What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

My copy has an errata sheet inserted. Photos attached for your convenience in this and the next post.

Okay. This did not survive in my second-hand transaction. That's still one HELL of an errata!

Especially when they could have had the original, correct Alia Vox issue right in front of them. It's an astonishing level of carelessness that starts with not just deleting her from the cast list, but deleting someone else's role and giving her role to a different singer.

[ritter]

Revisiting this CD of Bertrand Chamayou playing piano transcriptions (by him or by the composer) of music by Maurice Ravel, and compositions in hommage to him.

[Todd]

25.

[AnotherSpin]

Bach: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit

Leo van Doeselaar
Choir of the Netherlands Bach Society

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No.35 D major, K. 385 'Haffner'
SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hindemith violin concerto.

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach Harpsichord concerto BWV 1960
Harpsichord concerto BWV 1061
Harpsichord concerto BWV 1062
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

[ritter]

And now for some Wagner, kinda...



This disc gives us the Wesendonck-Lieder in the Henze orchestration, and sung in Arrigo Boito's Italian translation, and a work by Salvatore Sciarrino, Languire a Palermo (Wagner, melodie ultime) based on fragments (snippets) left by Wagner.

We then get echt Wagner, with Siegfried-Idyll and Träume in the version for violin and orchestra.

[Daverz]

Vivaldi: Farnace



I'm only in the midst of the first Act, so I'll probably come back later to discuss the actual music. Instead I wanted to mention that, while nearly all these Naive opera volumes have some sort of printing error in the booklet, they have really outdone themselves this time.

One thing I've noticed is some discs conducted by Alessandro de Marchi and others by Allesandra de Marchi.  Is this a Walter/Wendy Carlos type of situation?  Or fraternal twin conductors, perhaps?

[Nostromo]

This is a wonderful 3-SACD set. (I listened to just disc one today.) His playing is fantastic, and the sound is very clear and realistic.

[JBS]

Listening to this again, flatulent horn cadenza and all.

[Madiel]

One thing I've noticed is some discs conducted by Alessandro de Marchi and others by Allesandra de Marchi.  Is this a Walter/Wendy Carlos type of situation?  Or fraternal twin conductors, perhaps?

I hadn't noticed that one, but I've seen other evidence that this French label struggles slightly with Italian names. Some of the recording locations morph slightly from one volume to another.

[JBS]

One thing I've noticed is some discs conducted by Alessandro de Marchi and others by Allesandra de Marchi.  Is this a Walter/Wendy Carlos type of situation?  Or fraternal twin conductors, perhaps?

Google brings up a bunch of Alessandra de Marchis, but none involved with music. I did find out that if you search for "Alessandro de Marchi" Google offers you an Italian bicyclist unless you include conductor as a search term.

[André]

Edison Denisov:
Cello concerto. Carine Georgian, Moscow Philharmoic, Dmitri Kitaenko.

Viola concertoYuri Bashmet, Jünge Deutsche Philharmonie, Charles Dutoit.

Symphony no 2

[Madiel]

Beethoven: piano sonata in C minor, op.13



Goode is actually a touch faster than Kovacevich in the first movement. But also cleaner, a touch less aggressive. It's a movement where Goode's ability to bring out the musical rhetoric, so that you're almost hearing voices in a classical opera, really serves him well.

There are similar qualities in the finale, too, and the whole thing comes off very well to my ears.

[Madiel]

Alicia de Larrocha plays favourite Spanish encores (1975)



I have all these pieces scattered across several of the Decca 2-CD sets, but not always these exact recordings as she redid pieces within complete sets.

I'm using streaming to hear them in the original conception, which is very fine. Pieces that are mostly around 3 or 4 minutes in length, mostly dances, melodic and a little flashy. Exactly the kind of thing that would work as an encore.

[kyjo]

Melartin: Symphony No. 3 in F major

Much as I like his other symphonies (especially 5 and 6), I think the 3rd is his best effort in the form and this recording on YouTube is completely astonishing despite a few clics and some scarce noise from the audience (it's a live recording playing the Finnish Radio S.O. under Sakari Oramo). I can't get enough of it. A moment that is so powerful occurs in the slow movement when the music feels so heartfelt at its climax and then changes into a weighty funeral march. A great passage. Am I the only one who perceives partly a similarity between the scherzo and L'Apprenti Sorcier by Dukas? That wizardry-like feel to it in the Melartin reminds me of the Dukas, there's this fantastic and colourful writing that is so fun. This is the symphony that should go next in the hopefully ongoing cycle on CPO.

Totally agreed! With certain composers I have trouble deciding which is their best/my favorite symphony, but with Melartin the choice is easy - the Third. (Not that his other symphonies are significantly weaker works in any way.) I know precisely the powerful passage you're referring to in the slow movement, and I agree about the Dukas similarity in the scherzo. It's a prime example of a late-romantic symphony which contains equal parts drama, lyricism, playfulness, inspired melodies, colorful orchestration, and on top of all that is not overlong either. As you say, Cesar, a new CPO recording of the work would certainly be a cause for celebration!

[kyjo]

Raff: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G major

As with his 2nd Piano Quartet, this is Raff at the height of his powers. I can't stress enough how stupendously good this work is.

+1 Raff's piano trios (4), piano quartets (2), and Piano Quintet contain some of his very finest inspirations. I recall the slow movement of the Piano Quartet No. 1 being particularly touching and soulful, providing perfect contrast to the unstoppable joie de vivre of the outer movements.

[Linz]

Carl Orff Carmina Burana
Agnes Giebel, soprano, Paul Kuén, tenor, Marcel Cordes, bariton
Chor des Westdeutschen Rundfunks
Köiner Rundfunk-Sinfonie orchester, Wolfgang Sawallisch

[PaulR]

Faure: Requiem