What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

30/1.  This cycle tracks variation movements separately, which is kinda handy.  Playing remains top notch.  Indeed, the more I listen, the more I want to hear Thibaudet record a piano sonata cycle.  (I've long wanted him to, knowing this will not happen.) 

[Traverso]

Mozart

[SonicMan46]

Kozeluch, Leopold (1747-1818) - Keyboard Sonatas - he wrote about 50 of these works - there are now two complete 12-disc sets; I own the Jenny Kim on fortepiano; listening to the other on Spotify w/ Kemp English on a variety of historic instruments - do I need both?  Andrei and Todd contributing some comparative comments in the Purchases Today Thread, for those interested.  Dave

 

[Mandryka]

Mari ?  Momo ?  I had thought they were different people.

By Jove, you are right!

[Papy Oli]

Kabelac - Mystery of time (Ancerl)

[Mandryka]

I like Kaoru's unpretentious playing too.

So do I, very much so. I've been with it a lot over the past day or so. She has helped me to appreciate the music very much more. I'm going to have to sample some other things by Szymanowski in the style of op 50.

[Traverso]

Altdeutsche Weihnacht





part of this box

[Traverso]

Messiaen & Boulez

[Spotted Horses]

Albinoni, Trio Sonatas Op 4, Locatelli Trio



These don't make as big an impression on me at the opus 1 set, which has two violin parts, which Albinoni took advantage of to create astonishing imitative counterpoint.

This release has the annoying feature that the Opus 4 and Opus 6 pieces are mixed up in a seemingly random sequence, making it necessary for me to hunt for the sonatas I wish to listen to.

[Linz]

Bach Cantatas First Sunday in Advent with the Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner

[Lisztianwagner]

Pyotr Iliych Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.1 'Winter Dreams'

[j winter]

Spending some time revisiting McCabe's Haydn this week.  Earlier, Rudolf Serkin's mono Beethoven piano concertos with Ormandy, great stuff...

[jlopes]

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No.3 in D Minor (Version: 1876) II. Andante: Bewegt,quasi Andante and the full (Third version: 1889) Gennadi Rozhdestvensky The USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

[Que]

Une Flûte Invisible... An Imaginary Chamber Opera in Six Scenes
Works by Saint-Saëns, Godard, Caplet, Debussy & Roussel

Sandrine Piau (soprano), Hervé Lamy (tenor), Gilles de Talhouët (flute) & Arthur Schoonderwoerd (piano Érard 1907)

The story begins one evening and ends the following morning; it is divided into six 'scenes', each beginning with a piece for solo piano from Debussy's Epigraphes antiques and containing pieces by various composers, forming a conversation between tenor and soprano, with flute accompaniment.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Mari ?  Momo ?  I had thought they were different people.

By Jove, you are right!

Mari Kodama, Japanese pianist, is a sister of Momo Kodama and the wife of Kent Nagano, who is Japanese American.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

So do I, very much so. I've been with it a lot over the past day or so. She has helped me to appreciate the music very much more. I'm going to have to sample some other things by Szymanowski in the style of op 50.

Let me know any recording you recommend. I prefer Kaoru's Mazurkas to Hamelin's, but thought that I was the only one who likes her recording. Are you familiar with her husband's music? Good pianist?

[Mapman]

Maiden-Listen Monday!
Tveitt: Variations On A Folksong From Hardanger
Gimse, Süssmann; Engeset: Royal Scottish National Orchestra

A nice piece based on modal folk music. It sounds almost Eastern European at times.

[JBS]

I'm discovering Boult was a very good conductor of Holst.


Hymn of Jesus, Ballet Music from The Perfect Fool (1960 recording), Egdon Heath, Country Song

From the Decca Boult Legacy set

[Operafreak]

 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6-Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev