What are you listening 2 now?

[ritter]

This was just delivered to my office... Now listening to the Due pezzi...



Man, I really like Dallapiccola's music. I already knew all the pieces on this CD form other recordings, but this is sounding superb: crystal clear, intimate, beautiful...

[Mahlerbruck]

Johan Svendsen - Symphony no. 1 and no. 2.

Mariss Jansons - conductor
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

[71 dB]

Paillard J.S.Bach box disc 4: BWV 1053, 1056, 1060, 1061

[SonicMan46]

Vorisek, Jan Vaclav (1791-1825) - Piano Music on 2 Spotify playlists (top row below) w/ Biljana Urban, Radoslav Kvapil, & Artur Pisarro - I've never heard of this short-lived Czech composer until starting the book below, The Beloved Vision - the author spends a couple of pages on him as an important figure in the early Romantic transition. So for those familiar w/ Jan V. and the recordings, please comment - thanks.  Dave

Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek was a Czech composer, pianist, and organist; he was born in Vamberk, Bohemia. As a child prodigy, he started to perform publicly at the age of nine. His father taught him music, encouraged his playing the piano and helped him get a scholarship to attend the University of Prague, where he studied philosophy. He also had lessons in piano and composition from Václav Tomášek. In 1813 at the age of 22, Voříšek moved to Vienna to study law and hoped to meet Beethoven. In Vienna he greatly improve his piano technique under Johann Hummel, and was a friend of Schubert. (Source)

 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Slavický: Moravian Dance Fantasies. Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and Miloš Konvalinka.

[Traverso]

Bruckner

Time for some Bruckner......

Symphony No.1

Berliner Philharmoniker

[Todd]

Finally gave this a whirl.  The one thing that this recording does better than the 70s recording is piano sound.  There's a more appealing tone and more body.  Pollini obviously digs the music, as evidenced by his vocalizing.  He does not really present these in a transcendent or deep manner.  Instead, they are more straightforward and uncompromising.  This pays the biggest dividends in the tense and tetchy Adagio to 106.  His tempi are pretty snappy throughout, often leading to an agitated sound.  But he also cannot play with the utter precision and control of his younger days.  The swift 9'31" opener to 106 has energy and forward drive, but it lacks the sublime execution of pianists like Korstick or Goodyear.  This is better than I anticipated, but it does not match memories of his earlier recordings, and better renditions are available.  I will probably A/B this and his earlier recordings at some point. 

[Traverso]

Dutilleux

Mystère de L'instant
Collegium Musicum Zürich
The Shadows of Time
Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa
Le Loup
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire  Georges Prêtre

[vandermolen]

Rubbra: Symphony No.5 - an excellent performance in good sound
Melbourne SO, Cond. Hans-Hubert Schonzeler (known for his book on Bruckner)

[Linz]

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams" and Swan Lake Suite

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Monday:

Bax
Symphony № 6 (1933-35)
Into the Twilight (1908)
Summer Music (1921, rev. 1932)

[Mandryka]

Indianisches Tagebuch. This guy can make music.

[Lisztianwagner]

Some Dallapiccola for me too:

Luigi Dallapiccola
Partita
Dialoghi

Gianandrea Noseda & BBC Philharmonic

[Todd]

[Florestan]

This is clearly targeted at people suffering of torticollis. 

[VonStupp]

The couplings on that disc are gorgeous too!

I will look forward to circling back to these pairings!

Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet 2 in B-flat Major
Panocha Quartet

If I was charmed by Dvořák's first SQ, the second did absolutely nothing for me. I found it directionless and meandering; odd since thus far I have found even the least from Dvořák engaging.
VS

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No.3

Vladimir Ashkenazy & Concertgebouw Orchestra

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony  No.7 in E Major 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak

[Kontrapunctus]

Albinoni Op.7.

[DavidW]

Maiden-Listen Monday:

Bax
Symphony № 6 (1933-35)
Into the Twilight (1908)
Summer Music (1921, rev. 1932)

Inspired by your previous post I listened to the 5th today from that set.