What are you listening 2 now?

[listener]

MENDELSSOHN, ROSSINI, SUPPÉ      Overtures
Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic  getting the day started
and a couple of discs that have wandered from their box sets:
CHAUSSON: Quartet for piano, violin, ciola and cello op. 30      Les Musiciens
COPLAND: "Vitebsk" trio        Trio Wanderer
JANAČEK: On an Overgrown Path             Alain Planès, piano
BIBER:  Requiem à 15 in A-Major   (They're usually in a minor key, Biber must have been forseeing a happy eternity).
STEFFANI: Stabat Mater
Choir and Baroque Orchestra of the Nederlandse Bachvereniging        Gustav Leonhardt, cond.

[JBS]

Looks like sleeves: https://denigma.io/post/226

I collected them individually back in the day.

I have the Aeolian SQ set; it includes Opus 9. But it's more expensive than the Kodaly set, so I won't actually recommend it.
I've got a few CDs of the Kodaly cycle, and my feelings vary widely about: some of it is good, some of it bores.
I have Festetics, LHQ, and Mosaiques, and think they're equally good.

TD

The Piano Trio with Capucon, Capucon, and Angelich, and the String Quartet with Quatour Ebene.

[Mirror Image]

Finishing off tonight's listening session with an old favorite:

Elgar
Enigma Variations, Op. 36
Philharmonia
Sir Andrew Davis



Davis' Elgar recordings on Chandos are hit/miss, but these recordings he made with The Philharmonia are luminous. The set with Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 is fantastic. His 2nd (w/ The Philharmonia) is still my reference recording. Davis' earlier Elgar on Teldec (Warner) is quite good, too.

[Operafreak]

Donizetti: Vesper Psalms- Simon Mayr Chorus & Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk

[Mapman]

Given today's date,
Wagner: Good Friday Spell from Parsifal
Toscanini: NBC Symphony Orchestra

[Que]

My morning listening: Feria Sexta. In Passione Domini.

[SimonNZ]

[Que]

Long time, no see! Hope you are well. 

[vandermolen]

Early morning listening:
Miaskovsky Symphony 17, USSR SR&TVSO, Alexander Gauk (the dedicatee of the symphony).
A great performance of one of NYM's finest symphonies:

[Que]

This arrived yesterday:

[aligreto]

What a striking cover !

Yes, it is quite graphic I think.

[Florestan]

[Operafreak]

Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday (Responsoria, 1611)/ Taverner Consort & Choir, Andrew Parrott

[Biffo]

Haydn: Symphony No 97 in C major - The Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell

[aukhawk]

Thanks David for the link above - definitely 'sleeves' w/ a large booklet - Discogs has the Auryn sets but at outrageous prices and probably true of many of the other suggestions - Kodaly seems like the best current deal?  Dave

I really don't mean to sound sour - but I can't really conceive of spending money in this day and age, on the Kodaly recordings.  Still less spending precious time actually listening to them, even free on Spotify say.  And yes, I did buy a few of them, 'back in the day' - and they were OK, back in the day - but they sound hopelessly old-fashioned now.  Only if it is a complete quartets integrale that is wanted, should they even be a consideration.  But Haydn's quartets are not an even body of work - the early Ops are really only of historical/musicalogical interest, and the late Ops don't really add to what he achieved with Ops 20 and 33.  Best to listen selectively IMHO when there are so many outstanding 'singles' available.

The Chiaroscuros, Zaide, Doric, Dudok, Casals, Hanson - all demand to be heard, and I daresay others too - but all just cherry-pick from Haydn's highlights - they make these selections, so we don't have to.  The Mosaiques are fairly comprehensive from Op20 onwards, and a bit easier on the ear than the Festetics IMHO, although the latter are recommendable too.

[Florestan]

Haydn's quartets are not an even body of work - the early Ops are really only of historical/musicalogical interest

I beg to differ. I listened to them recently and was mightily impressed, especially by the minuets and the adagios. Incidentally, the performers were the Kodaly.

[ritter]

Speaking of Haydn, I'm now listening to this curious version (one could say amalgamation and expansion) of The Seven Last Words of Christ, with the Juilliard Quartet and vocal soloists (including Benita Valente and Jan DeGaetani).

[Undersea]

Currently:





Corelli: Concerto Grosso #10 in C, Op. 6/10


From:

[aligreto]

Bach: St. Matthew Passion [Butt] Part I

[aligreto]

I really don't mean to sound sour - but I can't really conceive of spending money in this day and age, on the Kodaly recordings.  Still less spending precious time actually listening to them, even free on Spotify say.  And yes, I did buy a few of them, 'back in the day' - and they were OK, back in the day - but they sound hopelessly old-fashioned now.  Only if it is a complete quartets integrale that is wanted, should they even be a consideration.  But Haydn's quartets are not an even body of work - the early Ops are really only of historical/musicalogical interest, and the late Ops don't really add to what he achieved with Ops 20 and 33.  Best to listen selectively IMHO when there are so many outstanding 'singles' available.

The Chiaroscuros, Zaide, Doric, Dudok, Casals, Hanson - all demand to be heard, and I daresay others too - but all just cherry-pick from Haydn's highlights - they make these selections, so we don't have to.  The Mosaiques are fairly comprehensive from Op20 onwards, and a bit easier on the ear than the Festetics IMHO, although the latter are recommendable too.

I beg to differ. I listened to them recently and was mightily impressed, especially by the minuets and the adagios. Incidentally, the performers were the Kodaly.

Another vote here for the Kodalys.