What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Two of my favorites.

+1 (Atterberg symphonies 2 and 5). 5 'Funebre' is probably my favourite of the Atterberg symphonies.

[Irons]

+1 (Atterberg symphonies 2 and 5). 5 'Funebre' is probably my favourite of the Atterberg symphonies.

The Atterberg symphonies are taking time to work their magic, I will give 5 a listen. All is not lost though, I listened yesterday to "Alven" The River and thought this symphonic poem outstanding. Atterberg's orchestration is wonderful.

[Traverso]

Falla: Noches en los jardines de España - Clara Haskil, Igor Markevitch



Also in the new Eloquence Markvitch Philips Legacy box.  It's as if my Grandma T was one of the great pianists of the 20th Century (Jewish ladies of the same generation and from the same part of the world).

A nice box 

[Traverso]

Sweelinck

Second book of psalms

CD 2

[Karl Henning]

I am listening to the first CD of the Handel (that is, Op 6 numbers 1-6) and I think I see the difficulty. Although recorded in 1993-4, it has the "must be polished and elegant" approach that characterized a lot of Baroque recordings in the 60s and 70s.  And of course it's on modern instruments.
We are used to HIP and this Orpheus recording is definitely not HIP.

To borrow a phrase from Jeeves: Rem acu tetigisti

[Madiel]

Dvorak, String Quartet No.1



I own the Prague quartet on DG. It's clear from timings that for the early quartets, the Panocha are employing edits and/or not hitting every repeat**, and that might very well be a good thing for early Dvorak. It's in fact several years since I've listened to the earliest quartets, but I thought I'd introduce myself back to no.1 with this recording.

I gather the Panocha approach might just be a fraction warmer generally.

Of course, if it turns out I greatly prefer the Panocha (or any other) performances, there's a risk that I've set myself up for a duplicate set. The perils of access to streaming...

**Okay, I guess they could be playing insanely fast in comparison to the Prague...

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Gunther Schuller, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee.  Dorati/Minneapolis.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Good stuff!

Yes I like the vibrancy and uniqueness of Mignone's music.

[Biffo]

Schubert: Sonata No 4 in A minor, D537 & Sonata No 17 in G major D894 - Paul Badura-Skoda fortepiano - fine performance of D894, will have to revisit it soon

[Mirror Image]

First-Listen Thursday

Denisov
Concerto for 2 Violas, Harpsichord and Strings
Nobuko Imai (viola), Petra Vahle (viola), Annelie de Man (harpsichord)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Lev Markiz

[T. D.]

To borrow a phrase from Jeeves: Rem acu tetigisti

Awesome quote! 👍 (I've read every novel by P. G. W.)

[Tsaraslondon]

Beecham championed Delius when few others did and this is a wonderful disc.

[Karl Henning]

The OCO Handel op 6 is one of the finest recordings of the works I've heard. Saying that they lack polish compared to pi ensembles is a laughable claim.

But that wasn't the claim.

[Karl Henning]

Gunther Schuller, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee.  Dorati/Minneapolis.

Love that piece.

[kyjo]

On a bit of an Atterberg journey again.


Symphonies #2 and #5

One of the most glorious, exciting, and beautiful journeys one can take! Enjoy the ride!

[Roasted Swan]

There's a great Facebook group dedicated to string players of the past.  There is a recent post marking the death of Igor Oistrakh with a stunning filmed performance here.  Glorious playing.....

https://www.facebook.com/groups/248267299773234/permalink/597780038155290/

[Brian]

I don't love the recorded sound, which spotlights Albrecht Mayer's oboe until it sounds practically huge. But I do like the music well enough. The first movement "Morning Pastorale" is Vasks at his happiest ever, with almost none of the serious spiritualism which undergirds a lot of his music. It's also not as explicitly nature-descriptive as some of the string quartets. It's just...happy. The scherzando central movement is, unusually, the biggest and longest. That's where I am so far, so I can't comment on the final 20 minutes of this very long (33 minute) oboe concerto. But so far the scherzando, too, sounds...well...really happy.

The booklet quotes Vasks saying that with the oboe in particular, he is not a fan of non-traditional playing techniques or unusual sonorities. Additionally:

"In my view, the oboe is a pastoral instrument – drama and tragedy do not first come to mind when thinking about the oboe sound and its possibilities. Overall, the concerto could be viewed as akin to a human life with its beginning, period of maturity, and departure. However, I would prefer to think of it as something more like a long cosmological day which lasts, say, a hundred years....It says this is how we live here and this is what my country sounds like. Major keys are usually not one of my areas, but the Oboe Concerto is possibly one of my brighter works."

[vandermolen]

Palmgren: Piano Concerto No.1, which has a heartbreakingly sad and beautiful opening:

[Traverso]

A French Collection





new recording !

Bach: Tradition & Transcription

Skip Sempé

[DavidW]

But that wasn't the claim.

Oh right I misread the post.  My bad.