What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Morning listening is the 5th and last volume in this Lassus series on Musique en Wallonie:




"Lassus the European" has a cross selection from publications throughout Lassus' life and published accross Europe in chronological order: Antwerp, Rome and Venice, Nuremberg and Munich, Paris and Graz.
Sublime performances by Vox Luminis.

[Irons]

Vaughan Williams: 5th Symphony.

Menuhin's reading is light and ethereal with phrases delicately moulded. I guess RVW would call for a more hard-edged account but even so I enjoyed this CD very much.
Concerto for Two Pianos makes an excellent coupling with Ralph Markham and Kenneth Broadway as soloists.

[Tsaraslondon]

Recent listening in my Shostakovich sojourn before moving on to his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Yesterday it was two very different interpretations ofhis 11th Symphony, Stokowski clocking in at under an hour and Rostropovich at 77'. THe Stokowski is by far the more thrilling performance, but the sound is pretty atrocious, whereas the Rostropvich sags a bit.





This morning it was the turn of his last symphonic will and testament, here sandwiched between two works in a much lighter vein; the second piano concerto, written for the modest talents of his son, Maxim and extracts from the popular Gadfly suite. Exccellen performances from the BBC Philharmonic under Vassily Sinaisky with Martin Roscoe on the piano.

[Operafreak]

Herzogenberg - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2- NDR Radiophilharmonie, Frank Beerman

[Que]

Disc 14 with music by Giles Farnaby and William Byrd.

[Papy Oli]

[foxandpeng]

Eduard Tubin
Complete Symphonies
Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Neeme Jarvi
Swedish Radio SO
Bamberg PO
BIS

I do love these symphonies so much. Really early start today with coffee, book and headphones while my sweet wife took a slower beginning. Mucho Tubin in the garden sunshine.

Wishing you all a happy Saturday, wherever you are and whatever you are doing!

[Que]

I'm not familiar with this particular recording, but if it is with Banchini it must be good!

[Que]

Some chorale settings by Johann Gottfried Walther from this set:

[Papy Oli]

I'm not familiar with this particular recording, but if it is with Banchini it must be good!

It is a light and joyful recording, Que. What I have heard of Ensemble 415 has been key (among others) in converting me to the joys of Baroque.

[Que]

It is a light and joyful recording, Que. What I have heard of Ensemble 415 has been key (among others) in converting me to the joys of Baroque.

Following your lead:

[VonStupp]

Sergei Prokofiev
Tale of the Stone Flower, op. 118

BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda

For this morning:

Disc 2: Act III & IV

VS

[DavidW]

Eduard Tubin
Complete Symphonies
Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Neeme Jarvi
Swedish Radio SO
Bamberg PO
BIS

I do love these symphonies so much. Really early start today with coffee, book and headphones while my sweet wife took a slower beginning. Mucho Tubin in the garden sunshine.

Wishing you all a happy Saturday, wherever you are and whatever you are doing!

I also started the day with Tubin.



I liked the 2nd, but really liked the 6th.

[Florestan]

Wishing you all a happy Saturday, wherever you are and whatever you are doing!

Thank you very much, good sir, and likewise!

[Iota]

Hindemith: Piano Sonata No.2 in G Major
Ernst Breidenbach (piano)


Previous attempts at Hindemith's piano sonatas have always left me somewhat unengaged, but things changed with this latest encounter, and I found No.2's quirky charms far more appealing. Whether this is down to Herr Breidenbach, the shifting sands of time, or both, I don't know, but a happy outcome.
Sadly he doesn't seem to have recorded the other two sonatas, but will head back to them in other hands a little more optimistically.

[Biffo]

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit - Martha Argerich - live from the Lugano Festival 2016

[listener]

Julian Bream  - Music of Spain vol.7   A Celebration of Andres Segovia
TURINA: Fandanguillo op. 46   Sevillana op. 29        MOMPOU: Suite Compostelana
MORENO TORROBA: Sonatina    GERHARD: Fantasia        OHANA: Tiento
FALLA: Homenaje, pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy, The Miller's Danced from the 3-Cornered Hat

[foxandpeng]

I also started the day with Tubin.



I liked the 2nd, but really liked the 6th.

I love #6 too!

Thank you very much, good sir, and likewise!

🍻🌞

Eduard Tubin
Complete Symphonies Vol 2
Symphonies 3 and 6
Arvo Volmer
Estonian National SO
Alba

Lovely stuff.

[Todd]

Disc one.

[ritter]

First listen to this new acquisition:


This concert was held in the Royal Festival Hall in London on Nov. 5th, 1973, just eight days before Maderna succumbed to lung cancer aged 53 . The programme must have been quite a challenge to the terminally ill conductor, but also a tour de force for Alfred Brendel, who tackled two cornerstones of the 20th century piano concerto repertoire in one single evening.

I've never been a great fan of Bartok's PC1, but it sounds very persuasive in this performance. IIRC, I first got to know the Schoenberg PC in Brendel's recording with Kubelik on DG. Let's see how this performance turns out to be.

In any event, this valedictory concert by a towering figure in post-WW2 music is a testament to his extraordinary musicianship, and we're lucky to have it in excellent sound.