What are you listening 2 now?

[kyjo]

Walton

Smashes the table!!

[kyjo]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat major, K482 - Edwin Fischer piano with John Barbirolli's Chamber Orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli - recorded July 1935

Undoubtedly one of my favorites of Mozart's PCs. It has a truly "symphonic" quality with prominent woodwind solos and a melancholy slow movement.

[kyjo]

The Opus 16 is a first listen

Taneyev
Cello Quintet in G, Op. 14 (1901)
The Taneyev Quartet and Beynus Morovov

Viola Quintet in C, Op. 16 (1904)
The Taneyev Quartet and Yuri Kramarov

Two formidable works. That epic concluding fugue of the Viola Quintet is something else!

[kyjo]

Karl, I do hope you had a more positive experience and reaction to the Opus XVI than I seemed to be having (especially with the opening movement).

I do recall the first movement of the Taneyev Viola Quintet being rather impenetrable. I found the remaining movements to be much more engaging.

[kyjo]

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1
Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica

Thank this glorious performance, Rach's Sym. No. 1 has grown on me much more. Once again the outer movements strike me like more succesful overall, albeit I do admit that this time I found the inner movements more engaging.

Whilst the Strauss is not one of my favorite works by him and that is a bit dense to my taste, it never fails to cheer me up.

Great to hear about the Rachmaninoff (which I loved from first hearing!); that is a great new recording indeed. The slow movement - which I tend to view as the weak link in the symphony, unusually for Rach - convinced me more than usual in that recording.

[Mirror Image]

In the entire cycle, the composer stamped a very lyrical and melancholy eloquence. The presence of harshness or violence is rather absent, and, actually, you don't miss those features, or at least that was my experience. Six quartets containing beautiful and wistful music. My favorites are 1, 3 and 5.

This is probably sacrilege, but I prefer Boris to Pyotr. I used to be a big fan of Pyotr, but I think overexposure and familiarity with his idiom basically turned me off to his music. I mean I basically grew up with The Nutcracker or Swan Lake in one way or another as I heard these ballets when I was a kid. I should revisit some of his works to see if my opinion has changed.

[Que]

Morning listening is a return to this:



Rarely recorded and neglected music by Guillaume Faugues, a contemporary of Johannes Ockeghem. This album by the ensemble The Sound and the Fury is perhaps not quite perfect in terms of execution and rather closely recorded, but in this case I'll take the bad with the good.

PS Review by Johan van Veen: http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/ORF_3025_3115.html

[Mandryka]

There are some very good piece by Mozart for violin and piano, and some less good pieces. That's the moral of this CD.

[Madiel]

Beethoven, 12 German dances, WoO 8

The second set of dances that Beethoven composed for a ball in 1795. The hottest young composer in Vienna.

[vandermolen]

Alwyn: Pastoral Fantasia (1939)
on Chandos - a beautiful work.

[Biffo]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major, K595 - Artur Schnabel piano with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli - recorded May 1934

[Brahmsian]

TD:

A first listen

Taneyev
Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 30 (1910-11)
The Taneyev Quartet and Tamara Fidler

What did you think, Karl? . 

I can't help but think perhaps this was influential (or at least known) to Shostakovich? The beginning part of this quintet and 3rd movement Passacaglia come to mind.

Regardless, I think this is a chamber music masterpiece and tremendous performance.

[Karl Henning]

TD:

A first listen

Taneyev
Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 30 (1910-11)
The Taneyev Quartet and Tamara Fidler

The Scherzo is utterly charming. But then the Largo quickly became my favorite music in the box thus far. And, I see that only one work in the box (the Op. 31 string trio) is a later effort. Great piece!

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Morning listening is a return to this:



Rarely recorded and neglected music by Guillaume Faugues, a contemporary of Johannes Ockeghem. This album by the ensemble The Sound and the Fury is perhaps not quite perfect in terms of execution and rather closely recorded, but in this case I'll take the bad with the good.

PS Review by Johan van Veen: http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/ORF_3025_3115.html

Hello QUE  yes indeed Guillaume Fauges was super and a rare composer  , love to hear this album by sound and fury but there are so hard to get here in Canada, except ebay but darn expensive because The sound & fury is a super ensemble a prodigious one, I am a fanboy of this ensemble!!!

[vers la flamme]

Franz Schubert: Lieder. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore



Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade. Régine Crespin, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Starting the morning with a couple of brilliant vocal performances.

[Traverso]

Smashes the table!!

I think it is one of the best recordings in this box,I liked it very much..

[aligreto]

Alwyn: Pastoral Fantasia (1939)
on Chandos - a beautiful work.

I enjoyed that CD recently.

[aligreto]

Victoria: Lamentations [Noone]

[vers la flamme]

Franz Schreker: 5 Gesänge. Katarina Karnéus, Vassily Sinaisky, BBC Philharmonic

First listen. Sounds good to me. I should check out Schreker's operas.

[Brahmsian]

The Scherzo is utterly charming. But then the Largo quickly became my favorite music in the box thus far. And, I see that only one work in the box (the Op. 31 string trio) is a later effort. Great piece!

Yes, that Largo Passacaglia movement is indeed below the green lemon 🍋.

There is one chamber work later than the Opus 31, which is the incompleted B minor string trio. It was not included in this box set though. Which was Taneyev's last piece of written for chamber music, albeit incomplete.