What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

[SonicMan46]

Dave,

DaveF mentioned this spring's Qobuz freebies in the super duper bargains thread earlier this week, it includes a set of De Visée guitar works if that's of interest:

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/robert-de-visee-complete-works-for-guitar-rafael-andia/3149020846452

Hi Papy - thanks for the recommendation above - actually I have a 6+ hr Spotify playlist w/ those 2 discs with Rafael Andia + the 4-disc set below (which I also own); and another playlist of de Visee consisting of 4 recordings,  so I'm pretty 'saturated' w/ the composer at the moment -      Dave

[North Star]

Vaughan Williams
Concerto for violin and string orchestra (also known by the withdrawn title Concerto accademico)
Bradley Creswick
Northern Sinfonia of England
Richard Hickox

Rakhmaninov
Piano Concerto no. 2
Richter
Warsaw Phil
Rowicki

Schönberg
Friede auf Erden Op. 13 (1911)
Accentus & Laurence Equilbey
Ensemble Intercontemporain & Jonathan Nott

[North Star]

Ended up listening to the entire Schönberg/Accentus/Ensemble Intercontemporain album, and now finishing tonight's listening with this wonderful album.

Vienna: Fin de Siècle
Schönberg, Webern, Berg, Zemlinsky, Alma Mahler, Wolf
Barbara Hannigan & Reinbert de Leeuw

[Florestan]

Vienna: Fin de Siècle

I can hardly wait for a CD --- or better still a boxset --- with this very title, comprising music by Johann Strauss Jr, Eduard Strauss, Carl Michael Ziehrer, Oscar Straus, Lehár, Millöcker etc etc etc. The Fin de Siècle Vienna was much more --- and much better if you ask me --- than "the laboratory of the Apocalypse" (apud Karl Kraus).

[André]

I was surprised to see that this grabación (love that word!) dates almost 20 years  . I thought they were new recordings. I realized something was awry when I read in the notes of Kinsella's « 7 symphonies » - he went on to write 11. In any case, I thoroughly enjoyed the works and performances here.

The Shostakovich concerto has unusual presence, with a big, gutsy, throaty cello and superb horn playing from the orchestra's principal and fearless flutists (piccolo) screaming bloody murder. Impressive. The Kinsella is an imaginative work, with quite economical thematic material made to feed whole long sections with plenty of sap and energy. Very nice. I'll have to give the Garrido-Lecca another chance to make an impression. Tomorrow then.

Recording wise this is very good, reverberant and atmospheric but with precise spatial placement. There are some acoustic shifting (splices?) here and there but nothing serious - audible on headphones but I suspect I wouldn't have noticed through loudspeakers. The orchestra plays with gusto. Some minor intonation lapses went uncorrected, and rightly so. The music making is infectiously spontaneous and that's what counts.

[DavidW]

I went to a concert.  First time in over a year.  Local string quartet was playing.  The highlight of the program was Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Back to Ars Subtilior box-set in CD media tonight...

[asin]B00SBVHEY0[/asin] respectively four CD's, focusing on French artists of this era.

and

[asin]B00H9KERSA[/asin] this one Three CD's,  about Italy composers this time around.

Good offerings on Arcana a division of Outhere records, well done, nice presentation, sleeve's & booklet, this is why I prefer the actual media to downloads or streaming.

Perhaps may change my minds and listen to modern Composer it's been a while did not listen to my Schoenberg LP  - Le Pierrot Lunaire op.21-
conducted by brilliant Boulez or maybe Peter Warlock LP .

That about it for now

[springrite]

NP: Berg Der Wein (Norman/Boulez)

Awesome work! (Well, isn't it always with Berg?)



Now listening:
Berio Transcriptions (Rendering, etc.), conducted by Chailly

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Stokowski.

[Mirror Image]

Awesome work! (Well, isn't it always with Berg?)

Yes! Upon revisitation of this piece, I was quite taken with it. It'd love to get a bit more inside of this music. It's too bad Tilson Thomas didn't do a Keeping Score on a Berg work (or Schoenberg for that matter). Can you imagine an MTT analysis of Berg's Violinkonzert? That would be quite something.

[Karl Henning]

Ended up listening to the entire Schönberg/Accentus/Ensemble Intercontemporain album, and now finishing tonight's listening with this wonderful album.

Vienna: Fin de Siècle
Schönberg, Webern, Berg, Zemlinsky, Alma Mahler, Wolf
Barbara Hannigan & Reinbert de Leeuw

Sweet!

[Karl Henning]

I went to a concert.  First time in over a year.  Local string quartet was playing.  The highlight of the program was Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Very nice!

[Mirror Image]

NP: Debussy Violin Sonata In G Minor, L 140 (Faust/Melnikov)

[Mirror Image]

NP: Debussy La Damoiselle élue (version for soprano, mezzo-soprano, choir and piano)

From this recording:

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - ST/10-1080262.

[Harry]

J.S. Bach.
Complete Organ Music, Volume VI.
Organ Works.
The 18 Chorales. Partita, Prelude and Fugue. Part I.
Ewald Kooiman plays on a Anthony Hinsz organ, 1738.
Tuning after Hinsz A=ca 443 Hz.
Hinsz used parts of older organ from the 16th century.
Two disastrous alterations were undertaken in 1821 and 1911, for the most part undone after a complete restoration of the instrument, 1993, and brought back to the state in which Hinsz built it.
As an interesting fact mentioned, A Roorfluyt 8 on the Hoofdwerk stems from the organ in Vollenhoven. (Franz Caspar Schnitger, 1722)

A really fine organ, beautiful sound, and the voicing is perfect. We have in the Netherlands so many fine organs. The performance by Kooiman is exemplary. Quite overwhelmed at hearing this for the first time.

Could not find a workable image of this disc, so instead I post a picture of the organ.

[Que]

Another setting of Lamentations as morning listening:

[Irons]

Grace Williams: Violin Sonata.



For good reason a CD which keeps finding itself in my player.

[Florestan]