What are you listening 2 now?

[San Antone]

[vers la flamme]

The morning so far:



Franz Schubert: Wanderer-Fantasy, D760. Maurizio Pollini



Robert Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe, op.133. Alexander Lonquich.



Frederick Delius: In a Summer Garden. Charles Mackerras, Welsh National Opera Orchestra.

[pjme]

Goodnight all, I,m in detox since January 2 for alcohol & Hash. I will start next month clean & better.

Good! best wishes and encouragement from Belgium.
With a beautiful chorus by Brahms....

https://www.youtube.com/v/wNHGslY5ic0

P.

[Harry]

This stunningly beautiful CD. Third rerun.

Anamorfosi.
Allegri-Monteverdi.
Le Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre.

[vers la flamme]

Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30. Martha Argerich, Riccardo Chailly, Berlin Radio Symphony. She is currently playing the massive first movement cadenza. I am completely blown away by this music I questioned for a moment at the beginning whether Martha was the right woman for the job, but that she is, and more. Damn fine recording!!

[vandermolen]

Good! best wishes and encouragement from Belgium.
With a beautiful chorus by Brahms....

https://www.youtube.com/v/wNHGslY5ic0

P.

+1

[vandermolen]

Villem Kapp:
Symphony No.2 (1955)

[Madiel]

Still dabbling in Martinon/Ravel... really not listening to much else in recent days, I'm in a definite funk.

Turns out Alborada del gracioso is one of the piano transcriptions that works quite well. I think that and Menuet antique are the ones I've found satisfying so far.  I'd also say Ma mere l'Oye but I'm less inclined to even count that as a transcription.

Le tombeau de Couperin... meh.

[Harry]

If the weather fails to please you, and the general outlook in the world is grim, then by all means try the pianoworks by Anatoly Liadov.
I am on to the second rerun, and amazed how this music brightens up my day.
CD II holds some fine gems, like some beautiful intermezzi.
Performance is good, Marco Rapetti, doing the honours, in playing the piano so gracefully, and Giovanni Caruso producing the excellent sound. The Villa Vespucci, San Felice a Ema in Florence has a fine acoustic. Recorded over an year from January-December 2010.
Rapetti is using a Steinway D-274.

[Traverso]

Good! best wishes and encouragement from Belgium.
With a beautiful chorus by Brahms....

https://www.youtube.com/v/wNHGslY5ic0

P.

+1

[vandermolen]

If the weather fails to please you, and the general outlook in the world is grim, then by all means try the pianoworks by Anatoly Liadov.
I am on to the second rerun, and amazed how this music brightens up my day.
CD II holds some fine gems, like some beautiful intermezzi.
Performance is good, Marco Rapetti, doing the honours, in playing the piano so gracefully, and Giovanni Caruso producing the excellent sound. The Villa Vespucci, San Felice a Ema in Florence has a fine acoustic. Recorded over an year from January-December 2010.
Rapetti is using a Steinway D-274.

I've always liked Lyadov. There isn't much but everything is of a very high quality.

Thread Duty:
The very inspiriting Symphony No.3 'Heroic' by Eduard Tubin:

[Madiel]

If the weather fails to please you

Damn right.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-20/hail-storm-in-canberra-damages-cars-smashes-windows/11882472

[Traverso]

Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30. Martha Argerich, Riccardo Chailly, Berlin Radio Symphony. She is currently playing the massive first movement cadenza. I am completely blown away by this music I questioned for a moment at the beginning whether Martha was the right woman for the job, but that she is, and more. Damn fine recording!!

How could you be doubting I will listening to this recrding later this day.

[Traverso]

Shostakovich & Kodàly

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35

    Sergei Nakariakov, Martha Argerich
    Symphoniker Hamburg

Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67

    Alisa Weilerstein, Guy Braunstein, Martha Argerich

Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7

    Alisa Weilerstein, Guy Braunstein

[André]

Damn right.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-20/hail-storm-in-canberra-damages-cars-smashes-windows/11882472

Yikes! It's litterally raining golf balls 

[Maestro267]

Fricker: Symphony No. 5
Weir (organ)/BBC SO/C. Davis

MacMillan: Piano Concerto No. 2
Marshall (piano)/BBC PO/MacMillan

Lajtha: Symphony No. 2
Pécs SO/Pasquet

[vandermolen]

Symphony No.3 (VPO/Bohm):

[T. D.]

I'm wondering if they tell you what instrument she [GTV - Faure] plays? 
The one on the right picture looks late 19th century, could be a Steinway.

Q

Doesn't say in the Testament CD notes.

[Traverso]

Symphony No.3 (VPO/Bohm):

This Böhm recording is very good, the Bruckner 7 Solti in this set is really disappointing. I have it in this box. The Beethoven / Solti with the Vienna Philharmonic also miss everything to make it attractive to listen to.
The ad says, "A must for all Bruckner enthusiasts" "but that Solti recording is a disappointment.


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[Harry]

This CD with music by Giovanni Paolo Colonna, is pretty awesome, and one of the very best discs I bought in 2019. Listening for the second time to the Motetti a due tre Voci, opus 3, (1681) is a spiritual journey with benefits. A fitting title this CD has "A Splendida Dies" for it really is. There is nothing not to like. The performance by Scherzi Musicali, led by Nicolas Achten is such, that competition with its excellence is futile. What comes pretty near in performance, is a twofar on the label Brilliant, with the Complete motets for solo voice and instruments, performed by Astrarium Consort. Different music, but the same ardent quest in giving a brilliant performance. The solo voices are all superb, and added is a tad more passion in expressing the text. Both are well recorded, and recommendable.