What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Henk]

Dave, thanks for your reply. I have two piano sonatas recordings, will listen to those.

NP:
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[Lethevich]

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This performance of the symphonic etudes has kind of ruined other interpretations for me - it sounds so right, with just the right amount of abandon and precision (the agitato section, for example, often sounds skimmed over compard to richter's bold brushtrokes). The recording sounds surprisingly good as well, far better than most Richter stuff.

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this twofer for a first listen to some well-performed Beethoven Piano Sonatas ...

[listener]

My "other" FINZI album
A Severn Rhapsody, Introit for Small Orchestra and solo violin, Nocturne (New Year Music),
Prelude for String Orch., 3 Soliloquies, Romance, The Fall of the Leaf
London Philharmonic Orch.  Boult, cond.
BERKELEY Sonatina for piano duet, Diversions for oboe, etc.op.63, Sextet op.47
Oboe Quartet op.70   Palm Court Waltz for piano duet
The Nash Ensemble
and ALKAN Sonatine, several short piano pieces and in 1972 they were the first recordings) , and the Marcia funèbre sulla morte d'un pappagallo for chorus, 2 oboes and bassoon
Raymond Lewenthal, piano

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD3 - 24 Preludes, Fantasy, etc. from this set for a first listen ...

[Mirror Image]

Yes, that's one of my favourite Stravinsky discs. That perfect piece the Mass sounds its beguiling best here - and is indisputably preferable to Stravinsky's own recording if only for the fact that that one begins with such excruciatingly out-of-tune trombone playing, ruining the first bars!

Yes, this performance of the Mass is exemplary. I haven't heard Stravinsky's own recording of it in years, but I don't recall it making much of an impression on me. Craft's performance was quite good though. Have you heard this disc:

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I've heard it is quite good. I was just curious about it.

Now playing:

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Listening to The Shadows of Time. Fantastic work.

[Brian]

Streaming the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's live concert in Sydney. Not the Vienna Philharmonic, but nice to clean the room to. Right now: Ginastera. Next: Mozart with Renee Fleming and Britten's Young Person's Guide.

[Antoine Marchand]

Good choice for a spring morning/afternoon/evening/night!
Bach = spring, rebirth, resurrection!

Wonderful music, indeed, Marc; even if the autumn is starting here now. 

Right now, from 5 o'clock in the morning of this Sunday, the first part of the Clavier-Übung, performed by the Australian harpsichordist Nicholas Parle:



rec. 11-12 April; 31 August, 1 September 2002, Eugene Goossens Hall, Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Ultimo Centre, Sydney, Australia. DDD
ABC CLASSICS 476 6405 [3 CDs: 47:14 + 54:57 + 61:12]

Harpsichord by William Bright, Barrabia, Australia, 2002, after Johannes Ruckers, 1624, 1638, 1640.

Keyboard Practice, consisting of Preludes, Allemandes, Courantes, Sarabandes, Gigues, Minuets, and other galanteries, composed for music lovers, to refresh their spirits, by Johann Sebastian Bach, actual Capellmeister to the court of Saxe-Weinssenfels and Directore Chori Musici Lipsiensis. Opus 1. Published by the Author. 1731.

[Conor71]

Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words
Chopin: Ballades, Piano Sonata No. 3

[Brian]

Now on YouTube Symphony Orchestra: the world premiere of "Mothership", by Mason Bates, for electronica, guitar, bass, zither, violin, techno beat & orchestra. Pretty awesome. The whole opera house is lit like a rave.

[Brian]

Now on YouTube Symphony Orchestra: the world premiere of "Mothership", by Mason Bates, for electronica, guitar, bass, zither, violin, techno beat & orchestra. Pretty awesome. The whole opera house is lit like a rave.

Up in 10 minutes: another new work, "Ascending Bird" by Colin Jacobsen and Siamak Aghaei, with violinist Richard Tognetti. Then the program ends with three excerpts from The Firebird.

[Lethevich]

They don't dare end with one of their commissioned compositions?

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Insta-Edit: Now I remember what is special about this disc. The piano sound is far from the most thunderous in Kreisleriana, but there is this wonderful sense of Brendel playing around, digging inside and finding interesting sparkling little bits - it's not deconstructive or disjointed, just somewhat analytical and joyful (it's difficult to pull off both of these at once).

[Brian]

They don't dare end with one of their commissioned compositions?

Apparently the score calls for a sand artist? This will be interesting...
EDIT: She's doing sand visuals to go with the music

[Brian]

Okay, sand art is kind of awesome.

[Marc]

Up in 10 minutes: another new work, "Ascending Bird" by Colin Jacobsen and Siamak Aghaei, with violinist Richard Tognetti. Then the program ends with three excerpts from The Firebird.

Thanks for this one!

[Antoine Marchand]

Harpsichord Anthony Sidey (Paris, 1988) after Ruckers-Hemsch (1636-1763)



I love the younger Blandine as much as I love the first Blandine. I would even say, they are some of my favorite French harpsichordists, upon people like Rousset and Hantaï. Both of them are so incredibly intense that I am forced to quit to some personal beliefs in music and to accept this style which transforms Bach's music in a sort of diary, personal and turbulent at the same time. I am an orthodox by nature, but this girl convinces me that I may be a rebel, too. 

[Marc]

Wonderful music, indeed, Marc; even if the autumn is starting here now. 
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Well, in that case, Bach will keep your Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling alive!

[Antoine Marchand]

Well, in that case, Bach will keep your Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling alive!

Yes and there is not problem. In the South hemisphere we're heirs of an imagery that it's not in synchronicity with our seasons (for instance, Sinterklaas and his red clothes in summer!). 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD2 from this twofer for a second listen.  This set was purchased a few years ago ...

[Coopmv]

Now playing this CD from my Bach collection for a second listen ...