What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti - Apparitions

[steve ridgway]

Webern - String Quartet (1905)

[steve ridgway]

Berio - Serenata I For Flute And 14 Instruments

[Wanderer]

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky - Concertino Pour Quatuor À Cordes

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen - Huit Préludes

[Que]

Somehow I missed this recording from 2008. Since it by the Ensemble Gilles Binchois with Dominique Vellard, I wanted to hear it.
I am generally not that big on Gregorian chant, but I do like the way Vellard does it.

Sofar, I'm not disappointed. I like the mix with Medieval polyphony.

[Roasted Swan]

Mozart


These performances deserve more attention, in my opinion. They have been rather poorly received by some, but don't be swayed by the many critics who want to label their own taste as the standard. This is a refined Mozart, beautifully transparent with wonderful playing from the English chamber orchestra.


Symphonies  32,35 Haffner"& 39

The viewable content is blocked in the UK - which performance is this?

[Florestan]

The viewable content is blocked in the UK - which performance is this?

Jeffrey Tate conducting the English Chamber Orchestra.

[Roasted Swan]

Jeffrey Tate conducting the English Chamber Orchestra.

Thankyou - Tate was a fine musician

[AnotherSpin]

[AnotherSpin]

[Que]

This arrived on disc (my pick after extensive comparative listening):



Absolutely wonderful!   And it fills a significant gap in my Biber collection.

[Christo]

Review on Musicweb here: https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/mar09/Respighi_8570741.htm

[Harry]

This arrived on disc (my pick after extensive comparative listening):



Absolutely wonderful!   And it fills a significant gap in my Biber collection.

It is also my pick, by a long stretch.

[Traverso]

Many people dismiss the early symphonies as shallow and uninteresting but I beg to differ. Big time. Every time I listen to them I find something interesting. Last week I listened to the KV 133 from this set and fell in love with the Andante. I must have listened to it a least 10 times ever since. One of the most bittersweet things Mozart ever wrote.

Well I have to listen to that one ! 

[AnotherSpin]

I am well aware of the objections to Glenn Gould, whether from the historically informed camp or from modern piano connoisseurs who find his interpretations overly idiosyncratic, even eccentric, with his humming and clipped articulation. Yet I must confess that I adore his Bach. I do not admire those performances merely in an intellectual sense; I revel in them. They speak to me with a clarity and intimacy that few others achieve.

For me, Gould's Bach is not a matter of strict fidelity to the past but of a living encounter with joy. His phrasing, his sense of structure, his refusal to sentimentalise reveal rather than distort. He hums, he bends time, he shapes the music in his own way, yet the result is never arbitrary. It may fall short of "authenticity" in the narrow sense, but it is profoundly and unapologetically alive.

Perhaps my affection is also bound up with memory. My very first Bach LP, if one can call it that, was a battered Soviet pressing of Gould, unearthed nearly half a century ago in the dusty recesses of a department store in Odesa. The sound was poorly mastered, the plain sleeve was crumpled, and yet it opened a world. That encounter shaped my ear, my taste, and my sense of musical possibility.

[Traverso]

Mozart

Symphony No.20 KV 133
Symphony in D 141a
Symphony in D 111 & 120
Symphony in D 196 & 121
Symphony in C 208 & 102

[brewski]

Early works by Shostakovich I'd never heard, two Scherzos Op. 1 and Op. 7, with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor John Storgårds. Delightful, if not with the power and sophistication that would come later. The recording on Chandos, with the First and Third Symphonies, was just released last August.

[Florestan]

Mozart

Symphony No.20 KV 133
Symphony in D 141a
Symphony in D 111 & 120
Symphony in D 196 & 121
Symphony in C 208 & 102

Neville Marriner & AOSMF, I presume.

Well, how did you like the Andante from KV 133?