What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Antonin Dvořák Chamber Works, Panocha Quartet, Suk Trio CD 4
Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 23
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 87

[AnotherSpin]

String Quintets

[San Antone]

Boulez
Messagesquisse for Solo Cello and 6 Cellos



Fascinating piece.

[ritter]

And to round off today's festive listening, Claude Helffer plays Boulez's Première Sonate and Troisième Sonate (Constellation-miroir and Trope).

From this set:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The Bronze Horseman, Op.89, etc.. Glière, Reinhold.

[Lisztianwagner]

I think the recordings that Bernstein made with the Concertgebouworkest are different and quite special. 

Agreed, they are gems.

[Lisztianwagner]

Georg Friedrich Händel
Organ Concertos, Op.7

Ton Koopman & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

[André]

NP:

Elgar
The Spirit of England, Op. 80
Teresa Cahill, soprano
Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus
Gibson



This is the performance to own of The Spirit of England. I liken it to Janet Baker's performance of Sea Pictures. For me, there hasn't been anyone that challenges Cahill in this work.

I'm sure @Elgarian Redux knows this Cahill/Gibson performance.

I do and I concur.

[AnotherSpin]

String Quintet

[André]

For some reason I tried to quote a post from Florestan but it came mixed up with another post and I was not allowed to post, so here's a copy:

«
Quote from: André on March 25, 2025, 05:50:20 PM
The (Graener) flute concerto is melodious and frothy.

[Florestan:]. And to think that it was written in 1945 Berlin, amidst bombardments and destruction. The last movement it's even based on a folk tune named Freut euch des Lebens, that is Enjoy your life. Gloom-and-Doom defied and conquered by la joie de vivre --- love it, one of my favorite flute concertos. An unsung testimony to the indomitable power of the individual sanity against collective madness. »

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This. Absolutely.

The fine liner notes also shed light on facts not otherwise available, either from the Wikipedia entry or the CPO liner notes and that are definitely worth noticing: although Graener was a member of the Nazi party and vice-president of the Reichsmusikkammer , he steadfastly kept commercial and personal relationships with jewish business relations (like the editor Eulenburg) and befriended and protected jewish musicians. In 1944 another jewish music publisher, Wilhelm Zimmermann (whose firm had been banned 4 years before) commissioned a flute concerto (the one on this disc) from Graener, the Reichsmusikkammer (!). The two men had been corresponding actively, damned be the ban. When the concerto was finished, Graner wrote Zimmermann « The Flute concerto is ready; the last movement - just imagine, at a time like this! - is a rondo on 'Freut euch des lebens'. I am very happy with the piece ». It was Graener's last completed work. He died  shortly after.

[Karl Henning]

The Bronze Horseman, Op.89, etc.. Glière, Reinhold.

Peculiar that they suffixed an -h to Petersburg!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Peculiar that they suffixed an -h to Petersburg!

I think that's the way it was spelled in the USA and/or UK decades ago!

[Karl Henning]

I think that's the way it was spelled in the USA and/or UK decades ago!

Possible! It's ensconced in (for example) Pittsburgh. 

[Linz]

Joseph Wölfl The Symphonies, Pratum Integrum Orchestra

[hopefullytrusting]

Karl Richter with Maurice Andre and the Munich Bach Orchestra in Handel and Telemann Concertos:



I will fully admit I went into this recording with pretty low expectations because of Richter's stock (stodginess, near monomanical when it came to composers, stiff, rigid, etc.), but he handled this brighter material well (the recording itself is old, but I don't ever let that count toward the diminishment of quality as good that is actually good will always shine through). Richter, of course, is aided here by one of the greatest trumpeters of all time: Andre, and the trumpet is one of those instruments that can easily overpower an orchestra (same with most of the brass, save the French horn, which is basically a woodwind, if we're being honest, lol).

I couldn't recommend this recording, per se, as I am certain there are better renditions, but I did like my time spent here, and will definitely give Richter a try in things which aren't Bach (currently looking at something by Scarlatti that I'd like to hear, so that might be next).

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Rihm
Morphonie
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Ernest Bour

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Possible! It's ensconced in (for example) Pittsburgh.

I think the spell in question changed a few times? I love the recordings by William Steinberg/Pittsburgh.

[foxandpeng]

Rued Langgaard
The Early Recordings 1957-1981:
Symphonies and Orchestral Works
Symphony 4, 'Løvfald'
John Frandsen
Danish NSO
Danacord

Excellent! Thanks to those pointing out this release ❤️

Another whirl of this before moving on... 🤗

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Carter
Night Fantasies
Charles Rosen

[JBS]

I think that's the way it was spelled in the USA and/or UK decades ago!

As in Adelburgh and Edinburgh and the word "burough". The latter in the U.S. now seems to have been whittled down to "boro". I have a cousin in New Hampshire who lives in a locale which can't decide if its name is ---borough or ---boro. The USPS delivers the mail under both spellings.

TD
Since this is the Listening thread:


Fortepiano is an 1837 Erard.
In between the two Schumann cycles are five songs from Franz Paul Lachner's Sängerfahrt Opus 33.