What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Cello Concerto

I'm currently re-tagging and loading my old favourite composers back onto my music player after starting again with some 100 albums in the big Boulez and Reiner boxes followed by R. Strauss, a lot of Messiaen and a few other things along the way. Using the Artist tag for composer and Album tag to combine work, artist and date e.g. Cello Concerto (De Leeuw, 2001) suits me fine, my main aim is to identify duplicate recordings among the endless recycling of classical music in new packaging .

[steve ridgway]

My first listen ever to one of Debussy's greatest works according to many connoisseurs. I was expecting something like what I heard: perfumed, subtle, delicate music for the most part. Whilst the music is nice and good, I don't connect with this sort of style very much.

I've only listened to it once so far but found it very absorbing to follow the lyrics with a translation and let it stimulate my imagination, like experiencing someone else's dream .

[Que]

Robin is to the greenwood Gone,
Elizabethan Lute Music.
Paul O'Dette, Lute.
Recorded in 1987.
Since there is no PDF file attached to this CD, I have no details about venue, or Lutes used.
Works performed are on the back cover.

This recording appears to be typical of 1990's recordings, in that the recording volume is set quite low, and I mean really low. But the sound is very good, as is the performance. O'Dette moves from sensitive to forceful,  shows restraint, applies academic intellectualism and passion, as I expect from him. If you can get this CD, I would say buy it. 50 minutes of music is not much, but the rewards are great.

I encountered it streaming and love it. One of O'Dette's best.

[vandermolen]

I know James Ravilious photography very well but I had no idea his father was also an artist. Thanks for that!!

He was a very fine landscape and war artist who was killed on a reconnaissance mission in World War Two near Iceland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ravilious
Nowadays his work often features on greetings cards. The Towner Gallery in Eastbourne features some of his work, which I saw a while back.
https://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/ravilious-gallery-and-collection-library
See third picture down.

[Irons]

Hi Irons,

Well, after digging around (both in LPs and CDs), no Bax Cello Sonata.    I did find it on Youtube though (with Bernard Gregor-Smith and Yolande Wrigley which I think someone here posted listening to recently as the cover looked familiar).

I've been enjoying it.    Perfect music for a rainy/cloudy day.

PD

Florence Hooton and Wilfrid Parry recorded the Cello Sonata and Legend-Sonata for Lyrita. The mono sound is dry but I actually prefer this as I believe it to be more authentic.

[Harry]

Michael Praetorius.
Dances from Terpsichore, 1612.
New London Consort, Philip Pickett.
Recording venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, March 1985.

This is still the best recording of these dances. It has never been challenged by any other recording to this date. It has SOTA sound (1985) and the sheer creativity and choice of instruments has no equal. It is a feast to listen to this performance, I am still thrilled listening to it. YAY.

[Florestan]

A chamber piano concerto in two "lopsided" movements, Molto moderato (not to give the composer a hard time, but that almost seems an oxymoron to me) and Molto Allegro. Musically no great distance from the first Symphony, though the Molto moderato has some pastoral elements.

Holmboe is in good company, actually: Schubert used the same marking for the first movement of D960. 

[classicalgeek]

Prokofiev
Symphony no. 2
Symphony no. 6
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi
(on CD)



I believe this is my first time listening to the Second - it's not the easiest on the ears, but Jarvi and the Scots make a good case for it. The Sixth might be my favorite Prokofiev symphony, and this is a fantastic performance.

[Harry]

Carl Heinrich Reinecke.
Cello sonatas Nr.1-3.
Claudius Herrmann & Saiko Sasaki.
See details of works and recording on back cover.


Reinecke's cello sonatas, published between 1855 and 1898, belong to the most important contributions to this genre, which was rather sparsely considered in the 19th century, and stylistically they bridge the gap between Mendelssohn, in whose year of death the first was begun, to Brahms, to whose memory the third is dedicated. It is the most ardent romantic music one can hear from this period.  Fresh, gripping, technically high-level playing. The performances are absolutely sensational, the recording quality is stunning.  One of the best recital disc I've heard in quite some time.

[akebergv]

Robin is to the greenwood Gone

Thanks for the recommendation! Another O'Dette recording I love and have listened to a lot is Bach Lute works, vol. 1 from 2007. Ever since then I have been waiting in vain for vol. 2 to appear. Anyone knows anything about this, why it never appeared (or if it's out and I've missed it)?

[Maestro267]

The revival of this composer's thread has inspired me to listen to some of the symphones today.

Holmboe: Symphonies Nos. 10 & 8
Aarhus SO/OA Hughes

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Mozart
Piano concertos #20 & #21
Perahia, English Chamber Orch.

Goody!
Very Goody!

 

[Harry]

BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.
Oleh Krysa, Violin.

Poems of the Sea.
Suite symphonique.

Malmö Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo.
Recorded: 1993-1994 at the Malmö Concert Hall, Sweden.

Excellent performance and sound.

[vandermolen]

BLOCH, Ernest (1880-1959)

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.
Oleh Krysa, Violin.

Poems of the Sea.
Suite symphonique.

Malmö Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo.
Recorded: 1993-1994 at the Malmö Concert Hall, Sweden.

Excellent performance and sound.

A great Bloch CD!

[Harry]

BORODIN, Alexandr Porfiryevich (1833-1887)

Symphony No.1 in E flat major & Symphony No.2 in B major.
In the Steppes of Central Asia.
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Jun'ichi Hirokami.
Recorded: 1989-1990, Malmö Concert Hall, Sweden.

An oldie, but still a reference if it comes to these Works.

[Karl Henning]

Vagn Holmboe
String Quartet № 1, Op. 46 / M. 159 (1948-49)
Kontra Quartet

[AnotherSpin]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I thought they only do that here in Florida.

I have sat in a traffic jam here on I-95 because of construction at midnight on a Saturday.

TD
Wilson seems to have a special gift for music for strings.

I like how they designed the cover of that...rather like a crossword puzzle. 

[Glass FX]

NP:

Britten
String Quartet No. 2 in C, Op. 36
Brodsky Quartet

From this 2-CD set -

[Karl Henning]

I like how they designed the cover of that...rather like a crossword puzzle. 

Love the Enescu Octet. And I see the Bacewicz Concerto for Strings is on YouTube.