What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Very playful score!

Delightful indeed, Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Johannes Brahms' String Quintet No. 2 
    Brandis Quartet, Brett Dean (viola)

And there's a piece I need to revisit!

[Lisztianwagner]

Isn't it great?

I find it fascinating. Nono at the top of his game...

Good evening, Ilaria and Karl.

Good evening, Karl and Rafael!

It was my very first attempt with Nono's music, I liked the piece and certainly it is built on a very interesting idea with the piano playing live at the same time of a piano tape recording to merge and create one texture; I liked the atmosphere depicted, somber, yet suggestive (I read it should describe the sounds heard in Venice, but also the sorrow for a particular period in the lives of Nono and Pollini); but this very modern kind of music still leaves me a little puzzled, and to quote Beethoven, it doesn't strike fire from my heart yet; maybe I need more time and more musical experience to get ready to it.

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor

[Symphonic Addict]

Now listening to something much lighter:

Gouvy: Wind Septet in B-flat major

The others two works on the CD (Wind Octet and Petite Suite Gauloise) are rather passable, but the real star here is the Septet. Gouvy wrote delightfully for winds, and that piece proves it very well.

[Brian]

Please report on them.

Found the Russian piano trio disc very amiable company, for sure. The Dyck reminded me of Mendelssohn, Schumann, and their style, with the inner movements a little more distinctive/characterful and a cyclical format so that the slow movement comes back at the end. I got called unexpectedly into a work meeting halfway through the Youferov work, which probably diminished its power a bit, but you are right that it is a fiery, melancholy way of ending the Russian romantic era. You could pair it with the Tchaikovsky trio.

Might not have time for the Gulda today. Hopefully so but I'll have to report back later.

[Lisztianwagner]

Just wanted to let you know: several of your recent posts with album art sourced from amazon japan (including the one I'm replying to) do not show up in my Firefox browser, where they do in my Brave (i.e., Chrome-based) browser. I am left staring at a blank box, with no album art showing at all. Not sure if there's anything you can do about it; not sure if it's just me and my Firefox configuration or something others are experiencing too. Anyway: just thought I'd mention it, that's all

Thanks for telling, I didn't know about that; honestly, I can perfectly see the pictures, so I can't say if the problem is in my browser or in yours.....I've changed the image of my current listening (Liszt's Piano Sonata from the Pollini Edition), please tell me if you're still be unable to see it. Is there anyone else that has the same problem?

[vers la flamme]

Good evening, Rafael!

TD:

The Ninth with the Berliners

Excellent recording! I listened to it a bunch when I got that box a few weeks ago.

[vers la flamme]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.4 in E-flat major, WAB 104, the "Romantic". Daniel Barenboim, Berliner Philharmoniker

I love this Bruckner cycle so much! When I was first getting into Bruckner three years ago, a friend on another forum fervently talked me out of getting the Wand/WDR Bruckner cycle in favor of this one, and I can't thank him enough!  (Nothing against Wand—I'm quite sure I will come to know and love that famous Bruckner cycle eventually as well—but this one is special for me.)

[Todd]

[vandermolen]

I've only listened to his recording of A London Symphony and I enjoyed it greatly.

No.9 is also very good IMO but generally I tend to like them more than many critics do.

[vandermolen]

Benjamin Britten's Plymouth Town 
    Grant Llewellyn, BBC Symphony Orchestra

A very non-typical- and quasi-Mahlerian-sounding Britten ballet, from 1931 when Ben was barely out of short trousers!

I like the Ballads by Grace Williams on that interesting CD. Her Symphony No.2 is another favourite.

[aligreto]

Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 1 [Ibragimova/Tiberghien]





What a wonderful sound world this is. The music is played very well by both musicians who are well balanced in the recording. I like the sense of delicacy from the musicians in the relevant passages. I find this to be both a very good interpretation and presentation of this music.

[Karl Henning]

Excellent recording! I listened to it a bunch when I got that box a few weeks ago.

Cheers!

[Mapman]

Just wanted to let you know: several of your recent posts with album art sourced from amazon japan (including the one I'm replying to) do not show up in my Firefox browser, where they do in my Brave (i.e., Chrome-based) browser. I am left staring at a blank box, with no album art showing at all. Not sure if there's anything you can do about it; not sure if it's just me and my Firefox configuration or something others are experiencing too. Anyway: just thought I'd mention it, that's all

I also use Firefox and have the same issue. Fortunately, right-clicking and opening the image in a new tab allows me to view it.

[bhodges]

Listening to eighth blackbird, live from Bryant Park in New York, in a tribute to a 1958 John Cage concert at Town Hall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLvIbB-s3E0

John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes
Sonata I
Sonata V
Sonata VIII
Bekah Simms: Metamold (US Premiere)
John Cage: First Construction (in Metal)
John Cage: She Is Asleep
I. Quartet: 12 Tom Toms
II. Duet: Voice and Prepared Piano
Julius Eastman: Stay On It
John Cage: Inlets

Complete program info:
https://bryantpark.org/downloads/picnics_program.pdf

--Bruce

[classicalgeek]

Haydn
Symphony no. 22
Symphony no. 63
Symphony no. 80
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
(on CD)



Excellent Haydn overall, especially Symphony no. 22, which is one of my favorites.

[Karl Henning]

Haydn
Symphony no. 22
Symphony no. 63
Symphony no. 80
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
(on CD)



Excellent Haydn overall, especially Symphony no. 22, which is one of my favorites.

Sweet!

[Mapman]

Maiden-Listen Monday!
Reger: String Trio #1, Op. 77b
Mannheimer Streichquartett

I didn't expect this to be so beautiful! This feels somewhat more traditional than the Reger I am used to, with less contrapuntal density. But it is replaced with typical Romantic lyrical themes.

[Operafreak]

Baroque- Nicola Benedetti (violin)= Benedetti Baroque Orchestra