What are you listening 2 now?

[hopefullytrusting]

Today is my piano extravaganza! Now, Radoslav Kvapil

Dvorak's Poetic Moods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOLeNeoe4WI
Fibich's Studies of Paintings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzXnnm7E0OQ
Novak's Slovak Suite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsMaVzSWCEQ
Smetana's Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUYspYgV008

[DavidW]

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Concerto, KV.622 & Arias, La Clemenza di Tito
Eric Hoeprich, clarinet, Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen

[Todd]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1877 Linz version with revisions - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Erwartung

Janis Martin (vocal)
Pierre Boulez & BBC Symphony Orchestra

[ritter]

First listen to this recent purchase.



This is the world première recording of Milhaud's Salade, op. 83, a vocal (spoken and sung) ballet in two acts from 1924. The better known Le Carnaval d'Aix for piano and orchestra is derived from the ballet. Unfortunately, the text by Albert Flament (about whom practically nothing can be found online) is not included, so we don't get to know what it's all about. But given the names of the characters, it's a commedia dell'arte plot.

It's a score that I'm enjoying, I must admit (and more so than I remember liking Le Carnaval d'Aix —which anyway I should soon revisit). Very roaring twenties, with tongue-in-cheek circusy moments, and a neo-classical tinge. Unmistakably Milhaud!

The live performance from 28th Beethoven Festival in Poznań seems perfectly adequate to me.

I'll probably listen to Le pauvre matelot (Cocteau's libretto in hand) some other time this weekend.

[Florestan]

Desert island stuff all.

[ritter]

And now, staying in France with two works from CD2 of this recent  release:



Marcelle Herrenschmidt plays Widor's Fantasy in A major  with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Oaris conducted by Charles Munch. The work is new to me, and I had never heard of the pianist until now. Recorded in 1939.

Francis Poulenc plays the piano part in his Aubade, with Walter Straram conducting his orchestra. Recorded in 1930.

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Symphonies, Volume 9  CD 3
Symphony No. 67 in F major
Symphony No. 68 in D flat major
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

[Mister Sharpe]

First listen to this recent purchase.



This is the world première recording of Milhaud's Salade, op. 83, a vocal (spoken and sung) ballet in two acts from 1924. The better known Le Carnaval d'Aix for piano and orchestra is derived from the ballet. Unfortunately, the text by Albert Flament (about whom practically nothing can be found online)...

Albert Flament (1877-1956) was a journalist "who wrote society gossip columns for several newspapers" (Ronald Hayman, Proust), critic, and novelist. Well-known for his wit and sense of irony. Knew everybody!   

[JBS]

Friday night at the opera: Bellini's Pirate, in a studio recording from 1994


The plot of this opera, in which the hero and villain end up dead and the heroine ends up mad, originated in a play by Charles Maturin, the author of Melmoth the Wanderer which was used as the basis of the French play that served in turn as the basis of Felice Romani's libretto.

[Wanderer]

[steve ridgway]

Pierre Henry - Histoire Naturelle

Helicopter sounds are included, but only briefly. I'm past them already .

[steve ridgway]

Debussy - La Mer

[AnotherSpin]

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.21
Brahms - Piano Sonata No.3
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.8, II. Adagio Cantabile (Encore)

[AnotherSpin]

Elisabeth Lutyens

Endymion
James Weeks

[Wanderer]

[Madiel]

Vivaldi

Motet, In furore iustissimae irae (RV 626)
Sinfonia in E minor, Al Santo Sepolcro (RV 169)



The 2nd aria of the motet is done exceptionally beautifully here.

[Que]

On the risk of becoming obsessed by Morales' Missa Mille Regretz, another run of this:



This is a small, mixed-gender ensemble.

https://www.ficta.cat/ca/cd/499-mille-regretz-cd-cristobal-de-morales.html