What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Copland: Symphonic Ode

I appreciate that recording, in all respects a very good interpretation, as I expect from the likes of Wilson, plus a superb recording....

[Harry]

English Music for clarinet.
Michael Collins, Clarinet & Michael McHale, Piano.

An interesting and superb recorded recital of works not often encountered in such pristine interpretations and performances. Collins is a magician and McHale not far from that same balustrade.
The work by Arnold makes a grand and furious entrance, and creates immediately a big bang, fireworks and sparkles all over the place. And frankly this holds on in all works, from known and unknown composers. Really stunning sound!

[vandermolen]

I appreciate that recording, in all respects a very good interpretation, as I expect from the likes of Wilson, plus a superb recording....

Thanks Harry - it's a fine disc. I especially like the combination of the Symphony for Organ and Orchestra and the Symphonic Ode. I'm not always a fan of Wilson's recordings but this is very good indeed.

[Traverso]

Mozart

Concertone for two violins KV 190

[Harry]

Louise Farrenc(1804–1875)
Complete Piano music • Volume 1-2 CD's.
Études
Maria Stratigou, Piano.

I am since day one a great admirer of the music by Louise Farrenc. 3 releases appeared over 3 years, and if this volume is anything to go by, then I am in for a treat, for the music is much to my liking. The Steinway D she is playing on sounds like a dream and just right for this music. Maria Stratigou likes to play things fast...and she can, for her fingers are that nimble so she does. Articulate, rendering precise detail, and she keeps the notes firmly in the right tempi so to hear every one of them, and that delights me no end. The recording is such that one thinks the Steinway is in your room. On touch level so to say, both the D grand and the performer.

[brewski]

In honor of Arvo Pärt, who turns 90 today — still with us, still writing music — a live 2023 recording I haven't heard of the Te Deum.

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest
Groot Omroepkoor
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Gijs Leenaars, choral director

[Todd]

[Madiel]

How many Vivaldi cello concertos does one need?



Well, plenty when they're as lovely as RV 411 (F major) that opens this disc. Then follows a completely different sombre and restrained work (RV 401 in C minor), then a somewhat mellow one (RV 408 in E flat).

There's plenty of time for the violin and bassoon to redeem themselves, but so far I think the cello is my favourite amongst Vivaldi's big 3 solo instruments...

...and I like Christophe Coin's playing very much. 

[Madiel]

Chamber concerto in A minor for recorder and 2 violins (RV 108)
Amor, hai vinto [soprano setting, there's an alto one of the same title] (RV 651)



I decided it was time to start on the chamber-scale recordings by L'Astree, of which there are 5 in total from early on in the Vivaldi Edition. I've got 2 so far, while another 2 are inching their way towards me across America.

This album and a couple of other L'Astree ones alternate concertos and cantatas. In this case the concerto half and the cantata half of the album were recorded several years apart. The concerto I enjoyed very much. But the cantata has some distracting and unpleasant bass thumping in it, at least on my speakers. Possibly it's connected to the harpsichord but I'm not certain. The liner notes actually say, apparently in connection with the cantata recordings specifically, that "the performance of the power supply used in this recording was enhanced..." and I'm not sure that I want the power supply to be enhanced if it means I can hear it.

[Florestan]

Mozart

Concertone for two violins KV 190

One of my favorite early Mozart works. 

[Florestan]

How many Vivaldi cello concertos does one need?

All of them. 

[DavidW]

[Madiel]

All of them. 

Roll on Volume 4. My maths says that will complete the collection.

[Florestan]

Roll on Volume 4. My maths says that will complete the collection.

I have the Offra Harnoy (Sony RCA) and Raphael Walfisch (Naxos) sets.

[prémont]

I didn't find my recording noisy, but I do agree that Solomon is aggressive, but I value interpretation a lot (if I was going simply off sound and technique alone - my list would look a lot different - my current ranking is a bell curve - I doubt that will move very far, as most pianists, at least those uploaded to YouTube are adequate and qualified for the task).

Yes, I agree that most of the recordings you posted from youtube, by more or less known pianists, are adequate - and many of them more than that. It has been an interesting survey, and thanks for finding them and posting them.

[Traverso]

One of my favorite early Mozart works. 

This is  if my first recording of it,I do not know if the Concertone is released on CD.

[hopefullytrusting]

Yes, I agree that most of the recordings you posted from youtube, by more or less known pianists, are adequate - and many of them more than that. It has been an interesting survey, and thanks for finding them and posting them.

It is a fun experience, and it is making me more familiar with one of my favorite pieces while also helping me get closer to defining the indefinable quality I like about the recordings I like the most.

My next 4, I believe, are all speed demons:

Nate Wambolt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMrNogGlwWk
Rudolf Buchbinder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O3F2jkYCXY
David Allen Wehr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QZIYwfPxec
Park Sang-moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKETGYwafbE (I think, I used the Edge translate function, lol.)

[Todd]

David Allen Wehr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QZIYwfPxec

Mr Wehr is a fine pianist, and if his cycle has been scientifically determined to fall into the third tier (the largest), his cycle has definite highlights, like 31/3.


https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,29126.msg1233633.html#msg1233633

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,29126.msg1249178.html#msg1249178

[Todd]

[hopefullytrusting]

Mr Wehr is a fine pianist, and if his cycle has been scientifically determined to fall into the third tier (the largest), his cycle has definite highlights, like 31/3.


https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,29126.msg1233633.html#msg1233633

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,29126.msg1249178.html#msg1249178

My study has replicated this, lol.

Tier 1
Del Pueyo, Schepkin, Schoenhals

Tier 2
Sang-moon, Gentet, Irfan

Tier 3
Solomon, Wehr, Andsnes, Buchbinder, Namoradze, Petersen, Hong, Brown, Sango, Villar, Frolova, Czech

Tier 4
Wambolt Maciejowski, Muller

Tier 5
Sanna

Untiered
Jank

Need a little pep in my step: