What are you listening 2 now?

[Operafreak]

Pärt: Kanon pokajanen/ Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss

[Biffo]

Haydn: Symphony No 93 in D major - New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach - Secular Cantatas Vol.6 (Suzuki)

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Janáček
In the Mists
Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor, JW VIII / 19 'From the Street'
András Schiff

[Todd]

Disc two.

[Klavier1]

I just started listening to this new release via Qobuz (24/192)--so far it's excellent.

[Brian]

African Pianism

an interesting mix
Ayo Bankole's variations have a bit of easy listening harmony but not a lot
Christian Onyeji's Igbo Dances have terrific rhythm and live up to the title in a musicological/Bartokish way
Fred Onovwerosuoke's Kaleidoscopes are the most abstract/western-modern works
Nabil Benabdeljalil's Nocturnes reflect Arabic influences, float between major and minor keys, and have a bit of a Saint-Saens-in-Egypt feel
the encores by Akin Euba are straight transcriptions of Yoruba folk songs

Enjoyable. The soloist doesn't get a ton to do in terms of sheer virtuosity or thrill or expressive depth, but she plays all the pieces very well.

[MusicTurner]

African Pianism

an interesting mix
Ayo Bankole's variations have a bit of easy listening harmony but not a lot
Christian Onyeji's Igbo Dances have terrific rhythm and live up to the title in a musicological/Bartokish way
Fred Onovwerosuoke's Kaleidoscopes are the most abstract/western-modern works
Nabil Benabdeljalil's Nocturnes reflect Arabic influences, float between major and minor keys, and have a bit of a Saint-Saens-in-Egypt feel
the encores by Akin Euba are straight transcriptions of Yoruba folk songs

Enjoyable. The soloist doesn't get a ton to do in terms of sheer virtuosity or thrill or expressive depth, but she plays all the pieces very well.

That's nice, and rare stuff of course. Interesting.

[Cato]

Hey, Cato! Good to see you and I do hope that everything gets better for you. Szymanowski is long-standing favorite of mine and, while I applaud Boulez for taking up the mantle, there are better performances of these works to be found elsewhere. Do check out the Rattle, Wit and Kord recordings. Kaspszyk also has some wonderful recordings on various labels (EMI, Warner Classics). Also, since you seemed to have responded rather positively to this composer's music, I also highly suggest the solo piano works, chamber music and Król Roger, which is one of my favorite operas of all-time.

King Roger has been on the list for a long time!  Many thanks for the comments and recommendations!


Quickly, let me add these:


https://www.youtube.com/v/ov-OAmpcRfw


And Nuhro by our resident composer  Karl Henning!!! An all-around fave!  It was the first work from Karl's oeuvre that I heard, and it remains a blessing for the ears!


https://www.youtube.com/v/r2vn2PB_-9g

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 2 Tintner with the National Orchestra of Ireland

[MusicTurner]

Am going through Brahms' complete chamber music, including the 1st Serenade, in the set recorded on the Mondo Musica label, boxes amounting to 14 CD. Soloists include Rony Rogoff and the I Cameristi soloists. The sound is good.

Have had the set for many years, but only listened a bit on and off. Listening more systematically now, firstly all of the chamber music with piano, and there are some fine recordings. The only disappointing one so far has been the 1st Cello Sonata, definitely too slow and pedestrian. As fas as I remember, the Piano Quintet isn't very good either. But the violin sonatas, clarinet sonatas, the 2nd cello sonata (broad), the piano trios all make fine listening. In the Piano Quartets, competition is hard, and I'd probably prefer others, like the Domus Ensemble for example, but I'll see ...

[Karl Henning]

King Roger has been on the list for a long time!  Many thanks for the comments and recommendations!


Quickly, let me add these:


https://www.youtube.com/v/ov-OAmpcRfw


And Nuhro by our resident composer  Karl Henning!!! An all-around fave!  It was the first work from Karl's oeuvre that I heard, and it remains a blessing for the ears!


https://www.youtube.com/v/r2vn2PB_-9g

Thanks!

[listener]

Friday is a good day for music of VIERNE's
the PIECES DE FANTAISIE   - 4 Suites
Susan Landale, Cavaillé-Coll organ at St.-Ouen, Rouen
then HANDEL: ACIS AND GALATEA
Amor Artis Orchestra    Johannes Somary, cond.

[Karl Henning]

CD 14

PAVEL Hindemith
Philharmonisches Konzert (1932)

Jiří Pauer
Rhapsody for Orchestra (19??)

Miloslav Kabeláč
Symphony № 5 in b^b minor, « Drammatica » (1960)

The Pauer qualifies for First-Listen Fridays.

[ritter]

Some vintage French film music: Honegger's Mermoz, Francaix's score to Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles m'était conté —which reminds me, I've got the DVD waiting to be watched—, Sauguet's Clochemarle, and the music the hitherto unknown to me Maurice Thiriet wrote  for Marcel Carné's Les Visiteurs du soir. The great Georges Tzipine (one of the main defenders of Honegger and similar composers in the 1950s) conducts.



So far, Mermoz may be by Honegger and displays some of the familiar traits of the composer's music, but it remains film music of no major consequence (albeit with a certain "charme désuet"). And the trumpets of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra had a really off day when the recording was made...

[Todd]

Disc five.

[Linz]

Matthew Best with the Corydon singers and Orchestra with Bruckner's Te Deum and Mass no. 1 on CD1 of 3

[Linz]

Bruckner 8 Valery Gergiev

[André]

The main items here are the Ravel concerto (François/Cluytens), the Prokofiev 4th (Serkin/Ormandy) and Britten's Diversions (Katchen/Britten). The Scriabin and Bartok pieces are for the left-handed pianist sans orchestra and are not memorable in any way. The concertante works are what matter here and they are superbly done.

[ritter]

...and of course, neither the Scriabin nor the Bartók pieces were "dedicated to Paul Wittgenstein". 

Good evening, André!