What are you listening 2 now?

[Selig]

I haven't been able to warm up to this... One more attempt before I return to Kernoa!

[Wanderer]

[Traverso]

Rimsky-korsakoff

Sheherazade

The complete RCA recordings, that isunfortunately not the case, this one is in any case missing



Listening now to this recording.....

[Linz]

Carl Nielsen Pan and Syrinx Op. 49, FS87
Flute Concerto, FS 199, Adam Walker
Symphony No. 3  Op.27FS60:  ' Sinfonia espansiva'
Bergen Philharmonic Orcchestra, Edward Gardner

[Harry]

Dances On Movable Ground.
Dances tunes from the Renaissance and Baroque.
Ensemble Ciaramella, Adam Knight Gilbert & Rotem Gilbert.
See details on the back cover.

A thoroughly enjoyable recording, in terms of the mix of the music, superb sounding authentic instruments, and musicians with the heart in the right place. Together they form a homogeneous ensemble, with a well balanced tone, and a fanaticism in approach to do right by the music. Succeed they do. A undervalued ensemble with an American base, who could easily match what is produced on European shores.
Superb recording. Try it.....

[Florestan]

Not piano concerto projects. Mozart it's the catalogue (let's not check exactly when I started, plus there were backtracks when I went and bought a symphony cycle and a violin sonata cycle). Beethoven it's opus order (I only started in September).

And Haydn... I've got a chronology worksheet that starts around 1779 when the chronology gets a little more solid and when Haydn was first allowed by the Esterhazys to go out and get things published. I feel like I don't have that good a sense of how different genres of Haydn align. I've decided I'm skipping the operas for now, but there's so much else he wrote over the next 20+ years and I think I want to go through it.

It's not completely precise but it does get clearer. Next up will be the last 7 Esterhazy symphonies. Which still aren't numbered sequentially...

From your post I inferred it's the piano concertos only.

The whole Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven catalogues in chronological order, now that seems to be a lifetime project. 

[Brian]

Those who read the Haydn thread last night will not be surprised!

Qobuz suggested I listen to this next. How could I say no?

[Florestan]

Those who read the Haydn thread last night will not be surprised!

What I wonder is why you started the quest for the G major at 81? There are six more before it:: 3, 8, 18, 27, 47, 54. 

[Brian]

What I wonder is why you started the quest for the G major at 81? There are six more before it:: 3, 8, 18, 27, 47, 54. 

Because I went backwards from the Military! I wonder if it would be fatiguing to listen to all the G majors together...probably so.

[Florestan]

Because I went backwards from the Military! I wonder if it would be fatiguing to listen to all the G majors together...probably so.

No doubt, but if I understood you correctly, you needed only the finales, and only their main theme, actually.

[Spotted Horses]

Continuing with Gary Cooper's WTC I. The prelude and fugue in f minor are extraordinary.



Tried Bacewicz Concerto for Large Orchestra again, this time in the Chandos series. Again, no go. Both the cpo and Chandos series of Bacewicz Orchestral music have been consistently underwhelming for me. The chamber music (string quartets in particular) and music for small ensembles (for strings particularly) remains at the core of my love of Bacewicz' music.

[prémont]

Dances On Movable Ground.
Dances tunes from the Renaissance and Baroque.
Ensemble Ciaramella, Adam Knight Gilbert & Rotem Gilbert.
See details on the back cover.

A thoroughly enjoyable recording, in terms of the mix of the music, superb sounding authentic instruments, and musicians with the heart in the right place. Together they form a homogeneous ensemble, with a well balanced tone, and a fanaticism in approach to do right by the music. Succeed they do. A undervalued ensemble with an American base, who could easily match what is produced on European shores.
Superb recording. Try it.....

Often I don't need to purchase the recordings you recommend, because I own them already. E.g. this one  , where I fully agree with your words.

[prémont]

I haven't been able to warm up to this... One more attempt before I return to Kernoa!

Neither am I too happy about it, but you know - completism 

[Bachthoven]

I just read the devastating news that pianist Jonathan Powell died on December 27th, apparently by his own hand. I will always cherish attending his NY performance of Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum in 2004. I met him before the concert, and we had a nice conversation about the work and our shared fear of flying. He was quite touched that I flew from CA to NY just for the concert. In addition to being a super-human pianist, he was also a great humanitarian. Although British-born, he lived in Poland, and when the war with Russia broke out, he and his family took in numerous Ukrainian refugees over the years. He and his artistry will be deeply missed. I will listen to this outstanding recording throughout the day today in his honor.

[Todd]

Year 1.

[Florestan]

I just read the devastating news that pianist Jonathan Powell died earlier today, apparently by his own hand.

According to Wikipedia quoting Norman Lebrecht, he passed away on December 27 last year. There's no mention of suicide.

[Maciek]

How sad. As some of you may know, he was a member of this forum (though he hadn't posted for years). He did not hide his identity, but was very modest - to the extent that I think many may have not realized it was him.

[Bachthoven]

According to Wikipedia quoting Norman Lebrecht, he passed away on December 27 last year. There's no mention of suicide.

He threatened to drink himself to death after his wife left him without warning. That was back in October/November. If he actually died from a different cause, then I will amend my post.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Rimsky-korsakoff

Sheherazade

The complete RCA recordings, that isunfortunately not the case, this one is in any case missing



Listening now to this recording.....

I don't know the particular recording with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, but I think that many of his old/mono recordings with SFSO sound very good!

[AnotherSpin]