What are you listening 2 now?

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Alwyn: Autumn Legend; Pastoral Fantasia
City of London Sinfonia, Hickox

I've never really got into Alwyn before, but I certainly enjoyed Autumn Legend, very deftly done with many attractive timbres/compositional subtleties en route. It didn't seem particularly autumnal, more dreamy heat haze to me, though perhaps the current heatwave is skewing my senses.
I probably shouldn't have listened to the Pastoral Fantasia straight after as it felt a bit like more of the same, but nonetheless I still enjoyed it, preferring it to VW's Lark Ascending for instance, with which it shares similarities.

I've seen it compared to Sibelius's 'Swan of Tuonela' as well.

[Todd]

All the Van Cliburn Competition recordings did is reinforce the fact that YES needs to record everything.

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A fine piece, a bit more substantial and tough than I would expect from a piece called Sinfonietta

Indeed

[Spotted Horses]

The recording of the Brahms Horn Trio by Faust, Melinkof and Van Der Zwerg has transformed my view of the work.




The recording I first listened to this week, Sebok, Grumiaux and Orval, used a modern valved horn and I felt the horn did not blend into the ensemble satisfactorily. Played softly enough to balance the other two instruments the tone was too uniformly round to distinguish itself in the ensemble. (I seem to remember having the same impression of the work listening to the recording with the Florestan Trio, et. al. on Hyperion.) In the Faust recording the natural horn has a more bright, nasal timbre which is more easily heard without being overpowering. The sound of the horn is wonderful, and the performance is refreshingly vibrant.

I'm also left wondering why I don't have more recordings by Isabella Faust in my collection. Her playing here is very beautiful. I have her in some Faure, but there are a number of recordings of Bach, and of modern music, that seem attractive.

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NP:

Poulenc
Cello Sonata
Graf Mourja, Alexandre Tharaud

From this set -

[VonStupp]

FJ Haydn
The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3

Marlis Petersen, soprano
Werner Güra, tenor
Dietrich Henschel, baritone

RIAS Chamber Choir
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra - René Jacobs

For today:

Another Haydn oratorio with large proportions that dispel any hesitations I have about period instruments. I really like the rough, rustic approach to this music from Jacobs; there is so much joy throughout! The soloists and chorus are excellent too.

McCreesh has an English language version on Signum that I may peek at too. Carolyn Sampson's siren call is just too much for me, I think.

VS

[Traverso]

Debussy


Children's Corner

Pour le piano

Estampes

La plus que lente

Nocturne

Valse romantique

Ballade slave

Le petit nègre

Élégie

Pièce pour piano (Morceau de concours) 

Mazurka

Tarantelle styrienne

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Debussy


Children's Corner

Pour le piano

Estampes

La plus que lente

Nocturne

Valse romantique

Ballade slave

Le petit nègre

Élégie

Pièce pour piano (Morceau de concours) 

Mazurka

Tarantelle styrienne

Lovely, Jan.

[Traverso]

Lovely, Jan.

Colliwogg's Cakewalk.....tralalalala lala....   Great music,great play

[Operafreak]

Busoni: Piano Concerto



Kirill Gerstein (piano)- Boston Symphony Orchestra, Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Sakari Oramo

[Mapman]

George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks 
    Robert King, The King's Consort

That's a fun recording! I wonder how they found that many oboists.

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Colliwogg's Cakewalk.....tralalalala lala....   Great music,great play

You meant Golliwog's Cakewalk. But, yes, a fantastic little piece.

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NP:

Shostakovich
Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67
The Florestan Trio

[SonicMan46]

NP:

Poulenc
Cello Sonata Graf Mourja, Alexandre Tharaud............

 

FJ Haydn
The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3............RIAS Chamber Choir - Freiburg Baroque Orchestra - René Jacobs
For today:

Another Haydn oratorio with large proportions that dispel any hesitations I have about period instruments. I really like the rough, rustic approach to this music from Jacobs; there is so much joy throughout! The soloists and chorus are excellent too.

McCreesh has an English language version on Signum that I may peek at too. Carolyn Sampson's siren call is just too much for me, I think.

VS

Great to see two recordings in my collection piggy-backed!    Also, own the McCreesh - Dave

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You meant Golliwog's Cakewalk. But, yes, a fantastic little piece.

Colliwogg's Cakewalk, is it with one or two G''s ? I think it is with two   

[SonicMan46]

Vanhal, Johann - String Quartets performed by the four groups shown below (last a MP3 DL) - Vanhal was prolific (list of compositions) - in the link there are 19 String Quartets, but he wrote many more than that, perhaps 100 or more (lost, unpublished, in manuscript?) according to the quote below which also describes the 'million dollar quartet' that met in Vienna in 1784, although Michael Kelly was either unkind in his description or was a poor judge of music?  Dave

String Quartet in E flat Major, "Hoffmeister No.2"--New Edition
The famous 18th century Irish tenor Michael Kelly, writing in 1784 while staying in Vienna gives this somewhat tongue in cheek account:

"Storace hosted a quartet evening for his friends. The players were tolerable, but not one of them excelled on the instrument he played. There was, however, a little science among them, which I dare say will be acknowledged when I name them: On first violin—Haydn, on second violin—Dittersdorf, on cello Vanhal and on viola—–Mozart."

....Vanhal was a highly accomplished cello soloist and Mozart was both a superb violinist as well as a violist. Jan Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813) was born in the Bohemian town of Nechanice, then part of the Habsburg Empire. His initial studies were with a local musician, but later he moved to Vienna where he studied violin and composition with Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. He also learned both the cello and bass and became highly proficient..... Vanhal composed in virtually every genre leaving a huge number of works, including perhaps as many as 100 string quartets. Most of these were composed before 1780. Only two known sets of his quartets were composed after 1780. (Source)

     

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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog. The convention in British English (if you use the word at all, since it is now widely considered rather racist) is to spell it Golliwog, one final G, but also starting with a G not a C.
I did hear a ABC Classics FM presenter once announce it as the 'Gollyperson's Cakewalk', which annoyed me more than it probably should have!

Anyway...

Louis Spohr's Violin Concerto No. 3 
    Christian Fröhlich, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ulf Hoelscher (violin)

Ah...I see,and starting with a G,my mistake,  Thank you for the link.

[Traverso]

Shostakovich & Haydn

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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog. The convention in British English (if you use the word at all, since it is now widely considered rather racist) is to spell it Golliwog, one final G, but also starting with a G not a C.
I did hear a ABC Classics FM presenter once announce it as the 'Gollyperson's Cakewalk', which annoyed me more than it probably should have!

I'll continue to call it Golliwogg's Cakewalk.

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Colliwogg's Cakewalk, is it with one or two G''s ? I think it is with two   

Alright, it's Golliwogg's Cakewalk. People who insist on it being racist are simply a touch too sensitive. This what the composer named it and I'll keep it this way.