What are you listening 2 now?

[SonicMan46]

Pleyel, Ignaz (1757-1831) - Austrian born French composer, publisher, and piano maker (along w/ his son) - nice bio HERE; a pupil of Haydn - Pleyel was a prolific composer w/ over 700 works in the Benton catalog (Rita Benton, Ignace Pleyel. A Thematic Catalogue of His Compositions. New York: Pendragon Press, 1977), including 40 Symphonies, 36 String Quintets, and 70 String Quartets!  My collection has 20 recordings mainly of the works listed in the previous sentence - don't plan to listen to all but starting w/ the ones below - also, there is a Pleyel thread for those interested w/ a LOT of recordings shown and discussed.  Dave

Previous Pleyel post above from earlier today - will not get through my whole collection but selected below for the end of the day; BTW, I just purchased 'on sale' from PrestoMusic the Prussian Quartets 10-12, i.e. Vol. 4, w/ the Pleyel Quartett Köln just released late last year. Dave

     

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Prokofiev Symphony No. 4. Kitayenko.

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev Symphony No. 4. Kitayenko.

Nice, Manabu!

[Karl Henning]

CD 84

"Papa"
Vc Cto in D, H. VIIb:2

Elgar
Vc Cto in e minor, Op. 85
Jacqueline du Pré, vc
LSO

Yup, listened to this disc again.

[kyjo]

Concertos for Orchestra

Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins

That disc was a great discovery of mine, despite its short playing time. Really colorful and inventive music. I hope the music of these three Belgians receive more modern recordings.

[Bachtoven]

I just read that Toradze died May 11th at age 69. In his honor, I played Concerto No.2, which I heard him play live ages ago, but with a different conductor and orchestra. It was still electrifying.

[Symphonic Addict]

Three suites for cello:

Bach: Suite No. 1
Reger: Suite No. 1
Röntgen: Suite No. 2

[Todd]

Excellently played, kind of polite sounding baroque keyboard music that takes full advantage of a modern grand. 

[foxandpeng]

Eduard Tubin
Complete Symphonies
Symphonies 4 'Sinfonia Lirica' and 7
Arvo Volmer
Estonian NSO
Alba

[DavidW]

Yup, listened to this disc again.

That was the only one you actually needed in the set!

[Symphonic Addict]

Copland: Piano Concerto

With the very Copland on the piano it's not hard to believe that all the involved had an extraordinary moment.





Poulenc: Aubade: Concerto choréographique

Very theatrical indeed. A concerto in the form of a ballet.

[Mapman]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony #4
Thomson: LSO

The performance is better than the cover design (who thought red text on brown was a good idea??).

[Mirror Image]

Beginning a traversal of the Langaard symphonies with Dausgaard at the helm --- now playing Symphony No. 1, "Klippepastoraler" (Pastorals Of The Rocks):



I really don't know Langgaard's symphonies as well as I should. A fascinating composer and I remember I preordered this set before its initial release. This set is still one of my greatest purchases.

[Operafreak]

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, / Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite

    Wiener Philharmoniker
    Herbert von Karajan

[Symphonic Addict]

Dvorák: Symphony No. 5

Love this. Sheer bliss.

[Symphonic Addict]

A fine Langgaard set indeed, though my favorite 1st is this one:



A most impressive block-buster!

[Mirror Image]

A fine Langgaard set indeed, though my favorite 1st is this one:



A most impressive block-buster!

Yep, that's a good one, too as is the Stupel on Danacord. I'd say I like Dausgaard the best as it feels more urgent and I think this particular symphony doesn't need to linger too long.

[Mirror Image]

Last work for the night - NP: Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel) with Ormandy with the Philadelphians -

[Que]

Morning listening on Spotify:



"Fretwork explores the somewhat overlooked English musical dynasty. The grandson of an Italian immigrant family brought to England under Henry VIII's reign, Thomas Lupo (1571-1627) was a talented composer, viol player and violinist who served in the Royal Court from the age of 16 until his death. His consort music for viols demonstrates a variety of moods and musical devices, with a clear parallel in places to some of the three-part music by his friend and colleague Orlando Gibbons."

Quality of the music is a pleasant surprise, though the magnificent playing by Fretwork might play into it. 

[Madiel]

Although Brahms is the most important composer to me, there are a few of his significant works that I seem to have been "saving" for my old age, or at least so I can look forward to discovering something new from him. Today I started on one of those bits of undiscovered territory, the late piano works.

Op 116, Paul Lewis.



Too profound to be absorbed at one sitting, but I found myself mesmerized. Just out of curiosity I listed to the first piece from the set in recordings from Wilhelm Kempff and Aldo Ciccolini. Wow, a wide range of interpretation is possible in this music. The Lewis recording is superbly performed and recorded.

Oh goodness. If you don't know the late piano music then - assuming you do like piano music - you are in for a treat. I'm a sucker for op.117 myself, but the whole collection is full of miniature masterpieces.