What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

Been a while since I last listened to anyone playing the Sonata, so maybe my memory is faulty--but I don't remember this work being played with so many extreme shifts in dynamics and tempo as BG does here.

[Mirror Image]

It's true, but we all don't enjoy music in the same way, we prefer some composers and works over others, so I sometimes prefer to be more prudent, although with these works I can't hide my enthusiasm.

To the bolded text, you have trouble hiding your enthusiasm for a lot of music, Cesar.

[Symphonic Addict]

String Quartets 10 and 11

This guy doesn't cease to amaze me with these utterly substantial creations. He had a special gift to write extremely well-crafted music for string quartet, I have no doubts in that regard. I've listened to these works with sheer awe and pleasure.

The Adagio molto of the No. 10 has struck me powerfully, it's just heart-wrenching, a favorite slow movement from now on. Schubert, Mahler and Bruckner would have been proud of this poignant music.

I'm not exaggerating when I say these works have been truly revelatory, or at least to me they have been.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Goodnight fellas & ladies, I wanted to share what I am currently listening in CD album format in my decent sound system:

Paradisi Porte
Hans Memling's Angelic Concert
Tiburtina Ensemble-Babora Kabatkova
Oltremontann Antwerp
WimBecu
On ACCENT label

This is indeed very angelical music, truly mesmerizing performance, top notch.

And also Purchase the Giovanni DE Macque
Madrigali & Organ Works direction goode olde Manfred Cordes, on CPO label.

Two super eagle today, golf joke , I guess I am lucky in caught my attention big fish?, now I am on sailor Jokes ha ha, have a wonderful day or night the planet is round 

[Symphonic Addict]

To the bolded text, you have trouble hiding your enthusiasm for a lot of music, Cesar.

Haha, if you say so. 

[Mirror Image]

First-Listen Friday

Zemlinsky
Cello Sonata in A minor
Othmar Müller (cello), Christopher Hinterhuber (piano)



Not a bad work, but not a memorable one either or, at least, when comparing it to other Zemlinsky chamber works. This work was written in 1894, but it would be several years later before he settled into his more identifiable style. The most interesting piece on this recording is the Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, which was written two years after the Cello Sonata.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Strauss
Vier letzte Lieder
Lucia Popp, soprano
LPO
Tennstedt



Not one of the great Vier letzte Lieder performances in my book even though I do like Popp's voice, but I don't think it's quite the right fit for this work. I think also think there's a mismatch here between Popp and Tennstedt. I used to like this performance until I heard so many others like Studer/Sinopoli, Isokoski/Janowski, Janowitz/Karajan, among others.

[SimonNZ]

[Karl Henning]

Miaskovsky Symphony No. 25 op.69




Sarge

Myaskovsky Madness Meets First-Listen Friday!

https://www.youtube.com/v/-8T5ikYvGYM

[Karl Henning]

Myaskovsky Madness Meets First-Listen Friday!

https://www.youtube.com/v/-8T5ikYvGYM

I like it, I'll revisit that 'un.

It's no longer Friday, but this, too, is a first listen:

Weinberg
Symphony № 1 in g minor, Op. 10 (1942) « To the Red Army »

Obviously a patriotic undertaking, but is there more...?

https://www.youtube.com/v/OPo385wOWwA

[Karl Henning]

It's no longer Friday, but this, too, is a first listen:

Weinberg
Symphony № 1 in g minor, Op. 10 (1942) « To the Red Army »

Obviously a patriotic undertaking, but is there more...?

https://www.youtube.com/v/OPo385wOWwA

The Weinberg is really good!  As with Shostakovich and Prokofiev, a strong and characterful first symphony.

[SimonNZ]

[Mirror Image]

Last work of the night:

Berg
Altenberg-Lieder, Op. 4
Jessye Norman, soprano
LSO
Boulez

[Wanderer]

Staying on Mediterranean shores, but moving eastwards from Italy to Greece, with Nikos Skalkottas' String Quartets No. 3 & No. 4 (played by the New Hellenic Quartet).

Oh, this is stunning. Here's a composer of dodecaphonic music which brims with humanity and passion, doesn't sound labored or mechanical and gives this often thorny language an acutely expressive, poignant, multi-layered voice, particularly rewarding repeated listening. In his dodecaphonic works, he did not adhere to strict Schoenbergian orthodoxy, but developed over the years his own style which explored the idiom more freely and widely (e.g. he used more than one tone rows per composition). His violin concerto was written on the same year as Schoenberg's (by that time, it had been years since their last contact) and his piano concerti predate Schoenberg's by several years. A unique voice well worth exploring and did I mention that these quartets are stunning? I did? Good. 😎

[SimonNZ]

[Irons]

Dvorak: Violin Concerto.

Suk's later recording, the first with Ancerl.

[Que]

Morning listening:



Anoher collection of of 15th century English music by the Binchois Consort, built around the Missa Nobilis et pulchra by Walter Frye. Amazing performances, recommended.

https://earlymusicreview.com/music-for-saint-katherine-of-alexandria/

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Jun/Katherine_Alexandria_CDA68274.htm

[Que]

Goodnight fellas & ladies, I wanted to share what I am currently listening in CD album format in my decent sound system:

Paradisi Porte
Hans Memling's Angelic Concert
Tiburtina Ensemble-Babora Kabatkova
Oltremontann Antwerp
WimBecu
On ACCENT label

This is indeed very angelical music, truly mesmerizing performance, top notch.

Had to look that one up! Doesn't seem my cup of tea.



Around 1490, the painter Hans Memling created his "Concert of Angels". It consists of three paintings for the outside of an altar and shows God the Father surrounded by angels singing and playing instruments. What might the music have sounded like that inspired Memling to this painting? Very precisely, the painter depicted the instruments of his time, grouped into the 'alta' and 'bassa capella' typical of the period-the loud and the quiet instruments. Together with the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, where Memling's paintings hang today, Wim Becu initiated an interdisciplinary project in which the depicted instruments were recreated in detail by specialists in instrument making and research was carried out to find thematically appropriate music. The central theme of the original altar, of which only the Angel Concerto remains, was the Assumption of Mary, and so "Paradisi porte" - 'the door to paradise - also determines the music of this CD. Gregorian music from liturgical books and polyphonic compositions from the time around 1500 in Bruges are heard, truly heavenly music played by Wim Becu' s Otremontano Antwerpen together with the singers of the Tiburtina Ensemble.

[Madiel]

Miaskovsky: Hulpigung's Overture Op. 39 [Svetlanov]





Noteworthy among the non symphonies in this set is Hulpigung's Overture. I found it to be a very exhilarating and exciting work which was very well presented and driven here.

It's also noteworthy because both the name and the opus are incorrect. It's actually a Greetings/Salutations Overture (or in German "Huldigung"), and it's op.48!

I found this out last night, the second edition of the box set appears to have had some poor editing. Which of course has resulted in incorrect metadata being spread far and wide given this is the mostly available version of the recordings.

[vandermolen]

Walton: Symphony No.1 LPO/Mackerras
One of the best recording of this symphony IMO. The tentative, nervous oboe solo at the start is just right, unlike so many other recordings (Previn's for example). Boult, Sargent and Thomson are my other favourites and the edge-of-seat Hamilton Harty version from the mid 1930s: