What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Richard Strauss

Vier Letzte Lieder

Gundula Janowitz

Concertgebouworkest  Bernard Haitink
life recording 2 juli 1968   Holland Festival

[aligreto]

Satie: The Early Piano Works [de Leeuw]





Petite Ouverture À Danser
Prélude De "La Porte Héroïque Du Ciel"
Danses Gothiques

[Papy Oli]

Bach - Psalm 51 (Tilge, Höchste...) / Hengelbrock

Playing again. This is very good.

[aligreto]

Playing again. This is very good.

Hengelbrock is excellent and there is great music on that very good CD 

[Traverso]

Satie: The Early Piano Works [de Leeuw]





Petite Ouverture À Danser
Prélude De "La Porte Héroïque Du Ciel"
Danses Gothiques

I sse that you have a good time 

[Traverso]

Delius

Hassan

We like to take the Golden Road to Samarkand

[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" part 1, Groves conducting




Sarge

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord [Montanari/Rousset]





Wonderful!

[Mirror Image]

Shostakovich

24 Preludes & Fugues

Richard Strauss

Vier Letzte Lieder

Gundula Janowitz

Concertgebouworkest  Bernard Haitink
life recording 2 juli 1968   Holland Festival

Delius

Hassan

We like to take the Golden Road to Samarkand

Lovely, Jan! Gorgeous music.

[aligreto]

I sse that you have a good time 

Yes, a wonderful time listening to Satie, Jan 

[Mirror Image]

+1 I think very highly of these performances.

Indeed, Jeffrey. I take it you own this whole cycle from Rozhdestvensky as well?

[Mirror Image]

Top-notch recordings and performances of his viola works.

They certainly are, Cesar!

[Mirror Image]

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5 in D major. André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra

I think I'm enjoying this symphony more than usual. With the London and Sea symphonies, this was always one of my least favorite RVW symphonies—to say the following will endear me to no one here, but I've always found the slow movement of the 5th somewhat cloying. Today I am finding it less so and getting somewhat more out of it. Maybe the work is growing on me with time and space; it's been well over a year since I've listened to it last. Great performance from Previn and the Londoners.

One of my favorite RVW cycles. Keep listening. I think once you've surrendered yourself to his music is when it will hopefully finally click with you.

[Traverso]

Poulenc

[SonicMan46]

Rheinberger, Josef (1839-1901) - Chamber Works with multiple performers - a 6-CD box - listening to the first 3 discs in the morning, which include the String/Piano Quintets, String Quartets, and first two Piano Trios - he has a thread (one page only!); a prolific Romantic composer writing nearly 200 works w/ Opus numbers, much for the organ and vocal/choral compositions - his organ oeuvre is his current claim to fame and is considered one of the top organ composers of his time - not being an organ collector, cannot comment, BUT there is an excellent attached review of this chamber pieces, for those interested.  Also, anyone who is a fan of his organ output, please comment and bring his thread alive!     Dave

Joseph Rheinberger (1839, Vaduz, Liechtenstein—died Nov. 25, 1901, Munich, Ger.), German composer and teacher whose organ sonatas are among the finest 19th-century works for that instrument.  Rheinberger studied organ at Vaduz and became organist at the parish church when he was only seven years old. He later studied at Feldkirch and Munich and in 1867 became professor of organ and composition at the Munich Conservatory. Among his pupils were Engelbert Humperdinck, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and the American composers George W. Chadwick and Horatio Parker. Besides 20 organ sonatas, he wrote four operas and much church and chamber music. (Source)

 

[Papy Oli]

Bach - Musical Offering (Linde Consort)

[Fëanor]

Mostly I enjoy the music of George Crumb;  perhaps these folk song arrangement a little less than some other pieces ...

George Crumb:  Unto the Hills, (folk song arrangements) ~ Ann Crumb (sop); James Freeman & Orchestra 2001

[Karl Henning]

JSB
Italian Concerto, BWV 971
Schiff

[Karl Henning]

Skalkottas
Concerto for Violin & Piano, AK 21
Georgios Demetzis, vn
Vassilis Varvaresos, pf
Athens Phil
Byron Fidetzis

Great piece! Adds a sparkle to the morning!

[ritter]

Skalkottas
Concerto for Violin & Piano, AK 21
Georgios Demetzis, vn
Vassilis Varvaresos, pf
Athens Phil
Byron Fidetzis

Great piece! Adds a sparkle to the morning!

Good day, Karl!

I was listening to that same CD just a couple of days ago (I bought it recently). I only listened to the Sinfonietta (the first piece on it), and must confess I wasn't impressed by the piece. I should move on to the rest of the compositions that appear on the disc...