What are you listening 2 now?

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NP:

Ravel
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Jill Gomez (soprano)
Members of the BBC SO
Boulez

[Traverso]

Wow, what a tasty-looking recording! I guess I missed the memo of Boulez doing Grisey.    Anyway, thanks.

--Bruce

This box is a must if you are interested in the so-called contemporary classics 

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NP:

Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Julian Lloyd Webber, cello
RPO
Yehudi Menuhin

Enigma Variations, Op. 36
CSO
Solti

From this set -

[VonStupp]

I'm not sure that I do, but I admire your fortitude.

--Bruce

These videos are the most cringe inducing of that work. I was scrounging around for Sondheim and came across it again, decided to give it another go.

Oddly, I don't think I have ever heard a complete ALW musical, just bits and bobs.

VS

[Karl Henning]

Hi Karl - LOL  ! Typing too fast and must have been thinking of the movie w/ Gene Hackman - which I own on BD - correction made!  Thanks - Dave

P.S. already put together a Fred Hersch playlist on Spotify (chose 6 of his solo albums - will take us into dinner time -  )

And thus, Ladies & Gentlemen: The French Correction!

[Karl Henning]

I think GMG just experienced one of its periodic hiccoughs. Thus, I re-post:

CD 7

Prokofiev
String Quartet № 1 in F, Op. 92 (1941)

Malipiero
String Quartet № 4 (1934)

I did listen to the disc twice ... tasty

[Karl Henning]

And, because mine appetite was whetted:

Malipiero
String Quartet № 4 (1934)
Venetian String Quartet

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 from that same Borodin Trio CD.

I'm at a loss for words but will try:  on second thought--nope!  But will say that my soul felt like screaming during the fourth movement ("Allegretto") particularly earlier on during it.  Between the music and the liner notes including reminiscences from Rostislav Dubinsky (from his book Not by Music Alone), it proved to be very difficult listening.  But it was certainly well worth the while.

Incredible piece of music.

PD

[SonicMan46]

Yet more lute music in my 'performer's collection' - this time w/ Jokob Lindberg and Ronn McFarlane - Dave

     

[Sergeant Rock]

Christoph von Dohnányi Mahler 5 Cleveland

Love it! Perhaps my favorite M5.

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 from that same Borodin Trio CD.

I'm at a loss for words but will try:  on second thought--nope!  But will say that my soul felt like screaming during the fourth movement ("Allegretto") particularly earlier on during it.  Between the music and the liner notes including reminisces from Rostislav Dubinsky (from his book Not by Music Alone), it proved to be very difficult listening.  But it was certainly well worth the while.

Incredible piece of music.

PD

It's a stunner!

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev
String Quartet № 1 in F, Op. 92 (1941)
Pacifica Quartet

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It's a stunner!

Do you have a favorite recording of it Karl?

Prokofiev
String Quartet № 1 in F, Op. 92 (1941)
Pacifica Quartet

I've heard good things about their Shostakovich cycle.  How did you like their Prokofiev No. 1?

PD

[Sergeant Rock]

And thus, Ladies & Gentlemen: The French Correction!

Sarge

[classicalgeek]

That's one of my favourite Bliss CDs James - a very nice programme of fine performances. I agree about the sheep bells! Hugo Rignold's Lyrita performance is my favourite version (with the CBSO for whom the work was written) but I think that the Meditations on a Theme by John Blow has been well served on disc and I have enjoyed every recording of it, especially the new Andrew Davis performance.
+1 for Alfvén's 4th Symphony too.
This is my favourite recording of it:

Early morning listening - Bliss 'Introduction and Allegro'. This double CD set (which includes the Wordsworth disc) includes two versions of Introduction and Allegro - one conducted by Bliss himself:

I've enjoyed both the recordings I've heard, though I slightly prefer Davis's. But Wordsworth has a lot going for it. I'll have to hear to Introduction and Allegro - I'm not sure why, but I skipped it on the Wordsworth disc. I'll continue to sample Bliss's music - it's delightful stuff!

Alfvén's Fourth is an amazing piece - I was totally entranced by it! I'll have to see if I can track down Westerberg's recording - apparently Svetlanov recorded it too.

Thread duty:

Beethoven
Symphony no. 3
London Symphony Orchestra
Eugen Jochum



A lovely performance, with great woodwind and horn playing!

Bartok
The Wooden Prince
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Susanna Malkki
(on Spotify)



A simply magical score with equally magical orchestration. And I get why Malkki has been receiving acclaim for her Bartok - this is a magnificent performance!

[Karl Henning]

Do you have a favorite recording of it Karl?
I've heard good things about their Shostakovich cycle.  How did you like their Prokofiev No. 1?

PD

Love the entirety of that Pacifica set, PD!

As to the Op. 67, I have to say Argerich/Kremer/Maisky, but I really like the other recordings I have, too: the Bartos Trio on Hungaroton and the Beaux Arts Trio.

[vandermolen]

I've enjoyed both the recordings I've heard, though I slightly prefer Davis's. But Wordsworth has a lot going for it. I'll have to hear to Introduction and Allegro - I'm not sure why, but I skipped it on the Wordsworth disc. I'll continue to sample Bliss's music - it's delightful stuff!

Alfvén's Fourth is an amazing piece - I was totally entranced by it! I'll have to see if I can track down Westerberg's recording - apparently Svetlanov recorded it too.

Thread duty:

Beethoven
Symphony no. 3
London Symphony Orchestra
Eugen Jochum



A lovely performance, with great woodwind and horn playing!

Bartok
The Wooden Prince
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Susanna Malkki
(on Spotify)



A simply magical score with equally magical orchestration. And I get why Malkki has been receiving acclaim for her Bartok - this is a magnificent performance!

I have a number of performances of Alfven's 4th Symphony (it's known as OCD  ) including the Svetlanov (below) but the Westerberg remains my favourite - maybe because I got to know the work through that LP taken out of the High Street Kensington Record Library in London:

Wordsworth is a very rewarding conductor. Apart from his Bliss recordings there is an excellent 'Job' by Vaughan Williams.

[Karl Henning]

I have a number of performances of Alfven's 4th Symphony (it's known as OCD  )

(* chortle *)

TD:

Weinberg Pf Quintet, Op. 18 (arr.)
Kremerata Baltica

[vandermolen]

(* chortle *)

TD:

Weinberg Pf Quintet, Op. 18 (arr.)
Kremerata Baltica

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Pf trio in e minor, Op. 67
Martha Argerich, pf
Gidon Kremer, vn
Misha Maisky, vc