What are you listening 2 now?

[Roasted Swan]

This twofer arrived today:

Dvořák - Complete Piano Trios - Suk Trio - Supraphon Archiv SU 3545-2 112

Considering how much I enjoy Piano Trios in general, it is surprising how I managed to overlook these works this long...

Impossible to go wrong with Josef Suk (and friends) playing Dvorak!

[Traverso]

Muffat

Armonico Tributo

[brewski]

Ah. Much cheaper than paying $50-60 for the CD, though who knows if the sound is of CD quality.

I can say with some confidence that the sound is not comparable, but with good headphones, it's perfectly acceptable. Like many YouTube recordings of the last few years, the quality is much better than it was in the platform's early days.

[Mister Sharpe]

The only negative things I've read about Ashkenazy's piano discography is about the Decca sound ("flinty" is one of the complaints).

I read one review that suggested that for the Chopin, but it was only occasionally in the higher registers and not deemed worthy of complaint (but worthy, I take it, of mention).

[Traverso]

Les Rarissimes de

Magda Tagliaferro

CD 1



 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Muffat

Armonico Tributo

Nice cover art!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Les Rarissimes de

Magda Tagliaferro

CD 1



 

Nice recording!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

One parent Japanese, the other Bavarian; born in Osaka and raised in Salzburg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_Seiler

Ok, she is either Japanese-German or Japanese-Austrian. There are a few Japanese-German pianists, and some of them are very good.

[foxandpeng]

Hubert Parry
Symphony 2, 'Cambridge'
Andrew Penny
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Naxos

New leather wingback arrived today. It will be my Listening Chair, I think. Seems fitting to listen to something English and appropriate.

[DavidW]

[Karl Henning]

First ever listen to the Schoenberg Pelleas:


My reaction exactly when I recently listened to the performances from the Michel Beroff box (with Ozawa in Paris). Mouvements I did not understand or enjoy, but the other two are very fun.

Thoughts on the Schoenberg?

[Brian]

Thoughts on the Schoenberg?

Sorry to direct you to a quote, but...

It's like Richard Strauss with more atmosphere but fewer tunes. Definitely not likely to become one of my favorites, but some context there is that I'm also listening to the Strauss tone poems less and less every year.

If I'd First Listened 10 years ago, it would be more of a favorite, but I've found my tastes moving in other directions recently.

Thread duty: Haydn 52 and 43. L'Estro Armonico, Derek Solomons

[Iota]

Sylvestrov: Violin Concerto
Janusz Wawrowski (violin), Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee

This disc popped up on the thread recently and I thought why not. I opted for the violin concerto which feels at times like a kind of meditation, with wafts of sensation and musical colour drifting through the endless lyricism, that seems to spill effortlessly from Silvestrov's pen. He really conjures up some highly beautiful textures and melodies, in a way there is hardly anything else in the piece, but my interest didn't wane for a moment. And I very much liked the impression I had of gentle compassion emanating from music, however much that might be a projection of mine.
So a very lovely thing indeed. Thanks to whoever posted it previously.

[hopefullytrusting]

Feeling French today:

d'Indy's Symphony 3 conducted by Guschlbauer with the Strasbourg Philharmonique Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouzAe6Sxt7o

Chaminade's Challirhoe Suite conducted by Delgado with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Salta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUKKuLPgulQ

Bonis's Femmes de legende played by Elena Fisher-Dieskau:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOL0HDHoao

Charpentier's La vie du poète:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIRVXu7Vq4

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
String Quartet No.2
String Quartet No.4

Malin Hartelius (soprano)
Gringolts Quartet

[Wanderer]

[Traverso]

Desprez

One of the pieces that blew me away completely was "In te Domine Speravi". This time not with The Hilliard Ensemble but with a wind section, and when I listened to it, I felt the urge to join in and make music,
it is filling me  with joy.

[DavidW]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Matthias Bonitz: Siddhartha.  Julius Berger · Norichika Iimori · Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphon No. 8 in C Minor, 1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik