What are you listening to now?

[Que]

Your expectations being?

High...    But hélas...

[Traverso]

Yes, that's what I've experienced too.

at this moment it goes very well

[Mandryka]

High...    But hélas...

Yes but I'm not getting a sense of anything more than that you didn't enjoy it much, which could be as much to do with what you ate for lunch as anything in the performance!

[vandermolen]

Yes, that's what I've experienced too.

+1 it seems ok for a while and then seems to get stuck while loading up. Ok for now.

[Marc]

Yes, that's what I've experienced too.

Me, too.
Last 2 days were better though.

[prémont]

+1 it seems ok for a while and then seems to get stuck while loading up. Ok for now.

Precisely.

[Traverso]

Stravinsky

[vers la flamme]

Luciano Berio: Sequenza VII, and now Due Pezzi for violin and piano. Heinz Holliger, Romuald Tecco & Dennis Russell Davies.

[aligreto]

Mozart: Concertone K.190 [Perlman/Zukerman/Mehta]

[Traverso]

Luciano Berio: Sequenza VII, and now Due Pezzi for violin and piano. Heinz Holliger, Romuald Tecco & Dennis Russell Davies.

I listened to this recording a few weeks ago,fabulous Berberian

[aligreto]

A most enjoyable set.

[Madiel]

Shostakovich, Suite to Words by Michelangelo Buonarroti op.145



Mostly all the bleak starkness you would expect for late Shostakovich, which renders the final song a heck of a surprise when it borders on childlike and jolly.

I do want to hear the orchestral version now, especially as Shostakovich is reported to have considered it his 16th symphony. But also because the piano version is frankly hard work on a first listen and a spot of orchestral colour might not go amiss. In fact I might listen to the orchestral version on streaming as I get ready for bed.

And now I've reached the end of the whole Delos series of the songs. Which I won't claim has been a consistently top-level listening experience, but it's always been interesting. Just like Shostakovich's other output, there are some potboilers and some gems, including some comic songs that are hilarious.

[Wakefield]

A most enjoyable set.

[About Brendel]
A great pianist too. One of my favorites, indeed. 

[Traverso]

A most enjoyable set.

Yes it certainly is.I think Brendel is at his best in his Schubert recordings.I have recently listened to his Beethoven (analoque and digital) and he is not my ideal performer,it sounds artificial and academic.I love his Schubert and not to forget the Mozart pianoconcertos.

[aligreto]

[About Brendel]
A great pianist too. One of my favorites, indeed. 

Yes it certainly is.I think Brendel is at his best in his Schubert recordings.I have recently listened to his Beethoven (analoque and digital) and he is not my ideal performer,it sounds artificial and academic.I love his Schubert and not to forget the Mozart pianoconcertos.

I too like Brendel and also especially in Schubert for whom he seems to have a special affinity.

[aligreto]

Haydn: Flute Concerto [Meinert/Von Steibelt]

[Traverso]

Stravinsky

I enjoyed the previous so much that I stay a little longer with Stravinsky.

[Que]

Next:
[asin]B01DT8JVEA[/asin]
Second volume to listen to from a series of three volumes of Habsburg violin music from a manuscript with over a hundred sonatas in the Minoritenkonvent, Vienna. (Thanks, Harry  ) jpc had two volumes on sale, I've wishlisted the remaining one.

Q

[vers la flamme]

Yes it certainly is.I think Brendel is at his best in his Schubert recordings.I have recently listened to his Beethoven (analoque and digital) and he is not my ideal performer,it sounds artificial and academic.I love his Schubert and not to forget the Mozart pianoconcertos.

I love Brendel's Beethoven, but I agree that it can veer toward the academic at times. He is best in the early sonatas. Yes, his Mozart piano concertos with Neville Marriner and the ASMF are fabulous.

[Harry]

Conrad Hoffler. !647-1705) Primitiae Chelicae (1695)
Suites for Viola da Gamba.

Guido Balestracci, Division bass viol.
Nicola Dal Moso, Violin.
Rafael Bonavita, Archlute.
Massimiliano Raschietti, Organ/Harpsichord.

There is much pleasure to be found in this recording. Superb music and performances, a combination that has convincing arguments. Third time around playing this and it has really grown on me. If you like the Viola da Gamba this is a disc to cherish.