What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

Attention: extraordinary Barcarolle alert. Pletnev all Chopin concert in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBVMNBu3Ho

[Florestan]

Attention: extraordinary Barcarolle alert. Pletnev all Chopin concert in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBVMNBu3Ho

Thanks. Listening right now. Very beautiful indeed.

[AnotherSpin]

Many thanks!  Let me/us know about the Fourth Concerto, whenever you have the time!

It is interesting that you found the Los Angeles Philharmonic less than stellar.

Of course, I was referring to the orchestra as a partner to the soloist, i.e., the conductor's job. I remember I was unimpressed with the first recording of the 3rd with Dudamel 10 years ago, something didn't work out again this time.

[AnotherSpin]

Dudamel would not be my choice as conductor, so far I heard nothing from him that impressed me much.

Same here.

[Florestan]

[vandermolen]

Gerber: Symphony No. 1 (Thomas Sanderling/Russian Philharmonic Orchestra)

Giving this a listen after its recent mention in another thread.   

A fine symphony!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Josef Bohuslav Foerster.
Orchestral works.
Volume I.
Symphony No,1 in D minor, opus 9.
Symphony No.2 in F major, opus 29.
Osnabrücker Symphonieorchester, Hermann Bäumer.
Recorded in 2007.


Unfortunately Foerster is a forgotten composer, which I think is unfair on the basis of his compositions. He is not a minor figure as a composer, for this is output is too good. The Symphonies is a prime example, if you take the time to get involved with them. It needs being loved and caressed. The fruits it will bear are of multiple colouring. 75 minutes of palatable, brilliant, richly colored music make your mouth water, exciting, thrilling, and quite outrageous, with much diligent commitment, pleasantly musicianly, a fine deeply breathing music in gentle harmonies and creamy colors. The sound is a bit more distant then I am used from MDG, and the tempi could be a tad more energetic, but in general it sounds clear, deep and colourful. All his five Symphonies are recorded on MDG. For the romantic at heart, recommended.

I'd love to hear these.  I have a touch of his music on a Barta CD.

Love the Mucha artwork too.

PD

[DavidW]

Shout out to AS for this suggestion-- fantastic music making here!

[Harry]

A fine symphony!

absolutely Jeffrey     So glad you had a spare copy

[vandermolen]

Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 17
USSR Radio and TV SO
Alexander Gauk
Good as Svetlanov's version is, Gauk's has more urgency. After all, the 17th Symophony (one of NYM's finest IMO) was dedicated to Alexander Gauk:

[vandermolen]

Dudamel would not be my choice as conductor, so far I heard nothing from him that impressed me much.

Totally agree!

[vandermolen]

absolutely Jeffrey     So glad you had a spare copy

I forgot about that!
 

[Iota]

Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Benjamin Schmid (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu


I put this on recently in preparation for seeing Isabelle Faust play the concerto at the Proms the following day (with Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth) and was bowled over by the mesmeric tapestries of sound Ligeti creates. The piece spoke to me immediately and very directly and has become a firm favourite. Such a dazzling array of tunings, polyrhythms, beguiling musical ideas and a strong narrative drive, it really feels like one of the major concertos of the 20th century.

[Traverso]

  Memorandum XXI

CD 1 

 Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra*–    Passameze
  Michael Praetorius
     Capriccio Stravagante–    Paduan
  John Dowland
    Capriccio Stravagante–    Paradizo: The Sighes
  Anthony Holborne
    Julien Martin (3), Capriccio Stravagante–    Pulchra Es Anima Mea (Embellished By Francesco Rognoni)
  Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
    Capriccio Stravagante–    In Te Domine Speravi (Recorder Consort Version Of The Original Frottola)
  Josquin Des Prés
    Julien Martin (3), Capriccio Stravagante–    Venus' Birds
  John Bennet
    Doron Sherwin*, Capriccio Stravagante–    Ancor Che Col Partire (Embellished Version)
  Cipriano De Rore
     Capriccio Stravagante–    Courant Dolorosa
  Samuel Scheidt
    Skip Sempé–    Lachrymae Pavan
  John Dowland, William Randall
     Capriccio Stravagante–    Praeludium & Ground
  William Byrd
     Skip Sempé–    Pavan: Sir William Petre
  William Byrd
     Capriccio Stravagante–    The Queen's Alman / Hugh Ashton's Ground, MB 20
  William Byrd
     Skip Sempé–    Chromatic Pavan: Queen Elizabeth's, MB 87
  John Bull
     Capriccio Stravagante–    Fantasia A 6
  William Byrd
     Skip Sempé, Olivier Fortin, Pierre Hantaï–    Philips Pavan
  Peter Philips, Thomas Morley
     Skip Sempé, Olivier Fortin, Pierre Hantaï–    Captain Digorie Pipers Galliard
  John Dowland
     Capriccio Stravagante–    L'amor, Dona, Ch'io Te Porto (Recorder Consort Version Of The Original Frottola)
  Giacomo Fogliano
    Capriccio Stravagante–    Ancor Che Col Partire (Viol Consort Version Of The Original Madrigal)
  Cipriano De Rore
     Julien Martin (3), Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra*–    When Daphne From Fair Phoebus Did Fly
  Anonymous
     Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra*–    Paduana
  William Brade
     Doron Sherwin*, Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra*–    Bransle de la Torche (XV)
  Michael Praetorius
     Capriccio Stravagante–    Doulce Memoire (Viol Consort Version Of The Original Chanson)
  Pierre Sandrin

 

[Linz]

Shostakovich Piano and Trumpet  Concerto No. 1 in F major, Op. 35  New York Philharmonic, Andre Previn piano, William Vacchiano, trumpet
Shostakovich  Concerto No. 2 in F  major, Op. 102, Leonard Bernstein piano,  New York Philharmonic
Poulenc Piano Concerto For Two pianos in D Minor  New York Philharmonic, Arthur Gold piano, Robert Fizdale, piano, Leonard Bernstein
,

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Strauss: Tod Und Verklärung, Don Juan, etc.. Mitropoulos/NY.

[Mandryka]

(Emmanuel Frankenberg is good!)

Back to this, and I say again -- Emmanuel Frankenberg is good!

[Linz]

Schubert Klavierstuecke, D.946, Fantasy in C major 'Wanderer', D.760 and Moments musicaux, D.780, Claudio Arrau

[ritter]

Another chamber piece for an unusual combination (three trombones and one tuba) by Florent Schmitt: Quartet, op. 109 (1946). Performed by Ferenc Kóczías, Peter Bálint and Sándor Balogh (trombones) and József Bazsinka (tuba).

From this CD:



The initial theme of the work sounds like something out of The Munsters, and frankly, I found little to enjoy in the whole first movement (pompously —or ironically?— labelled frondeur, empressé et pésant) or in the second (vif). Things improve markedly in the andante (which was later orchestrated by the composer as Andante religioso — I'll be getting the long OOP Cybelia CD with that piece next week—) and the playful animé finale. In any case, not my favourite Schmitt work by any stretch of the imagination (at least on this first hearing).

BTW, anyone looking for a new avatar? The cover of this CD is perfectly in line with the latest GMG trends and fashions, and is up for grabs! 

EDIT:

And now (inevitably, with so many recent comments on GMG), revisiting Tristan Murail's Territoires de l'oubli (Marilyn Monken, piano)



This is certainly as impressive as I remembered. I can only describe it as "pure" pianism.

I was lucky enough to see this piece performed by its dedicatee, Michaël Levinas, here in Madrid almost 10 years ago. The programme stated with Beethoven's Moonlight and op. 111 sonatas in the first part, and after the intermission,  three of Levinas' own piano Études and the Murail. What an evening!

[ritter]

Following the above with Michaël Levinas 3 Études pour piano, played by the composer.

CD8 of this set (which I have dedicated by the composer-pianist  ):