What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Schubert - Piano Sonata in G Major D.894 (Lupu)

[asin]B000BVEKKE[/asin]

[Harry]

Third rerun. New release.

[Madiel]

An evening where I am in serious need of music that is both beautiful and profound.

Watkin is doing a reasonable job with Suite No.4, though I'm not sure it's best overall. But certain movements are sensational.

[Sergeant Rock]

Is it good? Moreover, is it autumnal? 

Yes and yes 

Sarge

[Papy Oli]

Scriabin - Ten Mazurkas Op.3 & Nine Mazurkas Op.25
Marta Deyanova

[Tsaraslondon]

Today's listening so far.



A magnificent account of the Emperor from Arrau and Davis.



CDs 3 & 4 - excerpts from Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal and Der Ring featuring legends from the past.



Baltsa doesn't really challenge the likes of Baker and Ludwig in the Wagner,  or of Baker, Steber, De Los Angeles and Hunt Lieberson in the Berlioz, but she is never less than interesting and, though her singing can be a bit gritty it is sincerely felt. Absence in particular is touchingly supplicating.

[Madiel]

Brahms, Clarinet Sonata no.1

[Traverso]

Domenico Belli

Just arrived

[Madiel]

Beethoven, Piano Sonata in D, op.28 ('Pastoral')

First listen to this version.

[SimonNZ]

Beethoven / Liszt Symphony No.9 - Cyprien Katsatis, piano

[Harry]

Bellerofonte Castaldi (c.1580-1649)

Le Musique di......
CD IV.

Guillemette Laurens.
Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre.

Let me start with stating that I love the music on this disc, and that it is all well performed and recorded. And let me state further that I think Guillemette Laurens has a fine voice, which I have learned to like and love.....but. I think in the many recordings I have heard of her one thing bothers me exceedingly, and that is the sheer volume she can and will produce. For this kind of music that sometimes works, but less in the case of this recording. Now I realize that is not a problem for many, but for me it is, obviously. Vocal and instrumental music mixed is then a problem, for when Laurens sings the sound has to be put a few notches down, but the instrumental parts must be turned up. That is irksome. So if she sings with caution it is all fine, but when she put the power of her volume behind it I cringe.

[Harry]

Domenico Belli

Just arrived

That CD posed quite an ordeal for me. But you will probably like it very much

[Karl Henning]

Windy Ludwig
[asin]B0789TBXY4[/asin]

A nice excursion into a corner of LvB that seems to be overlooked.
Contents
Sextet in E Flat Op 71
Duo for clarinet and bassoon WoO 27 number 1
Octet in E Flat Op 103
Rondino in E Flat WoO 25
March in B Flat WoO 29

Very nice!

[Karl Henning]

I trust that you enjoyed the Baudo cycle.

You gents are reminding me that it is time I revisited the Honegger symphonies.

[Karl Henning]

Steve Reich

Music for 18 musicians

I saw this recording come by, became curious about it, so I throw myself in this musical perpetuum mobile

One of Reich's best.

[Karl Henning]

Brahms, Clarinet Sonata no.1

Exquisite!

[Karl Henning]

TD:

Schubert Symphony in C, D.944
RCO
JEG

[Brian]

This just arrived on Naxos Music Library. Time to try.



In the liner notes, Debargue says that his reference point as an interpreter is Scott Ross, and that he's adopted some of Ross' ideas. He adds that only in certain specific sonatas does he find any pianist to be as convincing as Ross is. The booklet also claims that ten of the sonatas in this package have only previously been recorded by Ross, not by anyone else; I'm not sure whether that is believable.

[Karl Henning]

This just arrived on Naxos Music Library. Time to try.



In the liner notes, Debargue says that his reference point as an interpreter is Scott Ross, and that he's adopted some of Ross' ideas. He adds that only in certain specific sonatas does he find any pianist to be as convincing as Ross is. The booklet also claims that ten of the sonatas in this package have only previously been recorded by Ross, not by anyone else; I'm not sure whether that is believable.

To my own (admittedly sketchy) knowledge, this would at the least point to specific lacunæ in the Jan-Pieter Belder cycle.

[Traverso]

Bach

Brandenburgische Konzerte 1-5