What are you listening 2 now?

[SonicMan46]

Saw that, but its Franz Benda, and I was listening and writing about Jiri Antonin Benda. But that CD is on my list anyway!

I forgot there were two of them!..............

Those Czech or Bohemian names drive me nuts!    The two brothers below (from their Wiki bios) w/ their Czech first names in parentheses - looking at my database posted previously, seems like I have them split pretty evenly in my collection -   Dave

Franz Benda (Czech: František Benda) baptised 22 November 1709, Benátky nad Jizerou – 7 March 1786, Potsdam) was a Bohemian violinist and composer, who worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great.

Georg Benda(Czech: Jiří Antonín Benda; 30 June 1722 – 6 November 1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia.

[Todd]

[classicalgeek]

Sweet!

It really is! I don't think I've heard an Orpheus recording I haven't liked (come to think of it, I was a little disappointed in their The Unanswered Question, but the rest of their Ives disc was fabulous!)

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.1 in C minor, WAB 101. Eugen Jochum, Staatskapelle Dresden

First listen to any of Jochum's EMI Bruckner cycle. The Dresden brass sounds excellent. Jochum does some interesting things with the music unlike other performances I've heard; he seems more flexible with tempi.

My co-favorite Bruckner cycle, along with Wand/Cologne. Glad you're enjoying it!

Sinfonia del Mare (Nystroem)

I listened to some Nystroem on Spotify a while back and I remember greatly enjoying it - I want to explore his works in more depth!

TD:
Haydn
Symphony no. 44
Symphony no. 77
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra



Symphony 44 is just delightful (especially that gorgeous slow movement!) I'm less enchanted by the 77th, but that may be the work as much as anything - Orpheus certainly plays it well!

[Mapman]

Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76/1, Hob.III:75
Takács Quartet

For some reason I didn't find this particularly interesting. I think I prefer Haydn's symphonies (and in general I prefer music with wind instruments). I'm not sure that this is the exact release I have, I think this was a free CD that came without the case.

[JBS]

Starting off this box

With mono Mozart from 1954
Amazon shows two LP covers for different issues of this recording, but not the one the set uses, which is a much more 1950-style featuring Solti in profile



ETA: picking another CD from this set: Beethoven VC with Mischa Elman and the LPO
Recorded in April 1955

This seems to be the current CD incarnation.
ETA 2: this is a very good performance of the concerto, Elman's age and the mono sound not mattering.

[Operafreak]

Zemlinsky - The Mermaid-New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd

[Mapman]

Bach: Mass in B minor
Jochum: BRSO, etc.

I've heard all of the music before, but this is the first time that I have listened to the whole thing, while looking at a score. I enjoyed this quite a bit more than I expected. The 7-part fugue (Credo) is incredible!

The performance is excellent, although the trumpet sound is not to my taste.

[Que]

This morning continuing my modest Obrecht survey:



I think this is one of Diabolus in Musica's best recordings. In two voices per part, the centerpiece is the Missa Sicut Rosa Spinam that Obrecht wrote in memory of Johannes Ockeghem.

[Operafreak]

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25,

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt

[Irons]

Starting off this box

With mono Mozart from 1954
Amazon shows two LP covers for different issues of this recording, but not the one the set uses, which is a much more 1950-style featuring Solti in profile



ETA: picking another CD from this set: Beethoven VC with Mischa Elman and the LPO
Recorded in April 1955

This seems to be the current CD incarnation.
ETA 2: this is a very good performance of the concerto, Elman's age and the mono sound not mattering.

Elman/Solti recording of Beethoven's VC was also released on Decca Eclipse. Thankfully not fake stereo as more often the case for Eclipse.

[Operafreak]

Mozart Momentum - 1785- Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)

   

[Harry]

Robert Schumann.
Complete Piano works.
Volume I.
Concert sans Orchestre in F minor, opus 14, Dedicated to Ignaz Moscheles.
Preliminary studies and deleted movements for the Concert sans Orchestre
Two variations from the second movement, deleted from the autograph copy. (Quasi variazion) 1836/published in 1984.
Presto possibile in F minor, first version of the last movement, unpublished fragment.
Fantasie in C major, dedicated to Franz Liszt.

Florian Uhlig, Piano.
New acquisition first listen.

The first volume of in total 16 CD's with a very complete recording of all of Schumann's solo piano works. The first disc starts of with a fabulous rendering of the Concert sans Orchestre, brilliant in its conception, and so well performed, including all the unpublished movements. If it comes to his interpretations, Uhlig is my man. He has an intrinsic grip on this music and plays out of a musical conviction that has a authority over it which I cannot ignore. This disc is recorded in England, and the engineer is Tony Faulkner, so it sounds first rate.

[Traverso]

Mozart


What a wonderful piece "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" is. Klemperer gives a performance with a wonderful pulse and panache.

[Traverso]

Yesterday's offer is over, yesterday 14.99 now 39.99  (JPC)

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Catalogue des Oiseaux Livre 1-7

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Klavier)

[Traverso]

Mozart


Pianoconcerto No.22


One of my favorite concertos and Ashkenazy gives a performance that will make your whole body sing. Listened to it recently but have to listen to it again. What always strikes me is how often I think of his operas when I listen to his piano concertos. I often sing along and at such moments I can't imagine anything more beautiful.

[listener]

(on DVD)   Orazio VECCHI (1550 - 1605)  L'Amfiparnaso   (The Twin Peaks of Parnassus)
I Fagiolini   vocals with actors playing the comedia dell'arte roles
veru interesting presentation of an early opera Banchieri-like  with commedia dell'arte characters   58 min.

[Harry]

New acquisition, First listen.
Emilie Meyer.
Symphony No. 1 in C minor & No. 2 in E minor.
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Leo McFall.

I am I'll admit a great fan of Emilie Meyer's music, and I decided to buy what is available of her music, meaning 4 CD's with Symphonies, and this is the first to play.
An excellent orchestra, is taking the honours in this fine performance, and beautifully recorded by Martin Lohmann, a fine engineer, with golden ears.

[Que]

I randomly picked disc 10 "Miscellaneous Keyboard Works", which kicked off with an adaptation of the Die Entfhürung overture. And many other small gemms, surprise. The fortepiano after Walter is latish (1800) and has a nice mahogany tone.

[Wanderer]

Robert Schumann.
Complete Piano works.
Volume I.
Concert sans Orchestre in F minor, opus 14, Dedicated to Ignaz Moscheles.
Preliminary studies and deleted movements for the Concert sans Orchestre
Two variations from the second movement, deleted from the autograph copy. (Quasi variazion) 1836/published in 1984.
Presto possibile in F minor, first version of the last movement, unpublished fragment.
Fantasie in C major, dedicated to Franz Liszt.

Florian Uhlig, Piano.
New acquisition first listen.

The first volume of in total 16 CD's with a very complete recording of all of Schumann's solo piano works. The first disc starts of with a fabulous rendering of the Concert sans Orchestre, brilliant in its conception, and so well performed, including all the unpublished movements. If it comes to his interpretations, Uhlig is my man. He has an intrinsic grip on this music and plays out of a musical conviction that has a authority over it which I cannot ignore. This disc is recorded in England, and the engineer is Tony Faulkner, so it sounds first rate.

Ah, so your copy arrived! Mine shipped today. Keep the reviews coming, Harry! 😎

[Todd]

Thomas Beecham in London, in mono.  Ancient but acceptable sound accentuates the quaintness of the performance.  The quaintness, though, dispels any notions of HIP superiority.  The relaxed tempi, the rubato, the old, old-school portamento, and everything else Beecham does just sounds so right.  And is there a more singing Andante cantabile?  The heavy Menuetto delights and the vibrant Molto Allegro excites.  A great recording.