What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

I had exactly the same reaction.

Interesting, Todd. Thanks!

That disc caught my attention when you posted it in the New Releases thread, particularly for the Viñes (I've never heard any music composed by this legendary pianist).

The same for me and therefore I just purchased the CD 

[Traverso]

Satie


CD 42

[pjme]

particularly for the Viñes (I've never heard any music composed by this legendary pianist).

Intriguing, indeed. I found these works on YT.

and this gem..

[Traverso]

Magda Tagliaferro


Liszt
Liebestraum
La Leggierezza

Chopin
Polonaise No.1,2 & 7

Weber
Rond Brilliante

Saint  Saëns
Etude en forme de Valse

Granados
Goyescas part 1 Nos 3&4

Villia-Lobos
Cielo Brasileiro Nos. 2& 3

[Spotted Horses]

A Reger morning.

Clarinet Quintet, Armida Quartet.



String Quartet No 1, Op 54 No 1, Drolc Quartet



On second listen (to a different recording) the clarinet quintet doesn't really resonate with me. Maybe I could describe my impression by saying that at any given moment the texture is pleasing, but I don't quite grasp the musical idea that is being elaborated on.

The String Quartet No 54 made a stronger impression. It is a work which I listened to and found difficult some years ago and today I find it less difficult. Only the really obtuse harmonic progressions in the third movement (Largo Mesto) left me a bit baffled.

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE - Keyboard & Violin Works w/ Waley-Cohen & Baillieu on modern instruments and Duo Belder Kimura on Baroque violin and harpsichord/fortepiano - both claim to be 'complete' but according to whose catalog (see quote below)? Both contain all of the Wq numbers but neither have the higher Helm works w/o Wq equivalents.  Dave

P.S. Reviews attached for those interested.

CPE Bach's works have been catalogued twice. The first comprehensive catalogue was that by Alfred Wotquenne first published in 1905, and this led to Wq. numbers being used. In 1989 E. Eugene Helm produced a revised catalogue, and H numbers are now also used. (Source)

Violin Sonatas (Helm & Wq Catalog Numbers - source above
H 502. Violin Sonata in D major (Wq 71)
H 503. Violin Sonata in D minor (Wq 72)
H 504. Violin Sonata in C major (Wq 73)
H 507. Violin Sonata in D major (Wq 74)
H 511. Violin Sonata in F major (Wq 75)
H 512. Violin Sonata in B minor (Wq 76)
H 513. Violin Sonata in B flat major (Wq 77)
H 514. Violin Sonata in C minor (Wq 78)
H 542. Violin Sonata in A major
H 544. Violin Sonata in E major
H 546. Violin Sonata in C major
H 547. Violin Sonata in G major

[Lisztianwagner]

First listen to this performance:

Arnold Schönberg
String Quartet No.2

Arditti Quartet

[VonStupp]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Pilgrim's Progress: A Bunyan Sequence
  adapted by Christopher Palmer

Sir John Gielgud, Christian
Richard Pasco, Evangelist
Ursula Howells, Angel
Aidan Oliver, Shepherd Boy

Corydon Singers
City of London Sinfonia - Matthew Best

Having heard (and enjoyed) the earlier 20-minute 'Pastoral Episode' Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains (with Bryn Terfel also on Hyperion), I figured the next step was this Radio Play, before tackling the 4-Act opera.

Even in the exact same titled sequence set in the titular mountains, what a different experience this was. I don't mind the speaking, but the interest definitely is VW's music, and Gielgud post-Arthur 2: On the Rocks.
VS


The Towered City, or The Haunted Stream, Samuel Palmer

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Poulenc piano works. Antony Gray.

[ritter]

More from the Hans Rosbaud "French Music" box...




CD3: Jacques Ibert's Le Chevalier errant, Darius Milhaud's L'Homme et son désir (in its purely instrumental version), Maurice Jarre's Concertino for Percussion and Strings (a work that is completely new to me), and Messiaen's Chronochromie.

TBH, this set so far (CD 2 and 3) has proven to be a sort of succès d'estime in in my case. I have great admiration and respect for Mr. Rosbaud (in many repertoires), but these performances —Ravel and Roussel yesterday, and the disc today—, being perfectly OK, really do not represent major additions to the discography of the works (with one exception).

A lack of magic in Ma Mère l'oye, a bland Alborada, rather neutral Roussel, and a downright boring L'Homme et son désir. Perhaps the Ibert piece fares better, but the performance does not displace the more modern Jacques Mercier recording from Metz (on Timpani), or Georges Tzipine's rendition of the whole score (with the vocal numbers and narration).

The piece by Maurice Jarre (of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago fame) is extracted from a collective homage to Mozart commissioned IIRC by Heinrich Strobel (and to which Pierre Boulez refused to contribute). It lasts 3 minutes, and left no impression whatsoever.

With Chronochromie, things get much more interesting. This  complex Messiaen score is superbly rendered by Rosbaud and his Baden-Baden band. Very convincing.

Let's see how the Debussy on disc 1 is, and disc 4 will be my first exposure to the music of Marcel Mihalovici.

[Todd]

[Lisztianwagner]

Luigi Dallapiccola
Quaderno musicale di Annalibera

Pianist: Roberto Prosseda

[Henk]

Great listen. Truely magical sounds.

[andolink]

Franz Schubert : 4 sonatas for violin and piano
Zefira Valova, violin
Aapo Häkkinen, fortepiano



Arnold Schoenberg : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
The Cleveland Orchestra - Pierre Boulez

[Linz]

Elgars Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85, In the South. Concert overture, op.50 and Elergy for Strings, op.58, Norman Del Mar, London Philharmonic Orchestra

[JBS]

Second listen.

Good performance, but probably no better than the existing favorites.

[Todd]

A perfectly pleasant freebie.

[Mapman]

Dohnányi: Symphony #2
Bamert: BBC Philharmonic

This is less immediately accessible than his 1st symphony, but seems excellent. The 3rd movement is hilarious (in a similar way to the finale of Robert Russell Bennett's Symphonic Songs for Band).

[Symphonic Addict]

Penderecki: Symphony No. 5

There's a very attractive somber and sinister atmosphere in this work.

[JBS]

Final CD of this set


Because it's a set, the CD is filled out with five of the Songs Without Words transcribed for either violin and piano or cell and piano, and the Largo movement of Beethoven's Ghost Trio.