What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Ah, so your copy arrived! Mine shipped today. Keep the reviews coming, Harry! 😎

Will do my friend!

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica, Hallé, Elder.
At the start this lacked the urgency of Boult's Decca performance, for example. In fact the opening had the same reflective quality as the opening of the Ninth Symphony. However, I need to hear this again before making a final judgment on it:

[Harry]

Mili Alekseyevich Balakirev.
Complete Piano Works.
Volume I.
Sonatas.
In B flat minor.
B flat minor, opus 5, "Premiere Sonata".
B flat minor, opus 3, "Grande Sonata".
Nicolas Walker, Piano, Steinway, Model III.


The beginning of a beautiful friendship. Its amazing what fine piano works Balakirev produced. Very well performed and recorded.

[foxandpeng]

Vagn Holmboe
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 9
Owain Arwel Hughes
Aarhus SO

[Iota]

Mozart


Pianoconcerto No.22


One of my favorite concertos and Ashkenazy gives a performance that will make your whole body sing. Listened to it recently but have to listen to it again. What always strikes me is how often I think of his operas when I listen to his piano concertos. I often sing along and at such moments I can't imagine anything more beautiful.

I feel exactly the same and find the connection with the opera a very real one. It's as if Mozart could never really stop composing operas, whatever medium he was writing for.


Here:



Stuart Greenbaum: Clarinet Sonata, "A Trillion Miles of Darkness"
David Griffiths (clarinet), Timothy Young (piano)

Nice, atmospheric, perhaps not a whole lot more, but it caught my attention pleasantly enough for a while. Not sure the title quite fits the piece unless it's a reference to something I'm not aware of, a 'Trillion' seems rather extravagant, and any 'Darkness' hardly on an epic scale. But some very nice noises coming from the clarinet and both players clearly know what they're doing.

[Operafreak]

Liszt: Orchestral Works- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

[Todd]

The Tchaikovsky/Juon disc was no fluke.  This here's some fine piano trio music-making.

[Karl Henning]

Just a hodgepodge:
"Wolferl's" Cantata Davidde Penitente, K. 469
Bloch's Sinfonia breve, of which I'm a great fan, and Butterworth's Banks of Green Willow, whereof honestly I do not remember a note.

The Butterworth is, unsurprisingly, a pleasant pastoral.

[Karl Henning]

TD:

"Wolferl"
Kyrie in d minor, K. 341

Elgar
Intro & Allegro, Op. 47
BBC Symphony
Andrew Davis

It's getting to be ancient history in Henningmusick terms, but the Mozart was the prompt for me to compose a Kyrie of my own, which later became a complete Mass.

[Harry]

Johann Pachelbel.
Complete Organ Music.
Volume I.
CD IV.
Katechismuslieder und andere, II.
Michael Belotti.
Instrument: Bossard Organ (1721) Klosterkirche St. Urban. (Kanton Luzern)
Temperament: Meantone.

This is certainly not the best in the set in terms of recording. I get the feeling that the organ is not well tuned, so it sounds shrill and a bit hollow. Could be a temperature problem. Normally I like the Bossard organ, but not in this instance. There is no air in front of the instrument, too loud because its to closely miked. Well it cannot be feast all the time I guess. SACD or not.
Belotti is definitively not a organist I like very much.  Had to turn the volume considerably down.

Turned it off, this was too much of an ordeal!

[Karl Henning]

Good day, Harry!

[Operafreak]

Mahler: Symphony No. 4- Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth

[Harry]

Good day, Harry!

Goedendag Karl!

[Papy Oli]

The Essential Sibelius - CD4 - Symphonies No.6 & 7.

[Karl Henning]

Elgar
Serenade for Strings in e minor, Op. 20
Philharmonia
Giuseppe Sinopoli

[pjme]

On BBC 3 - from the Proms:
Prom 41:  Thomas Dausgaard, Nielsen's Symphony No. 3,
'Sinfonia espansiva'
soprano Elisabeth Watts and baritone Benjamin Appl.

Sounded very good to me. Lovely and majestic and a good antidote to this messy and cruel world .

[Todd]

More from the Boulanger Trio.  Perhaps the best so far, though out of a population of three recordings.

[SonicMan46]

Georg Benda (1722-1795) - Harpsichord Sonatas & Concertos w/ the performers below; Sylvia Georgieva is on 4 discs - younger brother of the more prolific Franz Benda - own just a handful of recordings shown in the attachment and about evenly split - just ordered a Naxos disc of Violin Sonatas by Franz w/ Berg, which complements my Anton Steck recording (believe just a single duplication discussed in a glowing MusicWeb Review).  Dave

Georg Anton Benda (Czech: Jiří Antonín Benda) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia. He wrote about ten operas, several operettas, and the melodramas Ariadne auf Naxos, Medea and Almansor und Nadine, along with many instrumental pieces including many sinfonias, keyboard sonatas, keyboard concertos, violin concertos and a smaller number of trio sonatas, violin sonatas and flute sonatas. (Source)

 

[Karl Henning]

On BBC 3 - from the Proms:
Prom 41:  Thomas Dausgaard, Nielsen's Symphony No. 3,
'Sinfonia espansiva'
soprano Elisabeth Watts and baritone Benjamin Appl.

Sounded very good to me. Lovely and majestic and a good antidote to this messy and cruel world .

Nice, Peter!

TD:

"Wolferl"
Viola Quintet in C, K. 515

[foxandpeng]

Vagn Holmboe
Complete String Quartets
Svaerm Op. 190b
Kontra Quartet
Dacapo