What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Night.

M

Shyamalan !


did I win ? 

[Karl Henning]

Peter Mennin: Canzona. Fennell/Eastman.

I remember playing that in a Region Band when I was in Junior High. I still remember the electrical charge of that experience

[VonStupp]

Shyamalan !


did I win ? 

Brilliant!

VS

[Lisztianwagner]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.3
Piano Sonata No.4

[Traverso]

Stravinsky


Michel Béroff  (1-11 13-29)

Rex Lawson (12)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I remember playing that in a Region Band when I was in Junior High. I still remember the electrical charge of that experience

Cool and hip tune!

[Irons]

Finzi - Eclogue Op.10 & Introit Op.6
(more Boult on Lyrita)

You can't have too much Eclogue, Olivier.

http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/2022/08/eclogue-rewarding-cornucopia-of-british.html

[Iota]

Monteverdi

Some Monteverdi to cool of a bit


Sesto Libro dei Madrigali , 1614

Excellent! I'll put that on later too, and like ritter will opt for Book 4, which is nearly always the one I choose when listening to a set I haven't heard for a while, or am listening to for the first time.

Brilliant!

VS

+1     Top marks, Papy Oli!



Spinning here:



Bach Preludes BWV 924-928, 930, 933 -943, 999
Maria Tipo (piano)

Great affection seems to inform Tipo's playing of these Preludes, and I find both it and them charming. Not for those who don't like their Bach on a piano/pedalled.

[Papy Oli]

You can't have too much Eclogue, Olivier.

http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/2022/08/eclogue-rewarding-cornucopia-of-british.html

Interesting, thank Lol.
I'll see if Idagio lists it.

[Todd]

Kosuge's last installment in her Four Elements project, and it, too, is a corker.  It is comprised of three core rep works - Schubert's Wander Fantasy, Janacek's Sonata, and Chopin's Third Sonata - and a small piece by Dai Fujikura, Akiko's Diary.  The Fujikura is a splendid little piece, yet another instance of contemporary solo piano pieces that can captivate if one knows where to look, as the pianist does.  The Janacek packs an ample punch.  That leaves the two biggest works.  Both are slow and very much about the details.  Kosuge reminds the listener more than most pianists that the second movement is a set of variations and she differentiates them with no little distinction.  Too, she injects a dance like rhythm in places that sounds fantastic.  She takes portions of the Chopin so slowly that it threatens to break the music line, and it is not high energy, but when one listens to the clarity and the gorgeous Largo, it just doesn't matter.  Definitely not a recording to suit all tastes, but it certainly suits mine.

[VonStupp]

George Dyson
Hierusalem
Fantasia and Ground Bass for organ

Valery Hill, soprano
Thomas Trotter, organ
St. Michael's Singers
Royal PO - Jonathan Rennert

The separation of string orchestra and solo string quartet really makes for a haunting texture change in Hierusalem. The 16-minute organ piece is rather inventive.

VS

[pjme]

First-Listen Friday (Joubert) :

Mathias William....? 

[Linz]

Domenico Scarlatti Piano sonatas

[SonicMan46]

Mendelssohn, Felix - Violin Sonatas w/ Alina Ibragimova & Cedric Tiberghien - except for the 'mature' sonata in F Major of 1838, these are immature works (although the young Felix was often mature as a teen, e.g. Octet et al) - reviews are attached which vacillate around the performances vs. the material - not many options in these rarely performed works, so for me a keeper if I want these violin sonatas in my collection.  Dave

 

[listener]

ALKAN:  Grande Sonate: Les Quatre Ages, Le Festin d'Esope, Sonatyine, Barcarolle
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
WAXMAN: Sinfonietta for String Orchestra and timpani,  HERRMANN: Sinfonietta for String Orchestra,
ROZSA: Andante for string orchestra op. 22a, Concerto for String Orchestra
Berlin Symphony O., Isaiah Jackson, cond.

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

[SonicMan46]

Next day in the late afternoon, discs 4 & 5 from the box below - Dave

Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) - Piano Music recorded by Jan Vanmuelen between 2006 and 2010 in the chamber music hall of the Lemmens Institute in Leuven, on a restored fortepiano from 1825 by the Viennese builder Nannette Streicher (1761-1833). New arrival today - 12 disc box.  Dave

 

[Que]

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Sonatas 15 - 16 - 17 by David Breitman, Ursula Dütschler and Malcolm Bilson, all on Walter reproductions.

[Traverso]

Excellent! I'll put that on later too, and like ritter will opt for Book 4, which is nearly always the one I choose when listening to a set I haven't heard for a while, or am listening to for the first time.

+1     Top marks, Papy Oli!



Spinning here:



Bach Preludes BWV 924-928, 930, 933 -943, 999
Maria Tipo (piano)

Great affection seems to inform Tipo's playing of these Preludes, and I find both it and them charming. Not for those who don't like their Bach on a piano/pedalled.

Well, I  shall to listen to book 4 too