What are you listening 2 now?

[San Antone]

Cello suites?

Yes: 4, 5 & 6 but with a modern work for cello and electronics placed in the middle.

I am not sure if I could recommend the recording, her playing was somewhat disjointed, and the work for cello and tape did not interest me.  But the sound of her cello was warm and rich.  I wonder if she'll do the other three at some point?

I am a fan of her recordings of Romantic chamber music, so I thought I'd give her solo disc a try.

[André]

Thanks for the info!

[André]

Disc 9, works by Saint-Saëns, Roussel, Tansman, Pierné, Séverac, Grandjany, Ibert, Hasselmans, etc.

Ever since poets have associated their art with music, the harp has been a favourite instrument to tell or accompany a story. Lily Laskine is not just a consummate virtuoso, but an incredible musician. Her talent as a conteuse is spellbinding.

[San Antone]

[SimonNZ]

[SymphonicAddict]

Symphonies 4-6

The Arabescata Symphony has dissonances proper of serialism or something like that. Not bad, I enjoyed it.

The No. 5 has elements enough to consider it 'otherworldly'. It's a quite striking piece. Threatening, violent, gripping and overly enigmatic. I did remember it as very good, but now the impression on me has been bigger.

I had misjudged the Vincentiana Symphony. Many of its secrets were devealed by listening to it carefully. It's a feast of sonorities, effects and atmosphere, and each movement has its own merits. The last movement (Apotheosis) was especially fine, cathartic in a subdued way and even erotic. It's a strong work overall.

[Ken B]

Beethoven
Piano Sonata 17 "Tempest"
Bruce Hungerford

[Mirror Image]

Revisiting my old friend Nielsen's 'other' orchestral music.

From this superb disc:



The Dausgaard recording on Dacapo is also very much your time if you love Nielsen's music. I'm sure most here know both of these recordings, though.

[Mirror Image]

Love the Prokofiev Second

+1 I love the whole 'Machine Age' sound of this symphony. Quite fierce, but not without his trademark lyricism.

[Madiel]

JSB
Solo cello suites
Queyras

My copy was lost in the mail.  :'

[Mirror Image]

Suite bergamasque from this great disc:



I really have to say that the Debussy Harmonia Mundi series has been a winner all across the board. I especially liked chamber recording (w/ Isabella Faust, Alexander Melnikov, et. al.) and the 2-CD set of mélodies. Only with the solo piano recordings is where there's incredibly stiff competition and, while I did enjoy them, I'm still thinking how incredible Jacobs, Kodama, Kocsis, Michelangeli, and Egorov are and how it's difficult to shake the lasting impressions that were made from each of these pianists.

[vandermolen]

Revisiting my old friend Nielsen's 'other' orchestral music.

From this superb disc:



The Dausgaard recording on Dacapo is also very much your time if you love Nielsen's music. I'm sure most here know both of these recordings, though.

That's a great disc, combining Aladdin and Helios, two of my favourite Nielsen works.

[vandermolen]

Incendiary performances and excellent sound.

Fabulous CD and works. I think that Bloch should be much better known - I've never heard any of his works in concert.

[Irons]

Love the Prokofiev Second

Excellent recording too.

[Irons]

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade.



Haven't played this for years and what a jaw-dropping moment when I did! The precision of Reiner and his Chicago Orchestra is a thing of wonder. A sixty year old recording that comes up as fresh as new paint thanks to superb engineering (presumably Lewis Leyton). A recording from the "golden age" which gives immense pleasure.

[Madiel]

Suite bergamasque from this great disc:



I really have to say that the Debussy Harmonia Mundi series has been a winner all across the board. I especially liked chamber recording (w/ Isabella Faust, Alexander Melnikov, et. al.) and the 2-CD set of mélodies. Only with the solo piano recordings is where there's incredibly stiff competition and, while I did enjoy them, I'm still thinking how incredible Jacobs, Kodama, Kocsis, Michelangeli, and Egorov are and how it's difficult to shake the lasting impressions that were made from each of these pianists.

I must not admire the pretty cover, I must not admire the pretty cover, I must not...

[SimonNZ]

a very good Haydn 45, and a less good 60

[Madiel]

Decided to try Beethoven's super-early piano quartets.



The one labelled "number 3" is actually first on the disc, as it was first in Beethoven's manuscript. I'd read at some point that Beethoven re-used parts of this work, and it didn't take very long in the first movement before there was a passage I absolutely recognised from the piano sonata op.2/3. And there's no mistaking the slow movement starting with exactly the same theme as the slow movement of op.2/1.

Quite enjoyable. Certainly very fine music from a 15-year-old.

[Traverso]

Bach

[SimonNZ]