What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos 2, 5 & Piano Works.  Bertrand Chamayou.

[Todd]

[Linz]

Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Stephen Kovacevich
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

[brewski]

Revisiting the final round by the Poiesis Quartet (based in Cincinnati), which won the top prize at Banff last August with this unconventional program.

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate: Pisachi (Reveal) for String Quartet
Brian Raphael Nabors: String Quartet
Joe Hisaishi: String Quartet No. 1, Phosphorescent Sea
Kevin Lau: String Quartet No. 7, Surfacing

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Heinz Rögner

[Traverso]

Bach

Two organ pieces have been identified in Leipzig as compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). He wrote them when he was around eighteen. The researcher, who is also the director of the Bach Archives in Leipzig, reached this conclusion after research 30 years after the pieces were discovered.

The organ pieces, each approximately 14 minutes long, were performed this afternoon in St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig by Dutch organist, harpsichordist, and conductor Ton Koopman. They represent a small addition to the large number of organ pieces Bach wrote.

"I've long searched for the missing piece of the puzzle to attribute the compositions, and now the whole picture has been revealed," says musicologist and Bach Archive director Peter Wollny. He has been researching the pieces for the past thirty years.

In the video below, you can see the research presentation from the Bach Archive and how Koopman plays the pieces. Starting at 15:28, Ciacona plays in D minor, and starting at 22:44, Ciacona plays in G minor.

Wollny discovered the manuscripts in 1992 in the Royal Library of Brussels. He was working there for his doctoral research and was cataloging Bach's works. The compositions were found among a group of 17th-century works from Thuringia, a state in which Bach was born, in Eisenach.

A signature on the pieces led the musicologist to a relatively unknown student of Bach, Salomon Günther John, who had made a copy of Bach's original compositions, Wollny explained. "Moreover, the compositions exhibit characteristics that we find in Bach's works from that period, but not in those of any other composer," the musicologist said.

According to German Minister of Culture Weimer, the event is of great national significance. "It is a momentous event for the music world and a worldwide sensation." According to him, Wollny "worked like a detective and meticulously investigated the details."

The mayor of Leipzig also praised the research. "I'm simply thrilled," said Burkhard Jung. He called the discovery "a wonderful result of decades of remarkable research."

Enjoy...............

[San Antone]

Bach : Brandenburg concerto No. 2 in F Major BWV 1047
Café Zimmermann

[brewski]

Bartók: Divertimento for Strings (Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, live recording from August 2024). Excellent, with all musicians except the cellists standing up.

[San Antone]

Franz Schubert Octet in F Major, D 803

Antje Weithaas, Violine / Alina Pogostkina, Violine / Veronika Hagen, Viola / Sol Gabetta, Cello / Robert Vizvari, Double Bass /  Alejandro Núñez, Horn / Gustavo Núñez, Bassoon / Sabine Meyer, Clarinet

[Todd]

Disc six, an all-Mozart deal.

[JBS]

More string quintets
Number 3 in b minor Op 69
Numbet 4 in a minor Op 91

[VonStupp]

Jean Sibelius
Sandels, op. 28
Snöfrid, op. 29
Oma Maa, op. 92
Maan Virsi, op. 95
Väinön Virsi, op. 110
Laulu Lemminkäinen, op. 31 no. 1
Finlandia, op. 26

Ellerhein Girls Choir
Estonian National Male Choir
Estonian NSO - Paavo Järvi

Sandels is a fun little military romp, highlighting my preference when Sibelius is in storytelling mode in these choral/orchestral cantatas.
VS

[André]

Marteau: Clarinet Quintet

Every gesture, every phrase exhibits such filigree and utmost elegance. The 2nd movement alone is simply wondrous and exquisite showing a mischievous character. An absolute feast for the ear. I'm a sucker for graceful works like this clarinet quintet. The string quartet on the same disc is not half bad either, not in the slightest. Recently I found out Marteau wrote a string trio that has never been recorded as far as I know, so CPO (or other labels), do your thing!

Marteau's clarinet quintet is a beaut ! That opening theme is so catchy. Trys his beautiful violin concerto too. Karine Deshayes has recorded french and german language songs on CPO. The french ones are gorgeous.

[André]

Spacey music, floating as if weightless, shot through with shafts of light, puffs of incense wafting in the room. Music full of longing and hope.

Ode to a Nightingale is particularly fetching and original. Thankfully the soprano singing it has excellent pitch and a sweet tone.

Not everyday listening material but perfect before retiring to one's chambers.

[JBS]

The CD opens with the Horn Concerto, whose first movement is afflicted with the ugliest, most un-Mozartean, cadenza I've ever heard, invented by soloist Pascal Deuber. The cadenza emphasizes the lowest notes of the horn's register, as if Deuber took Mozart's jokes about farting as inspiration.
Once past that, the two juvenile piano concertos are nicely done, and the Concertone is an elegant piece. But that Horn Concerto...

[AnotherSpin]

[AnotherSpin]

Spacey music, floating as if weightless, shot through with shafts of light, puffs of incense wafting in the room. Music full of longing and hope.

Ode to a Nightingale is particularly fetching and original. Thankfully the soprano singing it has excellent pitch and a sweet tone.

Not everyday listening material but perfect before retiring to one's chambers.

Thanks for the reminder. I'm not sure if I've ever listened to this album, and even if I did, I definitely don't remember my impressions. I'll make sure to give it a proper listen soon!

[andolink]

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705–1770)

Premier Livre de Sonates à Violon Seul avec la Basse Continuë Op.1 Nos. 3, 6 & 8
VI Symphonies dans le goût italien en trio Op.6 No.1
Second Livre de symphonies dans le goût italien en trio Op.14 No.2

Alana Youssefian, baroque violin
Le Bien-Aimé

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti - Passacaglia Ungherese

I like the delicate harpsichord sound .

[steve ridgway]

Crumb - Makrokosmos Vol. II - Twelve Fantasy-Pieces After The Zodiac For Amplified Piano