What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Ifukube's Gotama the Buddha by the Tokyo Symphony conducted by Kazuhiko Komatsu.

That one looks interesting.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Chipping away slowly but nicely at the Isoir set of Bach Organ works - CD8.

[aligreto]

More Bach here: Toccata D minor, BWV 913 [Leonhardt]

[vers la flamme]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major. Rafael Kubelík, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Still probably the best Mahler 1 I've ever heard.

[Maestro267]

Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 3
Madge (piano)/Artur Rubinstein PO/Stupel

[Traverso]

Bach


French Overture in B minor BWV 831 ( Partita from ClavierÜbung II)

[Mandryka]

I think this is really good! The Diabelli Variations I mean.

[Harry]

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
Complete Harpsichord Works.
CD III from VI.

Sonatas Part Two.

In A, F, E flat, D, G, B flat.

Claudio Astronio plays on a Ugo Casiglia (2014) after Johann Adolph Specken, Germany 1748.

[ritter]

Some Cristóbal Halffter today...

First, Cadencia for solo piano. This was written as a bravura piece in 1983 for the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition.



Followed by the Concierto para piano y orquesta.



This concerto, technically the composer's second for piano (AFAIK, an earlier piece from 1953 was withdrawn from the catalogue), is a 1987 expansion for piano and orchestra of the solo Cadencia. Both pieces are pure avant-garde C. Halffter (no quotations of older music here) and are both magnificent compositions. I am struck by how "pianistic" the solo piece and the soloist's part (in the concerto) are, taking full advantage of the possibilities the instrument offers, and how accomplished the orchestration of the concerto is (C. Halffter really knew how to get the most out of a huge orchestra).

The pianist in both pieces is the composer wife, María Manuela Caro, and she's superb.

Really great stuff!

[Todd]

3.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Serenade Op. 24

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 28 Op. 101 [Fischer]

[Karl Henning]

Arnold Schönberg
Serenade Op. 24

One of my favorites, Ilaria!

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Monday!

Ned Rorem
String Quartet № 4 (1994)
Emerson String Quartet

[ritter]

Buongiorno, Ilaria!

Some Boulez here as well now, but in his facet as composer:



The more I listen to Livre pour quatuor, the more I like it. It's not an easy piece by any means, but it does offer some fascinating insights into the workplace of the SQ as a genre. This 2000 recording by the Quatuor Parisii is of the state in which the score was in 1962, and therefore does not incorporate the final revisions (from around 2012) that were used by the Quatuor Diotima in their recording, or the reconstruction of section IV made by Philippe Manoury after Boulez's death (section IV is absent from both the Parisii and the Diotima recordings).

One of my favorites, Ilaria!

One if mine as well. Schoenberg at the top of his game!

Good day to you too, Karl!

[Karl Henning]

Cheers, Rafael!

[Traverso]

Knights,Maids and Miracles


CD 1

[Karl Henning]

Knights,Maids and Miracles


CD 1

Good day, Jan!

[Traverso]

Good day, Jan!

And a good day to you Karl  ,wonderful music.....and I'm waiting for this one,feeling close to happiness....

  very cheap (Presto)

[Karl Henning]

How do you like the Hindemith/Masur?

Had to put it on Pause, Manabu. Will report!