What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

The next installment of Ysaye


Recorded in April 2022 and January 2023. The violinist was born in 2005. You do the math. He seems to have won or placed well in a few Young Artists competitions, and has some concerts/recitals under his belt. Supraphon apparently thought enough of him to commission a piece that appears as the final track:

Supraphon has shifted the 100-year-old concept to the 21st century and commissioned a composition that would reflect Ysaÿe's sonatas, as well as young violinists' musicality and virtuosity. Jana Vöröšová's Obsession II is both answer and challenge.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ask and ye shall receive!  😇


The performance above is not available whole on YouTube, so here is one with the score:

Thank you very much. The score looks very, very interesting. Maybe I should purchase scores of the music I frequently listen to. Does anybody listen to music while looking at its score?

[hopefullytrusting]

Clementi's Symphony No. 1 (Scimone): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4A5fPmGvhI

(first listen)

[Madiel]

Vivaldi: Judith Triumphans, Part One (so far)



I fell asleep last night soon after starting, which is much more a reflection on my day than on the music.

Nevertheless, the thing with Vivaldi is a lot of it is "nice" and some of it is absolutely stunning. And you never know just where the stunning part is going to be, though for me personally it's often the slower or quieter numbers that do it.

In Juditha, the aria "Veni, me sequere fida", which from now on I'm just going to think of as the turtledove aria, is one of those stunners. It's the sound of the chalumeau (a relative of the clarinet) representing the turtledove that just nails it. I probably enjoyed it in the Hyperion version as well, I'll have to go check. But certainly here on Naive I was wowed at just how clearly I was listening to a bird sadly twittering.

The chorus at the end of Part 1 is also stellar, a nighttime prayer by the women of the town under siege. It's not instinctively what you'd think of as an 'act' finale, but gosh it works.

Part Two for later on today...

[AnotherSpin]

Vol. 4

[AnotherSpin]

[Roasted Swan]

Vivaldi: Judith Triumphans, Part One (so far)



I fell asleep last night soon after starting, which is much more a reflection on my day than on the music.

Nevertheless, the thing with Vivaldi is a lot of it is "nice" and some of it is absolutely stunning. And you never know just where the stunning part is going to be, though for me personally it's often the slower or quieter numbers that do it.

In Juditha, the aria "Veni, me sequere fida", which from now on I'm just going to think of as the turtledove aria, is one of those stunners. It's the sound of the chalumeau (a relative of the clarinet) representing the turtledove that just nails it. I probably enjoyed it in the Hyperion version as well, I'll have to go check. But certainly here on Naive I was wowed at just how clearly I was listening to a bird sadly twittering.

The chorus at the end of Part 1 is also stellar, a nighttime prayer by the women of the town under siege. It's not instinctively what you'd think of as an 'act' finale, but gosh it works.

Part Two for later on today...

Thankyou for this post.  Judith Triumphans was included in an old 40 disc Brilliant Box in an ex-Hungaraton version conducted by Nicholas McGegan,  A pair of discs I had never visited until prompted by you.  Very neatly played and attractively sung - at least in the dipping I've done.  A delight!  You gotta love Vivaldi!! (well I do anyway....)

[Que]

Morning listening - masses by two early Franco-Flemish composers from the generation right after Guillaume Dufay (Du Fay):

Johannes Tinctoris (Jehan/Jean le Taintenier/Teinturier) and Jacques Barbigignant

[AnotherSpin]

Morning listening - masses by two early Franco-Flemish composers from the generation right after Guillaume Dufay (Du Fay):

Johannes Tinctoris (Jehan/Jean le Taintenier/Teinturier) and Jacques Barbignant

A morning that resonates with my own

[Florestan]

Comments, please.

[Que]

Comments, please.

Ditto! 

[Madiel]

Juditha Triumphans, Part Two.

Maybe nothing as gorgeous as the picks of Part One, but the bit where Judith kills Holofernes is great, and Magdalena Kozena plays it for all it's worth. Vagaus' last aria vowing revenge after discovering Holofernes' body is also some top fiery Vivaldi.

Also, one reason this version couldn't squeeze onto 2 discs is they include 2 alternate arias. Same text, but very different music (in one case, there's definitely the better one in the main score). I think that one of the really interesting things about the Vivaldi Edition will be hearing this sort of thing, because I gather the composer's personal library has a lot of examples of the sort of options and switches that were common in Baroque opera.

Full credit to whoever decided where to put the splits between discs as well, I think they got it spot on.

[Cato]

Thank you very much. The score looks very, very interesting. Maybe I should purchase scores of the music I frequently listen to. Does anybody listen to music while looking at its score?

Oh yes, whenever possible!

In fact, I have "listened to" scores before I hear the music since childhood! 

I began with keyboard pieces and then went to Beethoven quartets.

I have told the story before: I came across the Leopold Nowak score to the Bruckner Symphony #7 in the early 1960's in the Dayton Public Library, listened to the opening pages mentally, and immediately rushed to find a recording!


This morning we have - thanks to Dayton Classical Music Radio - for your consideration:

and so, we also have...

I mentioned this ancient recording yesterday, one of the first records I ever bought!



Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos and the Concerto for Three Pianos    😇

[Que]

[Madiel]

Haydn: Keyboard sonata no.4 in G



A pleasing early work.

[DavidW]

Comments, please.

It sounds different from what I'm used to, and they lean into the romanticized treatment of the string quartets. The sound is lush, and while not slow, not hurried either. They don't favor the dynamicism of more recent recordings. If you like their Schubert, this is more of the same. It definitely has an old-school feel and charm to it.

BTW, I've also found that Leipzig has recorded them as well, and I'm a big fan of that ensemble and will also see how they handle Mendelssohn.

[Karl Henning]

@Cato It doth appear that this chap played all six the same day, during an AGO conference.

[Florestan]

It sounds different from what I'm used to, and they lean into the romanticized treatment of the string quartets. The sound is lush, and while not slow, not hurried either. They don't favor the dynamicism of more recent recordings. If you like their Schubert, this is more of the same. It definitely has an old-school feel and charm to it.

Thanks. Sounds like a must-have to me.

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[Madiel]

Mozart: Piano concerto no.26 in D, K.537