What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Brahms: Piano Trio no.1



While I don't like the very start of this performance, it does warm up rather nicely.

[steve ridgway]

Boulez: Notations

[steve ridgway]

Scriabin: Deux Morceaux

[JBS]

Instrument is a Graf fortepiano (Number 429) built in 1820 and restored 2021-2023.

I suspect Prosseda may have consulted with @Florestan when writing the liner notes:

After all, today, more than 200 years after the composition of Beethoven's Sonatas, our perception of sound has also changed: the same sound of a fortepiano had a different effect on a Viennese listener in 1795, compared to a listener today.

From the tone of the liner notes (which he himself wrote), Prosseda does not seem interested in doing a complete cycle, but may have enough interest to record at least a few more sonatas.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Brahms' 3rd with Klemperer at the helm --- from this set:



I have a feeling it is going to be a Brahms kind of night.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Brahms
String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat, Op. 67
Juilliard String Quartet

From this set -

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi - Ballata

An early more conventional composition but still quite listenable .

[AnotherSpin]

Symphony No. 7

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen - Vocalise-Étude, Pour Soprano Et Piano

[Christo]

I really took to the Concertino for Strings.
Eugene Goossens
Oboe Concerto, op. 45
Ruth Bolister, oboe
Elgar CO - Stephen Bell
And thanks to @vandermolen for putting me on to his Oboe Concerto recently, another gem.
VS

It is, absolutely!! And this is the finest performance among the five, or so, extant.

[AnotherSpin]

[Cato]

Boulez: Notations

That CD is part of the evidence FOR Boulez as one of the great composers of his generation!

Or maybe just as a great composer (period). 

Scelsi - Ballata

An early more conventional composition but still quite listenable .

Scelsi is another all-around fave!


e.g.  (Caution!  Slippery Microtones Ahead!)   

[AnotherSpin]

[AnotherSpin]

[Traverso]

Bach

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Vivaldi
Concerto for viola d'amore in F, RV 97
Europa Galante
Biondi

[T. D.]

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NP:

Handel
Concerti Grossi, Op. 3/1, 2, HWV 312 & 313
The English Concert
Pinnock



Handel, for me, has become one of those 'potato chip' composers where I can't just listen to one work. There are always more to follow.

[brewski]

For Barber's birthday, this reading of his Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich, the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Krzysztof Urbański. No audience, since it was done during COVID, which is a pity. It would have been great to hear the reaction at the end.

[Traverso]

Bach

There are disturbing developments going on in the world on a global scale, the competition who can pee the furthest has lost none of its popularity. The general interest is again threatened with being subordinated to blunt power politics.
I have to get this off my chest.....

Johannes Passion