What are you listening 2 now?

[kyjo]

Lukas Foss
Symphony no. 2
Symphony no. 3
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose
(on Spotify)

What did you think, James? I love Foss' two piano concerti (recorded on Harmonia Mundi), but know little else by him.

[Mandryka]

The wonderful Missa Ave Maris Stella was published with Missa Malheur Me Bat and Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae - and that leads some scholars to suggest they are from the same time. Tetsuro Hanai didn't seem quite so impressive with Malheur Me Bat as he was with Ave Maris Stella - the music is more complex I think, and may suit his modal approach less. Or maybe Josquin wrote difficult music and sometimes performers don't get it. Or maybe I was just in a funny mood yesterday when I listened.

However this performance by Metamprphoses seems pretty good actually, and I'm starting to come round to Fallows's claim that it's peak Josquin.

The Fallows book is rewarding, by the way. It's helping me get a more perceptive handle on the music I think. I may have to revisit Dufay's music soon with Fallows's book in hand too - but at the moment, one Renaissance composer at a time is quite enough!

[VonStupp]

Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure, arr. Henk de Vlieger
Royal Scottish NO - Neeme Järvi

VS

[Harry]

Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
The Ring: An Orchestral Adventure, arr. Henk de Vlieger
Royal Scottish NO - Neeme Järvi

VS

I have the whole series on CD and I was pretty impressed as you might imagine.

[Papy Oli]

Hasse - Salve Regina (Musica Antiqua Köln)

[pjme]

[Todd]

[Henk]

Dramatic, yet flowing nicely.

It kind of gives me consolation with respect to the current state of humanity, like rooted in a deep past yet with a prospect of the future.

[DavidW]

Ah what a fantastic recording!

And then I went to Klemperer's Brahm's 4th, what an evening!



And finished with Mozart's 35th

[JBS]

The wonderful Missa Ave Maris Stella was published with Missa Malheur Me Bat and Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae - and that leads some scholars to suggest they are from the same time. Tetsuro Hanai didn't seem quite so impressive with Malheur Me Bat as he was with Ave Maris Stella - the music is more complex I think, and may suit his modal approach less. Or maybe Josquin wrote difficult music and sometimes performers don't get it. Or maybe I was just in a funny mood yesterday when I listened.

However this performance by Metamprphoses seems pretty good actually, and I'm starting to come round to Fallows's claim that it's peak Josquin.

The Fallows book is rewarding, by the way. It's helping me get a more perceptive handle on the music I think. I may have to revisit Dufay's music soon with Fallows's book in hand too - but at the moment, one Renaissance composer at a time is quite enough!

I have that CD....I think.

Just to be clear, this is the book?

[JBS]

And finished with Mozart's 35th

That's a very good set that no one ever seems to mention.

[Traverso]

Mozart

piano concertos 17-18 & 19

London Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis and Witold Rowicki (18)

[Mandryka]

I have that CD....I think.

Just to be clear, this is the book?

Yes that's the book. It's serious scholarship, but it's not a problem - he communicates great enthusiasm for the music and indeed the historical issues, and it's not at all dry or technical. It's well indexed and well produced to boot!

[Cato]

Despite being persona non grata for good reasons, James Levine delivered on this CD: performances are A+, with probably the best performance of Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra in my experience.

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

I enjoyed these two recordings this morning. I don't know when the Milstein was recorded (the Qobuz version has no notes), but I assume he was at an advanced age. His playing seems undiminished. Douglas plays the dramatic moments of Brahms with muscularity but without pounding, and he certainly doesn't gloss over the lyrical parts.

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde, act 2^

Ludwig Suthaus, Kirsten Flagstad, Blanche Thebom, Josef Greindl, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Edgar Evans
Wilhelm Furtwängler & Philharmonia Orchestra

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Eliahu Inbal, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

[andolink]

Just downloaded this and I'm thoroughly enjoying all aspects of this recording - -

Giuseppe Torelli (1668-1709): Concerti Grossi, Op, 8
Roberto Noferini, Jérémie Chigioni (violins)
Ensemble Locatelli - Chiara Cattani (harpsichord)
rec. 2020

[Florestan]

Listening to Schubert's final sonata, D960, recorded by Haebler



This sonata has always been a tough nut for me to crack, with a sort of fragile, unsettled serenity.

I perceive it as suffused with a gentle melancholy, a serene nostalgia for a prelapsarian state which never was (to be). My feeling is determined by the extra-musical circumstances in which I first heard it, though. It's my favorite piano sonata by Schubert and among my favorite piano sonatas by anyone.