What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

Put "Smetana Piano Trio" into Discogs and you get 294 hits (obviously with duplications when a recroding is re-released over time.  But clearly we have different definitions of "under-recorded".........

I find fewer than a hundred when streaming.  I expect all proper masterpieces to be recorded to death.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ned Rorem SY1.



 

[Todd]

[DavidW]

Bach, Handel and Vivaldi all on one cd!  wow!  And great music too.

[Bachtoven]

[Madiel]

Random snippets of anything involving Melnikov, Faust or Queyras...

I might actually need to get up and list all of their Harmonia Mundi recordings to deal with this bout of insomnia.

[foxandpeng]

Frank Ezra Levy
A Summer Overture
Cello Concerto 2
Rondo Tarantella
Symphony 3
Takuo Yuasa
RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

I really quite enjoyed this. It felt like a disc asking to be played in the sunshine with the windows open and a cold drink. Hurwitz dislikes it. I like its tuneful brightness. I played it twice through and then the Summer Overture again.

Sumer is icumen in 🌞😁

[Traverso]

Arnold Schönberg
Wind Quintet

I like this recording,I have it in this box,a pity that it  is not released on CD

[Traverso]

Shostakovich


String Quartets 5 & 6

[Mirror Image]

Shostakovich


String Quartets 5 & 6

Pounds the table! I love that set, Jan.

[Traverso]

Pounds the table! I love that set, Jan.

I'm waiting for the Mahler / Boulez set, any moment the doorbell can ring.

[Mirror Image]

I'm waiting for the Mahler / Boulez set, any moment the doorbell can ring.

[Karl Henning]

Perfectly agreed, it's very beautiful, for the Suite too; the Wind Quintet has become one of my favourite Schönberg's works.

It does my heart good to read this.

[DavidW]

Random snippets of anything involving Melnikov, Faust or Queyras...

I might actually need to get up and list all of their Harmonia Mundi recordings to deal with this bout of insomnia.

Might be just me but I really like her solo violin Bach.

[Spotted Horses]

Might be just me but I really like her solo violin Bach.

I have a few of her recordings on my wish list, but they all seem to fall under the category "do I really need another recording of that?" In this case, maybe I do.

(Also looking at the Bartok Concerti, the Bach Concerti, and a disc of Schoenberg, VC and Verklarte Nacht for chamber ensemble.)

[Madiel]

One of Faust's albums is on my shopping list - the Beethoven and Berg violin concertos. Mostly because it's the recording that convinced me of the Beethoven.

Anyway, I did it. I went through the harmonia mundi listings to find albums with any one of Melnikov, Faust and Queyras - and often more than one of them. Ignoring compilations and samplers.

70 albums. Some of which are multi-disc. 

Queyras is a few years older and did 2 albums before either of the others (one of them six years earlier than anything else), then they're together in 2004 on the Dvorak Violin Concerto album, performing Dvorak's 3rd piano trio. For Faust and Melnikov, that seems to be their first harmoni mundi album. Melnikov accompanies the other two a number of times before he gets a solo album. The most recent release with the 3 of them together is the Beethoven triple concerto, released in February 2021.

...I have a hell of a lot to check out.

[DavidW]

I have a few of her recordings on my wish list, but they all seem to fall under the category "do I really need another recording of that?" In this case, maybe I do.

(Also looking at the Bartok Concerti, the Bach Concerti, and a disc of Schoenberg, VC and Verklarte Nacht for chamber ensemble.)

Oh yes I like her Bartok, both the concertos and the sonatas.

[Iota]

Re Alwyn, Autumn Legend.

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

Ah yes, a great comparison! I hadn't thought of that.

You may find this of interest.

http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/2022/07/william-alwyns-autumn-legend-1955-part-2.html

Thanks, that was interesting. The Swan of Tuonela connection also crops up there. Seems I was one of the only people not to think of it. 


For now:



Messiaen: Chronochromie
VRSO, Gielen

Such an absorbing piece, so full of life. The orchestral tapestry Messiaen conjures up has tropical rainforest levels of musical richness and colour. Gielen and band are excellent

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 Wand

[Traverso]

Mahler

Arrived......


Symphony No.1