What are you listening 2 now?

[SonicMan46]

Beethoven, LV - Piano Concertos w/ Ronald Brautigam on two Paul McNulty fortepianos shown at bottom - he performs with the Die Kölner Akademie under Michael Willens. New acquisition and recent recordings (2017 & 2018). Reviews attached if interested.  Dave

P.S. BIS gets all 5 on 2 discs and packages in a thin cardboard wallet; unfortunately, like some similar products from them that I've purchased, the dimensions are about and 1/8 inch off to fit into my usual CD storage boxes - should have made them the size of a jewel box, but my nitpicking - 

 

[Harry]

Now Harry there are a lot of excellent recordings of the Nocturnes on both period and modern instruments but as a lover of these works, Spotify has the Magaloff Chopin box (a pianist I knew not) and I'll have to take a listen - thanks.  Dave

I know Dave, but you see I am an old bear, and live in the past, so Magaloff and Harasiewicz are my hero's.      

[Mandryka]

We have already moved from post-truth to post-thought... 

Thought has been superseded by feeling.  Andrei, have you heard Schulhoff's Flammen? I've been listening to it this afternoon. It's nice.

[Henk]

TD

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 109
Minsoo Sohn (piano)

Deary me. Can the fabric of reality handle such wonders?

Well, he does his best. 😀

[Iota]

Gerhard



part of this box

Excellent! I came across that disc recently and was very taken by both music and performance.

Here:



Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73
Mandelring Quartet

No.3, while not a high-ranking Shostakovich quartet for me, has a last movement that greatly improves its appeal, and the Mandelrings judge it superbly. Worth the price of admission alone as they say.

[Florestan]

Thought has been superseded by feeling.  Andrei, have you heard Schulhoff's Flammen? I've been listening to it this afternoon. It's nice.

No, I haven't. Will give it a try, thanks for the tip.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Schreker Der Geburtstag der Infantin

[Linz]

Hans Pfitzner Piano Concerto in E-flat major, op. 31 Markus Becker piano
Walter Braunfels Tag, und Nachtstücke, op. 44
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Costantin Trinks

[prémont]

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 109
Minsoo Sohn (piano)

Deary me. Can the fabric of reality handle such wonders?

In my view, he looks a bit more rapt than he sounds.

[VonStupp]

FJ Haydn
Symphony 58 in F Major
Symphony 59 in A Major 'Fire'
Symphony 60 in C Major 'Distracted'
Austro-Hungarian HO - Ádám Fischer

VS

[Iota]

In my view, he looks a bit more rapt than he sounds.

Did you listen to it all?

[Lisztianwagner]

Alban Berg
3 Pieces for Orchestra
Lulu Suite

Claudio Abbado & Wiener Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1880 (aka 1878/80) - Ed. Robert Haas
Münchner Philharmoniker, Sergiu Celibidache

[prémont]

Did you listen to it all?

No - only second half of the second movement and the beginning of the third. By then I had seen enough. I have listened to his complete LvB sonata set a couple of times and did recognize his similarly cool playing style in the youtube clip.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now streaming via Presto Music --- Reich Runner



This is my last day of Presto Music streaming, so I'm taking advantage of it. This sounds lovely so far.

[ritter]

First listen to this recent purchase: Laurent Wagschal plays piano music by Louis Vierne. Suite bourguignonne, op. 17, Deux pièces, op. 7, and Douze préludes, op. 36.

[Cato]

First listen to this recent purchase: Laurent Wagschal plays piano music by Louis Vierne. Suite bourguignonne, op. 17, Deux pièces, op. 7, and Douze préludes, op. 36.

Louis Vierne has been and remains an all-around fave!


For everyone's consideration:


Ivan Wyschnegradsky: Thus Spake Zarathustra, in his Quarter-Tone style.  For 4 pianos, two of them tuned a quarter-tone higher.

From the notes on YouTube:

"...No less a figure than Messiaen wrote a marvellous, perceptive appreciation of the concert in which the work was premiered, saying: "Here there are not only melodic contours known and appreciated by the Hindus alone, but also absolutely new harmonic material, which brings us prisms, chord clusters, dense carillons, ethereal garlands." which serves admirably as a summary of Wyschnegradsky's genius in general...."

[DavidW]

@Mandryka, you are right, this chamber and vocal music collection makes such a great impression. Top shelf Norgard! I will keep this on repeat.

[Iota]

No - only second half of the second movement and the beginning of the third. By then I had seen enough. I have listened to his complete LvB sonata set a couple of times and did recognize his similarly cool playing style in the youtube clip.

Fair enough, I only heard him for the first time today. But if you found Var II or Var IV of the third movement e.g, 'coolly' played, then we do indeed hear things very differently. I liked his playing of the whole sonata though, and felt transported to some very intimate Beethovenian depths by his honest and unshowy way with the music.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I will follow your explorations! 

During the Anglo-Dutch wars the English didn't quite like us and made up some snarky expressions about us, that have survived till this day... And they stole OUR gin (jenever)...   But somehow we never returned the favour. The expression "Double Dutch" to indicate an incomprehensible language, gibberish, is quite telling of the English foreign language skills at the time, since Dutch is linguistically so very close to English, though Frisian is even closer.

My understanding is that many/some English people today have Dutch ancestry. True?