What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[karlhenning]

Mompou, mon petit chou-chou!

Giving this one heavy rotation this week:

Mompou
Música callada (1959-1967)
Jordi Masó

Mompou – Música callada &c.

[Philoctetes]

5 discs in the queue today:

Jochum with the LPO in Haydn's Symphonies 94 and 101
Schwarzkopf sings Mozart
Ceu's Vagarosa and Ceu
Lura's Eclipse

[not edward]

I also listen to Suk.

And occasionally to Blow.

And if you're Kenny G, with your circular breathing and middlebrow sound, you can do both at once.

This fine Intimate Letters, and Pavel Haas' 2nd quartet. Judging by the standard of this disc, I'm going to have to pick up their other Janacek/Haas disc, and then their Prokofiev.

[Franco]

The Music of Elliott Carter Vol. 7; Boston Concerto, Cello Concerto, ASKO Concerto, Dialogues

Right now, the ASKO Concerto.  Fantastic disc!

[karlhenning]

Aye, 'tis, Franco!

[karlhenning]

Mompou, mon petit chou-chou!

Mompou
Música callada (1959-1967)
Jordi Masó

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.

And . . . the echoes of the e minor Chopin Prelude in № 15, Lento – plaintif.

[Henk]

Images inedites



Nocturnes op. 9



Concerto for two violins, BWV 1043
Violin Concerto, BWV 1041

[Franco]

Schoenberg: The Four String Quartets
Aron Quartett

Listening to them I am always struck by the breadth found in these works: the early works are very much like late Brahms, and then they progress in atonality - with the late quartets being some of his most compelling but challenging music.

[DavidRoss]

I like your choices today, Henk! They make me want to drop by and listen!

[jlaurson]

Schoenberg: The Four String Quartets
Aron Quartett

Listening to #2 I am always struck by the breadth found in these works: #2 is very much like late Brahms, and then they progress in atonality - with the late quartets being some of his most compelling but challenging music.

I love those recordings! My favorite Schoenberg integral.

[karlhenning]

Maiden-listen Mondays (this recording)!

This landed a while ago, actually, don't know why it's waited so long for me to listen:

Elgar
Violin Concerto in b minor, Opus 61 (1910)
Dong-Suk Kang, vn
Polish National Radio Symphony
Adrian Leaper

Sibelius & Elgar – Violin Concerti

[Henk]

I like your choices today, Henk! They make me want to drop by and listen!

I listened only for max. 30 minutes to one of these discs, a sort of urge to change between composers. Though I also listen lately to a work many times. I listened to Stravinsky's Agon seven times at a couple days.

Henk

[karlhenning]

I listened only for max. 30 minutes to one of these discs, a sort of urge to change between composers. Though I also listen lately to a work many times. I listened to Stravinsky's Agon seven times at a couple days.

Henk

Yes, that's a work which can inspire rapid multiple listenings.

[DavidRoss]

Hmmm...come to think of it, I bought another iteration of this recording of the Elgar VC during that long and lively discussion a couple of months ago and listened to it only once or twice at the time.  Perhaps I'm due for a spin as well! 

[not edward]

A couple of less-well-known Ginastera pieces, the Concerto for Strings and Pampeana No 3.



The Concerto for Strings has its Bartokian moments (particularly in the 'night music' slow movement and the stamping rhythms of the finale), but for the most part wears them lightly.

[Franco]

I love those recordings! My favorite Schoenberg integral.

Yes, I prefer the Aron to the other groups I have on these works, but the New Vienna String Quartet (a more recent purchase) and Kohan Quartet (my first set) both do a good job with them.

[Père Malfait]

Currently listening to this fascinating recording:

[jlaurson]

Yes, I prefer the Aron to the other groups I have on these works, but the New Vienna String Quartet (a more recent purchase) and Kohan Quartet (my first set) both do a good job with them.

I don't have the Kohan, but New Vienna (Philips), La Salle (DG), Leipziger (MDG), and Schoenberg Quartet (Chandos) -- none of them as pleasing (nor as complete) as Aron.

[listener]

MOZART Oboe Concerto in C, K.314  - more known for its reuse in D as the Flute Concerto 2
              Oboe Concerto in Eb, K.Anh.294B
  Han de Vries, oboe     Prague Chamber Orch.     Anton Kersjes, cond.
TAUSIG   Piano music played by Michael Ponti
    Concert Études, op. 1, Hope. op. 3, The Ghost Ship,  Hungarian Gypsy Airs,
    Caprice Waltzes after J.Strauss II, Fantasy on themes from Moniusko's Halka

[Harry]

Currently listening to this fascinating recording:

Agreed