What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

Disc three from the big box, music of Duphly and Balbastre, though a different mix than the old LP.  ~80 more minutes of delightful music.  Balbastre is quite a find for me.

[ritter]

Jean Hubeau plays Fauré (opp. 84 & 103). From CD4 of this set:

[vandermolen]

Have you heard Ibert's ballets Le chevalier errant and Les amours de Jupiter (on a Timpani CD) or his Ouverture de fête (on multiple Ibert compilations)? I think you'd enjoy these works very much, Jeffrey.

No, I haven't Kyle but I will certainly look out for them. I do have a Marco Polo CD of his film music.

[Karl Henning]

PI Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien, op. 45
Royal PO - Daniele Gatti

Oddly, I don't know if I have heard Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien before. It is certainly a sunny, affable work.

VS

In band transcription, it was probably the first Tchaikovsky work I heard live!

[Karl Henning]

"Wolferl"
Pf Cto in B^b, K. 595
Volodya Ashkenazy

[Traverso]

"Wolferl"
Pf Cto in B^b, K. 595
Volodya Ashkenazy

I like these recordings

[bhodges]

Elgar: Cello Concerto (Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Sol Gabetta, cello / Krzysztof Urbański, conductor, live performance from November 2021) - Though I am hardly an expert on versions of this piece (I like Jacqueline du Pre and Sheku Kanneh-Mason) Sol Gabetta does a beautiful job, and her instrument has quite the gorgeous tone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s7dTqlZI5Y

--Bruce

[VonStupp]

PI Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony, op. 58
Philharmonia Orchestra - Riccardo Muti (rec. 1981)

For this afternoon:

VS

[MusicTurner]

PI Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony, op. 58
Philharmonia Orchestra - Riccardo Muti (rec. 1981)

For this afternoon:

VS

An impressive recording, as far as I remember, with some huge-sounding highlights on the way ...

[MusicTurner]

    Ludwig van Beethoven's Coriolan Overture 
    David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich

An excellent set of overtures.

+1, and the symphonies as well.

[Karl Henning]

I like these recordings

They are a delight.

[SonicMan46]

Kalkbrenner, Friedrich (1785-1849) - Piano Concertos w/ Howard Shelley; Kalkbrenner was a famous virtuoso pianist whose fame was surpassed by pianists of a younger generation, as discussed below in the short bio. He was also a teacher and prolific piano composer w/ 175+ Opus numbers (LINK) - now listening to Shelley (excellent reviews attached along w/ one on the Consortium Classicum recording); own just two other CDs (bottom) - not a whole lot more on Amazon USA. Dave

P.S. from the oft funny reviews and CD inserts, Kalkbrenner was considered a vain, arrogant, and pompous butthole - maybe a partial explanation of the paucity of his works recorded (vs. some of the other second tier composers of the time period)?

Friedrich Kalkbrenner was a German-born French pianist, composer, and teacher whose compositions, mainly for piano, with an emphasis on virtuosity. Educated at the Paris Conservatory from 1799 to 1801, Kalkbrenner went on to Vienna, studying with Albrechtsberger and Haydn between 1803 and 1804. He began his career as a pianist with his move to London in 1814. He returned to Paris in 1824, joining the piano-building firm of Pleyel. The decade 1825–35 saw the height of his reputation as a performer, but after 1835 his fame was eclipsed by a new generation of pianists that included Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, and Sigismond Thalberg. Kalkbrenner's playing was marked by clarity and a beauty of tone. As a teacher, he invented a hand guide for the development of technique and wrote a piano method. (Source)

 

 

[VonStupp]

PI Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony, op. 58
Philharmonia Orchestra - Riccardo Muti (rec. 1981)

For this afternoon:

VS

An impressive recording, as far as I remember, with some huge-sounding highlights on the way ...

'Huge-sounding' is an excellent term, and of course I am left with the pipe organ entering at its final moments. A brawny performance for sure!

I also really like the artwork on this one. Something about the glowing pool of water in the bottom right against the browns of the left and the greys of the top half. The man and his dog seem minuscule against the towering height and beauty of the surrounding nature scene, but provide some movement to the landscape. The perspective of near to far ground is wonderful, and I would love to wander this myself.

VS

[aligreto]

Arnold: Overtures [Arnold]





Sussex Overture
Beckus The Dandipratt

[aligreto]

I also really like the artwork on this one. Something about the glowing pool of water in the bottom right against the browns of the left and the greys of the top half. The man and his dog seem minuscule against the towering height and beauty of the surrounding nature scene, but provide some movement to the landscape. The perspective of near to far ground is wonderful, and I would love to wander this myself.

Nicely put.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Milhaud La Création du Monde, Op. 81 (Munch)

[JBS]

Moving on to a very diverse bunch of music

The contents of this virtual CD (originally released separately)

Between which appear Mozart's 12 Variations on Ah! vous-dirai-je maman, five Lieder ohne Worte by Mendelssohn plus his Rondo Capriccioso Opus 14. And then the CD closes with music by Francois himself, the score to a 1963 caper Ballade pour un voyou

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0056848/

[Karl Henning]

Moving on to a very diverse bunch of music

The contents of this virtual CD (originally released separately)

Between which appear Mozart's 12 Variations on Ah! vous-dirai-je maman, five Lieder ohne Worte by Mendelssohn plus his Rondo Capriccioso Opus 14. And then the CD closes with music by Francois himself, the score to a 1963 caper Ballade pour un voyou

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0056848/

Quite a pot-pourri!

[Karl Henning]

"Wolferl"
Pf Cto in D, K. 537 « Coronation »
Volodya Ashkenazy

[Mirror Image]

NP: Ravel Gaspard de la nuit (François)