What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G Major, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Reri Grist soprano

[ritter]

Libretto in hand:

Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

My first recording of a Wagner opera, and still a favourite.  But I thought you would know the libretto by heart at this stage, Ilaria!  . And good evening to you.

... not the falsch und feig staging of the modern Bayreuth. ]

Where's the dislike button? 

I haven't seen the latest staging, but the much-maligned bicentennial Ring production by Frank Castorf from 2013 (which I saw conducted by Kirill Petrenko in 2014) was a theatrical and musical experience of the highest calibre.

Kinder, schafft neues!  

[classicalgeek]

Claudio Santoro
Symphony no. 5
Symphony no. 7 'Brasilia'
Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra
Neil Thomson
(on Spotify)

[ritter]

First listen to this recent acquisition (CD1 for now):



Granados' songs are quite delightful....

[Florestan]

First listen to this recent acquisition (CD1 for now):



Granados' songs are quite delightful....

Are you familiar with the songs of Albeniz too, Rafael? They are just as fine.

Servidor vostro, Vossignoria ilustrissima!

[ritter]

Are you familiar with the songs of Albeniz too, Rafael? They are just as fine.

Servidor vostro, Vossignoria ilustrissima!

I believe I haven't heard them, Andrei. Will explore. Thanks for the tip.

Pace e gioa sia con voi....

[Florestan]

I believe I haven't heard them, Andrei. Will explore. Thanks for the tip.

They are more modernist than Granados'. I have two different recordings of them. Right now I'm posting from phone so I can't show them right now but tomorrow I'll post them both.

[Lisztianwagner]

My first recording of a Wagner opera, and still a favourite.  But I thought you would know the libretto by heart at this stage, Ilaria! . And good evening to you.
Where's the dislike button? 

I haven't seen the latest staging, but the much-maligned bicentennial Ring production by Frank Castorf from 2013 (which I saw conducted by Kirill Petrenko in 2014) was a theatrical and musical experience of the highest calibre.

Kinder, schafft neues!  

Good evening to you too, Rafael! Well, almost, but I sometimes need to refresh my memory ; reading Wagner's texts is always a profound enjoyment anyway, as it's such a beautiful example of German poetry.
I saw some pictures of the latest staging of the Bayreuth Ring Cycle and I remember I watched the broadcast of Götterdammerung, it takes great courage to call that Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in my opinion, it remains nothing of Wagner; it's at the opposite pole of the wagnerian conception of art. Same speech for Castorf's production (Petrenko was excellent in conducting it, by the way), though I respect if someone likes that kind of theatrical interpretation. "Kinder, schafft neues!" is perfectly fine (otherwise we would still use Bayreuth original 1876 stagings), but I think if you want to perform one of Wagner's musikdramas, at least, you should follow the ideas of the composer.

[Florestan]

Good evening to you too, Rafael! Well, almost, but I sometimes need to refresh my memory ; reading Wagner's texts is always a profound enjoyment anyway, as it's such a beautiful example of German poetry.
I saw some pictures of the latest staging of the Bayreuth Ring Cycle and I remember I watched the broadcast of Götterdammerung, it takes great courage to call that Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in my opinion, it remains nothing of Wagner; it's at the opposite pole of the wagnerian conception of art. Same speech for Castorf's production (Petrenko was excellent in conducting it, by the way), though I respect if someone likes that kind of theatrical interpretation. "Kinder, schafft neues!" is perfectly fine (otherwise we would still use Bayreuth original 1876 stagings), but I think if you want to perform one of Wagner's musikdramas, at least, you should follow the ideas of the composer.

Of all the curses that have befell on mankind, Regietheater is one of the most baneful. 

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte

Pierre Boulez & Ensemble InterContermporain

[foxandpeng]

David Matthews
Complete String Quartets Volume 1
SQs 4, 6 and 10
Kreutzer Quartet
Toccata

I rate David Matthews very highly. His symphonies are excellent, but his SQs are also amongst my favourite British cycles.

[classicalgeek]

Scriabin
Piano sonatas nos. 2, 3, 6, 8, 10
Hakon Austbo, piano
(on Spotify)



Good to hear another pianist in these works, even though I still prefer Ashkenazy and Hamelin.

[Karl Henning]

I think that you'd like the Quintet for Harp and Strings as well.

Yes, a lovely piece.

[Daverz]

Bræin: Symphony No. 1



Sounds like a cross between Grieg and Kabalevsky (a good thing!).

[Que]

Morning listening - just arrived:



Finally a new recording by Andrea Damiani!

From the legendary Albani library in Urbino, a collection of recordings, many of which unpublished, of anonymous manuscripts alternated to compositions by the two most famous lutenists of Rome at the time: Vincenzo Pinti and Lorenzo Tracetti.

[VonStupp]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Preghiera (arr. Fritz Kreisler)
Trio élégiaque no. 1 in G minor
Trio élégiaque no. 2 in D minor, op. 9

Gidon Kremer, violin
Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, cello
Daniil Trifonov, piano

It seems to me that Kremer is trying his darndest to not over-sentamentalize Rachmaninov's music nor outshine his fellow trio mates.

My wife loves listening to Rachmaninov, and Kreisler's Preghiera really worked its magic! I have a soft spot for his first piano trio too...
VS

[Todd]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Szymanowski: Harnasie. Kord/Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.

[Lisztianwagner]

Edward Elgar
The Kingdom

Sir Mark Elder & Hallé Orchestra

[Traverso]

Schütz

Symphoniae Sacrae II  XXIII-XXVII

Weihnachtshistorie