What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

First Ladies.

Three Romantic Violin sonatas by:
Elfrida Andree, Mel Bonis,  & Ethel Smyth.

Annette-Barbara Vogel, Violin.
Durval Cesetti, Piano.

A CD close to my heart. A real find and highly treasured.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Martinu's wonderful String Quartet No. 7 "Concerto da Camera" with the Prazak Quartet on Praga.

PD

[André]

I have not listened to Bruckner in quite some time. I have three sets unexplored at the moment:
Celidibache: 3-9
Chailly: 0-9
Klemperer 4-9

I plan to listen to one of the sets early next year but I have not decided on which one to initially investigate.

Tangentially, I have always felt that one of the great missing links in gramophone history would have been a recording of the 3rd symphony by Klemperer and the Philharmonia. I have a feeling it would have been awesome in all respects.

[aligreto]

Mahler: Symphony No. 8 [Tennstedt]





The tone is set for this presentation of Part I from the opening bars. A deep growling organ and a fulsome choir in full flight. It is an expansive sounding recording. There is great power in this version which is capably delivered. However, it is also capable of handling the wide range of dynamics reasonably well in a recorded sound that is well balanced for the greater part. Part II is obviously more tranquil in its scope for the most part and this is handled sensitively and delicately here. The tone is on the pathetique, tragic side with a wonderful sense of tension and drama with a bit of wistfulness thrown in also. The tone changes very appropriately as the movements progress and it is all sensitively handled here. The conclusion is suitably powerful and resolutory.

My only gripe here is that I am not enamoured of the voice of the soprano, Roschmann, with her, for me, constantly excessive vibrato. I simply find it too much and tiring. Otherwise, this is an excellent presentation overall.

[aligreto]

Tangentially, I have always felt that one of the great missing links in gramophone history would have been a recording of the 3rd symphony by Klemperer and the Philharmonia. I have a feeling it would have been awesome in all respects.

Interestingly, of the older generation conductors I have a high regard for Klemperer and of the older established orchestras I also have a high regard for the sound of the Philharmonia so I am not going to disagree with you on this point. 

[aligreto]

Saint-Saëns

It feels like time to relisten this recording 

Septet in B flat
Tarantelle in A minor
Bassoon sonata in G major
Piano Quartet in B flat major

I hope that you are enjoying it, Jan.
I am finding it to be excellent. 

[SonicMan46]

I was ahead of you...    Harry and I came to a similar conclusion.
It seems that Brilliant simply put De Luca's previously selfpublished recordings on disc. It sounds more improvised than considered, energetic "off the cuff" playing in flamboyant style. Soly's take is more balanced and has depth, it is less focused on the "thrills". Still, De Luca's achievement is impressive with the limited time and means he had at his disposal. I surely might dip into his set on Spotify, but Soly's recordings are worth their weight in gold.

Hi Que - thanks for the comments above - love Soly so will certainly remain in my collection - I've been listening to De Luca on Spotify, added as a playlist, but will not make a purchase (one set of these works will be fine w/ me).  Dave

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Kodály
Peacock Variations
Hungarian State Orchestra
Dorati

[Harry]

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Piano trio No 1 & 2.

Schweizer Klaviertrio.

Absolute pleasure in every respect.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Dipped into Ciurlionsis's "Born of the Human Soul" but decided to leave the rest of that album for this evening.  Need something a bit 'zippier' now to keep my energy level up for busy day today.

PD

[Karl Henning]

Martinu's wonderful String Quartet No. 7 "Concerto da Camera" with the Prazak Quartet on Praga.

PD

Very nice!

[Karl Henning]

Great fun!

https://www.youtube.com/v/bCRzEwIYm-c

[Que]

[SonicMan46]

Moscheles, Ignaz (1794-1870) - Piano Sonatas w/ Michele Bolla on a McNulty fortepiano after Conrad Graf, 1819 and Music for Flute and Piano w/ Kazumori Seo & Makoto Ueno on modern instruments. Moscheles was a Bohemian piano virtuoso, composer, and teacher who studied early with Albrechtsberger for counterpoint and theory and Salieri for composition in Vienna. He then became based in London and finally in Leipzig, where he died. His list of compositions included 142 Opus numbers (and more w/o numbers), including 7 extant Piano Concertos (which make up half of my small collection). - Dave

 

[ritter]

NP:

Kodály
Peacock Variations
Hungarian State Orchestra
Dorati

Lovely disc! Good day, John.

THREAD DUTY:

The Cuarteto Latinoamericano plays Villa-Lobos' SQ No. 7 and No. 15.

CD3 of the complete set.

[Mirror Image]

Lovely disc! Good day, John.

THREAD DUTY:

The Cuarteto Latinoamericano plays Villa-Lobos' SQ No. 7 and No. 15.

CD3 of the complete set.

It sure is, Rafael. And a good day to you as well

Speaking of Villa-Lobos, I should revisit his SQs at some juncture. Love those works.

[Mirror Image]

Various Webern works (I'm not going to list them here) from this Boulez box set:

[Maestro267]

Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D major ("Ghost")
Barenboim (piano), Zukerman (violin), du Pré (cello)

Ravel: String Quartet
Alban Berg Quartett

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 12
Brodsky Quartet

[Que]

[Karl Henning]

CD 3:
Shostakovich
String Quartet № 1 in C, Op. 49 (1938)
String Quartet № 15  in e^b minor, Op. 144 (1974)