What are you listening 2 now?

[vers la flamme]

Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. Leonard Bernstein, Vienna Philharmonic, with James King and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

First listen to this; I found it at a record store today. So far, I'm really impressed. Pretty much dripping in pathos, maybe more than I can take right now, but it's a very beautiful and committed performance.

[Operafreak]

Robert Schumann and Nicolas Namoradze: Arabesque/ Nicolas Namoradze

[vers la flamme]

Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures, op.37. Janet Baker, John Barbirolli, London Symphony Orchestra

This is definitely one of the best orchestral song cycles I've ever heard, and one of my favorite works by Elgar. I couldn't possibly imagine a better performance of it. Very committed. The box was worth the price of admission for this performance alone, let alone all the other great stuff in it.

[Peter Power Pop]

Rameau

Some of us think that Leonhardt and the Frankenstein monster are one and the same entity.
Who cares, all what matters is the sounding result.

Absolutely. And Leonhardt is great in Rameau. His recording of Pygmalion is excellent.

[Mapman]

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Uirapurú. Eduardo Mata, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

This is the only work of this composer that I know, but I like it. Very exciting ballet music in the post-Rite of Spring vein. I suppose I'll get around to hearing something else of his eventually, but he wrote so much and I don't know where to next.

I haven't heard much Villa-Lobos either, but I liked Chôros No. 10. I'll eventually listen to more, and post about it!

[Que]

Morning listening on Spotify:



Hat tip Harry!

[Que]

Next up:



Another Harry recommendation.

[Operafreak]

Scarlatti by Dubarge, start with disc 1

[Papy Oli]

Back to this today:

Duphly - selected harpsichord works (Aya Hamada)

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Five Pieces for Orchestra



Thrilling performance by Boulez; the third piece, for its calm, but heavy and haunting pace, has always reminded me Holst's Saturn (or a spectral version of Venus) a little.....

[Papy Oli]

Some piano works from the Poulenc big box.

[Traverso]

Absolutely. And Leonhardt is great in Rameau. His recording of Pygmalion is excellent.

Rameau


Pygmalion



To be clear, it was David Hurwitz who, in one of his youtube reviews, made a comment that Leonhardt is somewhat like Frankenstein as far as he is concerned.

[Traverso]

Mozart


piano concertos 23 & 27

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 8 in D minor -BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins

[Todd]

from




I'm not sure why the Bach Guild put Schutz in the Early Music collection, but there you go.  The music is obviously fantastic, and fortunately the singing is very lovely, with the female voices most beguiling. 

[lordlance]

Scriabin SY1. Kitayenko/Frankfurt.


 

Is it your favorite Scriabin 1 and also the symphonies performance?

[Pizzicato-Polka]

It is great that you have decided to post again.
I do not know that CD but I like all of Vivaldi's music and I particularly like Vivaldi's Sacred Music.

That's wonderful to hear! Vivaldi is one of my favorite composers.

Poulenc: Eric Le Sage Plays Poulenc

Sonata for Violin and Piano [Blacher/Le Sage]

The music in the opening movement is thrilling and exciting. The slow movement is a great contrast with its gentle intensity, its wonderful melodic lines and dissonant harmonies. The energetic and animated music of the opening movement returns in the final movement. The violin line has many very technically difficult passages to play and it all sounds wonderful.

This description sounded like a piece right up my alley and after having listened to it, I can confirm it indeed is! Especially the brilliant Allegro con fuoco. So thank you very much!

And from my side for today:



I find the album's title fitting since the spectrum of sounds that can be achieved on a violin is well represented here. From calming, very bird-like fluttering, sometimes as quiet as a whisper, through piano-like pizzicato passages, to a delighfully intense creaking turmoil.

My favorites from there are for sure the violin sonata by Erwin Schulhoff & the one by Paul Hindemith.

[SonicMan46]

Wolfie's Keyboard Works from the box below posted yesterday - finishing up this Sunday morn - Dave

Mozart, WA - Solo Piano Works w/ Kristian Bezuidenhout on fortepianos (Derek Adlam, 1987 after Anton Walter, Vienna, ca. 1795 and Paul McNulty, 2008 after Anton Walter & Sohn, Vienna, ca. 1802) - first 3 discs of 9 for the morning; some reviews attached for those interested.  Dave

[pjme]

Interesting cover art. Do you happen to know who the artist is?

Bernardo Francesco Paolo Ernesto Bellotto

Born ca. 1721/2 – 17 October 1780.
Venitian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedutes of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw).
He was the pupil and nephew of Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. Especially in Germany, paintings attributed to Canaletto may actually be by Bellotto rather than by his uncle; in Poland, they are by Bellotto, who is known there as "Canaletto".

propably this view of Munich (but mirrored)

[Traverso]

Messiaen