What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

On Spotify for now, but that should be correct soon.

Gorgeous! 

[Florestan]

Two charming discs that allowed me to forget for a while the horrors nearby.



Solo piano works by Haitian composers Ludovic Lamothe (nicknamed "Chopin of the Caribbeans"), Justin Elie and Edmond Santonge. Tuneful and uplifting pieces though not without melancholy tinges and full of tropical flavour. They reminded me of two Ernesto's: Lecuona and Nazareth.



Mrs / Ms Hioki eschews the grand and the heroic in the Ballads in favor of the lyrical and the intimate. I like it,

[Traverso]

Morning listening on Spotify:



This I should definitely get on disc!

You will find it in this box 

[Traverso]

Schütz

[vers la flamme]

Franz Schubert: Mass No.6 in E-flat major, D 950. Bruno Weil, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Vienensis

First listen to this recording; it sounds great.

[vandermolen]

Lyatoshinsky: Symphony No.2
Now on to the epic No.3 'Peace will Defeat War' - let us hope so.

[Harry]

Ignaz von Beecke.

3 SQ.

Arioso Quartet.

The last and first time I played this CD was in April 2005, and that is a long time ago. This comes from the fact that I bought a awful lot of CD'S between 1990-2010. I had so many to play that one hearing had to suffice. Now I am discovering all the beautiful music I have. I started streaming a week ago, and that will reduce the amount of Chamber music I will buy. Secondly what I buy will only be the things I cannot live without. For at my age and in this time, I need to go listen again to what I have. I started January 2022, and am on my way.
The composer of these SQ makes very pleasant music with enough sparkle and holds your interest. With this comes a pristine performance and recording. This CD is OOP, at most sites.

[Madiel]

Dvorak, Czech Suite.



Intended to be pretty much a 3rd 'serenade', but with a distinctly Czech flavour. Charming music that should be better known - by me as much as anyone.

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

[Madiel]

Chopin, Ashkenazy original LPs volume 10



Side A is the op.24 mazurkas and op.26 polonaises.

Side B starts with the op.27 nocturnes, and includes posthumously published works - mazurkas, waltzes, the A flat 'prelude' and the Fantaisie-Impromptu.

...I am almost certainly going to buy some more Chopin sheet music after this. Possibly even duplicates of what I have but in the Chopin National Edition. Not only do I want to choose my recordings of music carefully, now I'm choosing my sheet music carefully!

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.6

[San Antone]

Schubert | Sonata in B-Flat Major, D. 960 | András Schiff

András Schiff's reputation as one of the great interpreters of the work of Franz Schubert is long-established. He has always maintained that Schubert's music is amongst the most moving ever written. Schiff underlined the point on his ECM New Series album with the C Major fantasies at the end of the 1990s, and he does so again on this remarkable recording, on which two Schubert sonatas, the 'Musical Moments', four Impromptus (D 935), the 'Hungarian Melody' and an Allegretto are addressed on a period instrument, the fortepiano. András Schiff: 'My fortepiano was built by Franz Brodmann in Vienna in 1820. It is to me ideally suited to Schubert's keyboard works Therre is something quintessentially Viennese in its timbre, its tender mellowness, its melancholic cantabilità. ... It is in the quiet and quietest moments when Schubert - like nobody else - touches our hearts."  ECM

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Villa-Lobos
String Quartets Nos. 7 & 15
Cuarteto Latinoamericano

[Harry]

Johann Christian Bach.
Piano Trio, opus 2 & 15.
Trio 1790.


For me one of the best period instruments performances I ever heard of these Piano trios. And the sound is also an ear catcher.
The Hammerflügel after Matthäus Heilmann (1780) by Derek Adlam 1978, is to be applauded. This is exactly how a Hammerflügel should sound.
The Harpsichord in the Flemish style (1750) by Klaus Ahrend, 1972, also made my jaw drop in pleasant amazement.

The six trios op. 2 and the two later ones op. 15 mark a quite significant step on the way to the strings' equality with the keyboard instrument: one is virtually listening to a later genre of such importance in the making. This should not be understood as a diminution: Bach's inventiveness and charming melodiousness were already highly popular with his contemporaries. As the young Mozart wrote to his father: "I love him (as you well know) with all my heart and have high regard for him."

[foxandpeng]

Pēteris Vasks' Flute Concerto 
    Atvars Lakstīgala, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Dita Krenberga (flute)

+1

[Karl Henning]

CD 25

Joh. Strauss II
Der Zigeunerbaron—Overture

Joh. Strauss I
Radetzky March, Op. 228

Joh. Strauss II
G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op. 325

Joh. Strauss II & Jos. Strauss
Pizzicato Polka

Joh. Strauss II
Annen Polka, Op. 117
Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 257
An der Schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314

Émile Waldteufel
Les Patineurs, Op. 183

Franz Lehár
Gold und Silber—Walzer, Op. 79

[Harry]

Christan Flor & Dietrich Becker.

"Musicalische Frühlings-Früchte"
Northern German Dance Suites from the 17th Century.

Musica Poetica, Jörn Boysen.

Includes 6 World Premiere recordings.

O, yes this is absolutely fab! Not only are these  highly skilled compositions, but very entertaining music as well. Pristine recordings too! In this case I highly recommend it, if you do not have it already, and in that case I would urge you to listen to it again, it's worth the small effort.


FonoForum 11/09: "With Jörn Boysen and his colleagues, this music is music, as is not to be expected from artists trained at conservatoires, this music is in very good hands, the dance movements are well grasped, phrasing and articulation are convincing, and the Interpretive approach seems altogether quite witty."

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Joseph Jongen: Tableaux pittoresques.

[Spotted Horses]

More Crawford Seeger.



The Suite No 2 for Piano and String Quartet was a delight. I also listened to two "Diaphonic Suites" which didn't make a strong impression.

[vandermolen]

Howard Hanson Symphony No.1 'Nordic'.
I like Schermerhorn's reflective yet powerful performance.
'Pan and the Priest' Symphonic Poem is especially fine - unique to this recording I think: