What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

First listen to this one-act opera:

Arnold Schönberg
Von Heute auf Morgen

https://youtube.com/v/ySZJHLDSps4

[Operafreak]

Bach: Goldberg Variations- Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)

[Traverso]

Bach

[Harry]

Carl Nielsen.
Orchestral Works.
Helios overture.
Dream of Gunar.
Symfonisk rapsodi.
An Evening at Giske.
Paraphrase on Nearer my God to thee.
Bohemian Danish Folk tune for String Orchestra.
Rhapsody overture.
Pan og Syrinx, pastorale, A Nature scene for orchestra.
The Danish National Radio SO, Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

A fine program, well recorded and conducted by Rozhdestvensky. There is much to be enjoyed in his style of conducting.

[vandermolen]

Turns out that I haven't listened to his 4th (though I have it, along with 2 and 5 and the Sinfonietta). I shall rectify that immediately!

James MacMillan's
Symphony No. 4

Martyn Brabbins, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Excellent! There is another recording as well:

[vandermolen]

Carl Nielsen.
Orchestral Works.
Helios overture.
Dream of Gunar.
Symfonisk rapsodi.
An Evening at Giske.
Paraphrase on Nearer my God to thee.
Bohemian Danish Folk tune for String Orchestra.
Rhapsody overture.
Pan og Syrinx, pastorale, A Nature scene for orchestra.
The Danish National Radio SO, Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

A fine program, well recorded and conducted by Rozhdestvensky. There is much to be enjoyed in his style of conducting. I have to make an exception for the Paraphrase on Nearer my God, for me an horrible composition.

That's a fine CD Harry. Rozhdestvensly was a very fine conductor and something of an Anglophile (recording music by Vaughan Williams and Howells for example):

Now playing:
Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Symphony No.7
Intense, searching, visionary, memorable with a generally austere atmosphere - I think that you might like it Harry if you don't already know it:

[JBS]

Early morning listening
The electric guitar fits in very well, the ondes Martonet doesn't but still works, the piece played on synthesizer sticks out like a lump of coal in a bowl of chowder.

[Spotted Horses]

Mozart Piano Sonatas K282, K281, K280, Zacharias



K280 is a highlight of the series, with impressively rigorous outer movements and a minor key central slow movement which creates an intense mournful mood.

K282 is somewhat lightweight, with an unusual structure, opening with an adagio, followed by a minuet and an allegro finale. K281 struck me as a more substantial piece.

[Todd]

[Harry]

Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky.
CD I.
Symphony No. 1, "Winter Dreams".
Overture Solennelle "1812".
New Philharmonia Orchestra & Philadelphia Orchestra, Ricardo Muti.
Licensed by EMI. 1975/1981. I have them in the Brilliant version.

Super recordings and good interpretations. Muti has a natural feel for this composer.  But with the exception of the overture, a lot of unnecessary bombast, crudely recorded, and unimaginably performed. Muti clearly went for big and loud bangs and forgot about the details and thought thoughts of hell and damnation. It all sounds like a derelict bicycle that stood for years in the shed rusty and all.

[Traverso]

Handel


Watermusic

[Harry]

Nicolas Gombert.
Motets II.
CD I.
Beauty Farm.

As good as Motets I. On the basis of all the samples I have listened too, its not feasible that all the coming CD's will hold disappointments for me....I hope. Sound is excellent, and a choir perfectly balanced.

[Karl Henning]

Mozart Piano Sonatas K282, K281, K280, Zacharias



K280 is a highlight of the series, with impressively rigorous outer movements and a minor key central slow movement which creates an intense mournful mood.

K282 is somewhat lightweight, with an unusual structure, opening with an adagio, followed by a minuet and an allegro finale. K281 struck me as a more substantial piece.

Interesting, thanks.

[Karl Henning]

Jean-Philippe Rameau's
Une symphonie imaginaire

Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre

A wonderful, modern concoction of Rameau's orchestral music rummaged out from amongst his operas and ballets and turned into something approaching a symphonic form. Gorgeous stuff!

An example of a good "concept album."

TD:

"Papa"
String Quartet in d minor, Op. 76, № 2, Hob. III:76 « Fifths »
Tokyo String Quartet

[Karl Henning]

  That's a good humor to be in

Al, as Peter Falk's characters were wont to say: When you're right, you're right.

[SonicMan46]

Clementi - post below from a few days ago while listening to Howard Shelley doing the Sonatas et al works on piano - this morning pulled a handful of discs from the middle of Mastroprimiano's 18-disc box (last pic below) performing on a number of fortepianos, both original ones and reproductions (list quoted below of the 5 used).  Dave

Clementi - Mastroprimiano - Fortepianos Used
Original Ones (presumably restored)
  Kirkman - 1798
  Clementi - 1826
  Clementi - c. 1828
Reproductions
  Ugo Casiglia (Palermo) - 2005 after Johann Silbermann, 1749
  Andrea  Restelli (Milano) - 2005 after Ludwig Dulcken, c. 1790

Clementi, Muzio (1752-1832) - Symphonies, Chamber Music, and Keyboard Works - long lived multi-talented Italian-English pianist and composer (see quote for his other interests!).  He wrote mainly a LOT of piano music (LIST).  Howard Shelley has 7 double-CD recordings for 14 discs on piano - just listening to a few; Mastroprimiano has an 18-CD box on fortepiano, which I sampled not too long ago.  Dave
      

[Traverso]

Locatelli

CD 1

[Florestan]

Edvard Grieg's
Peer Gynt Suites

Václav Smetáček, Prague Symphony Orchestra

Haven't listened to this for years: I have been missing out on some good music!

You should listen to the whole thing, it's a stunning work of which the suites give only a pale idea.

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
String Quartet in C, Op. 76, № 3, Hob. III:77 « Emperor »
Tokyo String Quartet

[Linz]

Schubert Rosamunde Overture, D.644 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Mahler Symphony No . 4 in G Major Paul Kletzki Philharmonia Orchestra, Emmy Loose Soprano