What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I quite enjoyed this disc - especially the Sinfonietta and the Rapsodia Portuguesa. I saw the 'Carmen' film score pop up when I searched Qobuz - I'll have to give that a listen as well.

Wozzeck is probably my all-time favorite opera! If you like opera, do try and listen to it - it's spellbinding. Abbado's DG performance (with Hildegard Behrens and Franz Grundheber) is my "desert island" opera recording!

Yes, love the Rapsodia Portuguesa!

The Carmen disc is a film music, and it is not as rich as the CPO disc. Still it is very enjoyable!

I have been curious about his guitar concerto..

[Symphonic Addict]

Surprised to read this, Cesar! Maybe it's because you listened to Järvi's recording? Personally, I love the 7th - sure, the finale may be rather repetitious, but I can't resist that sweeping first movement or gloriously atmospheric slow movement! Oh well, it's healthy that we disagree on some things!

7 and 9 definitely are the ones I care for the least, and uncannily 7 out of 9 [orchestral] symphonies are stupendous in my view.

[Symphonic Addict]

I quite enjoyed this disc - especially the Sinfonietta and the Rapsodia Portuguesa. I saw the 'Carmen' film score pop up when I searched Qobuz - I'll have to give that a listen as well.

Wozzeck is probably my all-time favorite opera! If you like opera, do try and listen to it - it's spellbinding. Abbado's DG performance (with Hildegard Behrens and Franz Grundheber) is my "desert island" opera recording!

Those are high words, James! I definitely want to be bewitched by it too.

[Symphonic Addict]

Rózsa: Piano Concerto, op. 31

Not to be confused with the Spellbound Concerto. It could be something like Bartók's 4th Piano Concerto with a more heroic and cinematic taste. There are some great ideas in each movement.

[Symphonic Addict]

Henze: Symphony No. 7

Just starting. Those ominous sonorities don't fail to intrigue me.

[Mirror Image]

Henze: Symphony No. 7

Just starting. Those ominous sonorities don't fail to intrigue me.

Henze is a fascinating composer. A musical chameleon.

[Symphonic Addict]

Henze is a fascinating composer. A musical chameleon.

There is something in some of his works that have a sort of eloquence and mystery that just haunt me. Other pieces, on the contrary, have left me cold, e.g. Royal Winter Music for solo guitar.

[Operafreak]

Schubert: Death And The Maiden & String Quintet In C Major



Pavel Haas Quartet- with Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)

[amw]

D929.

This is possibly the slowest performance on record (although I believe at least one ensemble manages a 13 minute slow movement, which I haven't heard) and, like the equally slow Demenga, Schneeberger and Dähler performance on ECM, there's something quite special about it. Perhaps not as special as that recording (this is modern instruments after all) but I always have time for it; there are a few moments in the last movement that make the entire ~57 minute outlay worthwhile.

[Mirror Image]

There is something in some of his works that have a sort of eloquence and mystery that just haunt me. Other pieces, on the contrary, have left me cold, e.g. Royal Winter Music for solo guitar.

Sure, he's rather inconsistent, but he's written some outstanding works. Such an eclectic composer. One of the great post-WWII German composers.

Continuing my survey of Guarnieri's orchestral works (plus the PCs):

Symphony No. 3
São Paulo SO
Neschling



Again, I'm floored by Guarnieri's symphonies --- bustling rhythms and spicy melodies/harmonies. Hugely enjoyable.

[amw]

This is possibly the slowest performance on record (although I believe at least one ensemble manages a 13 minute slow movement, which I haven't heard) and, like the equally slow Demenga, Schneeberger and Dähler performance on ECM, there's something quite special about it. Perhaps not as special as that recording (this is modern instruments after all) but I always have time for it; there are a few moments in the last movement that make the entire ~57 minute outlay worthwhile.

Comparing Trio Rafale to Demenga et al., they're stylistically very different, so perhaps I shouldn't have made that comparison. This mostly just acts as a reminder of how much I like that ECM recording. I wonder what Jörg-Ewald Dähler's solo Schubert performances are like.

(They're on Qobuz so I will listen later when time permits)

[Mandryka]

Rihm quartet 11. This seems like another piece of mad music to me - mad in the way that people sometimes say that the Schumann op 11 sonata betrays Schumann's mental unhealth. The extreme and unexpected contrasts in the quartet, as in the sonata, are really disturbing. Difficult music, because of its otherness, and yet in some senses it is familiar at the same time - there are passages which, while not exactly tonal, make me think of, for example, Max Reger's late quartets - op 109 - Reger brought Brahms brought kicking and screaming into modernity, Rihm brings Reger kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Of course, Reger himself could write music with disturbing contrasts. Yes, Rihm is in the tradition of Reger and Schumann here (and there may even be an allusion to late Beethoven at the end, not sure)

[Operafreak]

Mozart With Friends: Nils Mönkemeyer- Nils Mönkemeyer featuring Sabine Meyer, Julia Fischer & William Youn

[vandermolen]

Sure, he's rather inconsistent, but he's written some outstanding works. Such an eclectic composer. One of the great post-WWII German composers.

Continuing my survey of Guarnieri's orchestral works (plus the PCs):

Symphony No. 3
São Paulo SO
Neschling



Again, I'm floored by Guarnieri's symphonies --- bustling rhythms and spicy melodies/harmonies. Hugely enjoyable.

That CD is especially good I think.

[Harry]

De Leids Koorboeken.
Volume V.
CD II.

Composers: Joachimus de Monte, Thomas Crecquillon, Heinrich Isaac, Johannes Flamingus, Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin.

Egidius Kwartet & College.

[Harry]

Johann Strauss II.

Complete Orchestral works.
CD II from 52.

Czech Polka, op. 13 (Czech-Polka)
The Young Viennese, Waltz op. 7 (Die jungen Wiener)
Satanella-Polka op. 124 (Satanella-Polka)
Cytherea Quadrille op. 6 (Cytheren-Quadrille)
Judgments of Solon, Waltz op. 128 (Solon-Sprueche)
Fantasy Flower, Polka-Mazurka op. 241 (Fantasiebluemchen)
Where the Lemon-Trees blossom! Waltz op. 364 (Wo die Citronen blueh'n!)
Indra-Quadrille op, 122 (Indra-Quadrille)
Tick-Tock, Quick Polka op. 365 (Tik-Tak Polka)
Wedding Toasts, Waltz op. 136 (Vermaelungs-Toaste)
New Pizzicato-Polka op. 449 (Neue Pizzicato-Polka)
March of Rejoicing at the Deliverance of Emperor Franz Josef I op. 126
(Kaiser Franz-Joseph I, Rettungs-Jubel-Marsch)

CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra (Košice), Alfred Walter.

[Roasted Swan]

That CD is especially good I think.

If its May, it must be time for me to have my annual moan about the absence of Latin American music in the Proms and Guarnieri is a prime example.  Not one single piece EVER since 1895!!  Yet as everyone who has heard his music must surely agree this is interesting/engaging/attractive/skilfully crafted etc etc music.  I do find it odd that in an age where inclusivity is king (or queen!) the entire South American continent remains neglected except for the odd token Estancia or Bachianas (Ginastera has had 4 performances - three of which were Estancia......)

[Que]

Morning listening - 2nd disc of this set with music by Jacobus Handl-Gallus:

   


https://open.spotify.com/album/6xd0PqzhhRYGLx65xJsvas

[Que]

Generally I'm not much into transcriptions, but happy to make an exception for this Bach series by Nigel North:

[Mookalafalas]

Mozart With Friends: Nils Mönkemeyer- Nils Mönkemeyer featuring Sabine Meyer, Julia Fischer & William Youn

Damn. Those are some good friends!!

TD: Kempff and Fournier playing LvB sonatas.