What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Philippe De Vitry

Motets & Chansons

[Harry]

Good wine does not need praise.....

Attilio Ariosti, Volume I.

[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/v/8wrNL063Gys

Pauline Oliveiros, Bye Bye Butterfly, it's very early and I'd say quite prescient.

[Traverso]

Bach

Motetten

[Mirror Image]

Half-hearted talk about Rachmaninov's Etudes-Tableaux is forcing me, forcing me, to go listen to Ashkenazy playing op.39 which is basically one of the best piano recordings ever.



The other thing on the same disc, which I may get to, is Ashkenazy and Previn playing the 2-piano version of the Symphonic Dances. Truly, this is one of my favourite single discs (even if it's in a box).

You'll dig that two piano version of Symphonic Dances. I listened to it not too long ago.

No, not even close to all of them. There's 7 recorded here in this Richter box set. For the complete set I like Vladimir Ashkenazy on Decca.

[Mirror Image]

Debussy
La Damoiselle élue, L 62
Upshaw
Rasmussen
Salonen
Women Of The Los Angeles Master Chorale
LA Philharmonic

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven
Concerto for piano, violin and Cello in C Major op.56
Beaux Arts Trio (from the big box)

The sleeve didn't mention Triple Concerto but the Op. number matches. Don't think I have heard this before. Really good.

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[JBS]

Beethoven
Concerto for piano, violin and Cello in C Major op.56
Beaux Arts Trio (from the big box)

The sleeve didn't mention Triple Concerto but the Op. number matches. Don't think I have heard this before. Really good.

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There are two recordings of the Triple C in that box, one with Haitink and one with Masur.  Which one are you listening to now?

[Traverso]

Purcell

CD3

[Papy Oli]

There are two recordings of the Triple C in that box, one with Haitink and one with Masur.  Which one are you listening to now?

CD24 off 60, with Haitink and the London Philarmonic orchestra (1977). Playing it again. Will have to track the Masur one.

[aligreto]

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique [Monteux]





I find this version to be a very fine and interesting presentation. It is very robust, exciting, engaging and quite discursive; it tells the story very well. It is a very atmospheric and dramatic interpretation in which the tension is palpable throughout in a very energetic and dramatic performance. It is a highly recommendable performance.

[Irons]

VC. Terrific performance and remarkable recording for 1946:

Barbirolli writes the forward for the Ginette Neveu biography written by her mother. Interestingly they made plans together to tour northern cities and end up in London playing the Walton VC. "She admired this work intensely and wanted to play it for the first time with the Hallé".

Laughingly she told Barbirolli "They don't know him (Sibelius) in France, and they don't want to know him".

Barbirolli finishes off his forward with:
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost
   Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/v/UMxSH9IvZn4

This is one of Radigue's Occam pieces. I wonder what I'm supposed to do with it.

[Brian]

First listen to Camillo Schumann's French horn sonatas:



Super easygoing, amiable, generic romantic works (even the one written in 1936). But the sound of a good French horn playing even generically pretty melodies is perfectly attractive background music. So I like this a lot. Might need to seek out more romantic horn sonatas.

Leo Halsdorf was principal French horn of the Dusseldorf Philharmonic from 2006-12 (he got the job at age 27) and is now principal of the Luxembourg Philharmonic. He's from Luxembourg, as is Laurent Ménager, who wrote the encore piece on here.

I think this composer's cello sonata album, performed by Maria Kliegel and Francesco Piemontesi (Todd alert), was a similar success, but it's been a few years and I don't remember it well.

[listener]

2 seasonal discs to be cleared from the stack
J-G. ROPARTZ: Le Miracle de Saint Nicolas
Psalm 150, Dimanche, Nocturne, Les Vêpres sonnent
soloists,  Choeur Régional d"Île de France,  Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
Michel Piquemal, cond.
William Henry FRY:  Santa Claus, Christmas Symphony,
Overture to Macbeth.  The Breaking Heart,  Niagara Symphony
Royal Scottish National Orch.    Tony Rowe, cond.

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Legends Nos. 1-10 [Mackerras]





Charming and lyrical without being sentimental and a very smooth and easy listen.

[aligreto]

Szymanowski: Violin Sonata [Oistrakh/Yampolsky]

[Mandryka]

First listen to this recording.  Almost overwhelming.  I mean that literally.  The spontaneity mixed with the control and perfect ensemble captivates.  59/1 almost emerges with late quartet depth, and the Molto adagio of 59/2 does.  Just remarkable.  Tip top sound.

The lineup's changed, Marie Chilemme replacing Matthieu Herzog, I'm not sure that the sound or the approach has changed -- it's all still full of chiaroscuro, intense, not overly demonstrative emotionally IMO. Very good sound as you say. It's over 20 years since I last listened to the op 59 quartets I think! 

[mc ukrneal]

Dvorak: Legends Nos. 1-10 [Mackerras]





Charming and lyrical without being sentimental and a very smooth and easy listen.

Well performed too!

[j winter]

Sibelius 4 & 5, Karajan.  Those Berlin strings are simply gorgeous here...