What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

I have listened first and foremost to individual recordings, i.e. not part of complete sets, but I am at the same time going through the complete sets I own, but this is a long-time undertaking.

Some of the interesting op. 109's were:

Emil Gryesten
Dainius Vaičekonis
Tomoko Ogasawara
Fou Ts'ong
Sunwook Kim
Katie Mahan
Ishay Shaer

But there are others I haven't listened to yet.

I found all these performances on Qobuz and bookmarked them. Thanks for the recommendation.

[JBS]

That's how Locatelli conceived and performed them.

They can be played as independent pieces as well, of course.

Just goes to show that even when it comes to their own work, composers are not always the best judges.

Unless of course Locatelli just saw the concerti as a way to display his awesomeness as a performer, and not as a composer.

[Belle]

I don't know how to embed album pictures into posts so I'm putting this YT link here.  Richter at the height of his powers, and just listen to the 'Variations' movement in Op. 109!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEU1noNlnCU

[JBS]

I don't know how to embed album pictures into posts so I'm putting this YT link here.  Richter at the height of his powers, and just listen to the 'Variations' movement in Op. 109!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEU1noNlnCU

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[André]

The program is superb, with various string quartet pieces sandwiched by the two big piano quintets. I only wish this team had adopted a more menacing, brutal take on the famous Quintet 1 opening statement of the theme. A case of going for beauty of sound first maybe ?

[Linz]

Ferde Grofe Grand Canyon Suite
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy

[Peter Power Pop]

Hyde Park Shuffle: Australian Light Music (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra / Guy Noble)



[Details and samples at Australian Music Centre]
[Details at Discogs]

[Belle]

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Thank you very much for taking the trouble to explain this.  Very thoughtful!!

[Madiel]

Vivaldi: trio sonatas, op.1 numbers 3, 7 and 10



So ends a very nice traversal through... three-quarters of opus 1, dammit.

[JBS]

This set was delivered at dinnertime today, so CD 1 gets a hearing.


Various solo pieces (some transcribed) by Mudarra, Sanz, Handel, Scarlatti, Weiss, and Vanhal, plus 4 pieces from the Anna Magdalena Notebook. Recording dates range from 1970 to 1974.

Roughly half the set--CDs 6 through 10--consists of duo recordings with his wife, Ida Presti. Four tracks  are of her performing solo works.

[Madiel]

JS Bach: Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, BWV 14



Some reviews opined that Suzuki's series was particularly strong in the later stages, and I can only concur.

[Madiel]

Haydn

Keyboard sonata no.62 in E flat (the last in the numbering, though now it's not thought to be quite the last composed)
Allegretto in G (originally for mechanical clock)



The end of the Bavouzet cycle. It's taken me since October 2024, which is not that bad by my standards but also not quick.

I immediately want to go back and listen in 2 different ways: either album by album as recitals, or in the chronological groupings that Bavouzet generally scattered through the series.

[Philo]

Probably my sole listening for the week: Martino Tirimo performing Mozart's Complete Works for Solo Piano

[Que]

Forgotten Virtuosi.
Violin showpieces from the early 17th century.
Jonathan Talbott - Renaissance violin, Tormod Dalen - bass violin, Maxine Eilander - harp, Andrew Maginley - theorbo and guitar, Stephen Taylor - organ.
Works by Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565) , Thomas Baltzar (1630-1663), Johann Schop (1590-1667) , Steffan Nau (1596-1647) , Etienne Nau, (c.1597- 1647)  Dario Castello (1600-1658) , William Brade (1560-1630) , Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) , Biagio Marini (1597-1665).
See back cover for compositions.
Recorded, 2007, Doopsgezinde Kerk, Joure, the Netherlands.

This is a disc one cannot avoid acquiring, an essential purchase so to say. The composers are not the ones you meet frequently, and neither are you hearing such a virtuoso like Jonathan Talbot, aided by equally talented musicians. From start to end this a joy bringer. Recorded in SOTA sound, this one scores high on my list of worthwhile interpretations. And where do you meet such composers as Thomas Baltzar, Steffan Nau,  Johann Schop, or Etienne Nau.

I do enjoy your journey through your CD archive, Harry! 

Just looked at my Joseph Wölfl collection - now have a dozen CDs (see attachment) - edited Wiki bio below - died young, another TB victim on the era!  Dave

I much enjoyed revisiting his string quartets, which are stylistically somewhere between Haydn and Beethoven.

[Que]

Starting my morning with the 2nd volume of parody masses by Palestrina after motets by Jacquet of Mantua. Both masses are preceded by a performance of the matching motet.



Performances are revelatory IMO, and totally debunk the image of Palestrina's music as boring and dry. (Depending on the performance, of course.)

[Wanderer]

[AnotherSpin]

Lately I have been coming across links to releases by the rather enigmatic Alexandre Bak, with increasing frequency. His editions have already been discussed on the forum, but I would still like to share a few impressions of my own.

I have made a personal decision not to listen to his releases on Qobuz any longer, having become fully convinced of their questionable provenance. There is virtually no publicly available information about this publisher beyond what appears on their own website. In my view, the process seems to involve transferring old vinyl records into a digital environment, removing certain elements and adding others through computer processing. I find it very difficult to believe that original master tapes are being used.

As for the sound itself, it holds little appeal for me. Alongside the distortions and artefacts inherent in ageing vinyl pressings, there is an additional layer of digital manipulation laid over the top. On more modest playback equipment this may come across as sounding fresh or modern.

Naturally, if someone genuinely enjoys Alexandre Bak's releases, I have no objection at all. Taste and pleasure are, after all, entirely subjective.

[Florestan]

Vivaldi: trio sonatas, op.1 numbers 3, 7 and 10



So ends a very nice traversal through... three-quarters of opus 1, dammit.

Quite the yawn on the cover! 

[Madiel]

Quite the yawn on the cover! 

Oh don't YOU start. This would be the third conversation about the cover.

[Madiel]

Listened to a little earlier today, Ravel's Bolero.



And bought on CD. I was already considering it because of the other things on the album, which include a couple of Ravel's rare arrangements of Debussy as well as the Pictures.