What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

[Que]

Disc 5 is fully dedicated to music by Peter Philips.

[Harry]

Johann Ludwig Bach.
Funeral Music for : Soli, two four part choirs, 3 Flutes, 2 Oboes, Bassoon, 3 Trumpets, Timpani, Strings and continuo.

Maria Zadori, (My favorite soprano)
Lena Susanne Norin, Alto.
Guy de Mey, Tenor.
Klaus Mertens, Bass.
Rheinische Kantorei & Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max.

I cannot even remember when I heard this the last time, but going through my collection, I stumbled on it. Zadori is still top of the bill, even better as Emma Kirkby. The performance is quite good in total.  Also like the music, and in this repertoire that's a novelty for me.

[vandermolen]

Lyatoshinsky: Piano Quintet

[Harry]

Johann Christian Bach.

Six Wind Symphonies, T285/3 (publ 1782): No. 1 in E flat [11'07]; No. 2 in B flat [8'40]; No. 3 in E flat [11'52]; No. 4 in B flat [7'18]; No. 5 in E flat [11'03]; No. 6 in B flat [9'18].
Consortium Classicum (Dieter Klöcker, Waldemar Wandel, clarinets; Karl-Otto Hartmann, Eberhard Bischmann, bassoons; Jan Schroeder, Rolf-Jürgen Eisermann, horns; Jürgen Normann, double-bass).
Rec. Fürstliche Reitbahn Bad Arolsen, Germany in 1991.


Highly enjoyable, and uplifting music, well performed and recorded.

[Harry]

I have a lot of this composer, so I am in for a long run.

Johann Christian Bach.

Salve Regina.
Laudate pueri Dominum.
Si Nocte tenebrosa.

Emma Kirkby, soprano.
Markus Schäfer, Tenor.

L' Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg.

After listening to it I decided to cull this one. Emma Kirkby attacks my ears with quite some vehemence, this is a far cry from the once sublime voice of this woman.

[Madiel]

Reconstructed LPs from Ashkenazy's Chopin recordings have been helping preserve my sanity today.

"Volume 8" (covering opuses 29-32 and other compositions from the same period) a couple of times during the day.

Now "Volume 11" (covering opuses 12, 16, 17, 19 and 23 plus a few miscellaneous mazurkas from the same period).

I continue to be thoroughly impressed with the way these original albums were programmed.

[Florestan]

[Karl Henning]

Lyatoshinsky: Piano Quintet

Great album! I'm in!

[vandermolen]

Holst: The Cloud Messenger:

[Todd]

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Saint-Saëns
Six Études, Op. 111
Piers Lane

[Spotted Horses]

The Hammerklavier sonata of Beethoven is something I listened to obsessively decades ago. Non when I return to it, it is comfortingly familiar.

The days are past when I have time to immerse myself in this work, I've been taking it one movement at a time. This morning, while everyone else slept, listened to the expansive slow movement. Angela Hewitt's recently released recording.



I recall the first movement being splendid in its relaxed unfolding and the second movement, scherzo, plays itself if you can hit the notes. Today I found the third movement gracefully satisfying. Maybe tomorrow the finale.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Ives
Three Places in New England
Cleveland Orchestra
Dohnányi

[kyjo]

NP:

Villa-Lobos
Cello Concerto No. 2, W 516
Antonio Meneses, cello
Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia
Víctor Pablo Pérez

From this fantastic, long OOP recording -

Love that concerto!

[kyjo]

Born 1860, died 1944. Works composed in 1930s Germany.

Yet another little-known, unsung composer from Germany toiling in the shadow of Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith, Braunfels. We are indebted to labels such as CPO for advocating composers like Woyrsch, Graener, Weingartner, von Hausegger, etc.

These symphonies are well-crafted works, quite bold in thematic and harmonic content yet conservative in language and design. There are subtle influences by Bruckner, too, which shows that AB's language had deeply marked german-austrian music thinking even as his public image was still somewhat simplistic at the time. It would seem Woyrsch was not well regarded by the 3rd Reich authorities and his music fell out of favour in the 1930s. Indeed, while these two symphonies were created in 1930 and 1935 respectively, the scores were not published before 2015.

Harry wrote favourably of Woyrsch in this thread. He was right. This is very fine, sophisticated music.

The cover picture might lead one to think 'Dutch', but windmills are (were) a frequent sight in the Hamburg countryside. Woyrsch spent most of his life around Hamburg.

Most intriguing, André. I haven't heard any of Woyrsch's music.

[Bachtoven]

The original issue of just the Symphony No.1 on LP was the first work I heard by Davies and loved it! Still do.

[Mandryka]

The Hammerklavier sonata of Beethoven is something I listened to obsessively decades ago. Non when I return to it, it is comfortingly familiar.

The days are past when I have time to immerse myself in this work, I've been taking it one movement at a time. This morning, while everyone else slept, listened to the expansive slow movement. Angela Hewitt's recently released recording.



I recall the first movement being splendid in its relaxed unfolding and the second movement, scherzo, plays itself if you can hit the notes. Today I found the third movement gracefully satisfying. Maybe tomorrow the finale.

I think it's pretty good, all I mean is, I think it's enjoyable to hear when you're in the right frame of mind. The sound is excellent, and that helps.

[Spotted Horses]

I think it's pretty good, all I mean is, I think it's enjoyable to hear when you're in the right frame of mind. The sound is excellent, and that helps.

Yes, and I find myself in the right frame of mind for Hewitt's Hammerklavier. My reference recording is still the first I listened to, Pollini. But sometimes you are not in the mood for white-hot intensity.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jacques Ibert: Chant de Folie.