What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Ah, but one of the bonuses of the Svetlanov recording is the magnificent Songs by the Sea, which hasn't been recorded too often for some bizarre reason.

I can't argue with that!

[Operafreak]

 


Korngold: Chamber Music- Eusebius Quartet, Alisdair Beatson (piano)

[The new erato]

Some Crusell on a quiet morning:

[Madiel]

Dvorak: Suite in A ('American' suite), op.98 - the original piano version.



As a later work, definitely one of Dvorak's best piano pieces.

[Operafreak]

Strauss, Debussy and Ligeti- Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott

[vandermolen]

Some Crusell on a quiet morning:

Lovely cover image. What's the music like?

[Iota]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101
Freidrich Gulda (piano)


For me Op.101 feels like a clear border crossing point from middle to late Beethoven. Qualities that have been simmering for a while in earlier sonatas, seem to come into full bloom.
Obsessive/wild/celebratory dotted rhythms and syncopations that often seem to threaten to disintegrate musical and emotional edifices, a further loosening of formal restraints, dynamic polyphony, the feeling that the musical air is somehow more rarefied, perhaps a conduit to some new state, all are present and seem to both deepen and elevate the form. Compelling stuff.

Gulda is brilliant, meticulous and mercurial, often in the same breath.

[Spotted Horses]

I've decided to listen to this set and it's companion in it's entirety. I've heard many of these works at various times, but I want to become familiar with all of them.



On disc 2 I am confronted with Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (groan). It is certainly one of the most overplayed works of Mozart, but not having listened to it for a decade, at least, it managed to surprise me with it's charm and felicity. And the final rondo has a startlingly dramatic close. It works well as a string quintet, rather than an orchestral piece.

[Biffo]

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor - Belcea Quartet and Till Felner piano

[Spotted Horses]

Aldo Ciccolini's recording of Chapelle de Guillaume Tell, from Liszt's Années de pèlerinage, is simply magnificent.

[SonicMan46]

Some Crusell on a quiet morning:

+1 - big Eric Hoeprich fan - own and greatly enjoy that disc! Dave 

[Florestan]

Lovely cover image. What's the music like?

Right up your alley, Jeffrey: epic, dark, gloomy, fate-defiant and resigned valedictory. Run, don't walk! 

[VonStupp]

Continuing on with the Stravinsky ballets with Le Baiser de la fée from this Knussen recording:

A wonderful recording of beautiful music!

VS

[Mirror Image]

A wonderful recording of beautiful music!

VS

Absolutely!

[Mirror Image]

Now playing Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82 from the Barbirolli set:

[Todd]

Disc one.

[Lisztianwagner]

Alexander Zemlinsky
String Quartet No.3
String Quartet No.4

[VonStupp]

Sergei Prokofiev
Queen of Spades Suite (Berkeley)
On Guard for Peace, op. 124

Irina Tchistjakova, soprano
Niall Docherty, boy soprano
Royal Scottish NO & Chorus (& JC)
Neeme Järvi (rec. 2008)

Two new (for me) Prokofiev works for the afternoon:

VS

[SonicMan46]

Reger, Max - been posting the Reger Thread the last few days and listening to my modest collection, finishing up w/ the CDs below last night and today - Dave

P.S. stimulated some discussion in his thread, so visit if interested in collecting or expanding on your own collection of this prolific composer who died too young (early 40s)!

     

[Operafreak]

Carl Czerny & Max Bruch: Concertos for Piano Duo & Orchestra

Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov (Aglika Genova & Liuben Dimitrov)-Genesis Orchestra, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Yordan Kamdzhalov