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[Operafreak]

 



Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 95-'Serioso'/Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131

Belcea Quartet

[Madiel]

Chopin: Mazurkas, op.24



Each opus of mazurkas deserves to be heard separately, as a planned set - correcting for the cases where the German editions stuffed around with Chopin's intentions. Vive la France!

[Madiel]

Sibelius op.72 (what's left of it)

[Irons]

Mendelssohn, Felix - Chamber Works w/ piano, clarinet, et al - Dave

 

Richard Burnett has an impressive collection of historical keyboard instruments at Finchcocks. Attended some concerts there some twenty-odd years ago.

[Madiel]

Haydn's last, incomplete quartet.

[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5

[vandermolen]

Cyril Scott: Neptune

[VonStupp]

Philipp Wolfrum (1854-1919)
Weihnachtsmysterium, op. 31

Joo-Ann Bitter, soprano / Anne Schuldt, alto
Paweł Brożek, tenor
Martin Berner & Hans Christian Hinz, baritone

Hamelner Kantorei an der Marktkirche
Jugendkantorei Hameln
Philipp-Wolfrum-Ensemble
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
Stefan Vanselow

For tonight: A composer and work I have no knowledge of at all. It's English title translation includes a subtitle on the back cover:
 A Christmas Mystery (1898): Late Romantic symphonic oratorio influenced by Wagner, Liszt, and Humperdinck

VS

There are a surprising amount of major orchestral-only portions in this Christmas Mystery, showing Wolfrum as a compelling orchestrator. That helps in a 100-minute Christmas Oratorio.

Wolfrum also quotes from a number of Bach Cantatas, alongside the occasional snatch of Luther's Vom Himmel Hoch, and Wolfrum continues to honor Bach by setting a tenor evangelist in a quasi-recitative style throughout. The centerpiece of the work is a movement dedicated to Resonet in Laudibus, which I know as Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine.

Unfortunately, the chorus is an amateur one, with tuning and ensemble issues. Not enough to destroy the work, but often enough for me to want to hang out with the soloists instead. The regional orchestra does pretty well, though.

Not essential, but I am glad to have heard it.
VS

[Traverso]

Dvořák  & Smetana

[SonicMan46]

Koželuch, Leopold (1747-1818) - Keyboard Sonatas, V. 1-3 w/ Kemp English on fortepiano (by Thomas & Barbara Wolf after Anton Walter, c. 1795) - new arrival of 6 volumes of the 12 recorded; ones purchased on sale for $8 USD each at JPC; more on English HERE, for those interested.  Dave


   

[Traverso]

Leoš Janáček


String Quartet No.1  "The Kreuzer Sonata"

[Traverso]

Ligeti


Lux Aeterna
3 Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin
4 Hungarian Songs
Hungarian Studies
3 Hungarian Folk Songs
Songs From  Mátraszentimre
2 Hungarian songs

Groupe Vocal de france / Guy Reibel

[Klavierman]

Very enjoyable.

[Lisztianwagner]

Karol Szymanowski
Mazurkas No. 13-16

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Birthday Boy Cesar Franck


#morninglistening to BirthdayBoy (#botd 1822) César Franck's Psyché on
Capriccio w/Bulgarian Ntl. RSO

Wildly underrated symphonic poem. If he was French Bruckner in the SY-in-d (also on this recording), he was wagnering quite a bit in #Psyché.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Fikret Amirov: Arabian Nights. Bolshoi.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Brouwer as performer.
Recorded in 1974. There is no mention of who arranged the sonatas for guitar, so it may or may not have been Brouwer. This is its first appearance on CD but for those interested it is available from DL/streaming.

They were arranged by Brouwer.

[Bachtoven]

This is pretty good, and certainly well recorded, but I think I'll stick with Kocsis, Pollini, and Anda. Qobuz 24/192kHz.

[Todd]

D575.  Maybe not Kempff or PBS level, but none too shabby.

[Symphonic Addict]

Birthday Boy Cesar Franck


#morninglistening to BirthdayBoy (#botd 1822) César Franck's Psyché on
Capriccio w/Bulgarian Ntl. RSO

Wildly underrated symphonic poem. If he was French Bruckner in the SY-in-d (also on this recording), he was wagnering quite a bit in #Psyché.

I was listening to the same work on this recording:



Whereas the music flows beautifully throughout and is very atmospheric, it also tends to be too much contemplative most of the time for my taste. Not my favorite Franck I fear.