What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

I hopelessly failed on keeping up with the flood of German(ic) harpsichord and organ recordings on Brilliant Classics.

But the coming weeks I'll try to correct that and establish if there are any must haves amongst them!

I recently auditioned the Johann Krieger set. This morning Bach pupil Johann Ludwig Krebs:

I am interested what you make of Benuzzi's take on Krebs. On another note, i just ordered the Leo Hassler box on Brilliant. It promises an interesting journey. Hassler is woefully underrated and not much recorded.

[Harry]

Charles Avison.
12 Concerti Grossi (1744), after sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti.
CD II, concerti 7-12.
The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.

Really fine recordings and ditto performances. Still my favourite.

[Que]

I am interested what you make of Benuzzi's take on Krebs. On another note, i just ordered the Leo Hassler box on Brilliant. It promises an interesting journey. Hassler is woefully underrated and not much recorded.

I agree, Leo Hassler is hugely underrated! That organ set will definitely be on my play list. 

[Madiel]

Dvorak, Symphonic Variations

[Madiel]

Chopin, Fantasy on Polish Airs op.13

[Madiel]

Chopin, Piano Trio



EDIT: Thoroughly enjoyable piece, even if it doesn't have the distinctive individual stamp (heck, basically any Chopin that isn't solo piano sounds a little strange) it's still very nicely crafted. I might need a copy in my library.

[SimonNZ]

today:

[Harry]

Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi.

Complete Unpublished Works for Harpsichord and Organ.
Disc IV.

Roberto Loreggian plays on a Francesco Zanin organ 1998.

A fine acquisition, very worthwhile and a useful addition to the previous release of Frescobaldi's music by Loreggian. Sound quality is top notch.

[Mandryka]

I agree, Leo Hassler is hugely underrated! That organ set will definitely be on my play list. 

I agree this will be interesting to explore. I'm listening to a track chosen at random now, a magnificat, sounds good!  Serious and long.

(He doesn't seem to have included the variations on Ich gieng einmal spatieren - he must consider it harpsichord music.)

[prémont]

(He doesn't seem to have included the variations on Ich gieng einmal spatieren - he must consider it harpsichord music.)

Yes he did. Contents:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/hassler-complete-organ-music/hnum/10822712

[Madiel]

Oh, what the heck, let's end the evening with some pizazz even though I should be going to sleep.

Dvorak, Slavonic dances, Set 1, for piano 4-hands. Where the legend begins.

[Que]

I am interested what you make of Benuzzi's take on Krebs. On another note, i just ordered the Leo Hassler box on Brilliant. It promises an interesting journey. Hassler is woefully underrated and not much recorded.

I'm quite positive: Benuzzi's performances are light and bright, elegant, articulate. He uses a harpsichord after Michael Mietke and a pianoforte after Gottfried Silbermann, choices that work out excellently.

On the music: with more than 6hrs there is a lot of it. By reputation Krebs' music lacks originality and is very conservative.
There is indeed not a very personal/individual stamp on the music, but the quality as such is very high. Stylistically conservative to some extent, but his reputation on this seems exaggerated. The influences of the transition from Baroque to the Galant Style is definitely present, as are French and Italian influences.

[Florestan]

An excellent recording - one of the best I've heard in the Mendelssohn trios!

+ 1. All players are in top form.

[Florestan]

Hi Andrei - added the Overtures also more recently, just 3 CDs -    Dave

Judging from this Jaroussky recording, a personal favourite, Johann Christian was a gifted opera composer:

That Jaroussky looks enticing.

I recommend this as well:



which also contains my favorite concert aria by Mozart and by anyone, Per questa bella mano KV 612.

[Traverso]

Strange... maybe but this music is not

[Linz]

Ernest Ansermet and Falla on this Decca Legends CD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Oh, what the heck, let's end the evening with some pizazz even though I should be going to sleep.

Dvorak, Slavonic dances, Set 1, for piano 4-hands. Where the legend begins.

That's the spirit! 

Will put on some music soon...watching a bit more of the opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympics.

PD

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Complete Organ Works [Foccroulle] CD 3

Freie Formen, Chorale, und Fantasia "Wo Gott, der Herr" BWV 1128. This CD is played on two organs, the Rommel organ in the Blasii Kirche, Zella Mehlis and the Schnitger organ in the Martinikerk, Groningen.





It seems to my untrained ear that the recorded sound is very good in this set, at least in the first three CDs.

[Iota]

Novák: String Quartet No. 3

Why is not this masterpiece better known and more recorded? Thoroughly eloquent piece. That 2nd. movement Lento doloroso is something else.

Had a listen to that, first impression was very favourable, will be returning to it.  The only work I've heard by him before is In the Tatra Mountains.


Here:



Brahms: Op.117
Arcadi Volodos (piano)


The way Volodos seems to suspend sounds in the air is just breathtaking, it's sensationally beautiful playing. Indeed for me the 'sound' of his playing generally is one of the most beautiful there's ever been in piano, but I wonder if it might be too so for some in the Brahms (Lupu by comparison, another fantastic recording, almost bleeds the music onto the piano). I don't have any problem with his performance at all though, I find it unique and spellbinding.

[Que]