What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Second half of this album, Vivaldi arias for bass.



There's definitely some good music and good performances here. However, some incoming deliveries might prove that this overlaps quite a bit with other volumes (this is volume 22, and it might even overlap with volume 21), which would diminish its value a bit.

At some point, though, I should listen to this all in one sweep, because it's taken me until now to realise it's deliberately structured into 3 sections with instrumental works.

[Que]

Disc 2 with the Ensemble Binchois. I do get JBS' reservations concerning this being top heavy with female voices, but still a very notable issue IMO.

[DavidW]

Mendelssohn's Octet

[Todd]

Disc one.

[Mister Sharpe]

If I were Boss of the WORLD, just one of the many things I would do (besides ending conflicts and curing disease) is command that Hindemith be regarded as one of the all-time greatest of composers, a distinction he merits - per my resplendent and all-powerful (Boss of the WORLD, you see) magnificence - for Trauermusik alone, not to mention his other incredible feats of compositional strength. On LP and mint (Boss of the WORLD only has mint vinyl). 

[Lisztianwagner]

Exquisite!

Completely agree; like All-Night Vigil, this Rachmaninov's work is meditative and contemplative, yet with a great emotional strenght, very beautiful. I've discovered Tchaikovsky composed a Liturgy of St John Chrysostom too, I'm curious to listen to it.

[brewski]

If I were Boss of the WORLD, just one of the many things I would do (besides ending conflicts and curing disease) is command that Hindemith be regarded as one of the all-time greatest of composers, a distinction he merits - per my resplendent and all-powerful (Boss of the WORLD, you see) magnificence - for Trauermusik alone, not to mention his other incredible feats of compositional strength. On LP and mint (Boss of the WORLD only has mint vinyl). 

Thank you for posting this album cover, which I haven't seen in years, and which brings back some warm feelings from early classical listening days. Might have been my first encounter with Barenboim. Bought it for the Hindemith (a fave here, too), but ended up liking the entire thing.

[Madiel]

Haydn: Keyboard sonata no.60 in C



One of the 3 sonatas Haydn wrote on his 2nd London trip (the liner notes discuss why it might be the very last, although nothing is known for certain).

I recognise some of the first movement, though I don't know whether I've ever heard the entire work before. Full of the sort of inventive quirks that make you think that it's Haydn, rather than Mozart, who is the nearest predecessor to Beethoven.

[AnotherSpin]

Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 from this set.

[Madiel]

Mozart: Symphony no.39



I was a bit surprised by Tate's slightly stately tempo in the opening movement. I suppose I'm used to hearing my allegro in a bit more of a 1-in-a-bar style. This is very definitely a 3-in-a-bar take.

It's really only the final movement that loses that stately feel. Hmm. I'm not sure I'm going to love this version to be honest, although it's difficult not to enjoy what is probably my favourite Mozart symphony. But I'm not certain that in this case Tate will stop me reaching for my Naxos collection.

[Traverso]

Magda Tagliaferro

CD 3

[Brian]

Joining the GMG Music Club Pick of the Day: Kalliwoda's Grosse Sonate for piano four hands.



As always with this composer, it's delicious!

[hopefullytrusting]

Today, if I can manage (not feeling the greatest), if not - tomorrow:

Chesnokov's Sacred Compositions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Azim72St8
Glinka's Songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGgNR1PMQ-o
Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tHCtQUpRX8
Sviridov's Songs of Kursk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZryvmiX6FdM

[Karl Henning]

Most likely a first listen:
"Wolferl"
Keyboard trio in G, K. 564

[Karl Henning]

More first listens:

Dvořák
Piano Trio in B^b, op. 21

"Wolferl"
Keyboard trio in C, K. 548

[Spotted Horses]

The first time I listened to a recording of the Hindemith Clarinet Quartet (for clarinet and Piano Trio) it was a misfire. This time with the Ensemble Incanto it hit home



A different performance can make all the difference.

[Todd]

Disc two.

[SonicMan46]

Pleyel, Ignaz (1757-1831) - Piano Trios w/ the three groups shown below - contain 10 works with one duplication; Pleyel wrote 48 'piano (flute) trios' according to Rita Benton's catalog; he was based in France from his mid-20s and in addition to composing was also a musical publisher and piano maker  - see attachment for a listing of these works (B. 428-476; note trios performed are marked).  Dave

   

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Rudolf Kempe

[Symphonic Addict]

Totally agreed about the Horn Concerto - along with the one by his countryman Atterberg, it's certainly one of the most compelling horn concerti in the repertoire. Have you heard Frumerie's substantial (25 min.) Variations and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra on that same album? It's a simply glorious work, suffused with a life-affirming spirit and nobility.

Yes, I do, along with all of the content of this rewarding CD: