What are you listening 2 now?

[vers la flamme]

Claude Debussy: D'un cahier d'esqsuisses, Tarentelle styrienne, Rêverie etc. etc. Walter Gieseking

As good as it gets, my friends. Bow down.

[vandermolen]

Excellent (re the music, not so much re upcoming chores!)!  I enjoy my morning coffee; I suspect that you start your day with a cup or two of tea instead?

TD

Mozart's String Quartet in G major, K387  with the Quatuor Ysaÿe on Decca.  Not certain what is up next (I took quite a different change after that--see the other music thread.).  Will see if I can manage to figure out some quiet in-house work (chores) before I hit the yard. 

PD

OT
Yes, I couldn't possibly drink coffee first thing in the morning. I usually start the day by taking my wife up a cup of tea  0:)

[Traverso]

Bach

the young J.S.Bach

[Todd]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

This album has come up more than once in recent times. I really like the cover art. Can somebody please tell me who the artist is.

Fergus,

According to Chandos' website, it's Young woman at the beach, Walberswick (Suffolk) c. 1886/88 by Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942 /akg-images/Erich Lessing

PD

[aligreto]

Fergus,

According to Chandos' website, it's Young woman at the beach, Walberswick (Suffolk) c. 1886/88 by Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942 /akg-images/Erich Lessing

PD

Thank you very much PD. Much appreciated   

[vandermolen]

Freitas Branco: Symphony No.4 - easily the finest of his symphonies, with echoes of the music of his student Braga Santos:

[Que]

Bach

the young J.S.Bach

Great recording! 

[aligreto]

Varèse: Amériques - original version [Lyndon-Gee]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jacques Ibert: Diane de Poitiers.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

K. A. Hartmann
Symphony No. 6
Bavarian RSO
Kubelik



For me, this is still the set to beat. There's a spirit in the performances that can't be matched. The Metzmacher on EMI always seemed to be interpretatively uninteresting. Like he's getting the orchestra to play the notes, but that's it. There's no thrust or inner life in his performances. They're all faceless. I haven't done enough listening of the newer Challenge Classics set to make a direct comparison with the Wergo, but I should revisit that set.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bach

the young J.S.Bach

Nice!

[Traverso]

Great recording! 

I remember your positive reaction about the recordings with Robert Hill,I have also vol 2 ( young J.S.Bach) ,Lute harpsichord and the transcriptions as well.
The Fischer recording is real nice to listen to ,better than his Rameau.
I used yeaterday the cover from the LP ( looks better)

[Tsaraslondon]

More Dvořák



First the lovely String Serenade, coupled to the equally lovely Tchaikovsky and Elgar. Superb performances from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner.

Then the final four symphonies, courtesy of the LSO under Sir Colin Davis



The 6th is splendid, but I see numbers 7 - 9 have had variable reviews, being unfavourably compared to Davis's earlier performances.  I like them well enough though.

[Traverso]

Nice!

Well,it is clear now that you love the harpsichord ,good for you.I often feel myself uplifted by the music and the instrument, not strange considering that it was composed for the the "fine fleur "of the society.
Oh,I like also a country dance every now and then to land on earth again 

[Que]

I remember your positive reaction about the recordings with Robert Hill,I have also vol 2 ( young J.S.Bach) ,Lute harpsichord and the transcriptions as well.
The Fischer recording is real nice to listen to ,better than his Rameau.
I used yeaterday the cover from the LP ( looks better)

I did a bit of research. Fischer had two collections of harpsichord pieces published : ,,Musicalisches Blumen-Büschlein" (1696) and ,,Musicalischer Parnassus" (1738).

Christie plays pieces from both. Martynova (Caro Mitis) is the only complete recording of the 1st collection, and quite good IMO. For the "Parnassus" there are several complete recordings: Mitzi Meyerson (MDG), Siegbert Rampe (Virgin) and Luc Beauséjour (Naxos).

On paper Meyerson looks to me best to investigate next. It is on Spotify, so that's easy. 

[VonStupp]

Felix Mendelssohn
Psalm 42, op. 42
Psalm 95, op. 95
Psalm 115, op. 31

Soloists
Gulbenkian Orch. & Choir - Michel Corboz (rec. 1979)

I knew Mendelssohn was a devoted fanboi of Bach and Handel, but these Psalms remind me strongly of Bach's cantatas, structured similarly with movements of chorales, solos, and various combinations of vocal soloist ensembles and solo instrument features. Of course, Mendelssohn goes a little further harmonically and in his orchestrations, but there is a notable devotion to the style of those older masters.

These symphonic Psalm settings are a little of the dusty, Victorian choral-society type, and I hear a little of Mendelssohn's oratorios too, but they are worth hearing nonetheless. I assume hearing these would be a natural progression if you enjoy Bach's cantatas.

[Traverso]

I did a bit of research. Fischer had two collections of harpsichord pieces published : ,,Musicalisches Blumen-Büschlein" (1696) and ,,Musicalischer Parnassus" (1738).

Christie plays pieces from both. Martynova (Caro Mitis) is the only complete recording of the 1st collection, and quite good IMO. For the "Parnassus" there are several complete recordings: Mitzi Meyerson (MDG), Siegbert Rampe (Virgin) and Luc Beauséjour (Naxos).

On paper Meyerson looks to me best to investigate next. It is on Spotify, so that's easy. 

I watched a video with her on youtube yesterday  ,she played on two harpsichords,one of the two was a Pleyel.

[Harry]

New acquisition.

Jules Massenet.

Orchestral Music.

Truls Mork, Cello.
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi.

Uplifting and well composed music.

[Todd]