What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 2

If there is a way to heaven.....surely the organ  might be one of them and certainly with Beekman you will have an excellent porter

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Die Jakobsleiter

Pierre Boulez & BBC Symphony Orchestra


Definitely a magnificent work, impressive for the dramatic strenght, the variety of sonorieties and timbral colour; all the musical, vocal and orchestral resources are merged at an highest level of expressive intensity. What a pity Schönberg wasn't able to finish it.

[Karl Henning]

CD 1

"Il Prete rosso"
Le quattro stagioni
Recording: Vienna Musikverein Oct 1959

Cto for 2 Vn & Vc in d minor, RV 565 from L'estro armonico, Op. 3
Rudolf Baumgartner, vn
Claude Starck, vc
Recording: Salzburg, Schloss Klessheim 3 Aug 1958

Tartini
Vn Cto in d minor, D. 45
Recording: Lucerne Kunsthaus
30-31 Jan 1957
Festival Strings Lucerne
Rudolf Baumgartner

[VonStupp]

Richard Strauss
Suite in B-flat Major, op. 4
Serenade in E-flat Major, op. 7
Sonatina 1 in F Major
Sonatina 2 in E-flat Major 'Happy Workshop'

Staatskapelle Berlin - Gregor Witt
VS

[Traverso]

Couperin & Bach

CD 6

[Symphonic Addict]

Yesterday I was blown away all over again by this impressive disc;



The music of Joly Braga-Santos has often been enthusiastically discussed on this forum and rightly so.  This is a tremendous disc with 2 finely wrought, superbly played exciting works.  The back of the disc mentions how Braga-Santos wished to create a form of Latin Symphonism with an element of monumentalism.  This he does in spades.  The sub-15 minute Symphonic Variations deserve to be heard in any concert programme while the 53 minute Symphony is powerful, engaging and effective from first bar to last. 

If you enjoy tonal, emotionally clear and direct music but do not know these works do seek them out.  And just in case we think composers are marginalised on account of race or gender worth noting that not a single work of Braga-Santos (Portugal's most significant 20th century composer) has ever been played at the Proms.  Hilarious to think that Florence Price's symphony 3 is on the recent Classic FM "20 Greatest Symphonies Ever" list while this infinitely superior work here - to name but one superior work to the Price - languishes little known........

Agreed, even his forbidding and more advanced late works are also splendid and gripping.

[71 dB]

J.S. Bach - Cantatas BWV 19 & 20 - Helmut Rilling

[Karl Henning]

J.S. Bach - Cantatas BWV 19 & 20 - Helmut Rilling

You've got the right idea!

JSB
BWV 77 « Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben »

[Brian]

Dunno, but there oughta be more! I'll keep that in mind next time my sister takes me to Rutt's Hut!

They were all out of hot dogs. No matter, still had the Mozart! (And a burrito and a beer.)

[DavidW]

Oboe Quartet

A neglected masterpiece.

The Adagio is to die for.

I think I'll give that a spin today as well.  It has been a long time.  It is funny that is exactly the kind of work I wanted to rediscover in the big box, but I'll be opening the Prazak box instead.

[Karl Henning]

Although I'm sure-ish that I've heard the First, I'm jiggered if I remember aught of it  😎

Bruckner
Symphony № 1 in c minor (Linz version)

[vers la flamme]

Pierre Boulez: Le Visage Nuptial. Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers

Have not heard this in years. It sounds for some reason very appealing right now. Boulez at the peak of his devotion to the serialist cause.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

CD 1

"Il Prete rosso"
Le quattro stagioni
Recording: Vienna Musikverein Oct 1959

Cto for 2 Vn & Vc in d minor, RV 565 from L'estro armonico, Op. 3
Rudolf Baumgartner, vn
Claude Starck, vc
Recording: Salzburg, Schloss Klessheim 3 Aug 1958

Tartini
Vn Cto in d minor, D. 45
Recording: Lucerne Kunsthaus
30-31 Jan 1957
Festival Strings Lucerne
Rudolf Baumgartner

I don't know his recordings (so far anyway), but I do love that Original Masters series; I have a number of them.    Do you have any favorites from that set Karl?

PD

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No.5

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Karl Henning]

I don't know his recordings (so far anyway), but I do love that Original Masters series; I have a number of them.    Do you have any favorites from that set Karl?

PD

From this Schneiderhan box, do you mean, PD? It's all so darned good! On one hand, I'm inclined to call the pieces which were new to me my favorites (Martin, Bruch) on t'other, some concerti which I hadn't heard in a while sounded really tasty (Beethoven, Brahms) And the Bach solo Partita, of course was brilliant.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

From this Schneiderhan box, do you mean, PD? It's all so darned good! On one hand, I'm inclined to call the pieces which were new to me my favorites (Martin, Bruch) on t'other, some concerti which I hadn't heard in a while sounded really tasty (Beethoven, Brahms) And the Bach solo Partita, of course was brilliant.

Yes, the Schneiderhan box.

I don't recall hearing any of his recordings before, but his name is familiar to me.

PD

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Smiling broadly, remembering this:

Sounds nice, Karl! Some how reminds me of Miles Davis.

[Karl Henning]

Sounds nice, Karl! Some how reminds me of Miles Davis.

Hi praise. Thank you!

[ritter]

Pierre Boulez: Le Visage Nuptial. Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers

Have not heard this in years. It sounds for some reason very appealing right now. Boulez at the peak of his devotion to the serialist cause.

A beautiful work indeed. Early Boulez at his most serial, but also profoundly lyrical... I should revisit this work soon. 

[vers la flamme]

A beautiful work indeed. Early Boulez at his most serial, but also profoundly lyrical... I should revisit this work soon. 

Ended up listening to the whole disc, plus the 2nd Piano Sonata. Enjoyed all immensely. Been a long time since I've listened to much Boulez.

Now playing:



George Frideric Handel: Oboe Concertos Nos. 1-3. David Reichenberg, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert

Stunningly beautiful works—very tranquil and pastoral.