What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Boccherini's string trios are deservedly famous. Here a recording of trios with pianoforte:

Which recordings of his oeuvre you would recommend as prime examples of his art?

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi - String Quartet 4

[steve ridgway]

Varèse - Intégrales

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki - Sinfonietta No. 1

[hopefullytrusting]

Mozart's Symphonies 7, 7A,  8, and 9 (Levine on DG with the WP)

[Madiel]

Nielsen: Overture to Love and the Poet (though Dacapo unaccountably translates love as "Cupid")



Yep, very Nielsenish. Later Nielsen, complete with a bit of attack drum. It's described in the liner notes as Nielsen's last orchestral composition.

It's not clear whether anyone has ever recorded anything besides the overture. In general, it's a bit depressing just how much of Nielsen's work is either hard to find or maybe not on disc. He could do with a more comprehensive edition in the style of BIS' Sibelius edition (though I won't demand recording every single arrangement and fragment like they did).

[Madiel]

Nielsen: Piano Music for Young and Old



...although one issue with any complete Nielsen edition would be that quite a bit of his music is not of major listening interest.

These pieces are quite inventive, but the fact remains that they're short pedagogical pieces, 5-finger exercises that don't require the hands to move very far. Within those limitations they're REALLY good, but those are significant limitations.

[hopefullytrusting]

Mozart's Symphonies 7, 7A,  8, and 9 (Levine on DG with the WP)

All quite lovely and soft (the 9th is my favorite so far).

Now,

Haydn: Symphonies 6, 7, 8, and 9 (Fischer on Nimbus with AHHO)

[VonStupp]

Gustav Holst
Nunc Dimittis, H. 127

Finzi Singers - Paul Spicer
Royal Hospital Chelsea - William Vann
Holst Singers - Stephen Layton

VS

[DavidW]

Birtwistle - The Cry Of Anubis

I love that album! That was my introduction to Birtwistle.

[AnotherSpin]

[Mister Sharpe]

Is there a group of musicians that excels pianists for eccentricity? I think not. Among them, Sir Clifford Curzon ranks high for his foibles and peculiarities. Not to mention self-criticism (truth to tell, ofttimes warranted).  One reviewer (Joseph Renouf) had this to say about him: "Curzon's videos confirm what his audio recordings hint at: the guy was a nervous wreck whose arm flapping and rodentlike mouth movements sometimes interfered with his music making." Amass whatever criticism you'd care to about him (and I think he tortured himself sufficiently, relieving us of that task), he pulled the proverbial rabbit outta his hat in the Franck Piano Quintet with the Budapest Quartet.  One wild ride.  Wish the sonics were a bit better but I can deal...

[Irons]

Is there a group of musicians that excels pianists for eccentricity? I think not. Among them, Sir Clifford Curzon ranks high for his foibles and peculiarities. Not to mention self-criticism (truth to tell, ofttimes warranted).  One reviewer (Joseph Renouf) had this to say about him: "Curzon's videos confirm what his audio recordings hint at: the guy was a nervous wreck whose arm flapping and rodentlike mouth movements sometimes interfered with his music making." Amass whatever criticism you'd care to about him (and I think he tortured himself sufficiently, relieving us of that task), he pulled the proverbial rabbit outta his hat in the Franck Piano Quintet with the Budapest Quartet.  One wild ride.  Wish the sonics were a bit better but I can deal...

Curzon and Szell a marriage made in hell! Despite this they made a fabulous recording of Brahms PC 1.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Solo Piano. Marie-Catherine Girod.

[hopefullytrusting]

All quite lovely and soft (the 9th is my favorite so far).

Now,

Haydn: Symphonies 6, 7, 8, and 9 (Fischer on Nimbus with AHHO)

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The Haydn symphonies all were as expected - started out strong, but eventually they put me to sleep (literally). They are very well-composed, but they have like an ASMR effect on me, eventually.

To wake myself up: Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 (Abduraimov & Ellensohn with the FRS led by Shokhakimov):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGKo9h3ZM-o

[Spotted Horses]

Hindemith Sonata for althorn, two versions, in collections anchored by La Sage and Melnikov. Both seem to have been performed on French horn, rather than althorn.





The La Sage recording was deathly dull, the Melnikov recording was just dull. And you have to listen to a poem read in German before the last movement starts. I don't expect to listen to this work again.

I'm past the Sonatas with Opus numbers, so it seems a bit random from here on out. I'm into Hindemith's project writing sonatas for every instrument he could think of, which leaves me pessimistic.

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etudes

Pianist: Francesco Piemontesi

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bartók: Piano Concerto No.2 & Four Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 12.  Eugene Ormandy · Alexis Weissenberg · The Philadelphia Orchestra.

[Linz]

Dietrich Buxtehude Complete Organ Music - CD3
Simone Stella

[Que]

I haven't spotted volume 2 (yet)... Bart van Oort plays an 1875 Steinway BTW, very nice...