What are you listening 2 now?

[Number Six]

I've started only posting if I really like something or if I notice someone listening to the same or similar. It is nicer not to share all my listening (I usually listen to several recordings daily).

If you don't post it here or TC or SHMF (or all three), did you really listen to it?

[Number Six]

Saturday Symphony!



Schumann: Symphony No. 1
Pablo Heras-Casado, Munich Philharmonic

[André]

Music by Jonathan Harvey...

I have a few discs of Jonathan Harvey's music. I don't listen to them often but I did recently and my appreciation of his sound world was rekindled.

Thanks for that mention pf the Atherton disc. I'll try to get a copy.

[André]

Late Romantic stuff. Expertly written, never overstaying its welcome or overstating its material. There's nothing here that can be said AGAINST these very, very fine works.

The concept of a single disc with all three concertos segueing into one another may be held against CPO, though. It might have been more advisable to have them separated onto other orchestral releases. It would make their personality shine better.

[brewski]

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Alexandеr Malofeev / Yannick Nézet-Séguin / The Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded in Beijing, May 20, 2019). The pianist most identified with this piece is probably Martha Argerich, who has performed it often, spectacularly. I also like Yuja Wang. At some point, Malofeev will probably join them, eventually, among top interpreters. Now and then he's a little impetuous, with Yannick and the orchestra trying to keep up with him, but the performance is undeniably exciting.

[steve ridgway]

Strauss: Tanzsuite Aus Klavierstücken Von François Couperin

Pleasant, relaxing music .

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Extravagance Berlioz, Partie III

NP:

L'enfance du Christ
Véronique Gens (Marie), Alastair Miles (Herod/Ishmaelite Father), Yann Beuron (Narrator), Stephan Loges (Joseph)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robin Ticciati

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Last work for the night:

Bach
Preise, Jerusalem, Den Herrn, BWV 119
Various soloists
Collegium Vocale Gent, La Chapelle Royale
Herreweghe

[AnotherSpin]

WA Mozart
Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370
Horn Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 407
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581

Lothar Koch, oboe
Karl Leister, clarinet
Gerd Seifert, horn
Brandis Quartet

I particularly love the Horn and Clarinet Quintets from these old Berlin Philharmonic players. This might be my favorite recording of K. 407 altogether.

In the Oboe Quartet, Koch holds back the Brandis Quartet. You can tell they are champing at the bit to add some vitality in the final movement, but he won't go for it. Too bad, for it was Koch's sweet tone which led me to first appreciate the possibilities of that instrument.
VS

A truly excellent recording, no doubt. Thanks for the reminder, I'm listening to it right now with gratitude. How fortunate we are to have real music, and that not every corner of the soundscape has been stuffed with modern gimmicks and perversions... yet.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Alright, one more work:

Schoenberg
Violin Concerto, Op. 36
Rolf Schulte (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Robert Craft

[steve ridgway]

Henning: Sound & Sight

An interesting multi media and performance happening .

[Que]

It took a while before this was available streaming at Spotify as more than a taster/"single"!



This program focuses on the Missa pro defunctis by the composer Charles d'Argentil. Recorded for the first time here, it is one of only a dozen musical settings of the liturgy of the dead written before 1550 to have survived to this day. Little-known today, Charles d'Argentil, who worked in the prestigious Papal Chapel in Rome, was a key figure in the French Renaissance, as well as in the establishment of musical settings of the Requiem for papal ceremonies. His setting sits alongside the three Lamentations du samedi saint by Claudin de Sermisy, composer to the French royal chapel and Jehan Barra's Salve Regina.

PS Looks terribly interesting on paper, but I found the monophonic choral style by d'Argentil  quite uneventful...

[Florestan]

During the last few days:

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Don Juan

Herbert von Karajan & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.9

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[vandermolen]

Eugene Goossens
Symphony 1, op. 58
Phantasy Concerto, op. 60

Howard Shelley, piano
Melbourne SO - Sir Richard Hickox

The piano concerto doesn't do a whole lot for me, but I find Goossens' first symphony splendid.
VS

Totally agree. The Oboe Concerto (on a different CD) is nice though.

[vandermolen]

Sir George Dyson: At the Tabard Inn, Symphony etc

[Iota]

Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 14 "Grande Sonate"
Peter Frankl(piano)

There's no doubt I find the way Schumann lays his personal truth down in musical form, often exceptionally affecting, as I do here. And enjoy the way Frankl taps into to its impulsive flow, like a surfer sensing the ever-shifting changes in the wave that powers him.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Good morning/afternoon, GMG!

Now playing disc 2 from the Chopin Tatiana Shebanova set:



I'm kind of just working my way through this set in random order, but I really should've started with disc one as all the solo piano works here are divided up chronologically, which I believe is the same kind of ordering that is found in The Real Chopin box set (from the same label as this Shebanova set).

[Papy Oli]

Good morning/afternoon, TC!

Ahem...

 

[Traverso]

Muffat



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