What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Zoltán Kodály: Háry János Suite; Dances of Galánta. Antal Doráti, Philharmonia Hungarica

First listen to any of this composer's orchestral music; I'm impressed! Very colorful writing for the orchestra.

Well,this recording is a classic.

[vandermolen]

Honegger: Symphony No.5 'The three d's' (1950).
This is a very fine performance of this rather tragic yet enigmatic score.
I have enjoyed, and think highly of, Plasson's Magnard and Honegger recordings:

[Que]

Disc 5: Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater; Magnificats & Marian Motets

[Irons]

Interesting Lol. I'm not a great admirer of Solti but enjoy those Elgar recordings, which I have on CD. I much prefer your LP cover however.

I prefer the LP cover for the Boult EMI recording too, Jeffrey. I chose to listen on CD and admit the sound excellent.

[Irons]

Enescu & Liszt

Sound to die for on that CD.

[Harry]

Morning listening.

Sergei Bortkiewicz.
Piano Music, disc 1.

Klaas Trapman, Piano. (Bosendorfer)

[ritter]

Some French chamber music in the background (while working at home):



I got this CD for Florent Schmitt's Très lent, which is the version for piano trio on the third movement of the Sonatine en trio, op. 85 --originally for clarinet, flute and harpsichord. Why the Joachim Trio decided to record this movement alone --even if its performance in isolation was apparently sanctioned by the composer-- beats me, as the whole Sonatine lasts under 10 minutes, the composer had rescored the entire work for piano trio, and it would have easily fit into the CD. Be that as it may, I wasn't that impressed by the work in its original scoring (it's been recorded by Emmanuel Pahud et al.), but this version sounds very Fauréan and is quite seductive in its briefness.

The work also includes Debussy's Piano Trio. I consider Debussy one of my very favourite composers, but have never really warmed to his chamber music, and even less to tis piece of juvenilia. Pleasant but inconsequential.  The other work on the CD, Ravel's Trio, is much more agreeable to me. Very nice performances by the Joachim Trio.

[Tsaraslondon]

I'm not big on Brahms and conseqeuntly I have only a small collection of Brahms works, which I'm working through at the moment. Boult's 1970s cycle of the symphonies have always been considered reliable, if not particularly revelatory. This Disky issue of the original EMI recordings was a gift from one of the British promoters of the label and is my only recording of the symphonies. I think I used to have Karajan's earlier DG cycle on LP.

Anyway they fill a gap in my collection well enough. Today I'm listening to the first two discs, which inlclude the first two symhonies, the Tragic Overture, St Antony Variations and Janet Baker sublime in the Alto Rhapsody.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 132 [Gewandhaus Quartet]





This is writing for a four stringed instrument ensemble that is magnificent, eternal and it sings to the ages. The music is always probing and searching, absorbing and compelling.

[aligreto]

I'm not big on Brahms and conseqeuntly I have only a small collection of Brahms works, which I'm working through at the moment. Boult's 1970s cycle of the symphonies have always been considered reliable, if not particularly revelatory. This Disky issue of the original EMI recordings was a gift from one of the British promoters of the label and is my only recording of the symphonies. I think I used to have Karajan's earlier DG cycle on LP.

Anyway they fill a gap in my collection well enough. Today I'm listening to the first two discs, which inlclude the first two symhonies, the Tragic Overture, St Antony Variations and Janet Baker sublime in the Alto Rhapsody.

Just in case you might be interested I was never a particular fan of the Brahms Symphonies until I purchased the Mackerras cycle [with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra on Telarc] and that cycle profoundly changed my opinion. Mackerras uses smaller forces thus delivering very clear lines and textures which I found revelatory. 

[Tsaraslondon]

Just in case you might be interested I was never a particular fan of the Brahms Symphonies until I purchased the Mackerras cycle [with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra on Telarc] and that cycle profoundly changed my opinion. Mackerras uses smaller forces thus delivering very clear lines and textures which I found revelatory.

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind if I ever decide to add another Brahms cycle to my collection. I have Mackerras's Orchestra of the Age of Enhightenment two disc set of Schubert's 5th, 8th and 9th symphonies and like it very much.

[Harry]

"Ladies Night"

Works by:
Amy Beach, Luise Adolpha le Beau, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Amanda Röntgen-Maier, Maria-Theresia Paradis, Dora Pejacevic.
See back cover for the works.

Thomas Irnberger, Violin.
Barbara Moser, Piano.
SACD recording.

A worthy follow up on "Its a Girl" also dedicated to female composers, with the same performers. Every piece on this CD is a gem, but I have my doubts about the composition of Paradis, I cannot imagine it to be in its original form, it sounds too much end of 20th century. Sound quality and performance are excellent.

[Que]

 

Alternating between these sets for the three sonatas dedicated to princess Marie Esterházy (1784).

[Roasted Swan]

"Ladies Night"

Works by:
Amy Beach, Luise Adolpha le Beau, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, Amanda Röntgen-Maier, Maria-Theresia Paradis, Dora Pejacevic.
See back cover for the works.

Thomas Irnberger, Violin.
Barbara Moser, Piano.
SACD recording.

A worthy follow up on "Its a Girl" also dedicated to female composers, with the same performers. Every piece on this DC is a gem, but I have my doubts about the composition of Paradis, I cannot imagine it to be in its original form, it sounds too much end of 20th century. Sound quality and performance are excellent.

Harry - do you know this disc;



very much complimentary to the ones you have enjoyed.  I haven't heard the discs you mention but Chenal is a very fine player indeed!

[Harry]

Harry - do you know this disc;



very much complimentary to the ones you have enjoyed.  I haven't heard the discs you mention but Chenal is a very fine player indeed!

Never saw it before, going to check that one out. Thanks!
Found it comes with a DVD with a hefty price tag € 35,00, and there are two overlapping works on it, with my other CD'S.
Still I saw Toccata going to release this one, so its on my list too.

[Roasted Swan]

Never saw it before, going to check that one out. Thanks!
Found it comes with a DVD with a hefty price tag € 35,00, and there are two overlapping works on it, with my other CD'S.
Still I saw Toccata going to release this one, so its on my list too.

I can't get that excited about Ethel Smyth BUT Mel Bonis and Pauline Viardot impress me a lot.  Ouch, didn't realise the disc I mentioned was so pricey now - keep it in abasket - it might appear as a 2nd hand bargain one day!

[Harry]

William Wordsworth.

Orchestral Works, Volume II.

[Harry]

Josef Schelb.

Orchestral Works, Volume II.

I hope they will release more of this composer, the first two volumes are fab.

[Traverso]

Sound to die for on that CD.

Indeed,I have the CD ,there is also a sacd 

[Biffo]

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B-flat minor, Op 23 - John Ogdon piano Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli. I haven't heard this performance for years (probably decades). I remember someone telling me it sounded like Ogdon and Barbirolli having a fight - it is certainly a heavyweight performance.