What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

What was the other recording of the [Roussel] Third you listened to?

Cluytens, on an EMI reissue.  Which is very good;  but overall my ears prefer the Denève/RSNO.

[bhodges]

Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture (David Atherton/BBC SO of Wales, live from 1994 Proms) - Haven't heard this genial piece in awhile--my loss. 
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (same) - Like the Walton, very well played and recorded.  These are part of a BBC Magazine disc that includes The Rite of Spring.

--Bruce

[SonicMan46]

Well, again Sunday morning and some choral music and a new arrival:

Bach, JS - St. Matthew Passion w/ Gustav Leonhardt, Soloists, & La Petite Bande on 3 CDs - 

[karlhenning]

Mompou, mon petit chou-chou!

Mompou
Música callada (1959-1967)
Jordi Masó

Mompou – Música callada &c.

Yet another reason to love this assembled forum. This composer was completely unknown to me.  I haven't posted before, but this disc has been my "winding-down" music at day's end for a week now.  And, yes, I shall listen to the whole with more nearly alert mind;  even in this, erm, specialized audition, I am marveling at the exquisite simplicities.  The sort of ghost-of-Ravel's-Mother-Goose in the initial Angelico number, for instance.

[karlhenning]

Oh!  And I am apt to think the pungent "tonal dissonances" in the № 7 Lento my favorite musical discovery of the year.

[not edward]

Sometimes recordings I've had for years just keep sucking me back in: in this case Ancerl's three studio Janacek recordings (all with the CzPO, naturally)--Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba and the Glagolitic Mass.

Even by Ancerl-in-Czech-music standards I find these quite remarkable performances.

[not edward]

Cluytens, on an EMI reissue.  Which is very good;  but overall my ears prefer the Denève/RSNO.

It is good to see Denève having brought my old hometown orchestra back to its feet after its general decline during the Weller and Lazarev eras. I hope they'll be able to keep the standard up after he leaves for Stuttgart. (It seems like it's been a good few years for orchestral music in Scotland with Volkov's stellar tenure at the BBC SSO and all those Mackerras concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra....why did I move to Canada again? )

[bhodges]

Schumann: Symphony No. 1, "Spring" (Haitink/Concertgebouw, live recording May 1, 1981) - Beautifully paced and played, in a way that (temporarily) makes me think that Haitink is the greatest conductor alive.  Such chemistry with the orchestra!

Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales (Haitink/Concertgebouw, live recording Dec. 16, 1982) - Just love this piece, and probably don't listen to it often enough.  This gentle, burnished reading is lovely.

--Bruce

[Drasko]

[Lethevich]

Two logos seperated at birth



np: (Vasks/Kremer)

[Drasko]

Two logos seperated at birth

Toru ante portas! 

[Coopmv]

This morning I'm revisiting this set again


"Music at the Reformation"



On second thought I think I have been a bit too harsh before about the necessity of a "complete Tallis" - I wouldn't want to be without this excellent set. The fact that I'm drawn back to have another listening is a good sign.

Q

Given its modest price and there are few other "Complete Tallis" sets out there if any at all, this is certainly a set to have in most early music collection IMO.

[listener]

VILLA-LOBOS Piano Music vol. 1  on Naxos    Sonia Rubinsky, piano
A Prolo de Bebé 1,  Cirandas,   Hommage à Chopin
These are pieces that do no not require dissertative analysis, they are in a way like piano equivalents of Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne.     Miking is a bit close-up, the piano occupies a fairly wide stereo stage, but it's a clear recording with sensitive touch, real pianos that are audible, fortes that aren't distorted.
COPLAND: Piano Sonata,  Fantaisie for Piano
Noël Lee, piano
again, COPLAND:Piano Sonata  ROREM: 3 Barcarolles KIRCHNER: Piano Sonata   SESSIONS: From My Diary
Leon Fleischer, piano
COPLAND: Piano Variations  HARRIS: American Ballads    BERGSMA: Tangents   DELLO JOIO: 2 Nocturnes
Grant Johannesen, piano

[Brahmsian]

Mahler

Symphony No. 9

[Henk]

VC 1

[PaulR]

#3

[bhodges]

Tonight, more from the Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1980-1990:

Kodály: Dances of Galanta (Edo de Waart, from Nov. 14, 1982)
Peter Schat: Thema (Edo de Waart, March 21, 1982)
Debussy: Images (Antal Dorati, April 5, 1987)
Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges (Charles Dutoit, Dec. 9, 1989)

--Bruce

[CD]

Giving them another listen, more closely this time:

Vagn Holmboe - Chamber Concertos 10-14 (DaCapo)

[Mirror Image]

So far, so good.

[Sid]

Tonight on radio 2mbs-fm
www.2mbs.com

KEYBOARD CONTRASTS with Tony Immerglück

Bach, J.S. Suite no 1 in D minor, BWV812 (c1722).
Debussy, C. Suite bergamasque (1901).
Brahms, J. Piano trio no 3 in C minor, op 101 (1886); Intermezzo no 3 in C sharp minor, op 117 (1892).
Rameau, J-P. Excerpts from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (c1728).
Chopin, F. Sonata no 3 in B minor, op 58 (1844).

I'm looking forward to seeing the Brahms piano trio live in coming weeks, so hearing this other performance will be a treat. I also know the Debussy & Chopin, but haven't heard those works by the others...