What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

In the days after the Stolyarsky School in Odessa is damaged by Russian missiles attack, a recording featuring two of the school's outstanding students.

I have this set that despite what it says on the cover, also features Igor giving a wonderful performance of the Bruch concerto no. 1 with his father conducting:



A favourite recording.

[Harry]

Denis Gautier.
La Réthorique des Dieux.
Hopkinson Smith, Lute.
Recorded in 1989.


This is really good stuff! Well recorded too!

[AnotherSpin]

Another album featuring father and son.

[Harry]

Carlo Besozzi. (1738-1792)
Chamber Sonatas for Two Oboes, 2 Cornetti, and Bassoon.
No. 1, 2, 10, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22.
Ensemble Barroco Sans Souci, Giuseppe Nalin.
Recorded in 2003. Laglio, Villa Camerini Pigafetta, Montruglio, Venice.

By all means delightful Concerti, and fine performances and good sound. This ensemble has a high level if it comes to period performance practice. I did not know this composer, but he has written well crafted music. Lovers of Baroque music need not hesitate.

[Harry]

Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860–1945)
String Quartets.
CD I & II.
String Quartet No.1 in C minor,  No.5 in E minor, No.6 in B flat major, No.3 in C sharp minor, No.4 in D minor.

Minguet Quartet.
Ulrich Isfort, first Violin.
Annette Reisinger, second Violin.
Aroa Sorin, Viola.
Matthias Diener, Cello.
Recorded, 2015-2018 at the Kammermusiksaal, Deutschlandfunk Köln.

I always admired his Orchestral works, but I can now extent this admiration to his SQ too. The same melodic gifts abundantly to the fore, beautiful harmonies over and over again, and excellently played. The sound is very good too. SQ for the heart!

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie

David Zinman & Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich

[Traverso]

Johannes Ciconia

[Papy Oli]

Earlier today:



Definitely one for the wishlist.

Now:

A random pick in the recent new albums on Idagio. The cover just caught my eye.

[vers la flamme]

Thanks I was interested in all the pieces and assumed they all fall in the category concerto, unfamiliar I am with the precise meaning of concerto, a concert I would say is visiting the real performance.

I'll get back to you on the other two works when I get around to them, possibly later today.

[vers la flamme]

Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, op.21; Erwartung, op.17. Giuseppe Sinopoli, Staatskapelle Dresden, with Luisa Castellani in Pierrot and Alessandra Marc in Erwartung

Good to revisit Pierrot after hearing it a few days ago. Erwartung it's been a while since I've heard. Supposedly, it's one of Schoenberg's exercises in longform free atonality and athematicism, which means that it's at times hard to follow, or to "know where you are in the piece", a criticism I've heard leveled against atonal music time and time again. So I'm finding it best to just embrace the "getting lost in the piece" aspect, which works because the music is so sensuous, not unlike Boulez or Debussy.

[Spotted Horses]

Schnittke, Symphony No 6 (entirety)



Tadaaki Otaka, BBC Symphony of Wales.

The works gels better on second listen. I still do not find an overall message or arc to it's musical storytelling. But as "absolute music" there are arresting musical moments in this work.

[Daverz]

Berwald: Piano Concerto

Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns come to mind, but with Berwaldian harmonies.  A few notches below the symphonies, perhaps, but lovely, untroubled music.  Excellent performance by Sivelov.

[Henk]

[Irons]

Another album featuring father and son.

It is said that David, lovely man he was, insisted his son would play the violin part.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It is said that David, lovely man he was, insisted his son would play the violin part.

Interesting!

PD

p.s.  Was the record label wanting someone else to play it?  David himself? Or?

[Papy Oli]

Various - Concerti for 3 & 4 Violins (Goebel)



Concerti by Durante, Leo, Vivaldi, Locatelli, Sammartini.

Listening to Durante's.

[VonStupp]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Ballet Suite 1, 2, & 3
  edited by Levon Atovmyan
Festive Overture, op. 96
Scottish NO - Neeme Järvi

Having listened to some newer recordings from this same team, I forget how raucous and coarse they could perform. Chandos was also more variable in its sonics.

Love populous Shostakovich!
VS


From this set:

[Henk]

Somewhat dry. Sounds a bit like Bach instead of Scarlatti.

[Florestan]

Octet in F major Op. 17

Having started as a decidedly Nationalistic Romantic, with works such as Echoes from Ossian and Comala, Gade eventually adhered, under the direct influence of Mendelssohn (whom he studied with in Leipzig and whom he succeeded as conductor of the Gewandhaus orchestra) to a more cosmopolitan, Classicist Romantic idiom. The Octet is a splendid product of this shift in his musical esthetics.

[Brian]

With recent box set attention to both Byron Janis and Antal Dorati, I decided to stream some of their legacies. This is really, really good stuff. A first-rate collaboration, exciting and true to Rachmaninov's spirit, virtuosic but not overly melodramatic. Love it.