What are you listening 2 now?

[Biffo]

Revisiting one from the big box.  Late career Firkusny's sonata is less compelling than his earlier career efforts, though it's still excellent, and both On an Overgrown Path and In the Mists emerge perhaps better than earlier efforts.

Interesting comments. I have had the DG album of Firkusny's Janacek since its first release on LP and always loved it. Very recently I bought the big Sony box; I am slowly working my way through it but I haven't got to the Janacek yet - something to look forward to.

[André]

Daniel Sternefeld Symphony No.1:

Good?

I have these works (symphony and Mater Dolorosa interludes) on a Marco Polo disc, but it's probably much older. I should give them a listening.

[vers la flamme]

Béla Bartók: String Quartet No.1, op.7. Keller Quartet. I have not been very receptive to Bartók lately but I feel the obligation to give a composer of his immense stature some listening time every now and then. The Keller Quartet here are quite impressive, lyrical in that trademark Hungarian SQ fashion. Quite a contrast from my other Bartók SQ cycle, from the Emerson SQ. I love those recordings, though I have heard many say that they don't believe the Emersons have what it takes to pull off these complex quartets.

[aligreto]

Russian and Bulgarian Sacred Choral Music [Minin]

[Christo]

Gordon Jacob - Symphony No.1

https://www.youtube.com/v/e6YjsYSjhEE&list=WL

Again, two symphonies that I found much better than the often negative reviews had suggested. But you might think otherwise, of course. 

[Harry]

Again, two symphonies that I found much better than the often negative reviews had suggested. But you might think otherwise, of course. 

I tend to agree with you about the music by Gordon Jacob. The recordings, Symphonies on Lyrita are since long in my possession.

[Mirror Image]

Thanks. I try, although talking about music is always a bit awkward and sometimes I feel like it's even more awkward than usual when it comes to Fauré.

You're welcome. You said something about Fauré that really stayed with me when I asked to sum up his musical style on the composer's thread:

Flowing melodies that twist and turn, and struggle more and more as he gets older.

You really begin to hear this struggle in his late music and I find it so compelling and, yet, comforting in a way.

[Todd]

Another go.  Man, the opera transcriptions really make the disc.

[aligreto]

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 [Barenboim/ECO]

[SonicMan46]

 

Béla Bartók: String Quartet No.1, op.7. Keller Quartet. I have not been very receptive to Bartók lately but I feel the obligation to give a composer of his immense stature some listening time every now and then. The Keller Quartet here are quite impressive, lyrical in that trademark Hungarian SQ fashion. Quite a contrast from my other Bartók SQ cycle, from the Emerson SQ. I love those recordings, though I have heard many say that they don't believe the Emersons have what it takes to pull off these complex quartets.

About to start a Bartok listening myself - own the SQs by the Keller & Emerson groups; also, the Alexander SQ (inserted above) - will likely cull out one of those sets, so will be interesting.  Dave

[SonicMan46]

Bargiel, Woldemar (1828-1897) - Piano Trios, Octet, & SQs w/ the groups on the cover art below; own the 2-disc set of the Piano Trios and streamed the other double set on Spotify.  Bargiel was the younger half brother of Clara Schumann (shared a mother), so Robert and Felix Mendelssohn helped him along in his musical career - reviews attached for those interested - surprisingly well written music w/ good performances.  Dave

 

[aligreto]

Schubert: Piano Sonata D 840 [Brendel]


   

[San Antone]

Bach : Sei Solo
Solenne Paidassi

[steve ridgway]

Giving Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphonie another go.

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[André]

Schubert: Piano Sonata D 840 [Brendel]


   

One of my favourite Schubert discs. The two works make a great Schubert program, and I love Brendel's probing, slightly tense interpretations.

[listener]

Orlando GIBBONS
The Cries of London and assorted In Nomines, Fantasias and a Galliard
Fretwork

a collection of pieces played on Silbermann organs in Saxony
at Freiburg, Rötha, Nassau, Dresden (Cathedral)
Joachim Dorfmüller, organist

GOUNOD: Polyeucte
Giorgio Casciarri, Luca Grassi, ...  Bratislava Chamber Chor,  Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia
Manlio Benzi, cond.

[Todd]

[Sergeant Rock]

Brahms 4, Carlos Kleiber conducting the Vienna Phil



Sarge

[aligreto]

Mozart: Posthorn Serenade [Leitner]

[aligreto]

One of my favourite Schubert discs. The two works make a great Schubert program, and I love Brendel's probing, slightly tense interpretations.

Cheers, André.