What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Koechlin: Sonata for horn and piano

I'm tempted to explore his chamber music further, this piece is a real beauty and there are no many sonatas for this combination.

[Que]

Thread duty.  Some charming piano trios.  Don't think I've ever heard anything by Pleyel before.

I agree with Dave: do try his Prussian Quartets  (also on cpo) - very nice! 

[Que]

Browsing through some Dufaut lute recordings on Spotify:

   

I wasn't so happy with the old Hopkinson Smith recording (Naïve/Astrée) that I heard yesterday: low energy and a "steely" sound.
Currently listening to the Aeolus recording which is - naturally - splendidly recorded. And well played: André Henrich's playing has a very nice flow and is well articulated.
Edit: I find the dry, brittle sound of the instrument in Pernot's 1988 recording rather unlistenable...

[Que]

If you want a(nother) Mozart quartet set, this is certainly worth attention.

I sampled some bits, and was quite impressed. The playing is definitely historically informed.

[vandermolen]

Arthur Bliss: 'The Lady of Shalott'

[Madiel]

Finally back on to Dvorak. The Spectre's Bride, op.69



I say "finally" because this was the next work in my current system and it's taken a while to have both the mood and the time for it.

[Traverso]

Dvořák

CD 2

String Quartet No.3

[Florestan]

I eliminated the dialogues and listened to the uninterrupted musical flow. Now we're talking! (pun).

[Traverso]

I eliminated the dialogues and listened to the uninterrupted musical flow. Now we're talking! (pun).

Interesting Andrei....

Fritz Stepke lives in Berlin with the widow Pusebach, his landlady. He is engaged to Marie, the niece of his landlady Mathilde Pusebach. The small inheritance he has received offers him the opportunity to make his dream come true. He is very interested in flying and anything to do with the extraterrestrial. He begins building a steerable balloon that will allow him to fly to the moon. Marie does not like all this and she tries to dissuade him from the idea. But he still puts together a balloon himself, where he secretly ascends to the moon at night, together with his two friends, the tailor Lammermeier and the rentier Pannecke (who has a crush on Mrs. Pusebach).

[Lisztianwagner]

Luigi Dallapiccola
Sicut Umbra

Sybil Michelow (mezzosoprano)
Gary Bertini & London Sinfonietta

First listen to this piece; very brief, bare and fragmented like in Webern style, nonetheless very incisive and expressive.

[Que]

[Mandryka]

Browsing through some Dufaut lute recordings on Spotify:

   

I wasn't so happy with the old Hopkinson Smith recording (Naïve/Astrée) that I heard yesterday: low energy and a "steely" sound.
Currently listening to the Aeolus recording which is - naturally - splendidly recorded. And well played: André Henrich's playing has a very nice flow and is well articulated.
Edit: I find the dry, brittle sound of the instrument in Pernot's 1988 recording rather unlistenable...

Have you heard this one? I think it's really special

https://www.discogs.com/release/9063087-Michael-Sch%C3%A4ffer-French-Baroque-Lute-Suites

The Hopkinson Smith is a good example of a big risk which didn't come off 100%. I can't remember if I've heard the Henrich or not.

[foxandpeng]

Reinhold Glière
Symphony 1
Edward Downes
BBC Philharmonic
Chandos

Unlikely to run out of Russians, it seems.

[brewski]

Oscar Bettison: La Arqueología del Neón (2021) - Talea Ensemble / James Baker, conductor (live at Warsaw Autumn, 17/09/2022). Bettison is on the composition faculty at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, which has a stellar group of composers. I heard the Talea Ensemble perform this piece live in New York, and had hoped it would be recorded and available for a repeat hearing, and now it is.

-Bruce

[Florestan]

Interesting Andrei....

Fritz Stepke lives in Berlin with the widow Pusebach, his landlady. He is engaged to Marie, the niece of his landlady Mathilde Pusebach. The small inheritance he has received offers him the opportunity to make his dream come true. He is very interested in flying and anything to do with the extraterrestrial. He begins building a steerable balloon that will allow him to fly to the moon. Marie does not like all this and she tries to dissuade him from the idea. But he still puts together a balloon himself, where he secretly ascends to the moon at night, together with his two friends, the tailor Lammermeier and the rentier Pannecke (who has a crush on Mrs. Pusebach).

Well, that's just the beginning. Imagine, though, Lincke's glorious music interrupted every two numbers by 3-minute long dialogues. The horror! 

[foxandpeng]

Reinhold Glière
Symphony 2
Edward Downes
BBC Philharmonic
Musical Heritage

[vandermolen]

Reinhold Glière
Symphony 2
Edward Downes
BBC Philharmonic
Musical Heritage

A very underrated symphony as the focus is invariably on the epic No.3

[vandermolen]

Another Russian symphony - Boris Tchaikovsky 'Sevastopol Symphony'

[Cato]

Reinhold Glière
Symphony 2
Edward Downes
BBC Philharmonic
Musical Heritage

A very underrated symphony as the focus is invariably on the epic No.3

Not to be forgotten: Symphony #1, which is also well worth your time!

[foxandpeng]

Not to be forgotten: Symphony #1, which is also well worth your time!

Yes, indeed. I very much enjoyed this, earlier today 😁