What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Just delivered:

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

One of my favorite CDs and a gripping account of the Berg VC.  I have not yet heard Faust's with Abbado, among several other recordings I ought to pursue.  Its increasing popular appeal is fascinating to me; of course, Berg's work is rather more approachable for the general listener than most other composers' of the 2nd Viennese School. And the VC has a compelling associational background that adds to its attraction.  Berg is one of few composers who have an asteroid named after them, and like one of those winging its way through space I hope his work soars well into the future.  Could the Bs be four in number someday? I wouldn't put money on it, but the possibility delights...

[Madiel]

Having my first ever listen to Bacewicz, because an algorithm on Primephonic offered up Violin Sonata no.4.

And quite liking it.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 1

[listener]

KRENEK:  Piano Concertos 1, 2 & 3
Mikhail Korzhev, piano   English S.O.    Kenneth Woods, cond.
entertainingly modern, not hard to follow
REGER:  Sonatas for Viola and Piano  op.49/1,2 op.107
Josef Kluson, viola  Sachiko Kayahara. piano

[Todd]

Best set yet.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Gershwin An American in Paris (Chailly)

[Karl Henning]

Do you know that in French some words change their sex, they are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural? For example, mon amour enfantin, mes amours enfantines. Orgue is like this, and maybe - someone who studied French will know - gens. You certainly say il n'y a pas de sot métier, il n'y a que de sottes gens.

I don't believe I did.

"Computer" (υπολογιστής) is a masculine noun in Greek, as well.

Interesting!

[Karl Henning]

Sorry to remain off-topic, but as it was mentioned before, just a small clarification: computer in Spanish is femenine when you're in South America ("la computadora") and masculine in Spain ("el ordenador"). Go figure..

Gracias por la luz!

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

What are you Liszting to now? This :

[Traverso]

Mozart


Piano Concertos 22-23 & 3

[Karl Henning]

What are you Liszting to now? This :

Nice! I have that in a reissue.

For myself, now:

Weinberg
String Quartet № 1 in E^b, Op.20
String Quartet № 16 in A^b, Op.130
Quatuor Danel

[SonicMan46]

Myslivecek, Josef (1737-1781) - Chamber Works & Symphonies w/ performers on the cover art - there is a short thread on this 'friend of Wolfie Mozart' HERE; also, there is a 2009 book on the composer Josef Myslivecek, "Il Boemo": The Man and His Music, which I read at that time and posted a short review - excellent account of the musical scene in the second half of the 18th century.  Myslivecek died in his early 40s from tertiary syphilis - he was quite a womanizer and lost his nose to the disease - more in his Wiki Bio (and in the book!). 

P.S. during his time in Italy and the fame gained there, he became known as Il Boemo ("the Bohemian").

   

[Harry]

Recent carnival-related chatter makes me want to hear Berlioz' Carnaval romain.   A fine performance of it, not my fave, well-engineered, rather cooler than I want my carnivals, or Berlioz generally, to be. As Rimmer says of Lister's attire in Red Dwarf, Bychkov is shown on the cover wearing "his least smeggy things."

SmegG....smegg....SMEGGHEAD
Wonderfull series.

[Harry]

Halvor Haug.

Orchestral Works.

Symphony No. 3, "The inscrutable Life".
Silence.
Insignia, Symphonic Vision.
Song of the Pines.

English Chamber Orchestra & Norrköping SO, Ole Kristian Ruud.

Quite a discovery, I really enjoy this music immensely.

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky
Jeu de cartes
Agon
Orpheus
BBC Scottish Symphony
Ivan Volkov

Perfect programming: Jeu de cartes is the sprightly overture; the orgy of masterly color which is Agon is the centerpiece; and the ethereal opening of Orpheus is the perfect cool-down.

[Que]

Myslivecek, Josef (1737-1781) - Chamber Works & Symphonies w/ performers on the cover art - there is a short thread on this 'friend of Wolfie Mozart' HERE; also, there is a 2009 book on the composer Josef Myslivecek, "Il Boemo": The Man and His Music, which I read at that time and posted a short review - excellent account of the musical scene in the second half of the 18th century.  Myslivecek died in his early 40s from tertiary syphilis - he was quite a womanizer and lost his nose to the disease - more in his Wiki Bio (and in the book!). 

P.S. during his time in Italy and the fame gained there, he became known as Il Boemo ("the Bohemian").

I have the recording by Pro Arte Antiqua Praha, and was quite impressed. 

Q

[SonicMan46]

I have the recording by Pro Arte Antiqua Praha, and was quite impressed. 

Q

+1 - for the afternoon, some more Il Boemo for me - Dave

   

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky
L'oiseau de feu suite (1945)
Jeu de cartes
Agon
Tonhalle Orchester Zürich
Michael Stern

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Bartók's Contrasts, a trio with Szigeti on violin, Benny Goodman clarinet, and the composer himself on piano.  Written in '38, and recorded two years later, sound is extraordinarily good for mono. Based for the most part on Hungarian and Romanian dance tunes, Szigeti nevertheless remembered Bartók telling him that the beginning of the work was partly inspired by the bluesy second movement of Maurice Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano. There are some other Ravel influences as well and the work is as complexly structured as a chemical formula:  interesting as well as appealing.