What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Tonight's program
First listen to almost everything

Hmm Copland if he was Brasilian, perhaps? Not sure about this one.

CD 11 Choral works


This one needs several listens to properly judge it.

CD 7: Pieces de clavicin Opus 5

Santoro's 4th Symphony is a most inspiriting score!

[Mandryka]

Mozart 521

[vandermolen]

A Pastoral Symphony by Vaughan Williams. Arguably the highlight of this series:

[Operafreak]

Glière: Symphony No. 1 & The Red Poppy- BBC Philharmonic, Sir Edward Downes

[ritter]

recent talk about Max Reger here n GMG has led me to listen to some of his music. I bought this set a couple of years ago, but don't recall having ever listend to it until now :



CD2, which offers An die Hoffnung (with alto Margarete Bence), op. 124, the Beethoven Variations, op. 86, and the Mozart Variations, op.132, all with the Northwest German Philharmonic led by Hermann Scherchen. These are mono broadcasts from 1960, with sonic limitations.

I'm probably not in the mood to appreciate this music (and have the feeling I'll seldom be in the mood to enjoy it  ).

[steve ridgway]

John Cage - Credo In Us.

[Madiel]

Szymanowski: incidental music for Prince Potemkin, op.51



I've probably listened to the piece before but didn't particular remember it. In Wit's hands, it's rather good, highly atmospheric.

[vandermolen]

Glière: Symphony No. 1 & The Red Poppy- BBC Philharmonic, Sir Edward Downes

A very enjoyable CD.

[Madiel]

Szymanowski, Stabat Mater, op.53



There are some beautiful, mystical moments in here, alongside stark ones. At times I felt like I had an inkling about where Gorecki's 3rd symphony came from.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Madiel]

Mozart, Symphony no.29 in A (a bit of a favourite, that opening)

[Traverso]

Britten


CD 17

Hymn to St Cecilia
A Ceremony of Carols
Missa brevis
Festival Te Deum
Rejoice in the Lamb
Te Deum in C
Jubilate Deo

The King's College Choir Of Cambridge, Philip Ledger

[Operafreak]

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11/Chopin: Piano Concerto
No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21

    Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
    Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
    Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

[DavidW]

The rest of the Brahms piano trios plus what I think has now become my favorite Brahms work, the clarinet trio.

[Traverso]

Netherlands Wind Ensemble

This is a CD with a very attractive program, the execution is exemplary.
Too bad Dvořák hasn't written more music for Wind Ensemble

[aligreto]

CPE Bach: Solo Keyboard Music [Spányi]





Sonata in F maj. W.62/8 H.55
Sonata in D min. W.65/23 H.57

[aligreto]

Okay, now that I'm actually listening, the playing is really good. Very satisfying.

However, I'm listening in headphones, and it isn't a great album for listening in headphones. Why? Because it's closely recorded and SOMEHOW they've contrived to regularly pick up the sound of the piano stool creaking. At least that's what I think it must be.

Over and over again in quiet music and often when it's in medium range too. I've never heard anything quite like it. Breathing, yes, I'm used to maybe hearing a bit of that. But that's not what I hear. Collins is not a noisy pianist in any of the ways you might think are obtrusive. But every time he shifts his weight on the stool (a perfectly natural, even essential thing to do) I hear these creaks.

It's a real shame that this is distracting me when the actual playing seems excellent.

As I progressed with Collins' Schumann I gradually became more engaged with the playing, and less distracted by the extraneous sounds.

It's very good. Lots of poetry. If I end up buying the CD it will be excellent on speakers.

Thank you for reporting on the Collins CD

[aligreto]

Strozzi: [Galli/Bonizzoni]






Serenata con violini - Hor che Apollo e a Theti in seno
Cantata - Aure già che non posso dall'Idol mio

[Linz]

Brahms Complete Piano Sonatas with François-Frédéric Guy

[Maestro267]

Finally inspired by the thread to give this a go:

Brahms: Piano Quintet
Leonskaja (piano), Alban Berg Quartett