What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

Not the first time in the past few days. Can the sound of music be a space one doesn't want to leave? A soft, enveloping cocoon... A space to be.

[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu - Dream/Window

[Que]

I thought I'd give this recording another chance...

But I'm not feeling it..

[Irons]

My wife and I visited in March last year - surprisingly warm weather and lively busy but but doable.

Our visit was September the year before.

[Iota]

Beethoven 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80
Schubert: Piano Sonata in C minor, D. 958
Can Çakmur (piano)


If true, LVB apparently later dismissed his C minor variations as a piece of folly, but they seem to me to rumble up from the pantry as nutritiously and dynamically Beethovenian as you could possibly want. Çakmur is mesmeric.
And in the Schubert, despite his fastidiousness and attentiveness to the music, the sonata feels like a creature he is merely taking for a walk that has a will absolutely its own.

[AnotherSpin]

Beethoven 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80
Schubert: Piano Sonata in C minor, D. 958
Can Çakmur (piano)


If true, LVB apparently later dismissed his C minor variations as a piece of folly, but they seem to me to rumble up from the pantry as nutritiously and dynamically Beethovenian as you could possibly want. Çakmur is mesmeric.
And in the Schubert, despite his fastidiousness and attentiveness to the music, the sonata feels like a creature he is merely taking for a walk that has a will absolutely its own.

Many thanks, @Iota. Oddly enough, Qobuz has once again failed to include Çakmur's latest release on the weekly list, much like the previous entries in this series. Çakmur's Schubert is enchanting. One is struck by the sheer presence of Schubert here and now, utterly beyond the trifles of time and place. It is as if a soft, luminous smile is being cast toward the philistines, those poor souls trudging through their dreary days in the shadowy chambers of mind and body, confined within a dreary calendar wedged between a pitiful past and a frightful future.

Listening now.

[AnotherSpin]

Voříšek, Schubert, Chopin, Scriabin

Can Çakmur

[AnotherSpin]

Maybe you are just too dark......

Or too light...

[Traverso]

CD 1

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

CD 1

Very good set! Albeniz, Granados, Falla etc.. sound great!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pnina Salzman, Vol. 3.

[Mister Sharpe]

I woke-up this morning (and unlike Jim Morrison did not "get myself a beer," though that lyric is startling enough and so casually delivered to make it linger whether I want it to or not...) with a few bars of Schubert's 2nd playing in my brain. You know, I like Schubert's earlier symphonies more than many folk do. And perhaps enjoy not a little my own individual powers of discernment in the matter! 

[brewski]

Once again, dipping into this terrific box of live recordings with Haitink and the Concertgebouw. Lots of rarities, like Stravinsky's Threni, but I especially like this trio: Bruckner 7, Mahler 6, Shostakovich 10.

[Brian]

Strings only this morning:

Gideon Klein - Trio (from Terezin) - Kocian Quartet members
Glazunov - Suite for string quartet and String Quintet - Utrecht Quartet + Michael Stirling

[Roasted Swan]

Quite unrelated but both very enjoyable;



Horst Stein was something of a Reger specialist and he certainly makes a good case for this music - and its very well played by his Bamberg orchestra.  This is demanding stuff to play technically and musically - if can tend towards the opaque in every sense so kudos for clarity here.

Then;



Thanks goodness Chandos managed to get Handley's definitive thoughts down about Bax before his passing - he really was a life-long advocate.  I can't say Handley's versions are always my favourites but this is a super disc.  I think Thomson's "Faery Hills" are a little more magical and other's "November Woods" are more passionate.  The big discovery is the still little-known Sinfonietta which receives a wholly convincing performance - much finer in every respect than the rather hit and miss affair on Marco Polo.  This is 22 minutes of laterish (1932) but still vintage Bax.  It was written shortly after Symphony 5 but apparently according to Bax himself never performed during his lifetime because he felt it wasn't up to his usual standard.  This performance goes some way to prove that composers are not always their own best critics......

[Karl Henning]

CD 1

Sweet!

[Harry]

Quite unrelated but both very enjoyable;



Horst Stein was something of a Reger specialist and he certainly makes a good case for this music - and its very well played by his Bamberg orchestra.  This is demanding stuff to play technically and musically - if can tend towards the opaque in every sense so kudos for clarity here.

Then;



Thanks goodness Chandos managed to get Handley's definitive thoughts down about Bax before his passing - he really was a life-long advocate.  I can't say Handley's versions are always my favourites but this is a super disc.  I think Thomson's "Faery Hills" are a little more magical and other's "November Woods" are more passionate.  The big discovery is the still little-known Sinfonietta which receives a wholly convincing performance - much finer in every respect than the rather hit and miss affair on Marco Polo.  This is 22 minutes of laterish (1932) but still vintage Bax.  It was written shortly after Symphony 5 but apparently according to Bax himself never performed during his lifetime because he felt it wasn't up to his usual standard.  This performance goes some way to prove that composers are not always their own best critics......

I agree with you about this Bax recording, its indeed a wonderful interpretation, and in very good sound I might add!

[Iota]

Many thanks, @Iota. Oddly enough, Qobuz has once again failed to include Çakmur's latest release on the weekly list, much like the previous entries in this series. Çakmur's Schubert is enchanting.

Yes indeed, I find his playing quasi-hypnotic at times.

the philistines, those poor souls trudging through their dreary days in the shadowy chambers of mind and body, confined within a dreary calendar wedged between a pitiful past and a frightful future.

I see somebody else has been reading my Tinder profile ...

[Karl Henning]

Once again, dipping into this terrific box of live recordings with Haitink and the Concertgebouw. Lots of rarities, like Stravinsky's Threni, but I especially like this trio: Bruckner 7, Mahler 6, Shostakovich 10.

Intensely jealous!

[AnotherSpin]

Yes indeed, I find his playing quasi-hypnotic at times.

I see somebody else has been reading my Tinder profile ...

I've seen in films that people use something called Tinder. It's for casual copulation without obligations, I suppose? Must be a fine thing.