What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Live from the Concertgebouw  1978 & 1979

CD2

[Maestro267]

Schubert: Symphony No. 1
Staatskapelle Dresden/C. Davis

Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
Staatskapelle Dresden/C. Davis

[Harry]

Arnold Bax.

Violin Sonatas No. 1 in E major, & No. 3.
Original Second and Third movements from the first sonata. (World premiere recordings)

Laurence Jackson, violin.
Ashley Wass, Piano.

Bax wrote the first sonata under the influence of a passionate love affair, with an Ukrainian girl, Natalia Skarginska, but soon after this affair he replaced the second and third movement, because they were to passionate? But luckily they are also recorded on this disc. They are indeed vibrant and full of passion. I think Bax is one of the best British composers, and there is not much in his oeuvre I dislike.
The performances and sound are very good too.

[Traverso]

Haydn


Starting to listen to all the trios beginning with the first CD 

[Madiel]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schönberg Chor, many excellent soloists

First listen. Any love for this recording? It sounds amazing.

I don't know the recording. But I'm just looking at the list of singers and getting kind of excited.

[Madiel]

Currently Haydn's Stabat Mater.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.8

[Traverso]

Haydn

[Tsaraslondon]

Messiaen - 3 Petites Liturgies.

This brings back memories. I had that LP. Wonderful piece.

[Tsaraslondon]

HighDefinitionTapeTransfer's issue of this 1973 recording has spectacular sound, especially in the massed forces of the Psalm, which dates from 1904. La Tragédie de Salome was originally a ballet and later rearranged as a symphonic poem. Oddly enough I occasionally hear echoes of Holst's Planets, though, as far as I know, Holst never heard the piece.

Below is the cover for the original issue.

[Todd]

Ending with disc one since it has D960.  Kempff's late Schubert lacks the darkness and drive of some other versions, or the prolonged faux- or actual depth of others (eg, no Richterian tempi distension), yet whatever limits there may be are made up for the directness and clarity.  I was struck multiple times in the last four sonatas by the clean left hand playing while not having it become the main thing.  Kempff remains one of my favorite Schubertians overall.  That written, I think I should listed to some contemporary Schubertians next.

[Harry]

Agustin Barrios.

Guitar Music, Volume II.

Enno Voorhorst, Guitar.

Voorhorst is a fine musician, and has a perfectly laidback expression in his interpretation. Sound is excellent.

[listener]

CZERNY:  Grande Nocturne Brillant  op. 95    Grand Concerto in a op.214
Variations on the Marche des Grecs from Rossini's La Siège de Corinth
Rosemary Tuck, piano      English Chamber O.     Richjard Bonynge, cond.
MESSIAEN: Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Le tombeau resplenmdissant    Hymne
Orchestre National de Lyon      Jun Märkl, cond.
Less people working from home now, I can give the Messiaen the volume it deserves
and balance with NIELSEN String Quartets - in E-flat op. 14, in F op. 44
Oslo String Quartet

[Jo498]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schönberg Chor, many excellent soloists

First listen. Any love for this recording? It sounds amazing.

you're bit late! Even the Orthodox are past Good Friday now!
It's a very good recording and before Harnoncourt developed some of his old-age mannerisms. It's also quite consistent with the double choirs etc. (allthough that's not a usp of course)
Actually, his (or maybe Willcocks') first one is also quite amazing for ca. 1970 with all male singers that do a surprisingly good job.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto.

George Pieterson (clarinet)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin.

[steve ridgway]

This brings back memories. I had that LP. Wonderful piece.

It is rather good. I found it on archive.org, going to see what else they have of his.

[Maestro267]

Martinu: Cello Concerto No. 1
Wallfisch (cello)/Czech PO/Belohlavek

d'Indy: Jour d'été á la montagne
Iceland SO/Gamba

[Mirror Image]

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Lucia Popp / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt

Wrong cover.

[Harry]

Johann Christian Bach.

Piano concertos, opus 13, 1-3.

Anthony Halstead, Pianoforte and Direction.
The Hanover Band.

Brilliant.


Gramophone: "Irresistible music.​ Halstead allows Bach's alluring melodies to unfold lyrically and without any unseemingly chivying or tweaking of contour and rhythm.​Strongly recommended.​". Fanfare (USA) 12/99: "An excellent introduction to Bach's piano concertos.​"

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Enescu
Piano Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 30
Tammuz Piano Quartet



This work is amongst my favorites from Enescu. Superb performance, too.