What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Bach: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir (BWV 29)



Damn. I'm going to have to take back any comments about Bach being difficult to get into when it's played this well. I gather the later volumes of Suzuki's series are considered among the best - no argument from me.

BWV 29 gets off to a fabulous start with an organ+orchestra arrangement of one of Bach's best moments, the Prelude from the Suite in E for solo violin.

Only three discs to go!

[Iota]

Bach: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir (BWV 29)



Damn. I'm going to have to take back any comments about Bach being difficult to get into when it's played this well. I gather the later volumes of Suzuki's series are considered among the best - no argument from me.

Nor me, I find Suzuki and Bach cantatas an inspiring combination.


Here:



Haydn: Symphony No. 36 in E flat major
Basel Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

I love the sound of the BCO and Antonini, Haydn's music feels so buoyant and characterful. What a lovely dialogue between violin and cello in the Adagio.

[hopefullytrusting]

Now, some violin concertos:

Stravinsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn6K53W_Nu0
Vasks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtdFecPt92M
Korngold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdRmnjzpKT4

[hopefullytrusting]

Now, some violin concertos:

Stravinsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn6K53W_Nu0
Vasks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtdFecPt92M
Korngold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdRmnjzpKT4

Had to table to Korngold, but I was mightily impressed with the other two. The Stravinsky was a workout for the violinist's arm, while the Vasks was a workout for the violinist's ears (so many high notes, so much dissonance, so much - what sounded like to me - the playing of of one string against another simultaneously, which is likely physically impossible - but the effect was accomplished, at least for me - the violin was very piano-like in parts, which is crazy to me).

[Que]

[Traverso]

Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto 2

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Kondrashin

[AnotherSpin]

[prémont]

One of my future listening projects is to listen to all the Liuwe Tamminga recordings I own. 

[AnotherSpin]

One of my future listening projects is to listen to all the Liuwe Tamminga recordings I own. 

Could you share what drew you to Liuwe Tamminga in particular?

[Madiel]

A little more Vivaldi before bed.



A review from our own Jens observes that this music/performance tends to be a bit tame by Vivaldian standards, and so far that's true enough. It's pleasing rather than exciting. Heck, the A minor concerto starts with an Andante rather than an Allegro. But it's still nice...

...and also one of the earliest volumes still fairly easily available. Hmm.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto 2

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Kirill Kondrashin

Beautiful cover art!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

William Walton cello concerto.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Always fun!

Charismatic recording!

[AnotherSpin]

[Mister Sharpe]

I heard this, the Glazunov VC, one of my hands-down favorite violin concertos, on Sirius XM Symphony Hall this morning on the car radio - abortively, as I'd reached my destination for an appointment and couldn't stay in the car to finish listening to it.  Don't know if you've ever experienced this, but it's really most unpleasant, no different from taking candy away from a baby, or drugs from an addict. Maybe even the end of a relationship once held dear.  And all during my meeting it's all I could think about, so bittersweet are this concerto's melodies and never got to hear the happy hunting call... Remedying this now. 

[AnotherSpin]

I heard this, the Glazunov VC, one of my hands-down favorite violin concertos, on Sirius XM Symphony Hall this morning on the car radio - abortively, as I'd reached my destination for an appointment and couldn't stay in the car to finish listening to it.  Don't know if you've ever experienced this, but it's really most unpleasant, no different from taking candy away from a baby, or drugs from an addict. Maybe even the end of a relationship once held dear.  And all during my meeting it's all I could think about, so bittersweet are this concerto's melodies and never got to hear the happy hunting call... Remedying this now. 

This happens to me rather often: I'm driving along and must leave the car before the album or musical piece has quite finished. Yet, I'm not at all troubled. Sooner or later, I shall return and resume listening precisely where I left off. Or begin anew, should the mood take me. Truly, it's a far cry from the torment of separating children from their drugs.

[Mandryka]

The more familiar I am with this music, the more imaginative Jens Christensen's performance seems - it's very good I think.

Re Tamminga @AnotherSpin , there was some discussion around here, four years ago.

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?msg=1386219

[Mister Sharpe]

This happens to me rather often: I'm driving along and must leave the car before the album or musical piece has quite finished. Yet, I'm not at all troubled. Sooner or later, I shall return and resume listening precisely where I left off. Or begin anew, should the mood take me. Truly, it's a far cry from the torment of separating children from their drugs.

You may be insufficiently addicted...or perhaps built of stronger stuff than I am!    My reaction to being deprived of that concerto's resolution was, in a sense, actually physical. 

[Henk]

A bit sturdy, but pleasant.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Manuel de Falla, El sombrero de tres picos.  Eduardo Toldrà/Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française.