What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

One of the great 20th century trumpet concertos (actually, I can't think of any other 20th century trumpet concertos -- but no matter, it's a trumpet concerto (IMO) and it's great so . . . )

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde

James King, Janet Baker
Bernard Haitink & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

[ritter]

One of the great 20th century trumpet concertos (actually, I can't think of any other 20th century trumpet concertos -- but no matter, it's a trumpet concerto (IMO) and it's great so . . . )

Stockhausen at the top of his game....I should revisit that soon. Good evening, Mandryka!


TD:

First listen to this new arrival, with a varied programme of Italian avant-garde music:



Contents can be seen in discogs.

Kind of cute to encounter the valse from Messager's Isoline in one of the Bussotti works (it was a kind of an idée fixe for good old Sylvano  ).

Berio's early Chamber Music is a work I do not revisit often, but it's rather attractive in its Dallapiccola-permeated style. OTOH, Sequenza III for solo voice (which here is sung by a male singer —the excellent Nicholas Isherwood—; was this version sanctioned by the composer?) may be very interesting and clever, but I personally find it insufferable (as I do most of the Sequenze, TBH — I much prefer the Chemins series).


Franco Donatoni's jazzy Hot (for saxophone and six instruments) has turned out to be the highlight of this disc. A superb piece!

[vers la flamme]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin. Arthur Grumiaux

Great recording. Would love to hear a HIP one to see how it compares, though not entirely sure what it would entail (less vibrato maybe—not that Grumiaux's recording is particularly drenched in it).

[Brian]

Les Pêcheurs de Saint-Jean seems to be a suite from an opera - a 10-minute overture plus two shorter snippets. The overture has lots of bold writing for trombones, but also a great big ripoff of Wagner's Tannhauser overture in the middle, and a delicate violin solo. The two little pieces are fairly forgettable.

The Cello Concerto is in a more conservative idiom than Saint-Saens' two concertos, with less memorable tunes and a longer structure. It is an artifact of that era when some French composers (like Gouvy) were trying to imitate Germanic orchestral forms but with limited success. The only real formal twist is the slow, quiet ending.

[Madiel]

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin. Arthur Grumiaux

Great recording. Would love to hear a HIP one to see how it compares, though not entirely sure what it would entail (less vibrato maybe—not that Grumiaux's recording is particularly drenched in it).

I highly recommend David Watkin.

[AnotherSpin]

I highly recommend David Watkin.

I did not know that cellist David Watkin performed Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.

[Madiel]

I did not know that cellist David Watkin performed Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.

Doh. I was distracted.

[Symphonic Addict]

The last CD to play devoted to this composer. A truly stupendous craftsman all round.

[Symphonic Addict]

To my ears, Honeck was a little interventionist in this performance.

[Henk]

Bursting with energy.

[Brian]

The last CD to play devoted to this composer. A truly stupendous craftsman all round.

Congrats on reply #100000 to this thread! 

[Symphonic Addict]

Congrats on reply #100000 to this thread! 

 

[Lisztianwagner]

Edward Elgar
Sea Pictures

Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Sir John Barbirolli & London Symphony Orchestra

[vers la flamme]

Edward Elgar
Sea Pictures

Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Sir John Barbirolli & London Symphony Orchestra

Love that box set.



Georg Philipp Telemann: Luther Cantatas. Gotthold Schwarz, Sächsische Barockorchester, Bach Consort Leipzig

First listen, I think, to any of Telemann's vocal music. So far so good.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas, Franz Konwitschny, Radio Symphony Orchetra Berlin

[classicalgeek]

Ozawa did a lot of superb work in Boston.

That he did, Karl! I grew up in New Hampshire in the late 80s and early 90s (before moving to the Pacific Northwest after college), and I went to several BSO concerts conducted by Ozawa. The most memorable was a Mahler 2 in November 1989 - a transcendental experience for 14-year-old me!

TD:
Shostakovich
Symphony no. 8
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
(on CD)



A fine Shostakovich 8, even if my favorites still remain Haitink/Concertgebouw and Previn/LSO/EMI.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Erik Satie works - Ronan O'Hora.

[Symphonic Addict]

Yoshimatsu: White Landscapes

Soothing, relaxing, almost 10 minutes of sheer bliss.

[Linz]

Bach Attributions, Christopher Herrick organ, Eight Little Preludes and Fugues, BWV553-560, Fifteen Chorale Preludes, Fugue in G major, BWV581 and Partita 'Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr', BWV771