What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/OkY6mwAvhvw

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/kuVfGKLtKyk

[Karl Henning]

One does lead to another:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Tecrr8yTsVc

[Iota]

Bartok: 2 Romanian Dances, Op. 8a, BB 56
             3 Hungarian Folksongs from the Csik District, BB 45b
              Allegro barbaro, BB 63

Zoltan Kocsis (piano)


Music that seems perennially fresh. Kocsis knows how to make the piano roar as well as wonder, and many shades in between.

[ritter]

Just names starting with "B" allowed on this CD: Florent Boffard plays Beethoven ("Apassionata"), Berg (Piano Sonata) and Boulez (Troisième sonate, including the rarely performed formant Antiphonie). Quite a program, eh? And beautifully played, I hasten to add...

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Stravinsky:  Jeu de Cartes, Orpheus and Suite from Historie du Soldat.

[MusicTurner]

Just names starting with "B" allowed on this CD: Florent Boffard plays Beethoven ("Apassionata"), Berg (Piano Sonata) and Boulez (Troisième sonate, including the rarely performed formant Antiphonie). Quite a program, eh? And beautifully played, I hasten to add...

Boffard seems to be a fine pianist, and apparently adds something valuable to modern works, from what I've heard from him.

[Traverso]

Walton & Stravinsky

Violin Concertos

[listener]

Richard STRAUSS:  scenes from Elektra and Salome
(note the and is not italicized, Elektra and Salome might be quite interesting if they could have met.)
Inge Borkh, soprano   Frtz Reiner ,  Chicago S.O.
Karol KURPINSKY (1785-1857  Clarinet Concerto     Francizek LESSEL(1780-1835)  Variations foir flute & orch.
Antoni MILWID (late 18th century)  Sinfonia Concertante for oboe & orch

[VonStupp]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto 1 in E-flat Major, op. 107
Cello Concerto 2 in g minor, op. 126

Alexander Ivashkin - cello
Moscow SO - Valery Polyansky (rec. 1997)

These have always been the toughest of Shostakovich's concertos for me, but they seem deeply personal.

[MusicTurner]

Reger - complete works for violin & cello + piano. /CPO recordings, 8CD box

A real find. I had a bit of the stuff, but this is really good. For example the CD with violin sonatas op.107 & 103b, which I've been listening to many, many times since the arrival just a few days ago.

The CPO box is still on sale at JPC for only 19.99 Euros.

[ritter]

Boffard seems to be a fine pianists, and apparently adds something valuable to modern works, from what I've heard from him.

Indeed. I don't know many recordings by Boffard (only Boulez's Structures II with Aimard, and Berio's Sequenza IV), but this particular CD is superb.

EDIT (TD):

And now, one of the great Debussy piano recordings of all time: Paul Jacobs plays the Études.

[MusicTurner]

Indeed. I don't know many recordings by Boffard (only Boulez's Structures II with Aimard, and Berio's Sequenza IV), but this particular CD is superb.

(...)

I only have some Bartok (with Isabelle Faust), and the Boulez/Berio, maybe a little more, but what I've heard of samples from his Schönberg seemed very good, if I see it here I'll be getting that one.

[ritter]

I only have some Bartok (with Isabelle Faust), and the Boulez/Berio, maybe a little more, but what I've heard of samples from his Schönberg seemed very good, if I see it here I'll be getting that one.

Ive just ordered an OOP CD of him playing Debussy and Bartók 

[Symphonic Addict]

Stenhammar's Serenade :

Great piece. I prefer the BIS recording which includes the movement Reverenza, nonetheless.

[Symphonic Addict]

The Bruch is especially good, I listened to it a few times.

The Bruch looks particularly alluring indeed.

[MusicTurner]

Ive just ordered an OOP CD of him playing Debussy and Bartók 

Very likely fine ...

[Symphonic Addict]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Violin Concerto 1 in a minor, op. 99
Violin Concerto 2 in c-sharp minor, op. 129

Lydia Mordkovitch - violin
Scottish NO - Neeme Järvi (rec. 1989)

Might as well continue with Shostakovich today:

The Passacaglia from the 1st VC is a masterpiece in itself. The 2nd VC has always been elusive to me for some reason.

[Brian]

I have 2 of the 3 Bruch chamber music pieces on CPO. Wonder if the third piece is worth getting another CD to have. There is another Bruch chamber CD coming soon from the Nash Ensemble on Hyperion which looks really good and doesn't duplicate anything from the CPO or Alpha discs.

[Symphonic Addict]

It's a peculiar (even extravagant) idea to write a concerto for contrabassoon, but I'm not sure if it worked well. The instrument simply doesn't have the timbre to stand out into the massive orchestra Aho used here, not even in its solo passages. The Tuba Concerto is in another league, a much more succesful composition and the instrument is more notable.