What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Good morning all,

A First listen to the work.

Mendelssohn - Lobgesang

Christiane Karg, Maria Bernius (sopranos) Werner Güra (tenor) Kammerchor Stuttgart & Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Frieder Bernius

I thought you were doing a Mendelssohn symphony listen? Or was that someone else I'm mixing you up with?

[Madiel]

Haydn: Piano concerto no.11



I'm not sure whether I've ever listened to any of these concertos before. Half of the piano concertos probably aren't authentic, but these are the 3 everyone does on the grounds that they're definitely authentic, and number 11 is from around the same time as Mozart's great series. Though on first listen it's not on that level.

[Papy Oli]

I thought you were doing a Mendelssohn symphony listen? Or was that someone else I'm mixing you up with?

I was.

I am.

Stop confusing me. 

I have listened to several versions of No.1 before Christmas.

I am (was, still am, after an errand) listening now to Symphony No.2, a first listen to this work, which I was told (by you    ) that it is not a symphony any more, but appears in symphony boxes but also appears under a choral work, incidentally in the Carus box that is of interest as discussed, hence I am now listening to that symphony that is not one in a box that doesn't contain any.   

Whatever that Schrödinger's symphony is or not, I am enjoying it.

So there.       

(I sound like snypprrrr      )

[Madiel]

(I sound like snypprrrr      )

I mean, I was already laughing before I got to this line, but that made my night.

[Madiel]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto in B flat, op.19



I think I sometimes prefer "no.2" to the slightly more mature "no.1" in C major, just because it's quite a bit shorter (and more in line with a lot of Mozart's concertos). The B flat major is less likely to outstay its welcome.

[Florestan]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto in B flat, op.19



I think I sometimes prefer "no.2" to the slightly more mature "no.1" in C major, just because it's quite a bit shorter (and more in line with a lot of Mozart's concertos). The B flat major is less likely to outstay its welcome.

I concur. "No. 2" is hugely underrated.

[Iota]

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D958
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

Once again all Uchida's natural intensity, commitment and sincerity align to benefit this music in myriad wondrous ways, stretching from grandeur to the smallest whispered intimacy and all areas in between.

[Traverso]

Mozart

Yesterday I watched an episode of the new television series "Amadeus" starring Mozart. Miles Forman's film is superior in every way. Mozart is played, of all things, by a Japanese man who makes all sorts of peristaltic movements while conducting, which I can hardly imagine would have been the case with Mozart. Once again, the well-worn feud between Salieri and Mozart. Salieri declares war on both God and Mozart. On God because he is angry that his talents have been wasted on an unvirtuous person. A penny-pinching novel, in other words.
Salieri also turns into a kind of Weinberg when he asks Constanze to "return a favor" to support Mozart's career.

[Harry]

Nancy Dalberg. (188=1949)

Chamber Music.
The String Quartets.
String Quartet No.1 in D minor (1915), No.2 in G minor, op.14 (1922), No.3, op.20 (1927).
Nordic String Quartet.
Recorded at Koncertsalen, the Royal Danish Academy of Music, 2018, and 2019.

The music by Nancy Dalberg was received with high critical acclaim, and to my ears well deserved. (You can read her bio on Wikipedia) She has her own voice, and displays a wealth of expression, with lovely melodies and a superb discipline in scoring these works. Certainly not simple meanderings, but  expressions of considerable compositorial intellect. She was highly praised by Carl Nielsen, and had a great trust in her capabilities. And so have I. The performances are near perfect. The sound is okay but I expected more of this SACD recording.

[Harry]

A Harry recommendation. 

I hope you did like it as much as I did.

[Papy Oli]

I mean, I was already laughing before I got to this line, but that made my night.

that's how imprinted the Snypppprrrrr trauma (c) is!!

[Madiel]

Mozart: Piano Concerto no.27 in B flat, K.595



Last night I realised that 2 of my listening projects and 1 sort-of-maybe-it-will-be-a-project all lined up on piano concertos. Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart. So I'm ending my night with Mozart's last.

The number of works left in the Köchel catalogue is diminishing. Though there's still 2 entire operas/singspiels in there.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

A First listen to the work.

Mendelssohn - Lobgesang

Christiane Karg, Maria Bernius (sopranos) Werner Güra (tenor) Kammerchor Stuttgart & Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Frieder Bernius

joking aside, this is gorgeous. The soloists's voice are pure honey to those ears. Big tick for that Carus box.

[Florestan]

2 of my listening projects and 1 sort-of-maybe-it-will-be-a-project all lined up on piano concertos. Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart.

Two CDs for Haydn, three for Beethoven, that's half a week at most. With Mozart things get more time-consuming. 

[Papy Oli]

Number 3...




No...

Wait...

That's not it...

There it is...

Boulez: Livre pour quatuor (2017 version, ed. Philippe Manoury)
Quatuor Diotima

[Madiel]

Two CDs for Haydn, three for Beethoven, that's half a week at most. With Mozart things get more time-consuming. 

Not piano concerto projects. Mozart it's the catalogue (let's not check exactly when I started, plus there were backtracks when I went and bought a symphony cycle and a violin sonata cycle). Beethoven it's opus order (I only started in September).

And Haydn... I've got a chronology worksheet that starts around 1779 when the chronology gets a little more solid and when Haydn was first allowed by the Esterhazys to go out and get things published. I feel like I don't have that good a sense of how different genres of Haydn align. I've decided I'm skipping the operas for now, but there's so much else he wrote over the next 20+ years and I think I want to go through it.

It's not completely precise but it does get clearer. Next up will be the last 7 Esterhazy symphonies. Which still aren't numbered sequentially...

[Traverso]

CD 1

[Maciek]

Yes, un petit, jazzy bijou! I bought the Turnabout LP, Walter Klien is the soloist.

Wow, that looks like a fantastic record in terms of repertoire! I wasn't aware of Walter Klien (or at least don't remember ever having heard him) and a quick search on Spotify returned something with the exact same Picasso painting as cover, but it's an all-Honegger program (Klien's Concertino recording plus an assortment of piano pieces played by Jürg Von Vintschger). I'll have to give that a listen (though having noticed that Amazon marks the whole thing as "explicit", I am having second thoughts...). Maybe I'll search out the other recordings from the LP too, to try and replicate the compilation. [edit: no such luck with the Klien Janacek recording, but I've managed to find the other two]

[Papy Oli]

Dvorak
Piano Quartet in D major, Op 23
Domus

[Brian]

Those who read the Haydn thread last night will not be surprised!