What are you listening 2 now?

[Selig]

I was just about to post a Singer Pur recording myself!

Victoria included a few pieces for Palm Sunday in his Office for Holy Week, so I'm listening to O Domine Jesu Christe on one of their earliest recordings:

[Mandryka]

Hi Mandryka - boy, you're asking the wrong guy - I don't have the repeated listening knowledge of judging the over 200 harpsichord works in Graupner's catalog HERE nor the musical ear/skills to answer your questions w/ any degree of authority; and I've not listened to the Soly discs in several years - all that I could do is re-listen to all and pick out my favorites, sorry.  Now, Soly writes her own booklet notes which can be read on the Analekta Website; also, all of her recordings are available on Spotify (or I assume other streaming sites - not sure which ones you use?) - now Que and I seem to be the few in the forum who bring up the Soly recordings and I'm sure he has listened more often and intently than me - hopefully, he might 'chime in' w/ some comments.  Not of much help but about all that I can offer at the moment.  Dave

I had a listen to Akutagawa's recording, since she makes a selection and so possibly the music reflects her preference. What struck me is how her style resembles Glen Wilson's - maybe not unsurprisingly, I think they are partners. The music struck me as being not disagreeable, without being as interesting to me as, for example, the Göttweig partitas, or indeed some of Kuhnau's music, or Bohm's.

Let me take the opportunity to commend Lydia Maria Blank's Göttweig CD, which I find consistently rewarding.

[Tsaraslondon]

This is a really super disc. We're much more used to Ravel being coupled with Debussy, but Ravel and Vaughan Williams do have a number of connections. Ravel probably played the piano at the first French performance of On Wenlock Edge and Vaughan Williams's Quartet was written shortly after he returned from studying with Ravel in Paris.

Langridge is superb in the song cycle, with Howard Shelley playing the piano part and the Britten Quartet give wonderful performances of all three works.

[vandermolen]

This is a really super disc. We're much more used to Ravel being coupled with Debussy, but Ravel and Vaughan Williams do have a number of connections. Ravel probably played the piano at the first French performance of On Wenlock Edge and Vaughan Williams's Quartet was written shortly after he returned from studying with Ravel in Paris.

Langridge is superb in the song cycle, with Howard Shelley playing the piano part and the Britten Quartet give wonderful performances of all three works.

+1 Great disc!

TD
Andrei Eshpai: Songs of the Mountain and Meadow Mari.
A beautiful, lyrical and soulful work. Eshpai was a very fine composer.

[Que]

Bach's only surviving cantata for Palm Sunday (Palmarum): BWV 182, Himmelskönig, sei wilkommen.

[Daverz]

An alert and restrained performance of op 50/1  - and I was expecting a romantic effusion.

I love the Fine Art Quartet's Op. 50.  You can find this in a very cheap "VoxMegaBox Edition" download of the complete quartets (combined recordings of the Dekany and Fine Art Quartets) on some music download or streaming sites.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

More of this Concerto Köln series:

Various Concerti Grossi by Locatelli

[Que]

I really enjoy revisiting this set:

[Operafreak]

Purcell: Tyrannic Love-  Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Eugénie Lefebvre, Etienne Bazola

[aligreto]

Bach: St. John Passion [Gardiner] Part I

[Biffo]

Haydn: Symphony No 92 in G major Oxford - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner

[Iota]

Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1
Jonathan Plowright (piano)


Actually written after the Op.2 Sonata, but Brahms felt it a more impressive opening for his first appearance in print. And it's certainly the more 'serious' sounding work of the two, though happily retains much of the free-spirited inventiveness which makes these early piano sonatas such appealing works for me. Plowright is once again excellent.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata WoO 47 Nos. 1-3 [Brautigam]

[Operafreak]

Concertos italiens/ Alexandre Tharaud

[aligreto]

Glazunov: Concerto for Alto Saxophone [Chisson/Serebrier]





The opening movement is wonderfully mellow in tone. I also find the tone to be both contemplative and questioning and very engaging. The same tone and atmosphere pervade in the central movement but with much more exposure for the saxophone with a considerable amount of solo music. The mood and tone in the final movement are more upbeat. This is a relatively short but very engaging work.

[aligreto]

Recently went through my Glazanov collection (about 16 discs, including the Serebrier box) selectively, picked half the discs from the Symphonies & Concertos, a couple of String Chamber works discs and some piano music w/ Stephen Coombs - did listen to the piano, violin and cello concertos.  Dave

Cheers, Dave. I have just finished listening to this set by Serebrier . I commented to another member here that I found it to be revelatory because Glazunov is a composer who has passed under my radar in the past.

[Madiel]

Dvorak, his first setting of "King and Collier". Which as far as I can tell can only be found here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/Jungfer_Marianne_Leizmetzerin/dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k-kr%C3%A1l-a-uhl%C3%AD%C5%99-hoza-benci-kn%C4%9B%C5%BE%C3%ADkov%C3%A1-hilscherov%C3%A1-samek-moravec-brauner-praha-2019/

Dvorak's 2nd opera (and first in Czech) certainly seems a more rewarding listen than his first. It's much closer to what we think of as Dvorak's style, and consequently a hell of a lot more tuneful. A couple of the songs from Cypresses even turn up.

But the orchestra and singers couldn't handle it. And Dvorak ended up completely rewriting the entire opera, a wholly new setting of the libretto.

[Que]

It must have been years, but I'm surprised how well this music got ingrained in my memory.

[Operafreak]

Sibelius cd 3

[aligreto]

Bantock: Two works for cello and harp played by Fuller & Wakeford:





Hamabdil for cello and harp: This is a very attractive, lyrical and elegiac work. I like the combination of instruments. It works very well here and they are both excellently played.

Pibroch for cello and harp: This is a lament-like work. It is very lyrical, expressive and atmospheric. The cello has a wonderful and plaintive singing voice to it, the quality of the playing is that fine. There is a very Scottish and Celtic flavour to this work. The Irish word for a piper is píobaire so this music must have that connection in its provenance.