What are you listening 2 now?

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A pity that his first five string quartets have not been recorded yet (not sure if they got lost).

Yes, they're lost or in the case the 5th SQ it has been withdrawn. It seems material from these first five quartets were later reused. I found all of this information on the Australian Music Centre's website:

Australian Music Centre

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Quintet
Gervase De Peyer, Melos Ensemble
Franz Schubert Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. Posth. 114, D. 667 "The Trout", Adagio and Rondo Concertante, D. 487
Melos Ensemble

[Karl Henning]

Outstanding!

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I can't see this image --- could you please let me know what it is?

[Brian]

Welcome to the forum!

[Que]

Welcome! Judging from your choice in music, we will get along just fine. 

[Symphonic Addict]

Yes, they're lost or in the case the 5th SQ it has been withdrawn. It seems material from these first five quartets were later reused. I found all of this information on the Australian Music Centre's website:

Australian Music Centre

Thanks for the info!

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Now playing Chávez Invention I, II & III

[Symphonic Addict]

Four fancy French quartets: two by Charlotte Sohy and two by Jean Rivier



Sohy is one of those women composers who has gained exposure lately thanks to labels like La Boîte à pepites, and judging by her two string quartets, I think it is quite deserved. Whereas the first quartet op. 25 displays a more sophisticated, elegant writing (relatively close to Jongen in style), the second one op. 33 has more quirky elements that make it a tad more fun and extrovert. Very fine discoveries more than convincingly performed. I can't but be completely delighted by them.

I don't remember if I had heard the Rivier previously. In any case, what wonderful music. Like with Sohy, the first quartet is nothing but exquisite refinement, intensely lovely and lyric. Music to die for. If the first quartet is good, the second one is even better with its moderate astringency and seasoned gestures. I confidently claim that it is a masterpiece. Concise works with strong ideas galore.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Ivor Bolton

[T. D.]

[Lisztianwagner]

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No.9

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Symphonic Addict]

Three arrangements for chamber orchestra: Il Vitalino raddoppiato (a cool title, btw), Drei Mozartsche Orgelsonaten and I sentimenti di Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Another side of the composer and one I found quite compelling. The first work is the most substantial piece on the disc (32 min. long).

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Now playing Debussy Images for Orchestra

[André]

The d minor violin concerto and the double (violin and fortepiano) concerto were written when Mendelssohn was a boy of 12-13. Amazing stuff. Both works show amazing brio in the concluding pages of their respective finales. Solid, superbly crafted stuff from a middle school boy. Of particular note is the superb clarity and fine tone of the fortepiano, an 1845 Bösendorfer. Irnberger confirms his status as a superb violinist.



Eröd (1936-2019) was a student of Kodaly. The 3 quartets on this disc cover about 40 years of his career. The language is easy to the ear, steeped in the same kind of clear, uncluttered harmonies and symmetrical, classical structure as Bartok and Kodaly. Very enjoyable.



A fancy title and cover picture for what is essentially a very 'normal' and very fine piano duo recital. The works here are Stravinsky's 3 dances from Petrushka, Ravel's Alborada del gracioso and La Valse, Liszt's concert paraphrase on themes of Rigoletto, a Carmen Fantasy and a Fledermaus Fantasy by one Abram Chasins, Rimsky's short Flight of the Bumblebee and finally Lutoslawski's Paganini Variations.

All of it is well played (great buildup to the intoxicating ending of La Valse) and the recorded sound is beautiful. The whole is more than the sum of its parts, as it should be in a well-planned recital.

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Going to make my way through the Villa-Lobos symphonies --- now playing Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

[JBS]

A fancy title and cover picture for what is essentially a very 'normal' and very fine piano duo recital. The works here are Stravinsky's 3 dances from Petrushka, Ravel's Alborada del gracioso and La Valse, Liszt's concert paraphrase on themes of Rigoletto, a Carmen Fantasy and a Fledermaus Fantasy by one Abram Chasins, Rimsky's short Flight of the Bumblebee and finally Lutoslawski's Paganini Variations.

All of it is well played (great buildup to the intoxicating ending of La Valse) and the recorded sound is beautiful. The whole is more than the sum of its parts, as it should be in a well-planned recital.

About Chasins:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Chasins

Only one recording of his music is listed on Amazon, but three of his books are available there.



TD


CD 2
K 284/205b "Dürnitz" in D Major
K 309/284b in C Major
K 310/300d in a minor

[JBS]

Brahms
String Sextet in B Flat Major Op 18
String Quintet in G Major Op 111

Verdi Quartett with Herman Voss viola and Peter Buck cello