What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

TD:
Dvořák
Piano Quartet № 1 in A, Op. 23
Piano Quartet № 2 in E^b, Op. 87
Josef Hála, pf
Suk Trio

I think I've credited this aright, but I'm unsure

[Harry]

Verily.

"I say unto you"

[Karl Henning]

"I say unto you"

[Traverso]

I was blown away by it recently. Music so pure and noble, in which simplicity is at the service of the profound. The perfect antidote to the madness around (and I'm not talking about the war only).

Indeed a very enjoyable recording,I'm glad to see that you love it too.

This one is also very impressive,this one I listened to yesterday.Let it touch your brain....




https://www.youtube.com/v/%20youtu.be/pudGvpnkPXk?list=PLUFdQIfFgqCI3Ue8JFybsmTNRCN8vB6Mq

[The new erato]

This, first disc:



Gergiev is a corrupt a**hole and I will never buy one of his recordings again, but little is gained by throwing the set in the dustbin.

Rimskys operas are generally very fine (at least musically).

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Fantasia on the Old 104th with Peter Katin, piano & the London Phil. Choir & Orch with Adrian Boult conducting.

Nice change of pace to hear a choral work.  I was rather busy, so I didn't pay much attention to the lyrics to be truthful, but I did enjoy the singing and the music overall.

PD

[Harry]

This, first disc:



Gergiev is a corrupt a**hole and I will never buy one of his recordings again, but little is gained by throwing the set in the dustbin.

Rimskys operas are generally very fine (at least musically).

Agree on both counts!!!

[j winter]

Mozart PCs 21 & 22, Rudolf Serkin   This box comes to the desert island...

[Mandryka]

https://musicwedliketohear.bandcamp.com/track/domenico-scarlatti-keyboard-sonata-k162

Mark Knoop plays a bit of Scarlatti, rather nicely.

[Traverso]

Dufay

[Roasted Swan]

Sir Arthur Bliss 'The Beatitudes' (1961)
I really need to get to know this work having read some laudatory comments about it recently (do I need the new Andrew Davis recording - that is the question?)
These late works by Bliss don't receive much interest but I think very highly of his last orchestral work - the Metamorphic Variations.

The Davis/Beatitudes is good but Chandos made a bit of a boob with the balancing of the organ.  It is MEANT to be a dominant/mighty cathedral-type organ and the part was written as such.  The best version I know was the BBC Broadcast with Paul Daniels conducting the BBC PO and choir and Sheffield Philharmonic Choir in Coventry Cathedral again - the work as a whole has an impact other versions simply don't (especially the organ!)

EDIT:  the soprano squalls around though!

[JBS]

I actually rather like Coleridge-Taylor's music - clearly he was very talented if musically conservative.  But those comparisons are simply odd.  The two mentioned composers occupy a completely different sound world and musical aesthetic.  Unless you simply mean "good" as a qualitative comparison (with which I'd still disagree but each to their own) linking those names you might as well say "as good as Shostakovich".

Well, the other comparison I was thinking of was Vaughan Williams...

TD

The first two CDs of this 5 CD set
Haydn
Mass in B Flat "Harmoniemesse" Hob XXII:14
Symphony in G Flat Menetto (only one movement) Hob I:88
[Apparently they couldn't find any more Haydn or Mozart recordings to fill out the 47 minutes on CD1]
Beethoven
Symphony #4 in B Flat Op 60
Brahms
Symphony #4 in e minor Op 98

[Traverso]

Bach

Not bad,certainly not a chewing machine.....

Partitas 1-5 & 6

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Tveitt: Variations on a Folksong from Hardanger.



 

[vandermolen]

Fantasia on the Old 104th with Peter Katin, piano & the London Phil. Choir & Orch with Adrian Boult conducting.

Nice change of pace to hear a choral work.  I was rather busy, so I didn't pay much attention to the lyrics to be truthful, but I did enjoy the singing and the music overall.

PD

Oh, I really love that quirky work. My brother said that the opening reminded him of the children's record 'Sparky's Magic Piano'. I had a nice exchange on email with Peter Katin, who told me that the Fantasia on the Old 104th was very difficult to play. I've known that work since I was at (High) school as it was coupled with the 9th Symphony in Boult's EMI VW LP boxed set:

[Todd]

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony in D minor "Die Nulte" CD2 of Skrowaczewski and Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Adagio from the String Quintet in F major

[j winter]

First listen, this is some crazy stuff... Glenn Gould playing Handel, on a harpsichord.  It still manages to sound like Gould, and nothing like most other harpsichord recordings I'm familiar with.  He's playing a Wittmayer per the notes, which frankly at times sounds a bit more like Lurch in the Addams Family than any baroque-era instrument you'd expect to hear today -- not sure how much of that is the harpsichord, how much the way it was recorded, how much Gould being Gould.  A curiosity, to say the least...

[Linz]

Hans Rott Symphony No. 1 Mahler: Blumine And Bruckner: Symphonisches Präludium, Jakub Hrůša,  Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

[Lisztianwagner]

W.A. Mozart
Piano Concerto in D minor, K.466



Such great beauty, elegance and intensity, wonderful performance by Schiff.