What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

And interesting to compare Ponsford's interpretation of the first suite with Leonhardt's, Ponsford more informed by the latest ideas obviously. I much prefer Ponsford. I've got his book on French organ music, I'll check what he says about Boyvin later.

I've spent too much time focussed on Grigny and Titelouze - Boyvin's music is no less interesting - but suites, not hymns and masses. There's Nivers too of course.

When I made that comment I was thinking that suites were secular. The Boyvin suite 1 played in alternatim with a magnificat chanted in the French baroque style.



The model of the CD is analogous to Coudurier's Louis Marchand - just a fantasy really.
The much recorded Seurre organ. Booklet here

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/58/000141885.pdf

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
The Bells

Vladimir Ashkenazy & Concertgebouw Orchestra

[San Antone]

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 15
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda

[Todd]

Disc one.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

De Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España & El Sombrero de Tres Picos.

[Leo K.]

I can't seem to resist Andreas Schiff's set of Beethoven's complete sonatas. I am captivated by the way Schiff effortlessly brings out the nuances and emotions in each piece is truly remarkable.

From the delicate melodies of Sonata No. 8 to the triumphant energy of Sonata No. 23, Schiff captures the essence of Beethoven's music that keeps drawing me back.

So, here I am again, embracing the world of Beethoven's sonatas through Andreas Schiff's interpretations.Aces!

[SonicMan46]

Susan & I have been watching Robert Greenberg's course on listening to great music on Wondrium - last night the episode on the 'classic concerto' w/ predominant emphasis on Mozart's Piano Concertos - so this morning picked some of the last discs from the box below:

Mozart, WA - Piano Concertos w/ Géza Anda (modern piano but older recordings still sounding great! Own 3 more sets, another MI and 2 PIs).  Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 15
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda

On one hand: another Shostakovich cycle? On t'other: I've liked pretty much every Noseda recording I've heard.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1889 Version (aka 1888/89) Ed. Leopold Nowak, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, London Philharmonic Orchestra

[Lisztianwagner]

Maurice Ravel
Ma Mère l'Oye

Pierre Boulez & New York Philharmonic

[classicalgeek]

Last night:

Tchaikovsky
Symphony no. 6
London Symphony Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
(on CD)



Though it's somewhat let down by a finale on the quicker side, this is an excellent recording overall, including the best performance of the second movement I've heard.

[vandermolen]

This fine set arrived today. I bought it cheaply as S/H but it appears brand new. I've started off listening to my fine old CBS LP of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast conducted by Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Rutgers University Choir. I'm sure that my old LP had a'Walton's 70th Birthday' sticker on which would have dated it to 1972, when I was just discovering classical music. The choice of music in the Sony boxed set is very good, although I could have happily done without two different versions of Walton's 'Facade' which I can't stand. They could have included some Holst instead, like Ormandy's excellent recording of 'The Planets'. I'm sorry that the other work on the LP (an unrivalled performance of the Partita for Orchestra conducted by George Szell) is not included in the boxed set.

[vandermolen]

This set seems to have been very effectively remastered:
Britten Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell (TYPGTTO)
Sinfonia da Requiem (St Louis SO, Previn)
Diversions for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra:

[Lisztianwagner]

Alexander Zemlinsky
Sinfonische Gesänge

Willard White (bass)
Riccardo Chailly & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

[JBS]

English farce set to Handelian-style music.
Handel supposedly thought the music was good, although he may have been doing so only from politeness.




The story is an English folk tale. The illustration shows the dramatic moment when the hero emerges from a well in which he was hiding, and kills the dragon with a sharp kick to the coccyx.

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

No.96-98 from this recent purchase. Very enjoyable.

[Mookalafalas]

Mozart

A beacon of hope in these gruesome times.

  Just played that a few hours ago! I've been working through his older box set:


  Played the Mozart and am now working through his Prokofiev--as pianist and conductor. Presently listening to Cinderella.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No.O in D Minor, 1869 Ed. Leopold Nowak,  Daniel Barenboim,  Chicago Symphony Orchestra

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Chopin: Notturno. Eliane Rodrigues.