What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Froberger

Vol.2

CD 2

[Biffo]

Schubert: Sonata No 13 in A minor, D784; Sonata No 19 in A major, D959 - Paul Badura-Skoda fortepiano

[Madiel]

All 6 Brandenburgs done. And apparently it was the first time I'd listened to most of them for an entire decade. 

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Ives
A Symphony: New England Holidays
New York Philharmonic
Bernstein



For me, Ives may very well be the greatest American composer. He is the first American composer to actually take up Ralph Waldo Emerson's advice, which was to ignore everything and go your own way. The composers before Ives were all heavily indebted to the European tradition and as a result, they sounded like third and fourth rate composers from Germany or France. All I have to say is thank goodness for the boldness, inventiveness and courage of Ives!

[Traverso]

Louis Couperin

[Traverso]

Scarlatti

Blandine Verlet

[André]

Should it go to the Hurwitz's section "Tough symphonists"? An interesting figure. His string quartets are wonders.

+ 1 about the string quartets !

[bhodges]

Right now live: Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra are playing the hell out of Dvořák's Slavonic Dances, Op. 46. Still to come: a new Double Concerto by Felipe Lara, with bassist/vocalist Esperanza Spalding and flutist Claire Chase.

Video will be up for a month after today's concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV_ogwtqi9w

--Bruce

[Irons]

All 6 Brandenburgs done. And apparently it was the first time I'd listened to most of them for an entire decade. 

And you are no worse for that. I have been wondering which set, now I know.

[SonicMan46]

Early Music 'futuristic oddballs' up for a listen:

Gibbons, Orlando (1583-1625) - Keyboard Works on piano w/ Daniel-Ben Pienaar; now I have a lot of Baroque and Classical music on piano but to go back to the Elizabethan era w/ their harpsichords/virginals and musical timing, counterpoint, etc. may be a stretch.  I've listened to this 2-disc set on Spotify twice now - well not how Gibbons sounded back then but quite listenable - mixed reviews attached, although on Amazon, 10 ratings averaging 4.8/5.0 - guess the customers appreciate the piano playing?

Byrd, William (1543-1623) & Bull, John - Keyboard Works on piano w/ Kit Armstrong - same thoughts as above but I also enjoyed this for the piano performance; plus, the reviewers seemed to be much more favorable in their comments on this 2-disc set - now will I listen again to either of these projects?  Possibly but likely from Spotify.  Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

CD 17:

Dirge-Canons & Song in memoriam Dylan Thomas
Three Shakespeare Songs
Septet
Four Russian Songs
Two Balmont Songs
Three Japanese Lyrics
Three Little Songs, Recollections of My Childhood
Four Russian Peasant Songs, Saucers

[Traverso]

Richard Strauss

Sinfonie Domestica,OP.53

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta

Tod und Verklärung ,Op.24

Wiener Philharmoniker
Christoph von Dohnányi

Tanz der sieben Schleier (Salomé)

The Cleveland Orchestre
Vladimir Ashkenazy

[Spotted Horses]

I agree with your general description, but I remember the music as being too lush.

The set I posted has a bunch of church music that IIRC is not available in other performances.

TD
Spurred by a recent post from Ritter

I remember this CD as rather dreary and boring, and haven't listened to it in years.
Now that I am listening to it, I can't figure out why I didn't like it.
So a thank you goes to Ritter for prompting this.

As I mentioned somewhere I like Denon's old recordings, and I can see that this out-of-print recording is available on Amazon for $902. I'll pass. I recently listened to the Royal Quartet recordings of these works on Hyperion and found them fully enjoyable.

[Iota]

All I have to say is thank goodness for the boldness, inventiveness and courage of Ives!

+1

I am still getting to know his music as and when the mood's upon me. But I have such a high regard for him and his approach to life/music. Was very touched a while ago reading the story of him when in his fifties coming downstairs with tears in his eyes and saying to his wife he couldn't compose anymore, 'It just doesn't sound right', he said. And I think that was pretty much it for his composing, though he did continue editing certain works. Typically direct and unblinkingly honest to the end.


Playing here:



Mozart: Piano Concerto No.25

Anderszewski (piano/conductor)

If your like your Mozart piano concertos resembling a stream tumbling through the dappled light of an Alpine forest, this is probably for you. Anderszewski as both soloist and conductor is a delight. I hadn't heard his conducting before and here it's remarkably good. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe sound terrific.

It seems he may also be subtly indicating on the cover his availability for any upcoming remake of the Starsky and Hutch series .. 

[classicalgeek]

You might consider getting this 2-CD set at some point in time; Sir Charles Mackerras was a big champion of Czech music and his recordings of it are well-thought of.  https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-us/music/audio-cd/sir-charles-mackerras-conducts-janacek/0099925373924?msclkid=ee719488a4f71962563ef5b385d79d9b&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=S2%20-%20Media%20-%2016.99%20-%20Bing&utm_term=4575342763658734&utm_content=16.99#DVDB00008UEF1VG

That Mackerras/Janacek set is part of a bigger box that also has Mackerras doing Martinu: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Czech-Music-Mackerras-2010-11-30/dp/B013H1N6S6/ As is his box (also on Supraphon) of his Dvorak and Smetana: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Czech-Music-Dvorak-Smetana/dp/B0046VRR4Q. Both are on my wishlist! I've only scratched the proverbial surface of Mackerras doing Czech music and I want to really dig into it.

So glad that you have been enjoying them!  I know that Firkusny rerecorded Janacek for RCA (I want to say in the 1980's?) and I want to hear those.

It's on Spotify (and I'm sure it's on Qobuz and other streaming services), if you don't mind streaming: https://open.spotify.com/album/1KOEC34TKQ9caS7xSNrQYN?si=qWw5TYfaSiO4PiKFnJ51sw&dl_branch=1

As an aside, I don't know whether or not you knew this, but Firkusny started off his musical studies with Janacek.    Here's a bit of information about him here:  http://journal.juilliard.edu/journal/1202/rudolf-firkusny

PD

p.s.  And yes, Janacek's solo piano music is something special.  I find that I need to be in a rather quiet, contemplative kind of mood to listen to it.  Love it!

Thanks for that bit of information! It's always fascinating when performers have a direct link to composers. And yes, Janacek's piano works are perfect for that frame of mind... a world apart from his orchestral works. (I need to better familiarize myself with his chamber music!)

Thread Duty:

Chopin
Piano concerto no. 2
Claudio Arrau, piano
London Philharmonic/Eliahu Inbal



From a CD box I forgot I had, recently unpacked from sitting in a sealed box for the last eight years. It's Arrau. It's Chopin. It's excellent.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello, what about some ancient lore surreal music , well than, I found what I seek The CD called Gardens of Delight by ensemble de Telling

[SonicMan46]

Some additions (2 used CDs from Amazon which played fine) to my 'Early Music' collection - Dave

   

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hello, what about some ancient lore surreal music , well than, I found what I seek The CD called Gardens of Delight by ensemble de Telling

Sounds good. Have a great weekend mate!

[Mandryka]

Hello, what about some ancient lore surreal music , well than, I found what I seek The CD called Gardens of Delight by ensemble de Telling

London/Brighton group, very good.

[akebergv]

As a follow-up to the discussions about Firkusny and Mackerras, here are three boxes that I get a lot of musical pleasure from: