What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

Several sonatas from this set:

[Madiel]

Mozart and...



The K.100 Serenade is lovely, especially the 2 Andante movements. And the K.204 Serenade is equally fine, though in that one I really appreciated the fast and bright movements. A fine way to round off the series.

In between are the 4 contredances K.101, which have a weird history. At some point someone called them "serenade no.2" when they in no way resemble all the other serenades. And latest scholarship says that they're actually by Michael Haydn. Apparently there was always some doubt about authorship because a couple of them are at least partially in Leopold Mozart's hand rather than Wolfgang's, but... just listening to them would have tended to suggest they weren't by W.A. Mozart at all. They're perfectly fine, but they sound different. So it's another example of works copied out by the young Mozart, maybe arranged a bit. But not his compositions. 5 minutes of listening convinced me the recent scholarship is correct.

[ritter]

Boy, I own about 30 CDs of Spohr's music (mostly String Quartets & Symphonies) - have the Michael Collins recordings of the Clarinet Concertos (inserted above and which I just listened to for my dinner music; also own the CPO 2-disc set w/ Christoffer Sundqvist, NDR Radiophilharmonie & Simon Gaudenz) - BUT Antony Pay I assume is playing a 'period' clarinet - please provide some more detail, and did he do the other concertos?  Thanks - Dave

Sorry, I have found no information whatsoever  about what instrument Pay plays in this recording. The Wikipedia article on him mentions reconstructed instruments, but not in the context of the Spohr concertos.

[AnotherSpin]

[Madiel]

Ravel: Chants Populaires



WOW. These are fabulous.

[Madiel]

Ravel: Violin Sonata no.2

[Traverso]

[Madiel]

Ravel: Sheherazade

[AnotherSpin]

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Handel
Figlio d'alte speranze, HWV 113
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord/director)

From this set -

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Beethoven
Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5/2
Miklós Perényi, András Schiff

From this set -

[Lisztianwagner]

Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concertos No. 1 & 2

Antony Pay (clarinet)
David Atherton & London Sinfonietta

[Madiel]

And of course it will be no surprise that I'm ending with what I personally consider to be perhaps the greatest body of piano music, certainly among the greatest. Most of which I haven't listened to for far too long, but this stuff is lodged in my memory a lot better than most music.

Sonatine
Jeux d'eau
Miroirs
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Gaspard de la nuit
Le Tombeau de Couperin

[AnotherSpin]

More of yesterday's Nobuyuki Tsujii releases. Like the previous two, it's nowhere to be found in Qobuz's list of new releases. A round of applause for the streaming service's refined discretion — after all, only the mediocre and the rubbish-laden needs promotion, while true artistry always finds its way to a grateful ear.

[Traverso]

Bach

Complete  Inventions
Complete Sinfonias
Complete Preludes

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Beethoven
Leonore Overtures Nos. 1-3
Wiener Philharmoniker
Abbado

From this set -

[hopefullytrusting]

These two symphonies (6/2 and 6/6) and two concertos (13/4 and Wq 22) are not light in the least, which one might suspect given the composer (JC Bach) and the era, but these works are all weighty with significant gravity (something I think I often find lacking in some of the symphonic work of this era), but the works are breezy and light in that they will not drag the listener down with them. For me, they feel like music one might expect at a super fancy soiree. The works are serious and demanding but not commanding. For me, at least, this is how I want my symphonies to be: dynamically interesting, rhythmically complex, orchestrated with craft, form, and technique in mind. Another high recommend (recordings are perfect, as well, at least in my book).

[Traverso]

Schönberg

[Karl Henning]

I think everything was revised close to the end of his career .

With the perhaps significant exception of Le marteau.

TD: Cross post

[pianococo90]

Ivan Buffa
Trio for flute, clarinet, and cello