What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 8 [Anda]


   


This is a sparkling performance from Anda.

[Traverso]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 8 [Anda]


   


This is a sparkling performance from Anda.

Anda is one of my favorites 

[Christo]

too distant

Exactly what I admire in this performance: its misty, 'In the Fen Country' type of nature mysticism, a unique 'doubleness' concealing the horrors RVW witnessed in WWI - with means he only knew the key to. #somethinglike   

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 [Klemperer]





Klemperer's version is robust without being too assertive. The pacing is in the medium range to my ear but it is fine. The overall performance is elegant and meditative rather than overtly declamatory. The conclusion is dramatic, forceful and very fine.

[aligreto]

Anda is one of my favorites 

He is a favourite here also.

[Karl Henning]

Alban Berg: Violin Concerto "Dem Andenken eines Engels". Reiko Watanabe, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Staatskapelle Dresden.

Must be a nice disc!

*chiming in*

It is!

--Bruce

And, you know, soon after I remarked this, methought I must have it in the Sinopoli 2ndVSch box . . . and lo!

So, here I'll listen, as well.

[pi2000]

ENESCU Impressions d'enfance (Caroline Goulding)
from here:
[asin] B01E7F8J24[/asin]

[pi2000]

ENESCU Impressions d'enfance (Caroline Goulding)
from here:
[asin] B01E7F8J24[/asin]

Much better here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfkDtg44soQ

[vandermolen]

Pardon, but what does craggy mean in this context?   

Let me try to explain PD, especially as some other members of this forum make such a 'song and dance' about my use of this term. 
As someone who has zero technical musical knowledge I'll do my best:
I looked up the online dictionary which states:
'Craggy'
(Of a landscape) having many crags
(Of a cliff or rock face) rough and uneven
(Of a man's face) rugged and rough textured in an attractive way - not unlike myself actually! 

Actually in relation to the VW late Violin Sonata or the very underrated (IMO) 'Fantasia on the Old 104th' or the Concerto for Two Pianos I think it's when the percussive qualities of the piano are emphasised over its more lyrical aspects  (I'm aware that the piano does work by percussion, before anyone kindly points this out to me). I think that 'rough and uneven' is the definition from the above list which is the most applicable in this context.
Hope this helps!

[vandermolen]

An absolutely phenomenal recording. I bought it on the Saturday before Easter last year at a local record store and loved it so much I decided to buy the whole Previn RVW cycle. Unfortunately I don't like anything else on it near as much. I should have just stuck with that disc.

I think that it's the best recorded performance. Previn's No.5 is also excellent and most similar in spirit to No.3 I think. As far as I'm concerned other highlights of that set are 'A London Symphony' and a quite magical Symphony No.8 (as Irons implies). The Tudor Portraits and Tuba Concerto are also v enjoyable if they are included in your box set. Given time I'm sure that you'll appreciate the other symphonies more than at the present.

[Ratliff]

...
Actually in relation to the VW late Violin Sonata or the very underrated (IMO) 'Fantasia on the Old 104th' or the Concerto for Two Pianos I think it's when the percussive qualities of the piano are emphasised over its more lyrical aspects  (I'm aware that the piano does work by percussion, before anyone kindly points this out to me). I think that 'rough and uneven' is the definition from the above list which is the most applicable in this context.
Hope this helps!

I was listening to the Barber Piano Concerto (Browning/Szell recording) and the outer movements particularly struck me as examples of "percussive" piano.

[vandermolen]

I was listening to the Barber Piano Concerto (Browning/Szell recording) and the outer movements particularly struck me as examples of "percussive" piano.

Excellent! I agree, that's another good example and the Khachaturian PC too I think. Thanks.
TD
Szymanowski
Stabat Mater (Polyansky/Chandos)
Nothing craggy going on here:


PS I think that the word also applies to works like Havergal Brian's 10th Symphony (and many others) where there is a rough, abrupt and 'jagged' quality (and I do see it as a quality) to the music - VW Symphony No.9 too.

[Karl Henning]

Alban Berg: Violin Concerto "Dem Andenken eines Engels". Reiko Watanabe, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Staatskapelle Dresden.

The close of the Chamber Concerto may be one of my favorite things in all music.  And, on the approach to the end, that contrabassoon entrance: do we not live for moments like that?

[Christo]

A new performance - for me, thanks to the JPC sales - of Honegger 2 & 3, though in reverse order, plus Rugby & Pacific 231.

Playing the Third 'Liturgique' now and can report bakc it's very fine, very. The slow middle movement - De profundis clamavi - the most impressive reading I ever heard. Overall the symphony sounds wonderful, great sound too. The first time perhaps I realize how much of a 'war symphony' it really is. Recommended with gusto. 

[Karl Henning]

And so, now:

Berg

Chamber Concerto
Barenboim/Zuckerman/Boulez

Pf Sonata, Op. 1
Barenboim

4 pcs cl/pf, Op. 5
Meyer/Maisenberg

Adagio from the Chamber Concerto
Kremer/Meyer/Maisenberg

Transcr. of Joh. Strauss Jr Wein, Weib und Gesang, Op.133
Boston Symphony Chamber Players

[Karl Henning]

A new performance - for me, thanks to the JPC sales - of Honegger 2 & 3, though in reverse order, plus Rugby & Pacific 231.

Playing the Third 'Liturgique' now and can report bakc it's very fine, very. The slow middle movement - De profundis clamavi - the most impressive reading I ever heard. Overall the symphony sounds wonderful, great sound too. The first time perhaps I realize how much of a 'war symphony' it really is. Recommended with gusto. 

Nice!

[vers la flamme]

A pity. Did not the 8th work for you?

It didn't leave much impression on me at all, but as you've mentioned it specifically I'll have to give it another shot. I've only heard it the once.

[vers la flamme]

The close of the Chamber Concerto may be one of my favorite things in all music.  And, on the approach to the end, that contrabassoon entrance: do we not live for moments like that?

I stopped after the VC (I also have it as part of the Sinopoli Schoenberg/Berg/Webern box, though I haven't heard it all yet) but you make me want to go back and check out the Kammerkonzert. But first I'll have to make it through Ralph VW's 8th symphony.

Anyway, TD:



Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata No.1 in C minor, op.4. Leif Ove Andsnes. Why is this work never played, while the other two are quite popular?

[aligreto]

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 [Klemperer]

[vers la flamme]

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.8 in D minor. André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra. Enjoying it a little bit more than the first time. I like the fantasy nature of the first movement, it's unlike any other symphony I've heard. Hopefully, you all are right that these symphonies will grow on me, after all.