What are you listening 2 now?

[Mookalafalas]

Damn. I'm on a hot streak today for new music that I really like.

[steve ridgway]

Webern - String Trio Op.20

All good, Webern composed a nice variety of pieces .

[ultralinear]

Thanks to Harry and ultralinear for liking this post. Our old friend Dave Hurwitz left a scathing review of CD, so I responded telling him how much I enjoy both works. He had the decency to reply saying that he was glad that I enjoyed it more than he did.

One interesting factoid to emerge from Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating book on music in early Soviet Russia was the frequency with which Scott's work was programmed in concerts there, along with Casella and Hindemith as exemplars of what was considered Western modernism at the time.

[Harry]

"Bitte Rühe"
Johann Friedrich Rühe.
Sonata per Viola da Gamba e Basso Continuo.
Dolci Accenti.
No back cover to be found.
Only download, no CD. TT 45:00.
Recorded: 2017?.

A @Que tip! Indeed delightful. I must admit never having heard of this composer, but the music is very pleasing and well performed. Viola da Gamba fans will certainly be pleased by the quality of the compositions, and find it worth their time. Just because of the beauty of the music. A fine recording too.

[Harry]

Thanks to Harry and ultralinear for liking this post. Our old friend Dave Hurwitz left a scathing review of CD, so I responded telling him how much I enjoy both works. He had the decency to reply saying that he was glad that I enjoyed it more than he did.

Hurwitz is an Old Grumpy Bear, he veins knowledge of music, but that is all bluff!     

[Harry]

Madeleine Dring (1923– 1977)
Complete Works for Oboe.
See back cover for details.
Nicholas Daniel, Oboe.
Adam Walker, Flute.
Amy Harman, Bassoon.
Antonio Oyarzábal, Piano.
Recording venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, 2024.

O Boy this music is right up my alley. This came as a hot recommendation for me, from a member who said he would eat his collected collection of Hats, Caps, Gloves, and what not if I did not like the music, but guess....of course I like it, nay Love it. Such recommendations I would like to have every day. More of this talented composer please. The recording is SOTA, and as to the performers, well Dring can be very pleased with the result, it's bloody gorgeous.

A quote from the composer herself, and I like it very much!
"Madeleine Dring was born on the moon and can therefore claim to be a pure-bred lunatic. Arriving on a speck of cosmic dust she came face to face with the human race and has never really recovered"

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Khachaturian: Violin Concerto - Saint-Saëns: Havanaise.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Damn. I'm on a hot streak today for new music that I really like.

Our own @madaboutmahler, who unfortunately doesn't post here any longer, was a student of Matthew Taylor. Just thought I would throw that out there.

[DavidW]

OTOH, Chailly's cycle is possibly the best 21st century (so far). I urge you to get it the next time you go looking.

Yes! Fully agree.

[Harry]

Henry Purcell.
Fantazias, Music for Viols.
See back cover for details.
Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot.
Recorded:2005, Bra-sur-Lienne

You may expect to be pleased by this recording. The works are well performed and recorded. There are many recordings of these Fantazias, but I consider this one to be in my top 3 of available recordings.

[Karl Henning]

Webern - String Trio Op.20

All good, Webern composed a nice variety of pieces .

He sure did!

TD:
Superb Sunday morning listening:

[Henk]

[Que]

Khachaturian: Violin Concerto - Saint-Saëns: Havanaise.

My favourite recording. Khatchaturian's concerto does need a bit of help and Kogan is happy (and able) to provide it. 

[Traverso]

Mozart Requiem  KV 626

[Spotted Horses]

Weinberg, String Quartet No 11, Arcadia



A relatively brief four movement work. Aside from the first movement, I didn't find it too compelling. I am starting to converge to my prior impression of Weinberg, I feel I should enjoy the music more than I do. A certain magic is missing, for me.

My relationship to Weinberg is similar to my relationship with Schnittke, I like the works with sarcasm, the "bleak" style, not so much.

[Spotted Horses]

Beethoven, Piano Sonata No 11, Annie Fischer



I have not been one to obsess on Beethoven Piano Sonatas. I think I have listened through them in their entirety three times in my life, first being Barenboim EMI, the Brautigam, then Pommier (which is quite good). The bulk of my listening is to the "late" sonatas (first encountered in Pollini's set from the 1970's).

When I started listening to this Sonata today I had no memory of having heard it before. Every one up until now was familiar. Listening through, I didn't find myself engaged, so there are works by the great master for which I do not have the key.

It's been my custom on this traversal to follow Fischer with Badura-Skoda on fortepiano. I'll try that tomorrow. Maybe that will be the ticket.

[Jo498]

op.22 was never a favorite of mine but I like it a bit more than I used to. Michelangeli and Richter played it and they might be worth a try but my favorite is probably a live recording with Pollini from the late 1990s on DG, coupled with op.26 and the Waldstein (not exactly sure if this was the recording picked for his complete box)

[Mandryka]

Webern - 3 Lieder Op. 25

I think this is my favourite Webern song recital. She's so refined and nuanced.

[Traverso]

Good idea to change my musical diet

[Lisztianwagner]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Hugh Bean (violin)
Sir Adrian Boult & New Philharmonia Orchestra

George Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad

Neville Dilkes & English Sinfonia