What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi - Aion.

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti - Atmosphères.

[Mirror Image]

Darius Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le toit' (Bernstein ONDF)
Very enjoyable.
With thanks to John (MI)
I can understand why LB liked this music as it reminds me of some of his own ballet suites.

Pounds the table!

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki - Fonogrammi.

[Traverso]

I have a general preference for the Schoenberg Ensemble recordings, despite the long gap in recording date between the first five and last three, but IMO both are worth hearing.

The Italian ensemble FontanaMIX recorded five of the pieces live in 2008, though I've not heard this recording. It can be found at their Bandcamp page; https://asimplelunch.bandcamp.com/album/kagel-windrose

Coincidentally, I was listening to the last of Kagel's five string quartets, as played by the Vogler Quartett (on a disc coupled with the Ravel quartet). I think his late chamber music is quite underrated.

I purchased yesterday the missing auvidis recording   

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - Herma.

[pjme]

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3

[Mirror Image]

NP: Korngold String Quartet No. 2 in E flat, Op. 26 (Aron Quartett)

[MusicTurner]

The Four Seasons in Kyoto [Tosha Suiho]





If you want to get into a Zen Zone this could well be the thing for you. It is very serene. The music is played on Japanese flute and is occasionally set against the background of singing birds, chanting monks as well as a gong and flowing water; but it is primarily solo flute playing. I will immediately say that this will not be for everybody. However, I found it to be very atmospheric, relaxing and peace inducing. The presentation is nicely laid out on four LPs with each season represented on each respective disc. It was a lovely purchase; the vinyl was in pristine condition.

Noted, thank you.

[DavidW]

Like his Bach album absolutely fabulous. Was scheduled to hear his Beethoven at an August 2020 festival. D..n you, Covid!

I love his Bach album too.  I'll have to give this one a listen.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The Four Seasons in Kyoto [Tosha Suiho]





If you want to get into a Zen Zone this could well be the thing for you. It is very serene. The music is played on Japanese flute and is occasionally set against the background of singing birds, chanting monks as well as a gong and flowing water; but it is primarily solo flute playing. I will immediately say that this will not be for everybody. However, I found it to be very atmospheric, relaxing and peace inducing. The presentation is nicely laid out on four LPs with each season represented on each respective disc. It was a lovely purchase; the vinyl was in pristine condition.

Sounds like a very good album. Jfyi, the disc below is also a popular recording of Shakuhachi by a well-regarded player.

https://youtu.be/miUKO5g0ONk

[Biffo]

Weber: Konzertstück in F minor - Ronald Brautigam fortepiano with Kölner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Willens

[Todd]

[MusicTurner]

Weber: Konzertstück in F minor - Ronald Brautigam fortepiano with Kölner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Willens

A great piece ... there's a freshness and vitality to his music, that is generally appealing, IMO.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Bright music for a gray Sunday - selections from the Viñes Collection at the Univ. of Colorado, works that famous pianist and teacher played or was sent by composers anxious to have him promote their work, inc. here are these rarities:

Louis Aubert: Sillages
Roger Ducasse: Six préludes
Henry Woollett: Prélude, fugue et final
Vincent d'Indy: Schumanniana
Henry Février: 1st Nocturne

What Poulenc said of Viñes is most interesting: "I admired him madly, because, at this time, in 1914, he was the only virtuoso who played Debussy and Ravel. That meeting with Viñes was paramount in my life: I owe him everything. ... In reality it is to Viñes that I owe my fledgling efforts in music and everything I know about the piano. Viñes was a delightful character, some kind of strange Hidalgo with an enormous moustache, a brown sombrero in true Barcelona style, and button boots with which he used to kick me in the shins whenever I was clumsy at the pedals. No one could teach the art of using the pedals, an essential feature of modern piano music, better than Viñes. He somehow managed to extract clarity precisely from the ambiguities of the pedals. His staccato playing was equally remarkable. Marcelle Meyer, his most brilliant pupil, declared that he made even Petrushka seem easy."

[The new erato]

Schubert no 1 from this marvellous box which I'm slowly making my way through:

[Que]

Via Spotify:

[Maestro267]

Bax: Violin Concerto
Mordkovitch (violin)/London PO/Thomson

Scott: Harpsichord Concerto
Malta PO/Laus (harpsichord and conductor)

[SonicMan46]

Bach, Johann Christian (1735-1782) - Symphonies Concertantes w/ Anthony Halstead and the Hanover Band - a 6-disc set.  Probably the most versatile of the 'famous' 18th century Bach composers; after his father's death in 1750, he lived w/ his elder brother CPE Bach for about 5 years, then travelled and stayed in Italy for 7 years, learning composition, writing operas & church music, performing on keyboards, and converting to Catholicism - THEN, decided to move to England in 1762 where he was quite successful until the late '70s when his fame faded - he died in debt (mostly by embezzlement from his steward) - Queen Charlotte helped w/ his debts and gave his childless wife a pension.  BTW, the city down the road from me in North Carolina is named after her.  Dave

   

[André]

Sonatas 3 and 29 'Hammerklavier'.

Becker's rendition of the Hammerklavier's particular sound world is stunning. The first movement is positively electrifying. The finale's fugue is played with the utmost clarity. What sounds like a breakneck speed is consistent with other versions' timings. It takes the breath away by virtue of its X-ray lucidity, immaculate articulation and diamond-like tone.

The 3rd sonata, played after the 29th, reveals how much Beethoven's particular kind of piano sound was there from the outset: the sonata's Allegro con brio has an urgency that borders on belligerence. Lest that sound too caffeine-laden for comfort, I should add that Becker's fine Steinway D shows how a good modern instrument perfectly accommodates Beethoven's music. Playing of that kind on a fortepiano might have sounded messy and aggressive.

A stunning disc.