What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[springrite]

Beethoven Piano Sonatas:
#17 (Tempest), #21 (Waldstein), #23 (Appasionata) and #31

Pianist: Frederic Lamond

[George]

Beethoven Piano Sonatas:
#17 (Tempest), #21 (Waldstein), #23 (Appasionata) and #31

Pianist: Frederic Lamond

That's the one on Pearl, right? How is it?

[bobby quine]

Not sure if anyone would agree, but I just had to go back to Alwyn's 1st Piano Concerto, and to me, he comes across as a British equivalent to Ravel (well, at least in the PC!).

[springrite]

That's the one on Pearl, right? How is it?

This one is on Biddulph. It's been a few years since I last listened to it. Quite good.

[George]

This one is on Biddulph. It's been a few years since I last listened to it. Quite good.

Right, Biddulph. Now there's a label that needs to reissue much of their catalog. Some great stuff there, like Cortot's Schumann for one. 

[Coopmv]

Right, Biddulph. Now there's a label that needs to reissue much of their catalog. Some great stuff there, like Cortot's Schumann for one. 

Now when is the Cortot's Schumann gonna to be available on Naxos Historical?  Will it be remastered by either MOT or Marston?

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, which arrived over the weekend ...

[karlhenning]

Pyotr Ilyich
String Quartet № 3 in E-flat Minor, Opus 30
New Haydn Quartet

[George]

Now when is the Cortot's Schumann gonna to be available on Naxos Historical?  Will it be remastered by either MOT or Marston?

By Marston (who also mastered the original Biddulph CDs) and I think the first volume is already out. Check MDT.

[Christo]

First listen to Lyrita's reissue of some Arnold Cooke (1906-2005) I had never encountered before: the Symphony No. 1 (1947) and Concerto in D for String Orchestra (1948). I did know the third piece already from the old LP, in which it was coupled with the admirable Third Symphony (1967): the Jabez and the Devil Suite, taken from the ballet (1961).

Again, I'm struck by the sheer quality of invention and fine craftmenship of this very much `neoclassical' composer, who's music is not unlike Lennox Berkeley's. Widely know as the "English Hindemith" (he was Hindemith's only British pupil), he is, in fact, much more part of an 'English' musical tradition than this would imply.

Had this `concerto' been widely acknowledged as one of the Great British String Pieces, in the same series with e.g. Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra, I would have accepted the verdict without any reservation. Now it lies almost completely hidden from the public, except for this rather unknown recording. And very much the same applies, at first hearing, to the First Symphony - certainly a very fine First, proving Cooke a master symphonist from the start.

I would love to hear the Second (1964), Fourth (1979) and Fifth (1984) symphonies - too. Alas: they were the wrong (neoclassical) music at the wrong moment in musical history, and were perhaps never even performed. At least we have the First and Third now, in fine recordings, both on Lyrita.

                 

[George]

Schubert
Impromptus
Kempff
DG

Great stuff! 

[CD]

Still immersed in the delights of the Webern box. So far my favorite has to be the Symphony. I love it's constantly shifting colours and textures.

[The new erato]

Disc 4 of this set.



I like song, but am quite unfamiliar with this. Very french, I can assure you.

[Brian]

SIBELIUS | Symphony No 6
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis
LSO Live

[bhodges]

Tristan Murail: Gondwana (Yves Prin/Orchestre National de France) - Can't seem to get enough of this fabulous piece, in this luminous performance.  Since the New York Philharmonic learned how to play it this season, I hope they consider bringing it back when Alan Gilbert takes the helm.  I would love to hear this live again someday.

Here is a little bit more about the piece on Composition Today, and even more on Murail's own website, here.

--Bruce

[Valentino]

Brünnhilde gets her armor off. (The '97 Solti remaster has landed. And yes, It sounds better than the '84 release (Ref. Rheingold, Siegfried).)

[imperfection]

The 80 minute discussion included is a very informative, insightful one. The structure of this epic work is explained in full detail. Very good, Ben! Hope you make more recordings like this one.

[Keemun]

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Bernstein/NYPO, 1963)

[owlice]

                 

But what happened to the man's lips?! Where did they go??

~~~

Continuing on with the Verdi Requiem, as I didn't get to all of it earlier. Then a few opera choruses, a little conducting, a little singing along...

[drogulus]

The 80 minute discussion included is a very informative, insightful one. The structure of this epic work is explained in full detail. Very good, Ben! Hope you make more recordings like this one.

     The Zander Mahler 6th also has an interesting discussion of the work including his reasons for preferring the Scherzo-Andante movement order, which I find to be quite persuasive.