What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Maybe related to the saint's martyrdom, or some existential symbolism ...

Actually, St. Catherine was beheaded but I think putting on the cover a bleeding female head would have been even more gruesome. Anyway, one of these two would have been very appropriate:



They both depict The Martyrdom of St. Catherine. The first is by Guercino, the second by Guido Reni.

[MusicTurner]

Mozart - Lucio Silla /Harnoncourt /teldec

An unusually fine recording of a good work.

[Sergeant Rock]

Atterberg Symphony No. 6 "Dollar"




Sarge

[MusicTurner]

Maybe related to the saint's martyrdom, or some existential symbolism ...

Contrary to one's expectations perhaps, it's a recent work (or paraphrase of earlier styles).

Hyperion's website says it's 'Tourniquet—upper arm' (2007), by Sarah Danays.
Tourniquet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourniquet

Danays does like to juxtapose traditional white sculpture materials with red corals:
http://www.robertbermangallery.com/exhibitions/sarah-danays-golden-bough

She used a 19th century bisqueware with antique corals
https://www.premiocombat.it/2017/sarah-danays-35354

http://sarahdanays.com/Uterine%20Dreams.html
" (...) In undertaking this, I hope to better understand the workings of the unconscious mind – primarily in its sleeping and dreaming states - and the method I describe as my "metaphysical surgery". In the act of making new work and the use of antique broken objects made by anonymous, long- past sculptors, I attempt to address my own emotional disturbances - and sometimes those of my dead collaborators.  (...)

The sculpture 'Saint Katherine' (2019), the latest piece in the artist's 'Arms of the Martyrs' series, referenced and completed a damaged Medieval alabaster panel from the V&A's archives. These and 'Tourniquet' (2007) feature in the aforementioned project's scholarly insert for the Binchois Consort/University of Birmingham's 'Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria' CD, released to critical acclaim on Hyperion Records in 2019."

[VonStupp]

PI Tchaikovsky
18 Secular Choruses
Moscow Academy of Choral Singing - Viktor Popov

For this afternoon and evening:

VS

 

[Karl Henning]

Goedeavond I guess, being terrible with all the time differences. The excellence I share with you

You were right, it's now 1 in the afternoon here. I wished you good evening Dutch time, I was probably a shade early

[aligreto]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6, Nowak edition [Chailly]





The music in the opening movement is tentative and Chailly holds the hesitancy very well creating a wonderful atmosphere of tension in places. I find the scoring to be very engaging. The music of the wonderful slow movement is very lyrical and engaging, calming and appealing. The strings play wonderfully here. The music in the Scherzo is also quite tentative and contemplative to a large extent but that does not diminish its appeal in any way. Likewise with the final movement; it is also contemplative but it certainly has more assertion to it. Chailly's touch is light and his approach is expansive throughout allowing this often gentle music to speak for itself.

[aligreto]

Fergus,

The soloist is Wilbert Hazelzet (flute)
Recorded: 1982-01

Thank you very much, Olivier.

[Harry]

You were right, it's now 1 in the afternoon here. I wished you good evening Dutch time, I was probably a shade early

Well its 19:20 in the evening with me, but you were closer as I was, by far

[Karl Henning]

"Wolferl"
Pf Cto in D, K.451
Volodya

[bhodges]

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Evgeny Kissin / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / Myung-Whun Chung, conductor, Salle Pleyel, Paris, 19 September, 2014)

Hadn't heard this one, and like it a lot. My go-to version is with Ashkenazy, Haitink, and the Concertgebouw, and I have heard Garrick Ohlsson, Yuja Wang, and others -- all good, so not sure how I would rank them. Anyway, this one will do just fine. Outstanding audio and video from Arte.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4zkc7KEvYM

--Bruce

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Jacques Ibert.

[André]

+ 1 for the Pfitzner violin concerto and the Yoshimatsu disc (including the guitar concerto: a peach !).

Yesterday I listened to Chopin's 1st PC with Gilels and Ormandy. I have come to the conclusion that Gilels didn't understand Chopin then (1965) as he would later in his career. The 1st movement contains yarns of pianistic filigree and note doodling for which he uses a jeu perlé with nary a dynamic gradation. It fails to ignite the material. Samson François OTOH uses the same jeu perlé to magical effect. I prefer Rubinstein and Horszowski to both, but François shows how that approach can work. Gilels doesn't. The orchestral accompaniment is superbly judged by Ormandy.

[classicalgeek]

By Schmitt, the masterpiece in the chamber form is the monumental, sumptuous and intensely lyric Piano Quintet in B minor! Don't miss it when you decide to adventure by yourself!

I also find more interesting the 2nd Quartet, there is more "Ivesian" identity, though I do like the hymn-like and pastoral 1st.

I've added Schmitt's Piano Quintet (Naxos recording) to my Spotify queue. I'll let you know what I think!

Selections from this wonderful recording:

Gorgeous songs, aren't they? I've enjoyed the iconic Netania Davrath recording as well as (I think) Dawn Upshaw's; I'll have to give Gens a listen. I've heard good things about her performance.

TD:
Charles Ives
Symphony no. 4
American Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski
(on Spotify)



I wonder if the American Symphony Orchestra was a pickup group? No matter, they play wonderfully - and Stokowski's style suits Ives really well. The choir, though their contributions are minimal, sounds excellent.

[vandermolen]

Sibelius: Symphony No.2

[Mandryka]

Contrary to one's expectations perhaps, it's a recent work (or paraphrase of earlier styles).

Hyperion's website says it's 'Tourniquet—upper arm' (2007), by Sarah Danays.
Tourniquet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourniquet

Danays does like to juxtapose traditional white sculpture materials with red corals:
http://www.robertbermangallery.com/exhibitions/sarah-danays-golden-bough

She used a 19th century bisqueware with antique corals
https://www.premiocombat.it/2017/sarah-danays-35354

http://sarahdanays.com/Uterine%20Dreams.html
" (...) In undertaking this, I hope to better understand the workings of the unconscious mind – primarily in its sleeping and dreaming states - and the method I describe as my "metaphysical surgery". In the act of making new work and the use of antique broken objects made by anonymous, long- past sculptors, I attempt to address my own emotional disturbances - and sometimes those of my dead collaborators.  (...)

The sculpture 'Saint Katherine' (2019), the latest piece in the artist's 'Arms of the Martyrs' series, referenced and completed a damaged Medieval alabaster panel from the V&A's archives. These and 'Tourniquet' (2007) feature in the aforementioned project's scholarly insert for the Binchois Consort/University of Birmingham's 'Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria' CD, released to critical acclaim on Hyperion Records in 2019."

Ah yes, I forgot about their involvement with modern art. Thanks.

[vandermolen]

I've added Schmitt's Piano Quintet (Naxos recording) to my Spotify queue. I'll let you know what I think!

Gorgeous songs, aren't they? I've enjoyed the iconic Netania Davrath recording as well as (I think) Dawn Upshaw's; I'll have to give Gens a listen. I've heard good things about her performance.

TD:
Charles Ives
Symphony no. 4
American Symphony Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski
(on Spotify)



I wonder if the American Symphony Orchestra was a pickup group? No matter, they play wonderfully - and Stokowski's style suits Ives really well. The choir, though their contributions are minimal, sounds excellent.

Nostalgia trip with that Ives LP!

[classicalgeek]

Nostalgia trip with that Ives LP!

I really like the cover especially! I actually listened on Spotify on a collection called 'Leopold Stokowski: The Columbia Stereo Recordings' - but in looking around for cover art to post, I had to choose this one!

[André]

Symphony no 3 'Heroic' (for strings only) by Gavriil Popov (+ a filler). Honestly not in the same league as that composer's outstanding symphonies 1 and 2. Thank you Spotify, you made me save money 0:)

[Linz]

Arnold Bax Symphonies 1 And 6 with Bryden Thomson