What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

Hi John - my same thoughts - thanks for your comments.  Dave

My pleasure, Dave.

[Iota]

Haydn: Nelson Mass

JEG & Co.


I don't always find Gardiner's sometimes hard driven ways appeal, but in this piece I think it works really well. He seems to revel colourfully in Haydn's occasionally unusual way with the setting of the words, and at times the music seems to swing so much one could almost be listening to Bernstein.

[Brian]

Two-Minus-One Listen Tuesday 

Wow this piece is cool. Where has it been all my life? 

[SonicMan46]

Villa-Lobos, Heitor - Piano Music, V. 3 & V. 4 w/ Sonia Rubinsky - excellent reviews attached to complement the other ones of the first two volumes - probably won't look for anymore, assume will be similarly good; and will listen to the last 4 discs another day.  Dave

   

[Brian]

Villa-Lobos, Heitor - Piano Music, V. 3 & V. 4 w/ Sonia Rubinsky - excellent reviews attached to complement the other ones of the first two volumes - probably won't look for anymore, assume will be similarly good; and will listen to the last 4 discs another day.  Dave

   

I really enjoy the "Guia Pratico" on later volumes - it's like a Brazilian version of Grieg's Lyric Pieces. Enjoy on that later day!

[Traverso]

Rameau

Rameau and Frans Brüggen a happy marriage

[Que]

Froberger

I'm a big fan of that series.   

[Traverso]

I'm a big fan of that series.   

I'm not surprised...

[Mirror Image]

First-Listen Tuesday

Penderecki
Metamorphosen, Violin Concerto No. 2
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
LSO
Penderecki

[Traverso]

Dutch Delight

Matthias Havinga  Faber/Blank organ Zeerijp, The Netherlands

[vers la flamme]

Maurice Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye. Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

A good performance if not my favorite.

[SonicMan46]

Krommer, Franz (1759-1831) - Windy Music from the recordings below, a mixture of PIs and MIs - switching from piano to another century and wind instruments for our afternoon and dinner music -   Dave

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Pettersson
Symphony No. 9
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Alun Francis

[Karl Henning]

Krommer, Franz (1759-1831) - Windy Music from the recordings below, a mixture of PIs and MIs - switching from piano to another century and wind instruments for our afternoon and dinner music -   Dave

Dave, unable to PM you, I tried sending email (via a link here, so I don't know your address) did you receive it?

[VonStupp]

Johannes Brahms
Serenade 1 in D major, op. 11
Serenade 2 in A Major, op. 16

Berlin PO - Claudio Abbado (rec. 1968 (2) & 1983 (1))

As opposed to Chailly, who was direct and hard-driven, Abbado is soft and gentle with the Serenades, although maybe veering too far towards somnambulistic.

I won't get to them for a while, but if I remember correctly, the paired Hungarian Dances and Brahms Overtures are real barn-burners under Abbado, though.



 

[Madiel]

Maybe I should sell my soul to the Devil?

These days it's probably a monthly subscription.

[André]

Erdmann's 4th and last symphony is quite different from the preceding ones. It is a bit like the difference between Shostakovich's 15th compared to the 5th or 10th, or the last quartets compared to nos 1-8. Same composer, but a whole different sense of priorities, as if evolving from outwardness to inwardness, from the open to the closed and cryptic. I must definitely give it a couple more spins. The other two works on the disc are short 3-movement suites in a neo-classical style that reminds me of Tansman.

[Madiel]

Haydn, Symphony No.73 (and possibly going on later to 74 and 75 on the same disc).

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Respighi
Vetrate Di Chiesa (Church Windows), P. 150
Philharmonia
Geoffrey Simon

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Rouse
Flute Concerto
Sharon Bezaly, flute
Royal Stockholm PO
Gilbert



A hauntingly beautiful work.