What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

CPE Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 10 [Spányi]






Suite in E min. W.62/12 [H66]

[vandermolen]

Eugene Goossens's Baxian Symphony No.1.
This is a fine set, although the greatest performance of this work (David Measham, Unicorn LP) never made it to CD.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 4 Op. 7 [Fischer]

[Madiel]

Sibelius, Ten pieces for piano op.24



In which Sibelius collects the best of the piano music he'd been working on from 1895 to 1903. Romantic Sibelius in keyboard form. Especially in the first part of the opus (they're arranged in chronological order) and especially the way Mertanen plays them, bold and dramatic.

[Operafreak]

Dvorák: Violin Concerto/ Romance in F minor, Op. 11

Itzhak Perlman (violin)- London Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Wind Quintet

[VonStupp]

Giuseppe Verdi
Ave Maria
Laudi alla Vergine Maria
Pater Noster

Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)
Three Choral Compositions (1942)

Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988)
Yliam (1964)
T K R D G (1968)

Luigi Nono (1924-1990)
Sarà dolce tacere (1960)

Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003)
Nonsense (1952)

SWR Vokalensemble - Marcus Creed

Continuing on with Italia for today.

VS




From this set:

[bhodges]

Schoenberg: Moses und Aron (Bochumer Symphoniker, ChorWerk Ruhr / Michael Boder, conductor / Willy Decker, director, live Ruhrtriennale performance from 2009) - Somehow missed this, and it's well worth a viewing, to say the least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0HPN8830Ls&t=67s

--Bruce

[aligreto]

Bax: The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew [Thompson]





This is alternatively a spirited and an atmospheric presentation and it shows the orchestration skills of Bax to very good effect. Thompson has a very good sense of the drama and energy that is inherent in the work and he drives it all very well yet also reveals all of the wonderful details in the score.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Antheil
Symphony No. 3 "American"
Frankfurt RSO
Wolff

[Spotted Horses]

Arnold Schönberg
Wind Quintet

That is a delightful recording!

[André]

On YouTube

Edvin Kallstenius, symphony no 2. Impressive, with a very strong slow movement.
Sigurd Lie, symphony in a minor. That one's pretty forgettable.


On DVD:
Khatchaturian: Spartacus
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

[pjme]

Raymond Chevreuille: Carnival in Ostend

from this cd: https://www.discogs.com/release/12244917-Het-Vlaams-Radio-Orkest-Bonjour-Monsieur-Ensor/image/SW1hZ2U6MzUxMjgxNjU=
Written in the late fifties as "radio music" to accompany a documentary. Later reworked as an orchestral suite (1959).

There are a few works by Chevreuille on YT - 3 or 4 symphonies , Barbe bleu, a "conte symphonique" the 2nd violinconcerto, the second pianoconcerto. All of them in old radio recordings. The second pianoconcerto was the "imposé" in 1952 for the Queen Elisabeth competition and proved to be too long and difficult. So only the first and second movements were performed by...Leon Fleisher, Karl Engel, Maria Tipo, Philippe Entremont, Yuri Boukoff, Hans Graf, Lamar Crowson...
I like his "quirky" music.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Shostakovich
The Bolt, Op. 27
Royal Stockholm PO
Rozhdestvensky

From this 2-CD set -



This is the only complete recording of The Bolt and thank goodness it's a fine one. Rozhdestvensky also recorded The Golden Age to similar acclaim, but there are two other recordings of the complete version of this ballet (Serebrier on Naxos and I forget the other one, but it's on the Russian Disc label).

[Karl Henning]

Commemorating Schoenberg(September 1874 – 13 July 1951):

https://www.youtube.com/v/Pz98sU_rPK8

[Lisztianwagner]

That is a delightful recording!

Perfectly agreed, it's very beautiful, for the Suite too; the Wind Quintet has become one of my favourite Schönberg's works.

[Todd]

Brian's positive remarks hold true, as expected.  The underrecorded Smetana sounds dandy, but the draw is the Dvorak, which sounds very fine indeed.  The Oilver Schynder Trio give the Golub Kaplan Carr Trio a run for their money in the fast music, but they play with more flexibility and beauty in the slower music.  This of course makes me want to hear more Dvorak from them, though that will not likely happen.

[Lisztianwagner]

Commemorating Schoenberg(September 1874 – 13 July 1951):

https://www.youtube.com/v/Pz98sU_rPK8

I'll follow you, Karl, but with this recording:

Arnold Schönberg
Herzgewächse
Pierrot Lunaire

[Operafreak]

Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 5

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)- Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy

   

[Roasted Swan]

Brian's positive remarks hold true, as expected.  The underrecorded Smetana sounds dandy, but the draw is the Dvorak, which sounds very fine indeed.  The Oilver Schynder Trio give the Golub Kaplan Carr Trio a run for their money in the fast music, but they play with more flexibility and beauty in the slower music.  This of course makes me want to hear more Dvorak from them, though that will not likely happen.

Put "Smetana Piano Trio" into Discogs and you get 294 hits (obviously with duplications when a recroding is re-released over time.  But clearly we have different definitions of "under-recorded".........