What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

And now, for some Igor Fyodorovich: Robert Craft conducts the Danses concertantes, Epitaphium, Double Canon, Abraham and Isaac, the Huxley Variations, and the Requiem Canticles.

CD 22 of this set:


This time I left out the Chant du rossignol which opens the disc (not really a favourite among Starvinsky's works as far as I am concerned  ).

A piece to which I am not often in the mood to listen, myself.

[Karl Henning]

And now:
Shostakovich
Pf Concerti
Hamelin
BBC Scottish Symphony
Litton

[Traverso]

Bach

Goldberg Variations  Gustav Leonhardt

[Ken B]

Bach

Goldberg Variations  Gustav Leonhardt

Love that recording.

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Mendelssohn - Midsummer's night dream (Ashkenazy, Deutsches SO Berlin)

[aukhawk]

Pros: beautiful sounding instrument, much of the playing is inspired and enjoyable
Cons: some of the staccato playing just does not work, IMO; and the works for tape may be a non sequitur in extremis for most listeners.

The extra works are easily avoided if the listener so desires.

Streaming this now (Suite 4) and I have to say that to me it sounds quite unremarkable - in conception, execution, and instrumental tone.  Ho hum.

[edit to add - just possibly I am alienated by the cover image, which is not to my taste ]

[edit to add again - having listened through the intervening piece, entitled 'Thin on Ice' and on to Suite 5 - she is actually playing the Prelude of Suite 5 very nicely indeed.

[Mirror Image]

And now:
Shostakovich
Pf Concerti
Hamelin
BBC Scottish Symphony
Litton

Always a fun listen. Do you prefer one concerto over the other or do you like them both equally? I think I like the second PC a bit more than the first, but they're both fine works and that Hamelin/Litton disc is superb.

[Traverso]

Love that recording.

You are a lucky man  ,so am I by the way,yes this is Bach at his finest along with the Kunst der Fuge and Das Musikalisches Opfer.Well,it is my top three of Bach works.The sound of the Harpsichord opens my heart,sings through my whole body and penetrates unknown areas of meaning and a sense of deep happiness.My top four is including the Motets.I'm just expressing my love for these pieces.

[Papy Oli]

Mendelssohn - Octet for strings in E Flat Major

[Traverso]

Corelli

[San Antone]

[SymphonicAddict]

[staxomega]

Listened to Zorn's String Quartets a couple of times, these are a bit too out there for me. I am curious what others think.

I've also been enjoying the New Music String Quartet box set (recent purchase)- listening to it in box order. Virgil Thomson Stabat Mater, Capital Capitals. Lou Harrison Suite for Cello and Harp and Suite No. 2 for String Quartet. Douglas Moore Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Riegger String Quartet 2, Alan Shulman Mood In Question and Rendezvou for Clarinet and Strings. Walter Piston Sonatina for Violin and Harpsichord, Cage's String Quartet in Four Parts. Much of this music is new to me as well, I really enjoyed it when I streamed it.

And Peter Serkin's last six Beethoven piano sonatas has been in my heavy rotation.

[prémont]

Thanks to San Antone for an elabprate answer as to Tetzlaff. Now my curiosity is seriously awakened. Fortunately the CD is on its way to me.

[SymphonicAddict]

The Glière Octet contains some really beautiful music. I don't know that CD which features it, though.

[prémont]

Re flow in Tanja Tetzlaff's Bach, she says that she thinks the music suggests a number of natural movements: flowing water, or the swaying of trees.

In some of Bach's music - particularly in the sacred music including the organ music - there are examples of musical symbolism, e.g. the waves of Jordan in "Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam" from CÜ III, but  I find it a bit farfetched to claim similar things about the cello suites.

She also says that she aimed to highlight articulation and phrasing.

This is far more interesting.

[Karl Henning]

Always a fun listen. Do you prefer one concerto over the other or do you like them both equally? I think I like the second PC a bit more than the first, but they're both fine works and that Hamelin/Litton disc is superb.

Can't say as I prefer either over t'other. An excellent disc.

[prémont]

Streaming this now (Suite 4) and I have to say that to me it sounds quite unremarkable - in conception, execution, and instrumental tone.  Ho hum.

[edit to add again - having listened through the intervening piece, entitled 'Thin on Ice' and on to Suite 5 - she is actually playing the Prelude of Suite 5 very nicely indeed.

Having listened to the clips here:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8665682--tanja-tetzlaff-plays-bach-encke

I am quite taken by the sound of her instrument but also by her clear articulation and generally energetic approach. The staccato in the E flat major prelude doesn't annoy me, I have heard it played much more accentuated elsewhere.

[San Antone]

The Glière Octet contains some really beautiful music. I don't know that CD which features it, though.

Since I had been listening to Tetzlaff play the Bach suites, I chose another recording with her on it - although as one member of the chamber group playing these works.  All were new to me, and I thoroughly enjoyed the Gliere.  The others will wait until later.

[Moonfish]

Liszt
Années de pèlerinage – Suisse
Jorge Bolet

My very first recording of the 'Années de pèlerinage – Suisse' that I bought as a poor graduate student (spending those last few dollars on an expensive cd rather than buying food - know what I mean?).  Even though I have heard many other performances I keep returning to this one over and over.