What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Streaming Qobuz.

Wenzel Heinrich Veit.

SQ  No. 1 & 2.

Volume I.

Kertesz Quartet.

First encounter with this unknown composer. Really nice SQ, not in the class I must absolutely have this, but inventive they are. And it must be said the Kertesz Quartet have a wonderful ensemble balance, and sweet sound. Recording is intimate.

[vandermolen]

[Iota]

Thanks for posting this - you've encouraged me to revisit this piece which, upon first hearing, didn't strike me as one of Arnold's more inspired works.

It may well not be. As a novice in Arnold territory I don't have a lot to compare it with. And composed at the end of his life in a poor state of health and having some agreed to revisions by David Ellis, you may well not be alone in that assessment. To me it seems yet another enjoyable work, full of spontaneous little curiosities and lovely touches, not aspiring to greatness, and not needing to.


Here:



Bartok: Piano Concerto 2
Zoltán Kocsis (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer

I thought I hadn't heard Kocsis play the Bartok concertos before, am not so sure now. Anyway, brilliant, nervy, dark, turbocharged, it needed hearing!

[Florestan]

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[VonStupp]

JS Bach
Brandenburg Concerto 2, BWV 1047

Robert Ehrlich -recorder
Henrik Wahlgren - oboe, Julian Sommerhalder - trumpet
Sebastian Breuninger - violin, Christian Giger - cello
Gewandhaus - Riccardo Chailly

My knowledge of listening to recorder begins and ends with 4th grade music students and Hot Cross Buns.

Since I hardly listen to early music, imagine my surprise at what a warm, beautiful sound they can make professionally. Particularly as part of a concertante group with orchestra, as here.

My most pleasant surprise of the week.    VS

[Spotted Horses]

I listened to two string quartets of Vaughan Williams (g-minor and a-minor) in a recording by the Maggini Quartet (Naxos). I also listened to a recording of the a-minor quartet by the Music Group of London (EMI). I've never listened to these works before.





The earlier quartet was written when RVW was a student, the second a mature work which features the viola, which I enjoy. I found all three recordings very satisfying.

[Harry]

Johann Christian Bach.
Quintets opus 11, 1-6.

Camerata des 18 Jahrhunderts, Konrad Hünteler.

Excellent.

[Todd]

[bhodges]

Last night's excellent concert from the Minnesota Orchestra is available for one week (free). I watched with a friend who was eager but not knowledgeable about classical music at all, and she loved it. (She's more of a jazz fan.) Canellakis continues to impress; I'm wondering if she is a candidate to lead the orchestra after Osmo Vänskä leaves at the end of this season. And Queyras was fantastic. High marks to the orchestra's production staff, for the superb audio and video.

Minnesota Orchestra
Karina Canellakis, conductor
Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

Julia Perry - Short Piece for Orchestra
R. Strauss - Don Quixote
Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances

https://mnorch.vhx.tv/videos/live-2-25-canellakis-conducts-don-quixote

--Bruce

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Saint-Saëns
Mélodies Persanes, Op. 26
Anaïs Constans, Axelle Fanyo, Philippe Estèphe, Jérôme Boutillier, Éléonore Pancrazi, Artavazd Sargsyan
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
Leo Hussain



I now have listened to this work twice in a row. Absolutely gorgeous.

[vandermolen]

I listened to two string quartets of Vaughan Williams (g-minor and a-minor) in a recording by the Maggini Quartet (Naxos). I also listened to a recording of the a-minor quartet by the Music Group of London (EMI). I've never listened to these works before.





The earlier quartet was written when RVW was a student, the second a mature work which features the viola, which I enjoy. I found all three recordings very satisfying.

The Violin Sonata is probably my favourite piece of VW instrumental chamber music. The best recording is on that fine EMI CD.

[Traverso]

 Haydn

CD 9

[Karl Henning]

Haydn

CD 9

I listened last night: charming as ever. Now:

CD 10Symphony № 82 in C, « The Bear » Hob I:82Symphony № 83 in g minor, « The Hen » Hob I:83

[VonStupp]

JS Bach
Brandenburg Concerto 4, BWV 1049

Antje Hensel, Robert Ehrlich - recorder
Sebastian Breuninger - violin
Gewandhaus - Riccardo Chailly

VS

[Karl Henning]

JS Bach
Brandenburg Concerto 4, BWV 1049

Antje Hensel, Robert Ehrlich - recorder
Sebastian Breuninger - violin
Gewandhaus - Riccardo Chailly

VS

Nice. That was the first of the six I got to know, back when.

[foxandpeng]

Vagn Holmboe
Chamber Music I
Primavera
Gioco
Flute Sonata
Ballata
Quartet
Ensemble MidtVest

These are fine pieces. I'm particularly keen on Primavera, Gioco and the Quartet.

[vers la flamme]

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music. Adrian Boult, London Philharmonic Orchestra, soloists

Sounds good.

[Karl Henning]

Vagn Holmboe
Chamber Music I
Primavera
Gioco
Flute Sonata
Ballata
Quartet
Ensemble MidtVest

These are fine pieces. I'm particularly keen on Primavera, Gioco and the Quartet.

Excellent!

[VonStupp]

JS Bach
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Christina Landshamer - soprano, Marie‐Claude Chappuis - mezzo
Johannes Chum - evangelist, Hanno Müller‐Brachmann - Jesus
Maximilian Schmitt - tenor, Klaus Häger - bass, Thomas Quasthoff - bass
Thomanerchor Leipzig & Tölzer Knabenchor
Gewandhaus - Riccardo Chailly

Part I for later today & a first time listen to this work:

I like how the physical media lists all of the instrumental solos throughout, something I don't always see in favor of the vocalists.

VS

[Karl Henning]

I admit that after this disc, I'll listen again to the Czech Phil in the Elgar Op. 47 ... there is an intensity in Ančerl's live recording which I wonder if Sir Jn's can match.

CD 21

Elgar
Symphony № 1 in A^b, Op. 55
Introduction & Allegro, Op. 47
Elegy, Op. 58