What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Boccherini
Guitar Quintet № 4 in D, « Fandango »
Jason Vieaux, gtr
Escher Quartet

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Test-Drive Tuesday:

Respighi
Poema autunnale, P. 146
Lydia Mordkovitch, vn
BBC Phil
Sir Edward Downes

Beautiful! I also love the Concerto gregoriano on that same recording.

[Karl Henning]

Great stuff, Karl. Of the two performances you listened to, did you prefer one over the other or were they both of equal merit?

I enjoyed them both.  Just an initial listen to both, so I don't feel up to putting them on the scales

[Karl Henning]

Beautiful! I also love the Concerto gregoriano on that same recording.

It is lovely, indeed!

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I enjoyed them both.  Just an initial listen to both, so I don't feel up to putting them on the scales

One of the reasons as to why I was curious was that I just bought a recording of the Preludes today with Andrey Gugnin on Hyperion (he also performed Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2). I'm definitely looking forward to hearing this one.

[Karl Henning]

One of the reasons as to why I was curious was that I just bought a recording of the Preludes today with Andrey Gugnin on Hyperion (he also performed Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2). I'm definitely looking forward to hearing this one.

I just saw that ....

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Boccherini
Guitar Quintet № 4 in D, « Fandango »
Jason Vieaux, gtr
Escher Quartet

What do you think about the recording??

[Karl Henning]

What do you think about the recording??

I like it a lot. Reviewed the album here.

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NP:

Martinů
String Quartet No. 3, H. 268
Pražák Quartet

[JBS]

A Tanayev sort of day

Piano Quintet in g minor Op. 30
Trio in D major for violin, viola & cello
Trio in D major for 2 violins & viola Op. 21
Trio in D major for piano, violin & cello Op. 22
Trio in E Flat major for violin, viola & cello Op. 31
Tamara Fidler was the pianist in the Opp
30 and 22.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I like it a lot. Reviewed the album here.

Thank you. Nice and very well-written review! I admire Jason Vieaux.

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Revisiting an old friend, but only in this recording:

[Karl Henning]

Test-Drive Tuesday:

Respighi
Concerto gregoriano, P. 135
Lydia Mordkovitch, vn
BBC Phil
Sir Edward Downes

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Test-Drive Tuesday:

Respighi
Concerto gregoriano, P. 135
Lydia Mordkovitch, vn
BBC Phil
Sir Edward Downes

[Symphonic Addict]

Symphonies 4 and 5 Jephta

The 4th has been the least interesting thus far. The idiom got sparser and even bleak here. However, the 5th, which made Toch win a Pulitzer Prize, is more direct and powerful.

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Symphonies 4 and 5 Jephta

The 4th has been the least interesting thus far. The idiom got sparser and even bleak here. However, the 5th, which made Toch win a Pulitzer Prize, is more direct and powerful.

Doesn't the 5th have narration or something? I remember one of the symphonies having a voice or vocal part. I can't remember which one.

[Symphonic Addict]

Doesn't the 5th have narration or something? I remember one of the symphonies having a voice or vocal part. I can't remember which one.

Ah, yes. It's in the 4th, at the end of the movements. Another detail that put me off. I hate narration in works. There are so few works where I can tolerate it.

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Closing out tonight's listening session with the following:

Dvořák
Liebeslieder, Op. 83, B 160
Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano)



Symphony No. 8 In G major, Op. 88, B 163
Prague SO
Mackerras

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Concertino for Two Pianos, Op. 94
Margarete Babinsky & Holger Busch

[Symphonic Addict]

More Shostakovich!

String Quartet No. 5

Superb. There is a melody running in the first movement that appears in another work, but I can't know what it is.