made some remarkable recordings and I particularly like her Blagosloven jesi gospoden

Her later videos are incredibly kitschy (mirrors, slow motion, doves, white gowns waving in the wind machine...) alas!

[Karl Henning]

[brewski]

Price: Symphony No. 3, Movement III, "Juba" (Yannick Nézet-Séguin / The Philadelphia Orchestra). Delightful, with personality to spare, and expertly played.

[Harry]

Divna Ljubojevic made some remarkable recordings and I particularly like her Blagosloven jesi gospoden

Her later videos are incredibly kitschy (mirrors, slow motion, doves, white gowns waving in the wind machine...) alas!

I have most of her Orthodox recordings, she is indeed remarkable, the voice of an angel. I don't give a fig about her later videos, she clearly lost herself in that sort of Schmalz, unpalatable for me.

[Traverso]

Bach

Further with the Bach Cantatas,this time with Ton Koopman

CD 2

Recorded Waalse kerk Amsterdam

[Lisztianwagner]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute and Harp Concerto K.299

Kenneth Smith (flute), Bryn Lewis (harp)
Giuseppe Sinopoli & Philharmonia Orchestra

[vandermolen]

Boris Lyatoshynsky Symphony No.3
Bournemouth SO, Kirill Karabits: