What are you listening 2 now?

[SonicMan46]

Tonight's program.............

Boy, the CD above piques my interest, but just added the recordings below late last year - Duo Belder Kimura on period instruments, and Waley-Cohen & Baillieu on modern ones - both include the 'complete' works for violin and keyboard (why 3 CDs for the latter set?) - for those interested in 'all' of CPE's works for this combination, reviews are attached.  Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

Tonight's program.
The Mahler was a first listen; the others repeat listens.

IIRC (and I may, or may not) the Berwald is also in the Melos Ensemble box. 

[Leo K.]

Continuing this morning with the long-lived (85 years) German Romantic composer, conductor, pianist and teacher:

Reinecke, Carl (1824-1910) - Piano Trios & String Quartets w/ the performers on the cover art; both 2-CD sets.  Dave

 

Such good works, and good melodies too, with nice passage work in the inner harmonies. I've become a big fan of Reinecke this past year.

[classicalgeek]

Malcolm Arnold
Concerto for viola and chamber orchestra
Rivka Golani, viola
London Musici
Mark Stephenson
(on Spotify)

[Florestan]

Such good works, and good melodies too, with nice passage work in the inner harmonies. I've become a big fan of Reinecke this past year.

So have I.

[Lisztianwagner]

Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suites

Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Philharmoniker

[Florestan]

This recital of lyrical tenor arias from French opera-comiques is remarkable not only for the music itself, which is eminently enjoyable, but also for the unbelievably impeccable diction of Dubois. This is one of those rare instances where each and every word is clearly audible and instantly intelligible. Although I speak French fluently and in ordinary speech I understand pretty much everything, in recordings the percentage drops to about 75% because of diction. This disc, however, is a marvel in this respect. Highly recommended.

[Linz]

C. P. E. Bach The Complete Works for Piano Solo, Ana-Marija Markovina Vol. 13

[brewski]

Tonight's program.
The Mahler was a first listen; the others repeat listens.

What did you think? I have about half of the series—all excellent—but haven't yet heard No. 9.

-Bruce

[Todd]

[Lisztianwagner]

Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor (orch. Schönberg)

Simon Rattle & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra



Such a wonderful orchestration, powerfully suggestive and colourful, in this piece Schönberg kept Brahms' spirit splendidly.

[Bachtoven]

This recording was made using all analog/tube gear--the sound is wonderfully rich and warm, and the playing is excellent.

[vers la flamme]

Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85. Alisa Weilerstein, Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin

I love this recording. (I also love the Elliott Carter concerto it's coupled with, but I'll not be listening to it right now.) Ms. Weilerstein is an amazing soloist and Barenboim is an incredibly sympathetic Elgarian conductor. At the risk of psychoanalyzing the performers, I suppose this work may have some pretty unnerving connotations for Barenboim, as it is the work most closely identified with his late wife.

[classicalgeek]

And now for a completely different viola concerto:

Krzysztof Penderecki
Viola Concerto
Robert Kabara, viola
Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra
Maciej Tworek
(on Spotify)

[classicalgeek]

Walter Piston
Viola Concerto
Paul Doktor, viola
Louisville Orchestra
Robert Whitney
(on Spotify)

[VonStupp]

Gustav Holst
A Winter Idyll
Walt Whitman Overture, op. 7
Symphony in F 'Cotswolds', op. 8
Indra, op. 13
Japanese Suite, op. 33

Ulster Orchestra - JoAnn Falletta

I am fully convinced by the Cotswolds Symphony, and enjoyed it more here than from a Douglas Bostock recording I have. Need to hear the Lyrita offerings of Holst while I am at it.

I used to see more discussion around JoAnn Falletta, but haven't seen much lately. I noticed she and Buffalo performed quite a bit of Lukas Foss together this year; I hope it ends up on a recording.

VS

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Debussy Piano Works. Takayuki Ito.

[vers la flamme]

Gustav Mahler: Rückert-Lieder. Christa Ludwig, Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic

It was too late to get started with a symphony, but I had to listen to something on the 112th of the maestro's death, and this, shortest of the works that I count among my favorites, had to be the one.

I love this performance. I have Traverso to thank for putting me onto this performance back when I was new to classical music and VERY new to Mahler (I mentioned on another board that I had never heard Das Lied von der Erde nor any other Mahler Lieder, and he took it upon himself to educate me at once ). This was actually the very work that convinced me once and for all that Mahler was an important composer and not just some megalomaniac conductor who wrote huge and overly ambitious symphonies in his free time.

[Mapman]

Peter Warlock (Philip Arnold Heseltines): Capriol Suite & The Curlew
Ross Pople: London Festival Orchestra; Martyn Hill (tenor in The Curlew)

The Capriol suite starts out as a Renaissance-style dance suite, but the later movements become more harmonically modern and dissonant.

The Curlew is for tenor, flute, English horn, and string quartet. It reminded me a little of Barber's Knoxville, Summer of 1915, but I found the Warlock less interesting (and less beautiful).

[JBS]

What did you think? I have about half of the series—all excellent—but haven't yet heard No. 9.

-Bruce

I thought it was very good, probably a top tier. But I'll need to listen to it a couple of times more before I would settle on a final opinion.

He only needs to do 3 and 8 to complete the cycle (unless he intends to include DLvdE).

TD

The Third [Second Version, 1876/77]
SWR SO Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Recorded May 1999.

Gielen is proving to be very good with Bruckner, at least with the first three symphonies.