What are you listening 2 now?

[Spotted Horses]

Bacewicz, Concerto for Orchestra, Borowicz.



Not destined to be a favorite of mine among Bacewicz' output. Maybe the production (performance and recording) are not bringing out everything in the music. It all seems a bit recessed and uncommitted. A recording is available in the competing Chandos series of Bacewicz orchestral music, and I should listen to that to see if it makes a greater impression.

[Linz]

Ludwig van Beethoven  Die Weihe des Hauses Overture, Op.124
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 101 in D major, "The Clock"
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Andrej Bielow.

Skoryk: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 1.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Does anyone have this recording? Thank you.

[Philo]

Breaking up my Mozart solo piano listening in honor of @Brian to listen to Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the WP in Bruckner's Symphony No. 9:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcCamtD5ufs

What command and control of the brass!

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony no. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester,  Günter Wand

[Brian]

Breaking up my Mozart solo piano listening in honor of @Brian to listen to Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the WP in Bruckner's Symphony No. 9:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcCamtD5ufs

What command and control of the brass!

Happy to help   

[Bachthoven]

Stunning guitar arrangements of Bach violin, lute, and keyboard works. I used the word "arrangements" rather than "transcriptions" since he adds so many notes--even in the fugue from the 3rd violin sonata--a ballsy move!

[Linz]

Antonín Dvořák  Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World"
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191, Pablo Casals
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, George Szell

[Philo]

Happy to help   

It was a very invigorating performance, especially in the final movement. I am not the hugest fan of Bruckner, but his Symphony No. 9 consistently fights for the top spot in my favorite symphony of all time list.

[Todd]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Wim van Beek: J.S. Bach Petruskerk Leens.

[Daverz]

Finzi: Clarinet Concerto - Emma Johnson, Royal Philharmonic, Charles Groves

Sadly the streaming version on Qobuz cuts off abruptly before the last note of the concerto.  Brutal.

[AnotherSpin]

Last night we rewatched the wonderful Japanese film Midnight Diner (Shinya Shokudō / 深夜食堂). In one scene, quite unexpectedly, Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in A major, K.208 begins to play.

That moment sparked my curiosity, and I went searching on Qobuz for recordings of the piece. I eventually settled on Gustav Leonhardt's harpsichord version: crisp, elegant, and filled with a restrained poetry. In the film the sonata is played on the piano, yet Leonhardt's take on the harpsichord feels so incredibly moving.

Now I am listening to the album that includes this Scarlatti piece. It is a perfect way to begin the day: calm, luminous, and gently tinged with melancholy, much like life itself.

[AnotherSpin]

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

A First listen to the work.

Mendelssohn - Lobgesang

Christiane Karg, Maria Bernius (sopranos) Werner Güra (tenor) Kammerchor Stuttgart & Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Frieder Bernius

[Que]

Volume IV contains a selection of 19 motets arranged according the liturgical year, including five motets by Clemens non Papa. Disc 1 opens with a terrific piece by Thomas Crequillon.

Review by Stephen Midgley

[Harry]

Anthony Holborne.
"My Selfe"
16th Century Pavans, Galliards, And Almains.
Ensemble – The King's Noyse.
Lute, Cittern – Paul O'Dette plays: 8-course lute by Paul Thomson, Bristol, England, 1991, after Vendelio Venere, 1582 4-course English cittern by Peter Forrester, Norwich, England, 1996
Viol [Bass Violin] – Emily Walhout.
Viola – Margriet Tindemans, Scott Metcalfe..
Violin, Directed By – David Douglass.
Violin, Viola – Robert Mealy.
Recorded, 1998, Florence Gold Auditorium in Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts (USA).
Front cover: George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605), Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619).

A delightful disc, well played and recorded. An oldie but still as valid as it was in 1998. We are presently snowed in and life has come to a still stand. No traffic on the street, no plains trains and automobiles. A white picture outside, unheard of in the Netherlands since 1979.

[Florestan]

D 804 in A minor "Rosamunde"

[Que]

A Harry recommendation.