What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Sweelinck his sources-his influence Vol.1







 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hindemith - Symphonic Dances.

[Harry]

Johanna Senfter (1879–1961).
Chamber Music. (2 CD's)
Else Ensemble.

Over the course of her long life, Johanna Senfter has enriched almost all "classical" genres, from chamber music to grand symphonies, with her creations, all of which are characterized by one true feature - a harsh, almost austere beauty that runs the entire gamut from deep intimacy to that whimsical humour with which the composer's teacher repeatedly surprised her: Max Reger, the heavyweight workhorse from the Upper Palatinate, was extremely impressed by the creative abilities of his pupil, whose progress he was unfortunately unable to follow for too long. All these works are extremely substantial music. One wishes the Else musicians' program, realized with heart and soul and an unerring sense for the beauties of Senfter's muse, a large audience.
The Else Ensemble is committed to these compositions with impressive music-making. Their instruments merge to a very high degree of balance and homogeneity. The great breath of the Senfter works is therefore expressed very well, charisma and tension are maintained from the first to the last note. The accents are carefully set and graduated, the tempi are controlled, the sound weights are balanced with care. And again and again the interpretative unity, which is the Alpha and Omega of these recordings, surprises. Well worth listening too, certainly if you like the music of Reger, it will click all buttons. For me this is bread and butter.

[Cato]

Yesterday I had a little time and revisited one of Dvorak's later tone-poems: I now need to listen to the other 4 recorded on CHANDOS by the Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi.

[Que]

   

[Mandryka]

Where's that damn pizza?

[Que]

The recordings were made in 1928. In my set, the sound is more than convincing. As for the artistic merits, everything has already been said before me.

I think in historical recordings Japanese Opus Kura is one of the top labels.

[AnotherSpin]

I think in historical recordings Japanese Opus Kura is one of the top labels.

Agreed. They don't scrub the old recordings to complete sterility, and they remain alive and warm.

[Mandryka]

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9
Mahler Academy Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker

Very enjoyable performance I think (as far as I can see yours is the only reference to someone listening to it on this site.) I shall have to listen to his Lied von der Erde now too.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner symphony No 1 in C Minor, 1891 Vienna Revision by Bruckner himself. Ed. Guenter Brosche
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein

[Wanderer]

[Linz]

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Petra Lang Mezzo-soprano. Prague Philharmonic Choir, Netherlands Chidren's Choir
Concertgebouworkest, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Riccardo Chailly

[Iota]

Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 1 in E major, D.157
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D.664
Martin Helmchen (piano)

The first recording of a planned complete set of Schubert piano sonatas which Helmchen aims to complete by 2028, the bicentenary of Schubert's death. And on the evidence of these first two sonatas listened to it promises to be something very special.
His playing of D.157 is so exquisitely nuanced that in some passages which appear relatively simple at first, all sorts of unexpected depth and pleasures are conjured from what seems almost nothing at times. The sonata finishes quite suddenly with a Menuetto, as Schubert never got round to writing a fourth movement.
In the later A major Sonata, his unshowy manner has the effect of a sort of invisibility cloak, allowing the character and depths of the sonata to emerge feeling glowingly natural and uncluttered by intervention. The result is so fresh and so poignant, that emerging from listening to it just now, I feel I've never heard it so lovely.

[Traverso]

Mozart

At last I have this Concertone recording again,it is now on CD......

CD 1

[Wanderer]

Medtner op.6 again,
...I probably would have bought this some years ago.

It's the exquisite Sonate-Vocalise that's the highlight of this recording.

[Linz]

Sergiu Celibidache CD 11
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Arturo Benadetti Michelangeli piano
Gabriel Fauré Requiem
London Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
George Szell & London Symphony Orchestra

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia Concertante In E Flat K. 297b
Symphony No. 25 In G Minor K.183
Symphony No. 29 In A Major K.201
Sinfonica Concertante RIAS di Roma, Peter Maag

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bartok Piano Concerto No.2.  Hungarian State Orchestra, Janos Ferencsik, Tibor Wehner.

[André]

Yes, an embarrassment of riches is when you are so blessed and so fortunate, you feel a little embarrassed around other less fortunate people. 

I have a slightly different interpretation. An embarrassment of riches is when you have so many good options, you have trouble deciding which to choose.