What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[jlaurson]

You might think he is reacting to the sadness of Schubert work, until you compare with this one:


W.G. Mozart (1756 – 1791),
Piano Ctos. K271 & 503
Brendel/Mackerras/Scottish Ch.O.
Decca

That's his reaction to Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 in C-major?

Perhaps that's his reaction to his interpretation of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 in C-major


Thread duty:



J.B. Lully (1632 – 1687),
Atys
W.Christie et al.
HMU (re-issued)

[Scarpia]

Perhaps that's his reaction to his interpretation of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 in C-major

That's what I thought, but then he'd be wearing headphones.   

[listener]

well-known recordings in LP and their CD revivals
DVORAK Poetic Tone Pictures, op. 85
Radoslav Kvapil, piano
RACHMANINOFF  Piano Concerto 4      RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
Michelangeli, piano    Philharmonia Orch.  Gracis, cond.
and not so well-known
ARENSKY  Symphonies 1 & 2    Orchestral Suite no.2, op. 23
Overture to "Volga Dream", op. 16
USSR State Orch.    Svetlanov, cond.
... just noticed it's a 2-disc set

[Drasko]

                                                                                 Mozart Concerto

[Bogey]

Mozart
Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major, K 299 (297c)
Performers:  Maria Graf (Harp), Irena Grafenauer (Flute)
Conductor:  Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Written: 1778; Paris, France

Mozart
Concerto for Flute no 1 in G major, K 313 (285c)
Performer:  Irena Grafenauer (Flute)
Conductor:  Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Written: 1778; Mannheim, Germany

[bhodges]

This looks wonderful--comments?

--Bruce

[jlaurson]

A bit of Valentine's Day Listening


S. Prokofiev (1891 – 1953),
Romeo & Juliet
V.Gergiev / LSO
LSO Live SACDs
Very lovely performance; one of the few Gergiev-LSO Live recordings I like without reservation.

and before and after that a bit of this...


A. Bax (1883 – 1953) & F. Bridge (1879 – 1940)
Piano Quintets
Ashley Weiss & Tippett Quartet
Naxos

[Antoine Marchand]

I have a serious question.

Am I the only person in the world who bought those wonderful two CDs on Naxos called "Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke"?



Tobias Hume (1569-1645) - Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke Volume 1

Daniel Taylor, counter-tenor
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Paul Audet, lute
Francis Colpron, recorder
Régeant Poirier, organ

Les Voix Humaines:
Susie Napper, viola da gamba
Margaret Little, viola da gamba

Naxos 8.554126



Tobias Hume (1569-1645) - Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke Volume 2

Daniel Taylor, counter-tenor
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Paul Audet, lute
Francis Colpron, recorder
Régeant Poirier, organ

Les Voix Humaines:
Susie Napper, viola da gamba
Margaret Little, viola da gamba

Naxos 8.554127

I have owned these CDs for years, but I have never seen even a miserable reference to them which seems highly unfair considering that they contain excellent Elizabethan music and wonderful performances, especially by Les Voix Humaines.

[Conor71]

Dvorak: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1

Good morning - some chamber music to start the day! .

[Coopmv]

It's a nice and intersting disc, shows stylistic similarities with Bach's efforts though as compositions a bit more uneven IMO. A short previous note HERE.


LISTENING: revisiting this wonderful set for a new run. (One of) the most significant purchases of last year, for me break-trough into Renaissance keyboard music. Amazing how sudden and rapidly I've gotten into Early Music the last year or so after over two decades of listening to Classical Music. It must be the age...   (I'm 41) At least there are some benefits to the progressing of time! 

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Q

Indeed, I had little interest in early music twenty years ago ...   

[Antoine Marchand]

[1] Ballade in G minor, Op. 23 [1835]
[2] Nocturne in F sharp minor, Op. 48 No. 2 [1841]
[3] Ballade in F major, Op. 38 [1839]
[4] Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1 [1833-1836]
[5] Ballade in A flat major, Op. 47 [1841]
[6] Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 [1833-1836]
[7] Ballade in F minor, Op. 52 [1842]

[TT: 51.43]

Nelson Goerner - piano Pleyel, 1848

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD, which arrived from MDT some two weeks ago for a first listen ...

[Bogey]

Earlier:

Mozart
Concerto for Flute no 2 in D major, K 314 (285d)
Performer:  Irena Grafenauer (Flute)
Conductor:  Sir Neville Marriner
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Written: 1778; Mannheim, Germany

Now:

Mozart
        Minuets (7), K 65a
        Contradance in B flat major, K 123 (73g)
        Minuet in E flat major, K 122 (73t)
        Minuets (19), K 103 (61d)
Conductor:  Taras Krysa
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Slovak Sinfonietta

[PaulR]

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano.


One of my 3 CDs containing a work with a clarinet as a solo instrument (and one of them is not really mine, but my mothers that I just copied onto my iPod).  Anyways, with my limited knowledge of clarinet music, I find this sonata to be extremely nice.  Not the most musical term, I know.
One of the aspects of this sonata I enjoy is the use of the whole range of the instrument to create different colors in the piece, but it never goes to the extremes for very long.  I like the sonata more than I do the concerto.  I think the material he uses in the sonata is superior that of the concerto.  But that is not to say the concerto is a bad piece, it is definitely not.

This is a piece I really need to get more acquainted with.

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD from my baroque collection.  The CD has been OOP for some times ...

[listener]

BLOMDAHL    Suite from Sisyphus
ROSENBERG Voyage to America: The Railway Fugue Intermezzo from the opera suite
BERWALD Sinfonie  Capricieuse
Stockholm Philharmonic Orch.   Antal Dorati, cond.
DVORAK  Piano Music  (I think I was fortunate to have been able to get the complete set by Radoslav Kvapil)
6 Pieces op. 52,  Eclogues, op. 56  Album Leaves, Impromptu in G

[Dancing Divertimentian]

The op. 131. The oddest duck ever penned by Beethoven.

[mahler10th]

Harry was playing this a while back and gave it a nice review (where was he yesterday, I missed his reviews!)
The review was warranted, recording is great and the playing reflects what Martinu was about.  Vrey nice indeed, would recommend this in an instant, but I do not have any instants.

[Harry]

I have a serious question.

Am I the only person in the world who bought those wonderful two CDs on Naxos called "Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke"?



Tobias Hume (1569-1645) - Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke Volume 1

Daniel Taylor, counter-tenor
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Paul Audet, lute
Francis Colpron, recorder
Régeant Poirier, organ

Les Voix Humaines:
Susie Napper, viola da gamba
Margaret Little, viola da gamba

Naxos 8.554126



Tobias Hume (1569-1645) - Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke Volume 2

Daniel Taylor, counter-tenor
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Paul Audet, lute
Francis Colpron, recorder
Régeant Poirier, organ

Les Voix Humaines:
Susie Napper, viola da gamba
Margaret Little, viola da gamba

Naxos 8.554127

I have owned these CDs for years, but I have never seen even a miserable reference to them which seems highly unfair considering that they contain excellent Elizabethan music and wonderful performances, especially by Les Voix Humaines.

No, Antoine, I bought them when they were released, which was years ago, and I agree they are most wonderful

[Lethevich]

Wish I had that one - what do you think of it? Coincidentally, I queued this disc before clicking the thread:

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