What are you listening to now?

[Autumn Leaves]

This mornings listening:



Piano Sonatas #1, 2, 3, 4, 11 & 15

[Kontrapunctus]

Wonderful playing and sound. I really like this guy's Bach: he makes full use of a modern grand piano's resources, but he doesn't pound the music into the ground either!

[Spineur]

Beethoven Cello sonatas

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Queyras Melnikov

[Dee Sharp]

Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Aerial. The piece "Aeriality" is really quite special on this disc and a favourite of mine in contemporary composition. I also like Trajectories and Shades of Silence. If you are in the right mood, this CD can be captivating.

[kishnevi]

Another composer that seems to get very little notice of forums and magazines alike. I consider him one of the best composers of his time.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/11/new-acquisition-jadassohn-salomon-1831.html?spref=tw

I may have asked you before: do you have any of the Cameo Classics series with his music? Those cued me in to his high quality, although I now see I don't have one of them. (Fair warning: I actually liked Brull more, and the Pabst concerto could have safely remained unrecorded.)

[kishnevi]

TD
Cherubini String Quartets
All of them.
Melos Quartet
CDs 29-31 of the Arkiv Analogue Stereo box.

[Todd]

Quintet.

[mc ukrneal]

I may have asked you before: do you have any of the Cameo Classics series with his music? Those cued me in to his high quality, although I now see I don't have one of them. (Fair warning: I actually liked Brull more, and the Pabst concerto could have safely remained unrecorded.)

I liked the look of those too and picked up a couple (including the last one you posted). But the playing is quite variable. In particular, I won't touch the Belorussian orchestra again (unless someone raves about them in something). Maybe it was just a bad day or something, but I found them quite ragged. I did like the music though.

[HIPster]

Playing this recent purchase ~

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Hat tip to Jeffrey Smith for directing me to this one. 

Really interesting music, artwork and liner notes: the full package.

Review
"This assemblage of music cleverly includes unfamiliar names such as Gagliano, Mazzocchi, Corbetta, Falconieri and Giramo among the more familiar Monteverdi, Caccini, Rossi and Lanier. The performances by the singers and instrumentalists of El Mundo are lively and heavily characterized..."

"...This is an enjoyable CD with a pleasing variety of music artfully performed, and from the paintings reproduced in the booklet Artemisia Gentileschi deserves more attention as a member of the small group of genuinely talented woman painters working in what was essentially a man's world." --D. James Ross, EarlyMusicReview.com, November 1, 2015

[Mahlerian]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor; Debussy: Images for orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Tilson Thomas

[Madiel]

Villa-Lobos, Two Choros (Bis) for violin and cello.

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EDIT: Love these. I've only listened to a handful of the pieces in the box thus far, but these are the best yet.

[SimonNZ]

Vivaldi concerti - Cafe Zimmermann

[Ken B]

TD
Cherubini String Quartets
All of them.
Melos Quartet
CDs 29-31 of the Arkiv Analogue Stereo box.

How are they?

[kishnevi]

How are they?

Excellent, especially on a weekend like this (I work in retail).
This recording is available on Brilliant, and there is at least one other alternative recording on the Stradivarius label that I think is as good as this one.

[Ken B]

Excellent, especially on a weekend like this (I work in retail).
This recording is available on Brilliant, and there is at least one other alternative recording on the Stradivarius label that I think is as good as this one.

Merci. I am always on the lookout for post 19750 string quartets. I have never heard those, so far as I know.
Are they tonal or atonal?

[kishnevi]

Merci. I am always on the lookout for post 19750 string quartets. I have never heard those, so far as I know.
Are they tonal or atonal?

They compare in their atonality, and several other qualities, to late Haydn and middle Beethoven.

Meanwhile, having finished the SQs, some tickled ivories
Gottschalk Solo Piano Works
Philip Martin piano
CD 6 of the Hyperion set
La Carnaval de Venise (grand caprice et variations)
Marche Funebre
Vision (etude)
Printemps d'amour (mazurka , caprice de concert)
Caprice elegiaque
Colliers d'Or (deux mazurkas) nos 1 and 2
Danse ossianique
Jeunesse (mazurka brilliante)
Danse des sylphes (caprice de concert after Godefroid)
The maiden's blush (grande valse de concert)
Impromptu
La favorita (grand fantaisie de concert after Donizetti)

[Autumn Leaves]

This afternoon's listening:



Symphony #6

Very enjoyable - plan to listen to this again later.



Symphony #1

[Madiel]

Barber, Symphony No.2

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What an interesting work. I think I'm glad it survived the composer's attempted purge.

[Mirror Image]

Barber, Symphony No.2

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What an interesting work. I think I'm glad it survived the composer's attempted purge.

I think it's an underrated work and I honestly don't know what Barber disliked about it, but, sometimes, composers are the harshest critics of their own music. I'm glad it survived, too.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Piano sonatas 1 & 2. Vastly underrated works, although the first sonata could've perhaps used a little pruning, following the success of the prune job the second sonata received two decades after it was composed. But still, gorgeousness off the charts...