What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Meh! Staccato all the way, bang bang all the way --- NO!

For God's sake, it's Mozart not Bartok.

Give me Fazil Say, if contemporary needs be. His moaning&groaming is at least human.

[Florestan]

Meh! Staccato all the way, bang bang all the way --- NO!

For God's sake, it's Mozart not Bartok.

Give me Fazil Say, if contemporary needs be. His moaning&groaming is at least human.

Fazil Say is very good. Donohoe is very meh.

[SonicMan46]

Devienne, Francois (1759-1803) - Bassoon & Oboe Sonatas w/ Danny Bond & Sergio Azzolini on bassoons; Ingo Goritzki on oboe - own a half dozen discs of Devienne's bassoon works - back in 2009, I started a thread on this short-lived French composer (HERE) that is still on the first page; plenty of other images of recordings of his works - visit and post, if interested.  Dave

P.S. Bond plays a period bassoon (Pieter de Koningh after Prudent, Paris ca. 1765); from the pics in the booklet to the other 2-CDs, Azzolini is on a period bassoon; Goritzki's oboe looks and sounds modern (no descriptions in the notes).

 

[Mandryka]

Donohoe is very meh[in Mozart]

I have a friend who plays piano and who raves about these releases. For that reason I've not given up on them. The more I listen to Donohoe,  the more the interpretations reveal something -- that he's open to the darker, weightier side of the music. But in truth I haven't listened enough to comment any more than that.

[Florestan]

I have a friend who plays piano and who raves about these releases. For that reason I've not given up on them. The more I listen to Donohoe,  the more the interpretations reveal something -- that he's open to the darker, weightier side of the music.

Is it the darker, weightier side of the music, or of Mozart's music?

[Mandryka]

Is it the darker, weightier side of the music, or of Mozart's music?

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

[pi2000]

Shostakovich  Qt 8 Quatuor Danel from here:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3HmrqUfE0E&t=10s

[listener]

"Cabaret Songs' from Theresienstadt
Amelia DeMayo, Curt Buckler, Sergei Dreznin
lots of words, full English translations
BACH/MARCELLO Concerto in d, BACH/VIVALDI Concerto in D, ZIPOLI 4 short pieces,
MUFFAT: Toccata 12, Partita in d
Heldrun Hensel, Ahrend-Organ, Landshut
no stop-list, but an informative note on Italian influences in South-German organ music

[Traverso]

Is it the darker, weightier side of the music, or of Mozart's music?

Your mailbox is full

I just ordered the Denon set 

[Mirror Image]

Pärt
Symphony No. 1, "Polyphony"
NFM Wrocław Philharmonic
Tõnu Kaljuste



Interesting symphony, which I doubt I'll play again for a long-time. Not that it's bad, but Pärt like so many Eastern bloc composers, started off experimenting with Serialism à la Schoenberg or Webern, but after this early period, most of them turned their backs on this style. One of the main reasons, besides it being a stylistic dead-end, was the Soviet authorities would put a lot of pressure on all of the composers to write music that wasn't what they deemed 'morally contempt' (for lack of a better phrase). Of course, there were some composers that ignored them and continued to do their own thing like Gubaidulina, Denisov, etc., but others like Penderecki, Schnittke, Silvestrov, Górecki, and Pärt felt that this experimenting and dabbling in Serialism (amongst other avant-garde styles) had reached a saturation point. It's difficult to fathom that Pärt is now in his mid-80s.

[André]

[JBS]

Second listen
A very powerful Fourth
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[vandermolen]

Second listen
A very powerful Fourth
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Good to know Jeffrey. I must get round to No.4

Thread duty.
Einar Englund 'Epinikia' - a rather powerful, poetic, short yet inspiriting work - described as a 'triumphal hymn'.

[Daverz]

Good to know Jeffrey. I must get round to No.4

Thread duty.
Einar Englund 'Epinikia' - a rather powerful, poetic, short yet inspiriting work - described as a 'triumphal hymn'.

I have some of that in this set:

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Too bad Warner doesn't seem to be doing anything with their Finlandia back-catalog.

TD:



https://open.qobuz.com/album/0794465959729

Poppy, jazzy post-minimalist orchestral/electro-acoustic works.  I like it.

[vandermolen]

 

Very nice CD. Christo will be pleased. 

[SimonNZ]

on the radio: Tchaikovsky PC

[Roasted Swan]

Second listen
A very powerful Fourth
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This 4th really didn't get my pulse racing!  Where's the venom, the brutality?!  Well played and well engineered for sure but when you put it against the brutal 1st recording (also with the BBC SO) with the composer on the stick this just sounds "quite cross"!

[André]

Very nice CD. Christo will be pleased. 

An excellent program. I was particularly taken with the colourful Mascherata suite/symphony.

[JBS]

This 4th really didn't get my pulse racing!  Where's the venom, the brutality?!  Well played and well engineered for sure but when you put it against the brutal 1st recording (also with the BBC SO) with the composer on the stick this just sounds "quite cross"!

I've never heard the RVW conducted recording.  But this one had what I thought was a fairly brutal last movement.

TD
Ronald Brautigam on fortepiano playing various variations and dances by Beethoven, the best known ones on this CD being the variations on God Save the King and Rule Brittania. From his set of LvB's non-sonata works for keyboard.

[Christo]

Very nice CD. Christo will be pleased. 

He is. Yet volume III, with both the Third & Fifth ('Symphonie Concertante') symphonies is my stern favourite.


(Such a pity these four CDs are just numbered volumes 1-4, in stead of showing the symphonies & other orchestral works on the cover (this presentation doesn't sell, I'm afraid). Hope CPO will release them as a box, one day.)