What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

Warm vibes to you, friend!

Thank you, sir.

[Linz]

Another Mozart Requiem this time with Daniel Barenboimwith Janet Baker and all

[Madiel]

This may be my favorite Brautigam recording, particularly the viola sonata. He is a versatile musician.

I have that album, though I have an older cover (any physical copy was rather hard to find). Somehow I got it into my head it was the best version of those works to get.

[André]

Pounds the table!

NP:

Berio
Voci (Folk Songs II)
Kim Kashkashian (viola)
Radio Symphonieorchester Wien
Dennis Russell Davies

A fantastic disc !

[SonicMan46]

Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 "Tempest" | Eric Zivian, fortepiano

Eric Zivian, fortepiano

Eric is playing a copy of a Dulcken fortepiano (Vienna, 1795) built in Berkeley in the 1980s by Paul Poletti and Janine Johnson.

Thanks San Antone for the link and info on Eric Zivian - completely unaware of these recordings - hard to tell the quality of the recording on my laptop but have YouTube on my Apple TV w/ the audio going optically to my den stereo - will take a better listen later and glad of the absence of audience applause -     Dave

[Mirror Image]

A fantastic disc !

Absolutely, André.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Bacewicz
String Quartet No. 4
Silesian Quartet



A brilliant set of string quartets that reward with each successive listening.

[San Antone]

Download or streaming I suppose, but no physical CDs?

They are available on the Valley of the Moon Music Festival YouTube channel. 

Valley of the Moon Music Festival brings the unique sound of Classical and Romantic chamber music on period instruments to audiences in Sonoma and beyond, and expands the horizons of up-and-coming chamber musicians in our Apprenticeship Program.

Their YT channel has dozens of concerts posted as well as some lectures about the music.

I don't think they've produced any CDs or even downloads.

[classicalgeek]

Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol
Scheherazade
London Symphony Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
(on Spotify)



Thanks Florestan for the recommendation! A fiery, passionate Scheherazade and a rousing Capriccio Espagnol. Markevitch might come up just short of Reiner in sheer intensity, but I like Markevitch's overall pacing better. 

[Mirror Image]

Revisiting one of my favorite recordings of both works from Stravinsky and Bartók with Christoph von Dohnányi and the Wiener Philharmoniker:

[Karl Henning]

Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol
Scheherazade
London Symphony Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
(on Spotify)



Thanks Florestan for the recommendation! A fiery, passionate Scheherazade and a rousing Capriccio Espagnol. Markevitch might come up just short of Reiner in sheer intensity, but I like Markevitch's overall pacing better. 

Tangentially:

CD 19

Sir Jn B (arranger)
Elizabethan Suite (after Byrd, Anon., Farnaby & Bull)

Chabrier
España

Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34

Lyadov
The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62

Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Fauré
Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80—Suite from incidental music

Ibert
Divertissement

[Linz]

The Second CD with Raymond Lepperd with Concerto grossos

[vers la flamme]

Reiner's would be hard to top! I'm sure there are other fine performances out there, and I've heard mainly positive things about Markevitch. I'm looking forward to sampling Riccardo Muti's Philadelphia Orchestra recording.

An excellent recording! Of all the works, especially the vocal ones.

TD:
Kosaku Yamada
*Overture in D major
Symphony in F major
The Dark Gate
Flower of Mandala
*New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa
(on Spotify)



The Overture and Symphony were pleasant, tuneful works - but rather derivative. I caught a strong influence of Schumann, and more than a little bit of Brahms; these two works could have easily been written 50 years prior to their 1912 composition date. The two tone poems were more interesting harmonically and formally, at least.

I heard more Mendelssohn and Dvorák, but I suppose the critique stands. Still I love this disc. I'm a sucker for high Romantic music written in the 20th century. Definitely sounds like it could have come from the turn of the 19th century, but brilliant melodicism. Very tuneful indeed.

Incidentally I am also listening to the same composer:



Kôsçak Yamada: Sinfonia, "Inno Meiji" & Choreographic Symphony, "Maria Magdalena". Takuo Yuasa, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Brilliant disc, and these two works are my favorite of the three. Yamada at his most Wagnerian, or Straussian (can't tell always which). Very expansive, very Romantic.

[Karl Henning]

CD 6

Symphony № 45 in f# minor, « Farewell » Hob I:45
Symphony № 101 in D, « The Clock » Hob I:101

[André]

My modest contribution to this week's musical Nippon-o-thon :



Very enjoyable program  .

[VonStupp]

JS Bach
Brandenburg Concerto 6, BWV 1051

Dorothea Hemken, Olaf Hallmann - viola
Katharina Schlegel, Thomas Fritzsch - viola da gamba
Christian Giger - cello, Christian Ockert - double bass
Gewandhaus - Riccardo Chailly

[Karl Henning]

JS Bach
Brandenburg Concerto 6, BWV 1051

Dorothea Hemken, Olaf Hallmann - viola
Katharina Schlegel, Thomas Fritzsch - viola da gamba
Christian Giger - cello, Christian Ockert - double bass
Gewandhaus - Riccardo Chailly

How's the character?

[André]

Warm performances of both works. The orchestra's strings at the beginning of the symphony are not as black and electric as the NBC's under Toscanini, but their intensity and commitment are never in doubt. It should come as no surprise that the orchestra (the brass esp.) has a darker, more blended sonority than its other gallic counterparts. In the 19th and 20th centuries Strasbourg was alternately French, then German, then French, German again and finally French following WWII. The Philharmonic was honed under Pfitzner, Mottl, Klemperer, then Ropartz, Munch, Bour etc. Very good recorded sound. A fine disc.

[foxandpeng]

Vagn Holmboe
The Chamber Concertos and Sinfonias
Sinfonias I - IV Op 73a - d
Danish NCO
Hannu Koivula

I prefer this order to the Op 73 Sinfonias, to having them presented as Kairos. Personal preference, I know, but I find the insertion of the Preludio - Postludio movements less convincing. Beyond that, VH continues to deliver

[classicalgeek]

Tangentially:

CD 19

Sir Jn B (arranger)
Elizabethan Suite (after Byrd, Anon., Farnaby & Bull)

Chabrier
España

Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34

Lyadov
The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62

Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Fauré
Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80—Suite from incidental music

Ibert
Divertissement

Interesting! And how is Barbirolli's Capriccio Espagnol?

I heard more Mendelssohn and Dvorák, but I suppose the critique stands. Still I love this disc. I'm a sucker for high Romantic music written in the 20th century. Definitely sounds like it could have come from the turn of the 19th century, but brilliant melodicism. Very tuneful indeed.

Incidentally I am also listening to the same composer:



Kôsçak Yamada: Sinfonia, "Inno Meiji" & Choreographic Symphony, "Maria Magdalena". Takuo Yuasa, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Brilliant disc, and these two works are my favorite of the three. Yamada at his most Wagnerian, or Straussian (can't tell always which). Very expansive, very Romantic.

I do want to listen to the other Yamada disc - he's a voice I want to hear. As far as "high Romantic music written in the 20th century", I suppose I'm not one to talk! Way back in the day, I completed three movements (of four total) of a symphony *very* much in the style of Mahler...

My modest contribution to this week's musical Nippon-o-thon :



Very enjoyable program  .

Very nice, Andre. Another one for the (virtual) listening pile!

TD:

Toshiro Mayuzumi
Symphonic Mood
Bugaku
Mandala Symphony
Rumba Rhapsody
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa
(on Spotify)



Mayuzumi is a really fascinating composer, with a wide range of influences (from folk music to avant-garde) but a style all his own. About the only piece that left me less than impressed was the Rumba Rhapsody. I especially enjoyed the Mandala Symphony; a reminder that I need to listen to the Matsumura disc again.