What are you listening 2 now?

[kyjo]

Pounds the table! Lovely work, Jeffrey. I do urge you, however, to explore more of Martin's oeuvre.

Haven't you heard, John? Jeffrey has signed an binding contract stating that the only Martin piece he can listen to is In terra pax and the only Poulenc piece he can listen to is the Organ Concerto.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Side one from this live recording:



I particularly liked the Korte work (that's Oldrich F. Korte if you're curious to check out the composer).  It was written between 1951-'53 and is a two-movement sonata.  Also on Side 1, two works by a then young Josef Suk--both written when he was 19.  His Love Song (Op. 7, No. 1) and a Humoresque (Op. 7, No. 2).

"Fresh from the cleaners" here.  I also cleaned a LP of Chopin's Preludes of his. 

PD

EDIT:  The recordings were done on the 18-19th of December in 1984 at the House of Artists, Prague.

[Mirror Image]

Haven't you heard, John? Jeffrey has signed an binding contract stating that the only Martin piece he can listen to is In terra pax and the only Poulenc piece he can listen to is the Organ Concerto.

I must have missed that memo.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Side one from this live recording:



I particularly liked the Korte work (that's Oldrich F. Korte if you're curious to check out the composer).  It was written between 1951-'53 and is a two-movement sonata.  Also on Side 1, two works by a then young Josef Suk--both written when he was 19.  His Love Song (Op. 7, No. 1) and a Humoresque (Op. 7, No. 2).

"Fresh from the cleaners" here.  I also cleaned a LP of Chopin's Preludes of his. 

PD

EDIT:  The recordings were done on the 18-19th of December in 1984 at the House of Artists, Prague.

Side 2:  Some charming Czech dances and all by Bedrich Smetana

PD

[Linz]

Cal Nielsen Aladin with Rozhdestvensky

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Lutosławski
Paroles tissées
Piotr Kusiewicz (tenor)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Antoni Wit

From this set -

[Klavier1]

No.19.

[André]

James Ensor Suite, Flor Alpaerts.

A lovely, lively work 

[Mandryka]

Listening to K424 -- the recording chosen pretty well at random on spotify, and it seems like a really lovely performance to me.

[vandermolen]

Arnold Bax symphony no. 4 with Nympholept Royal Scottish Orchestra  David Lloyd-Jones conducting

Both works are amongst Bax's finest IMO.

[vandermolen]

Haven't you heard, John? Jeffrey has signed an binding contract stating that the only Martin piece he can listen to is In terra pax and the only Poulenc piece he can listen to is the Organ Concerto.

Absolutely right Kyle!

[listener]

clearing a backlog of Naxos discs on a dusty shelf
PAGANINI: Violin Concertos 3 in E, 4 in d
Erno Rozsa, violin   Slovak Radio S.O.    Michael Ditterich
sound like copies of 1 & 2
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Violin Concertos: Italiano and Concerto 2 "I Profeti"
Tianwa Yang, violin     SWR S.O. Baden-Baden & Freiburg
Pieter-Jelle de Boer, cond.
HANSON: Concerto for Organ, Harp & Strings
Nymphs and Satyrs Ballet Suite    Serenade for flute, harp & strings
Pastorale for oboe, harp & strings   Fantasy Variations for piano & strings
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber O.,  Daniel Spalding, cond.

[Linz]

CD1 of Harnoncout and Schubert Symphonies 1 and 4 with 2 Overtures

[vandermolen]

In Terra Pax: Frank Martin

[vandermolen]

clearing a backlog of Naxos discs on a dusty shelf
PAGANINI: Violin Concertos 3 in E, 4 in d
Erno Rozsa, violin   Slovak Radio S.O.    Michael Ditterich
sound like copies of 1 & 2
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Violin Concertos: Italiano and Concerto 2 "I Profeti"
Tianwa Yang, violin     SWR S.O. Baden-Baden & Freiburg
Pieter-Jelle de Boer, cond.
HANSON: Concerto for Organ, Harp & Strings
Nymphs and Satyrs Ballet Suite    Serenade for flute, harp & strings
Pastorale for oboe, harp & strings   Fantasy Variations for piano & strings
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber O.,  Daniel Spalding, cond.

+1 for CT's violin concertos and for Hanson's Concerto for Organ, Harp and Strings.

[JBS]

The first OCO recording I bought, back when first released:

CD 39

Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
Erste Kammersymphonie, Op. 9
Zweite Kammersymphonie, Op. 38

That CD was my first encounter with AS.

[Karl Henning]

That CD was my first encounter with AS.

Nice!

[SonicMan46]

Arensky, Anton (1861-1906) - Solo Piano & Chamber Works w/ the performers on the cover art below - music for the late afternoon and dinner - Dave

     

[Linz]

Mozart Requiem René Jacobs

[ritter]

First listen to the music of Jacques Chailley, with this CD that landed today:



Chailley (1910-1999) came to my attention because he wrote a ballet, La Dame à la licorne, to a scenario by Jean Cocteau, premiered in Munich in 1953 (that work has been recorded under the baton of Manuel Rosenthal, but I'm not prepared to fork out the astronomical price that's being demanded for the only used copy I've been able to locate  ). He was mainly known as a writer on music and a teacher, and his behaviour during WWII seems to have been controversial (although he was a member of the Front National des Musiciens resistance group). As an interesting side note, his mother was Céliny Chailley-Richez, who had a distinguished career as a pianist (I have several recordings in my collection of her conducted by Enesco, or accompanying him). According to the liner notes of this CD, his father Marcel (a cellist) played in the world première of Enesco's Octet.

Tonight I'm listening to his String Quartet from around 1935, when the composer was in his mid-20s and composed partly in Amsterdam (he was studying with Willem Mengelberg). Curious piece, that sounds as if Gabriel Fauré had decided to join Les Six, but quite enjoyable. The two wartime Pièces contemplatives (Organum and Alleluia), also for string quartet, sound archaïsant, and are delightful, the latter including a soaring soprano line (mostly singing, you guessed it, "Alleluia!"  ).

The remainder of the CD is a Sonata for Solo Violin, and two Duos for Violin and Viola (the violist is the composer's sister Marie-Thérèse). These are genres I usually don't care for much, so I might or might not listen to them tonight. 

Nice painting on the cover, BTW; it's by Jacques Villon (brother of Marcel Duchamp).