What are you listening 2 now?

[vers la flamme]

Alfred Schnittke: Viola Concerto. Yuri Bashmet, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

Brilliant performance of this late work from Alfred Schnittke.

[Madiel]

NP:

Dvořák
From the Bohemian Forest for piano duet, Op. 68
Igor Ardašev, Renata Ardaševová - pianos

From this set -



Lovely piece and performance.

Yes, love it.

[Madiel]

Schubert, Piano Sonata in A minor, D.784



I'm currently finding the 1st movement very satisfying indeed, the tempo and mood seems very well judged.

EDIT: The whole performance was excellent for my tastes.

[vers la flamme]

Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Piano & Strings. Viktoria Postnikova, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, London Sinfonietta

Great performance from the husband/wife team of Postnikova and Rozhdestvensky. 

[Que]

D'Anglebert

It feels like I haven't listened to this music for far too long. Strange because listening to music like this gives me an almost immediate inner joy that I hardly experience anywhere in the same way in music from later periods.
It is music for the aristocrats, refined and joyous.

Love that set! 

[Harry]

FAO Harry
This is a marvellous disc. The sound seemed to leap out of the speakers - one of the best recordings I have heard and I am listening on a system not nearly as high-powered as your own system. Performances are of great urgency. The Bliss is a work which I've increasingly come to enjoy recently and this is the best performance I have heard.

Excellent Jeffrey, I am looking forward to it, truly.

[Roasted Swan]

FAO Harry
This is a marvellous disc. The sound seemed to leap out of the speakers - one of the best recordings I have heard and I am listening on a system not nearly as high-powered as your own system. Performances are of great urgency. The Bliss is a work which I've increasingly come to enjoy recently and this is the best performance I have heard.

Apart from any inherent musical qualities, Chandos seem to have hit a real audio sweet-spot technically with these recent Sinfonia of London recordings.  All that I have heard - the Korngold/Respighi/French music discs have been of exceptional audio quality.  Quite what they have done and why they have done it now I have no idea!  I've not yet heard this string music disc - my budget means it needs to wait until I can pick up a reasonably priced copy!

[Madiel]

Schubert, Piano Sonata in A, D664



Interesting. The first movement has a little more forward thrust than I was expecting. Emphasises the allegro side of allegro moderato. Very good all round.

[Traverso]

Holst

S Somerset Rhapsody
Brook Green Suite
A Fugal Concerto
Beni Mora ( Oriental Suite)
St Paul's Suite
Hymns from the Rig Veda-2nd Group
Ode to Death

[Justice Roberts]

Rawsthorne, Symphonic Studies.

[VonStupp]

Daniel Plante
Love in the Asylum
NY Philharmonic - Pierre Boulez (1977)

Plante made some posts on Slipped Disc the other day, where he identified the contemporary composers in the picture below, including himself. So, I thought I would track down his odd, 8-minute cantata Love in the Asylum, based on a Dylan Thomas poem.

Here it is for the listening: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-plante-511223801/plante-love-in-the-asylum-1977-02-04-sylvan-ny-phil-boulez

[aligreto]

Beethoven: String Quartets [Gewandhaus Quartet]





String Quartet Op. 130

The Adagio opening is intense and emotionally probing. The pace does vary throughout the movement reflecting the questioning and ruminative nature of the music. The short Presto is a delight in confined intensity. The Andante is poised and refined and the fourth movement is swirling but gracious. The Cavatina: Adagio is a wonderful piece of string writing that is filled with emotion not quite melancholy, more plaintive. The Final movement is buoyant but restrained yet still vibrant.

[steve ridgway]

Hmmm...I just clicked on the link and it took me to the webpage. It might have something to do with your browser.

But, I'll link it again:

http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/symphony1

I wonder if anyone else is having trouble with this link?

Works for me in Safari on iPad.

[Justice Roberts]

One more work for the night:

Suk
Under the Apple Tree, Op. 20
Eva Děpoltová, soprano
Czech Philharmonic
Pešek

How was it? Nice art, btw.

[Papy Oli]

Malcolm Arnold - Symphony No.1

[Sergeant Rock]

Miaskovsky Symphonies 24  and 27




Sarge

[Traverso]

Mozart

A whole bunch of symphonies....

Symphonies No.23-50,22,23,24,51 & 52

[Papy Oli]

Moeran - String quartet No.2

[Karl Henning]

Works for me. I use Microsoft Edge - mainly out of laziness, it is a load of rubbish.

It failed with both Chrome and Opera.  I'll try with Edge ....

[Papy Oli]