What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pancho Vladigerov, Piano Concerto No. 3.

[Karl Henning]

CD 47

Stravinsky
Orpheus
Danses concertantes

Mild corrigendum: I reserved this for this morning. Orpheus is one of my very favorite Stravinsky scores, and the Danses concertantes are brilliant, as well.

And now:

CD 2
As our JBS reported, mainly divers oddments, the lengthier tracks being "orchestral potpourris" drawn from Carmen, Tannhäuser and Gounod's Faust. The vanguard of "opera without words"?

[foxandpeng]

Mild corrigendum: I reserved this for this morning. Orpheus is one of my very favorite Stravinsky scores, and the Danses concertantes are brilliant, as well.

And now:

CD 2
As our JBS reported, mainly divers oddments, the lengthier tracks being "orchestral potpourris" drawn from Carmen, Tannhäuser and Gounod's Faust. The vanguard of "opera without words"?

Any Bax yet, Karl?

[Todd]

Disc 35.  Tchaikovsky 1 and Rach 2.  The Tchaikovsky boasts superior digital dexterity, but suffers from odd balances, some obvious edits, and a piano sometimes rather notably (ahem) out of tune.  The Rach is better, with Cziffra very much in his element.

[Karl Henning]

Any Bax yet, Karl?

Not as yet, will report!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Not as yet, will report!

Karl, have you seen the Lenny's pic I posted at the Pic I like thread?

[Que]

Yes I think its a very good set, I bought it when it was relatively cheap, 80 euro€. As for Shelf space, you can reduce the whole set to a third of the size by inserting them in Plastic CD sleeves. I have played the whole set now for the third time, and never get tired of it.

It does look like a fancy set, with lots of interesting historical organs.

I'll try some on Spotify and see how I like it.

[Karl Henning]

Karl, have you seen the Lenny's pic I posted at the Pic I like thread?

I had not. Thanks for the nudge!

[Florestan]

See what you think of, for example, Yudina and Gould op 118/1

Never heard any of them but I hope you don't imply that two pianists, one of which has a well-established reputation of being an eccentric (often for the pure sake of it) playing one single piece out of a few dozens somehow establish a norm of "aggressiveness and anger" in Brahms' late piano music --- as opposed to pretty much all other pianists I've ever heard which never made such a case. Heck, if one corroborates the late piano music with the late chamber music, the "aggressive and anger" approach strikes me as not mere eccentricity but utterly and completely wrong.

[Mandryka]

utterly and completely wrong.

How does one verify whether this assertion is justified?

[SonicMan46]

On Spotify:

 

I like what I hear! 

Hi Que - thought that you already bought some of these volumes?  I have the 9 volume numbered ones, plus I guess Vol. 0 inserted above as a MP3 DL; different fortepianists, many well known and a handful new to me but still excellent performances.  Dave

[VonStupp]

PI Tchaikovsky
All Night Vigil, op. 52
4 Short Choral Works

Latvian Radio Choir - Sigvards Kļava

I liked Tchaik's Vespers more than his Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. There seems to be more going on internally, even if the harmonic layout is still quite simple. Maybe it is because this music is harmonized around pre-existing chant.

The Latvian Radio Choir doesn't have that thick Russian choral quality, but I don't mind at all; it's all quite beautiful.  The paired choral works have more of a 'Russian' flavor.

The whole recording seems to be offered on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/v/K-FxJZfJdBI&ab_channel=LatvianRadioChoir-Topic

[Mirror Image]

Some various selections from this fabulous 2-CD set of Stravinsky's solo piano works with Oxana Shevchenko:

[SonicMan46]

Bach JS - just starting w/ the Art of the Fugue - own the 3 'versions' below, all that I've enjoyed - plenty of other permutations on this work, so expect some comments on alternates?  Just starting my Papa Bach selective listening of my collection - have about 260 discs (many in boxes w/ 80+ of the Cantatas, Suzuki & Gardiner - will likely not do a listen and stick to the instrumental works) - own multiple versions of his most famous works and need to cull down, so may be hoping for some advice, i.e. what to keep, what to cull, and what to replace?  Dave

P.S. the Janssen disc is from his Piano Box - goal is to get closer to 200 discs by eliminating the numerous duplications.

   

[Mirror Image]

Mild corrigendum: I reserved this for this morning. Orpheus is one of my very favorite Stravinsky scores, and the Danses concertantes are brilliant, as well.

Orpheus is also one of my favorites from Stravinsky, Karl. I need to re-familiarize myself with Danses concertantes. I recall enjoying it.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

Septet Op.20

[Florestan]

How does one verify whether this assertion is justified?

In no objective way whatever. Still, ninety-nine per cent of the recorded pianists and chamber ensembles can't be utterly and completely wrong. 

Seriously now, if you think / feel "aggressive and angry" is the way late Brahms' music should be played, more power to you --- and good luck in finding satisfying recordings.

[Linz]

Another Symphony 2 this time with Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker in the Carragan edition

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (piano duet version).
I enjoyed this much more than expected:

[Mandryka]

In no objective way whatever. Still, ninety-nine per cent of the recorded pianists and chamber ensembles can't be utterly and completely wrong. 

Seriously now, if you think / feel "aggressive and angry" is the way late Brahms' music should be played, more power to you --- and good luck in finding satisfying recordings.

Grimaud's another one. This is a great one, from Schnabel, which seems to me very emotionally complex. I remember finding it years ago and being knocked out -- none of my friends at the time even knew that he recorded solo Brahms. Revisiting it just now, I feel the same way

https://www.youtube.com/v/i1uOwSddmhM&ab_channel=incontrariomotu