What are you listening 2 now?

[Biffo]

Sibelius: Kullervo - Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, choruses & soloists conducted by Paavo Berglund

[Mirror Image]

Sibelius: Kullervo - Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, choruses & soloists conducted by Paavo Berglund

Pretty good performance, but the one in Bournemouth is even better.

[Harry]

Gabriel Pierne.
Orchestral Works, Volume II.
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena.

[Irons]

Benjamin Britten
The Complete String Quartets
Brodsky Quartet

I've come to enjoy the Britten SQs very much in the last few months, particularly #1. Excellent in their own right, but great palate cleansers for a morning of PMD.

No.1 for me too.

[Karl Henning]

"Wolferl"
Rondo in A, K. 386
Volodya Ashkenazy
Primo!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jacque Ibert: Diane de Poitiers. Adriano/Moscow.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

I am listening to a new arrival in the mail, Josquin Des Prez, not him again  I have like zillion album of Des Prez yes I do, it's that riddiculeous, what is so special about this one, oh well it's a lyricord, it's Capella Cordina, it'S directed by Alejandro Planchart.

So had listen to side B the secular part of it, the sound quality his awesome, good album overall.

Now I will listen to Nokter Balbulus on Christophorus Label, you know the monk of St Gallens Swistzerland one of first scribe  musican theorician, composer we know from 8 century, but I leave you whit a serious question  whit this post there is Ensemble Gilles de Binchois Dominique rendition of this, seen it  on the web , out of p^rint and were costy, like 88 US , is it worth it more than my album?

[SonicMan46]

Several recent acquisitions:

Danzi, Franz (1763-1826) - Clarinet Works w/ the wonderful Eduard Brunner to complement my Wind Quintets.

Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725) - Flute Concertos; father of Domenico and best known as an opera and cantata composer in Naples, he wrote some enjoyable instrumental music - I own about a half dozen of his non-vocal works, a number for the flute.  Dave

 

[ritter]

Some Schoenberg this evening: Michael Gielen conducts the Chamber Symphony No. 2, Kol Nidre (with reciter James Johnson and the Rundfunkchor Berlin), the Piano Concerto (with the great Claude Helffer as pianist) and the Theme and Variations, op. 43b. The orchestras are those of the SWR (Baden-Baden and Freiburg, except for the PC, which is Stuttgart).

CD 8 of this marvellous set:

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony 3 with Karl Bohm and the Wiener Philharmoniker

[Iota]

I attended an all-Chopin recital of his [Pogorelich] here in Athens recently, and he maintained this slow and rigid pulse throughout - and when I say slow, I mean truly glacial. Beautiful tone, but insufferable in the long run. The only thing that resembled its "proper" tempo was the finale of the Third Sonata. As for his tone, it was never hard and he elicited many colours and dynamic nuances from his piano. I daresay that your hunch is correct and that the harshness of tone you're hearing in the recording is the engineers' doing rather than Pogorelich's.

I heard Pogorelich play the Rachmaninov Moments Musicaux on disc at an almost crazily slow pace a couple of years ago, but he seemed so completely committed to it and produced something I found entrancing at the time.

Nice!

It most certainly is. 


Here:



Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra,

Pontinen, Derwinger (pianos), Vanska (cond.)


There's something a little Schumannesque in the way Poulenc impulsively throws moods and hues into play, though the effect/language is obviously quite different. A very ebullient/wistful and adroitly put-together piece, with a particularly lovely coda to the first movement, which rather delightfully summoned up childhood memories of frost on window panes.

[Linz]

Haydn Nelson Mass with Trevor Pinnock

[VonStupp]

PI Tchaikovsky
Symphony 4 in f minor, op. 36
Royal PO - Daniele Gatti

This performance puts the F in fast!?! Might not have poetic subtlety, but there is plenty of excitement.

VS

[bhodges]

Scriabin: Poème de l'extase (Cristian Măcelaru / Orchestre national de France) - Marvelous.

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

"Wolferl"
Rondo in D, K. 382
Volodya Ashkenazy

[listener]

WALTON: Henry V   arr. Christopher Palmer
BBC S.O.   Leonard Slatkin, cond.
with chorus and narrator
              Façade    complete  -  all 40 poems
Melologos Ensemble,  Pamela Hunter, reciter
Silveer van den Broeck, cond.

[ritter]

A rare appearance of Iannis Xenakis chez ritter....

CD 1 of this twofer (the EIC —or, depending on the case, members thereof— play Phlegra, Jalons, Keren, Nomos Alpha, and Thalleïn). The conductors are Michel Tabachnik and Pierre Boulez.

[Linz]

Pinnock & Standage with the Engish Concert with more Haydn

[JBS]

PI Tchaikovsky
Symphony 4 in f minor, op. 36
Royal PO - Daniele Gatti

This performance puts the F in fast!?! Might not have poetic subtlety, but there is plenty of excitement.

VS

Is he as fast was Solti was? [Which is my favorite precisely because he's so zippy.]

[Mandryka]

Now I will listen to Nokter Balbulus on Christophorus Label, you know the monk of St Gallens Swistzerland

Is there any polyphonic music from St Gallen?

, but I leave you whit a serious question  whit this post there is Ensemble Gilles de Binchois Dominique rendition of this, seen it  on the web , out of p^rint and were costy, like 88 US , is it worth it more than my album?

I think that Dominique Vellard doesn't do the same music as Stefan Morent.

However, when it comes to the St Gallen tradition, I very much enjoy the recording by Godehard Joppich.