What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Currently:





Walton: String Quartet in A Minor


Quite an awesome work - love that haunting slow movement...

I don't know Walton's quartets, but I do love the Maggini and Peter Donohoe's recordings (what I've heard anyway). 

[Madiel]

Interesting.  I'll have to dig around upstairs to see whether or not I have his Op. 1.  I do have at least one recording of his Op. 97.  I do love my Dvorak music! 

PD

The excellent Dvorak website lists just 4 recordings. http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/string-quintet1-recordings

I know the Supraphon one is in the Dvorak "Chamber Music" box, but I don't have that.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Karl Henning]

+1  in fact I think highly of Haitink's Shostakovich set anyway. I was fortunate to hear him perform the 8th Symphony at the Proms many decades ago - but that performance stays with me.

Coincidentally I've been listening to this in the car:

The Temirkanov Leningrad is mighty fine!

[Madiel]

Dvorak, Symphony No.1

Trying Neumann's 1980s version. I haven't actually tried his earlier one yet, and might switch...

...but the sense of the 1st movement is completely different from Rowicki. And clearly Neumann is skipping a repeat somewhere. This could turn out to be a good thing by the end of the movement.



EDIT: Either I'm becoming more used to this symphony, or I like Neumann a hell of a lot better than Rowicki. And this isn't even supposed to be the good Neumann (though reviews suggest it's still pretty good, especially for the earlier symphonies).

[Karl Henning]

Dipped into a box this morning called A Tudor Collection by The Tallis Scholars on Gimell.  Decided to go for a bunch of the works by Thomas Tallis ending with his amazing Spem in alium.

Lovely way to start the day.  Should do this more often...feeling very calm, serene...and, do I dare say, somewhat "meditative"?  Will see how long this lasts. 

PD

Nice!

[Mirror Image]

I'd go for the Bridge recordings, of which iirc you have a complete set...
I once saw a live performance of Eleven Echoes of Autumn [1965] which was a magical experience, but this particular recording (which has been reissued on Hat Art) doesn't catch the lightning in a bottle. I'd expect Bridge to do a better job.

Yeah, I own the whole Crumb Bridge series. I'll definitely give Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965 a listen soon.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

This is one of my favorite recording with the Tallis Scholars.

Haven't heard of John Sheppard before now.  Will look into it...thanks!

The excellent Dvorak website lists just 4 recordings. http://www.antonin-dvorak.cz/en/string-quintet1-recordings

I know the Supraphon one is in the Dvorak "Chamber Music" box, but I don't have that.

Thank you for the link!

PD

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Ligeti
Kammerkonzert für 13 Instrumentalisten
Ensemble "die reihe" Wien
Friedrich Cerha

[Mirror Image]

Currently:





Walton: String Quartet in A Minor


Quite an awesome work - love that haunting slow movement...

Nice. I need to revisit Walton's chamber works. I recall enjoying a lot of what I've heard.

[Traverso]

Haven't heard of John Sheppard before now.  Will look into it...thanks!
Thank you for the link!

PD

enjoy   

https://www.youtube.com/v/BRCZjTq6dOw

[André]

Hurwitz's video about this composer, Kurt Graunke, was rather funny, and judging by how this work sounds, I think he's spot on.

https://www.youtube.com/v/sYbcrfQsQuM

I actually enjoyed this  .

[vers la flamme]

Dieterich Buxtehude: Sonata in F major, op.1 no.1, BuxWV 252. John Holloway, Jaap ter Linden, Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Really feeling Baroque music today...

[VonStupp]

Max Bruch
Scottish Fantasy, op. 46
Serenade in A minor, op. 75
Romanze in A minor, op. 42
Adagio Appassionato, op. 57
In Memoriam, op. 65
Konzertstucke in f-sharp minor, op. 84

Salvatore Accardo, violin
Gewandhaus - Kurt Masur

The last of Bruch for now.

I think these violin concertante miniatures are the bees knees; too bad we don't have more. Odd no one else has put together a collection of just Bruch's concertante works, but these ones with Masur and Accardo have been just fine and I found them dirt cheap at the time too.

 

[SonicMan46]

Dieterich Buxtehude: Sonata in F major, op.1 no.1, BuxWV 252. John Holloway, Jaap ter Linden, Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Really feeling Baroque music today...

Went nuts on Buxtehude and Lars Ulrik Mortensen in the last year and a half - a few months ago, purchased the 'Six Sonatas' disc, and back in January of 2020, bought the other three shown below; BTW, your CD above was added to my collection a while back.  Dave

     

[vandermolen]

Pressure I cannot handle, Jeffrey!

Think a case of now or never. Nilch on eBay and Amazon and the other Arnell issues are OOP on the Dutton website.

£4.60 used on Amazon UK. Go for it Lol! 

[vandermolen]

The Temirkanov Leningrad is mighty fine!

Good to know Karl!

[SonicMan46]

Albéniz, Issac - Piano Works w/ Miguel Baselga from a Spotify playlist - on my 3rd day of listening and finishing up the last two discs (8 & 9) this morning - the music has been excellent and a relaxing experience - but at BIS' $79 USD price, not a purchase for me - Spotify does quite well.  However, looking on Amazon at the other offerings, the 6-CD box of Spanish Piano Music w/ Jean-Francois Heisser shown below piqued my interest, and just $20 - the attached reviews are excellent - will it replace my 2-CD set of Alicia de Larrocha in Albeniz/Granados?  Not sure but may make an order and then decide?  Dave

   

[Traverso]

Carmina Burana

Vol.1

[André]

Recorded live in Berlin's Titania-Palast in 1950 (excellent mono sound). After his return to Germany (he was of jewish origins) Heinz Tietjen, superintendent of the Deutsche Oper Berlin grabbed Blech for the job of principal conductor of the Opera, despite his age (he was born in 1871). Accessorily he conducted symphonic concerts with the local orchestras, hence this 1950 concert with hungarian pianist Julian von Karolyi. Blech was known as a demanding, even exacting, conductor, but also one whose performances were unusually supple and elegant.

I've known and loved this Schubert 9th for many years for precisely these reasons. It is a strong, purposeful reading, unusually clear and transparent but never fussy. Blech is attentive to balance all the musical strands to produce a seamless flow of schubertian songfulness. And yet he does not shy from freely manipulating tempi with some startling accelerandos and ritardandos. The difference between him and Furtwängler, well-known for his freedom with tempos is that his Schubert 9th never sounds monumental, tragic, doom-laden like Furtwängler's. Despite the clouds and occasional thunderclaps, Blech's Schubert is buoyant and optimistic. One of the most remarkable performances of this masterpiece.