What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Britten
Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings, Op. 31
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Radek Baborák, horn
Berliners
Rattle



While this certainly doesn't surpass the Pears/Britten performance, its certainly lovely taken on its own merits. This is one of Rattle's better recordings truth be told (along with his Szymanowski recordings).

[Karl Henning]

I remember buying those Erato recordings aeons ago. I did frighten my girlfriend with as she called it the "infernal noise", scaring people away. She said to me quite literally, "Get rid of it, or I remove myself". Well I kept the music, and luckily she stayed with me already 40 years, and she actually likes this composer. A miracle as there ever was one, right?

Wonderful story, love it!

[Irons]

Gave one of my Ivan Moravec LPs a second cleaning (hoping that it might help things more).  It's a Connoisseur Society one.  This one:



His playing is exquisite!  Love the selections that he recorded--really wish that he had recorded all of them.     Particularly loved his rendering of "La Cathédrale Engloutie"...I could just see the Cathedral rising from the sea and then at the end, slowly sinking back down into the sea with the last final air bubbles and ripples slowly stopping and it's as if it was never there to begin with.

Now on:  Children's Corner followed by Clair de lune.

One thing which I just noticed is that the last Prelude on Side One (La Terrasse) was recorded in Prague by Supraphon on a Petrof.  All the other selections were recorded in NYC on a Baldwin Concert Grand.

PD

PD, I will post on the vinyl thread my experiences re cleaning regime of LPs. Lovely record by the way.

[Sergeant Rock]

Karl Henning Op143 Symphony № 1 first movement

https://www.youtube.com/v/-WCZ77mt2aE


Sarge

[Klavier1]

No.23 and 28. I like this set very much--maybe being live recordings adds a bit of extra spontaneity to his playing. Excellent sound, too.

[Irons]

John Ireland: Two Symphonic Studies.

Arranged by Geoffrey Bush from music Ireland wrote for the film The Overlanders.

[Harry]

Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6 
    London Symphony Orchestra (Gergiev)

Nah, looks like Järvi, in fact it is Järvi

[Karl Henning]

Karl Henning Op143 Symphony № 1 first movement

https://www.youtube.com/v/-WCZ77mt2aE


Sarge

Thanks!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The Korte work's quite interesting and I want to play it again today (after coffee has totally kicked in).  The description of it from the album:

The piano sonata in two movements by Oldrich Frantisek Korte (b. 1926), written between 1951 and 1953 (premiered by the author in Prague, in 1954) is counted among the classics and the most often internationally performed works of post-World War II Czech music.  Played by Maurizio Pollini, it was awarded at the Busoni competition in Bolzano.    Content-wise, it contrasts the harmony of the forces of life and introspection in the first movement, with the disconcerting and strife-ridden world of spiritual visions and dramatic conflicts in the second movement.  Immediacy of statement is coupled here with ingenious compositional and formal structuring.  As a matter of fact, this is the one contemporary piece in Moravec's repertory to which he has returned regularly with ever new vigor, and always most convincingly, for the past three decades"

By Jiri Pilka

Have others here heard this work before now?

Interesting, I just found the whole album uploaded here (If you or anyone else wants to sample it.):  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m-Id_yTSSxS7xQSsYcNFyEq2lX4GrpjKk  It was uploaded by Supraphon.  They have a number of his tracks there for listening to too. 

Thank you for the link. Yes, the Korte compositions are definitely attractive pieces, but the other works sound great too. What a lovely recording.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bach

This recording ends with the magnificent BWV 552, a jubilant opening, an evoke intertwined with a resounding melancholy.

JS Bach: Complete Organ Works [Foccroulle] CD 1





It has been quite a long time since I listened to any Complete Organ Works cycle by JS Bach. I have not heard the Foccroulle cycle before now so I am starting a new odyssey with CD 1 of his cycle.

I am no expert here and I do not even have the correct vocabulary to discuss this topic properly. However, my initial impression after only 78 minutes of music is that Foccroulle has a very fluid [easy flowing] and elegant playing style.

Nice recordings!

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Henze
Die Bassariden (The Bassarids): Adagio, Fuge und Manadentanz
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Markus Stenz



A stunning disc all-around!

[vandermolen]

Could not find this Steve Gerber recording Jeffrey.

Hi Harry. It seems to be on the Amazon UK site but at about £20:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gerber-Orchestral-Works-Thomas-Sanderling/dp/B00004TZSB

[Spotted Horses]

Roussel, Sinfonietta, Cluytens, Paris Conservatory Orchestra.



The naming of this piece strikes me a peculiar, because "Sinfonietta" strikes me a describing a light piece of music. This piece is brief, but very intense and dense. The 1965 recording conveys a pleasingly sensuous string sound. Cluytens is brilliant, as usual.

[vandermolen]

Honegger: 'Une Cantate De Noel'
This is as moving a performance as I know:

[Spotted Horses]

No.23 and 28. I like this set very much--maybe being live recordings adds a bit of extra spontaneity to his playing. Excellent sound, too.

No 28 is one of my favorites of Beethoven. I should listen to Guy.

[Harry]

You are entirely right!

I've even catalogued it correctly from the perspective of physical folder names, as evidenced below. But somehow, I've got the Gergiev cycle's performers attached to the Järvi recordings. Will be sorting with great speed!

Edited to add: Fortunately, it turns out that it's the only recording from that cycle that's been so badly mis-catalogued in that way
Also, thank you for bringing my error to my attention.

It was my pleasure, believe me you

[Harry]

Hi Harry. It seems to be on the Amazon UK site but at about £20:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gerber-Orchestral-Works-Thomas-Sanderling/dp/B00004TZSB

Hmmm, must find it in outside Great Britain, otherwise it gets very expensive.
Thank you though for the link, I failed to find it!

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE - Keyboard Concertos & Sonatas - been going through the recordings in my collection; all shown below except 3 other volumes of Spanyi (V.20,23,24 - all on clavichord), and a PDF file attached of the collection in Google Docs for those who might want to know what the CDs contain; have been quite selective listening to one or two discs from each recording (excluding the massive piano collection w/ Markovina which I went through a few months ago) - instruments represented include harpsichord, tangent piano, fortepiano, clavichord, and piano - would like some more Spanyi, esp. in the KB Concertos but check HERE, BIS is still charging full price per single discs - he has recorded 60 total! (20 concerto & 40 solo); actually bought my 4 solo CDs from BRO (4 there NOW).

One of the best highlights was a re-listen to the Christine Schornsheim recording of Rondos & Fantasias of a 'tangent piano' (short description quoted w/ the link) - she plays the instrument with a lot of gusto! Reviews attached if interested.  I was also impressed w/ Michael Rische on piano in the concertos - in fact, Hänssler is offering a 4-CD box for about $30 USD at PrestoMusic, so along w/ several other items (to help the shipping across the pond) I put in an order.  Dave

The tangent piano is a very rare keyboard instrument that resembles a harpsichord and early pianos in design. It normally features five octaves of keys and the strings are acted upon by narrow wooden or metal slips when the keys are depressed. (Source)

[aligreto]

Kodaly: Harry Janos Suite [Dorati]





This is an expansive, atmospheric and exciting version of this wonderful work.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 6 the Cyrill Hynaus Version with Ira Levine conducting the Symphony Orschestra of Norrlands Opera