What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The short answer is that they artificially recreated the acoustic response of 9 different historical rooms in the recording studio.

For the long answer:

https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.501203&catNum=501203&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English#

Interesting!  How well do you think that the experiment worked?

After Sibelius' Spring Song
Martinu's Sonata for cello and piano No. 2
With Steven Isserlis and Peter Evans

PD

[Spotted Horses]

Hey Cato! On the Blu-Ray disc is Karajan's entire Bruckner cycle remastered in surround sound (i. e. Blu-Ray Audio).

The Blu Ray disc contains high resolution (24 bit, 192 kHz) 2-channel audio, not surround sound.

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The Blu Ray disc contains high resolution (24 bit, 192 kHz) 2-channel audio, not surround sound.

Ah okay, thanks for the clarification.

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Following Jan...

Now playing from this Japanese 24-bit remaster on Warner Classics:

Delius
In a Summer Garden
Hallé Orchestra
Barbirolli



Delius is excellent morning music as it isn't challenging and uniquely beautiful. For me, Barbirolli's Delius is more essential than anything I've heard from Beecham. Sorry, Delians out there...well, I know there are some of you here. I don't listen to this composer too often these days, but these shorter works (miniatures if you will) are where the composer truly shines.

[Que]

Joseph Wölfl performed by Laure Colladant:

   

Last bits and pieces.... Duos for harp and fortepiano, unusual combination and mildly entertaining.

[Spotted Horses]

Saw this release mentioned somewhere around here.



At first I thought, "I should get that," then I thought, "wait, I have that." (I swear the cover art had nothing to do with the purchase.)

Anyway, finally listened to the first two pieces over the past two days.

The first trio is indeed charming, especially the first movement. The second trio is a bit more substantial, with a weighty first movement and a finale that builds to an impressive apotheosis. Will try to find time for the third trio.

Lalo's output is small. I'm thinking of getting a recording of his symphony, possibly the BIS release.

[Mirror Image]

Now for some gnarly early American Modernism:

Crawford Seeger
String Quartet
Schoenberg Ensemble



Fantastic piece! I bought this Crawford Seeger disc many years ago and it's been a constant source of wonderment and inspiration for me. Ives, Ruggles and Crawford Seeger never are given enough credit for how they broke away from the European classical tradition to create an entirely new idiom of their own.

[Harry]

Georg Philipp Telemann.
Wind concertos, Volume VI

La Stagione Frankfurt & Camerata Köln, Michael Schneider.

[Todd]

Well played, of course, but sometimes rather garish.  Also, some of the edits are doozies.

[SonicMan46]

Saw this release mentioned somewhere around here.

     

At first I thought, "I should get that," then I thought, "wait, I have that." (I swear the cover art had nothing to do with the purchase.)

Anyway, finally listened to the first two pieces over the past two days.

The first trio is indeed charming, especially the first movement. The second trio is a bit more substantial, with a weighty first movement and a finale that builds to an impressive apotheosis. Will try to find time for the third trio.

Lalo's output is small. I'm thinking of getting a recording of his symphony, possibly the BIS release.

Boy, have not thought of Lalo (1823-1892) in a long time!    Took a look at my 'measly' number of recordings (inserted above) of this composer - his output HERE - just put on my Trio Parnassus disc and checked a few reviews (attached) of the Leonore Trio, who seem to be favored in these works - must explore Amazon for this recording and see what else of Lalo may be available of interest.  Dave

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Sibelius' Tapiola

Literally, "Where the Forest-God Dwells" was the product of a commission by Walter Damrosch for the New York Philharmonic Society [Thank you Walter!].  A wonderful recording with the climatic final self-reveal of the god, Tapio, himself.



PD

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NP:

Martinů
Piano Concerto No. 4, H358 'Incantation'
Ivo Kahánek (piano)
Bamberger Symphoniker
Jakub Hrůša



Brilliant performance!

[listener]

BUSONI: Piano Sonata in f, op. 20a       Seven Elegies
Bruce Wolosoff, piano
John Alden CARPENTER: Piano Sonata in g, Diversions, assorted short pieces
Denver Oldham, piano

[Karl Henning]

Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco can also go in that bracket.  Pizzetti taught him, Casella mentored him. I seem to remember you have an interest in music for guitar, in which case he's on target for you: Wikipedia says he wrote nearly 100 works for guitar.

Indeed, you probably recall that his Guitar Quintet, Op. 143 appears in the Dance album by Jason Vieaux and the Escher Quartet. In fact, I'll go ahead and listen again.

[Karl Henning]

Now for some gnarly early American Modernism:

Crawford Seeger
String Quartet
Schoenberg Ensemble



Fantastic piece! I bought this Crawford Seeger disc many years ago and it's been a constant source of wonderment and inspiration for me. Ives, Ruggles and Crawford Seeger never are given enough credit for how they broke away from the European classical tradition to create an entirely new idiom of their own.

That quartet is superb!

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That quartet is superb!

I love it, too, Karl.

Speaking of superb...NP:

Martinů
Nonet
The Dartington Ensemble

[Karl Henning]

Sibelius' Tapiola

Literally, "Where the Forest-God Dwells" was the product of a commission by Walter Damrosch for the New York Philharmonic Society [Thank you Walter!].  A wonderful recording with the climatic final self-reveal of the god, Tapio, himself.



PD

One of my very favorite Sibelius scores. Separately, did you know that the Oceanides was also an American commission? From New England: In August 1913, Sibelius received a message from the American composer and Yale University professor Horatio Parker: a New England patron of the arts, Carl Stoeckel (1858–1925), and his wife, Ellen Stoeckel née Battell (1851–1939), had authorized $1,000 for the commission of a new symphonic poem from Sibelius, per Parker's recommendation. The piece, not to exceed fifteen minutes in length, was to be played at the 1914 Norfolk Music Festival in Connecticut, which the Stoeckels annually hosted (and financed) at their estate in a wooden performance hall dubbed "The Music Shed". Despite his ongoing struggles with another commission, incidental music to Poul Knudsen's tragic ballet-pantomime Scaramouche, Sibelius accepted the Stoeckel offer, writing in his diary, "A symphonic poem, ready by April."

[Florestan]

[André]

Impromptu D. 935 (op 142 no 3), sonata in D, D.850 (op. 53), 3 Klavierstücke (impromptus) D.946

Played on a Bösendorfer - very different sound from the more often heard Steinways. Superb.

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One of my very favorite Sibelius scores. Separately, did you know that the Oceanides was also an American commission? From New England: In August 1913, Sibelius received a message from the American composer and Yale University professor Horatio Parker: a New England patron of the arts, Carl Stoeckel (1858–1925), and his wife, Ellen Stoeckel née Battell (1851–1939), had authorized $1,000 for the commission of a new symphonic poem from Sibelius, per Parker's recommendation. The piece, not to exceed fifteen minutes in length, was to be played at the 1914 Norfolk Music Festival in Connecticut, which the Stoeckels annually hosted (and financed) at their estate in a wooden performance hall dubbed "The Music Shed". Despite his ongoing struggles with another commission, incidental music to Poul Knudsen's tragic ballet-pantomime Scaramouche, Sibelius accepted the Stoeckel offer, writing in his diary, "A symphonic poem, ready by April."

As an aside: Horatio Parker was Charles Ives' composition teacher.