What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

Tonight's agenda

(Filled out by Barbirolli's Elizabethan Suite; this is not the M1 on Warner)

CD 2 of the NWE Eloquence set

[Operafreak]

Kodály & Novák: Sonatas for cello and piano- Jiří Bárta, Jan Čech

[Que]

Morning listening:

[Irons]

Sibelius
Night Ride & Sunrise, Op. 55
Philharmonia
Simon Rattle

One of the first CDs I purchased, coupled with 5th Symphony I recall. Loved "Night Ride" ever since.

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach.

The Concertos for two Harpsichords.

BWV 1060 in C minor, 1061 in C major, 1062 in C minor.

Trevor Pinnock plays on a David Rubio, Cambridge 1979, after Blanchet, 1733.
Kenneth Gilbert plays on a David Rubio, Cambridge, 1974, after Taskin, ca 1770.

The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock.

Absolutely gorgeous. And fine sounding Harpsichords.

[Irons]

McEwen: Quartet No.7 'Threnody'.

Written half way through WW1. A single movement lasting nearly 17 minutes with a main theme of an Elgar-ish slow rhythmic tread. The closing chords of the work are jaw-dropping with dying last breaths. The end of civilisation? It must have felt like that in 1916.     

[Que]

I "need" to work on my Early Music recordings backlog! 

On Spotify:



One for the shopping list.

[vandermolen]

Walter Piston: Symphony No.6

[aligreto]

Ockeghem: Missa cuiusvis toni [Gottwald]





The music of, and the presentation of, this Mass has a great presence and both are beyond reproach. The harmonies are wonderful. The Schola Cantorum Stuttgart is, once again, in fine voice. The recorded acoustic is both warm and reverberant. There is an element of sibilance present here, which I have not noticed before, which does detract slightly from a very fine presentation of this wonderful Mass.

[Harry]

La Folle Journee de Nantes.

Bach & Handel.

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Concerto in A major for Oboe de Amore, BWV 1005a/1055.
Cantata "Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten", BWV 202.

Georg Friederich Händel.
Concerto for Harp No. 1 in B major, opus 4, No. 6.
Cantate, "Tra le Fiamme, HWV 170.

Nuria Rial, Soprano.
Patrick Beaugiraud, Oboe de Amore.
Giovanna Pessi, Harp.
Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot.

[Roasted Swan]

McEwen: Quartet No.7 'Threnody'.

Written half way through WW1. A single movement lasting nearly 17 minutes with a main theme of an Elgar-ish slow rhythmic tread. The closing chords of the work are jaw-dropping with dying last breaths. The end of civilisation? It must have felt like that in 1916.     

I think McEwen writes especially well for string quartet - but Threnody is a particular highlight and a work that deserves to be much more widely known and played.....

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Harpsichord BWV 1016 [Kuijken/Leonhardt]

[Operafreak]

Liszt: Piano Concertos

Alexandre Kantorow (piano)- Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow

[Traverso]

Consort Music

[Traverso]

Bach

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 Op. 57 "Appassionata" [Fischer]

[Spotted Horses]

Toch, String Quartet No 7, Buschbinder Quartet



I am finding Toch's string quartets more satisfying than his symphonies. The Quartet No 7 is an early work, with a vaguely neoclassical feel. Toch is said to have based his string Quartet style on Mozart, I think I can hear that in this work, as well as an approach to harmony and voice leading influenced by Brahms. I think the most striking movement is the second, Andantino, in which a central scherzo-like section is bracketed by slow, sensuous music. The initial slow section stops and the central section suddenly starts without preparation, but leads continuously to a return of the slow music, revealing a connection between the two.

[Traverso]

Dante and the Troubadours


CD 1 from this box

[Harry]

Süddeutsche Orgelmeister-Volume III.

J.S. Bach/B. Marcello, Concerto in D minor, BWV 974& Bach/Vivaldi, Concerto in D major, BWV 972.
Georg Muffat, Partita in D major, Toccata 12
Johann Kaspar Kerll, Capriccio sopra il Cocu.
Domenico Zipoli, Toccata in d.
Johann Jacob Froberger, Lamento sopra la dolorosa perdita.

Heidrun Hensel plays on a  New Ahrend Orgel St.Jodok Landshut 1997, wohltemperiert.

Hauptwerk CD–d³

1.   Prinzipal   8′
2.   Hohlflöte   8′
3.   Piffaro (ab a0)   8′
4.   Oktav   4′
5.   Oktav   2′
6.   Quinte   1 1⁄3′
7.   Mixtur IV
8.   Cornett III

II Brustwerk CD–d3
9.   Holzgedackt   8′
10.   Holzflöte   4′
11.   Nasat   3′
12.   Sesquialtera II   2 2⁄3′
13.   Regal   8′

Pedal CD–d1
14.   Subbaß   16′
15.   Trompete   8′

[Madiel]

Schubert Impromptus D.899



Apparently I haven't listened to these for five-and-a-half years. Oh dear.