What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Dvorak: In Folk Tone



I love this album. Who would have guessed such a great Dvorak recital would come from Spain?

Poulenc: La Dame de Monte-Carlo



Poulenc's last and longest song is a crowning glory. You can practically see the spotlight in a theatre.

[Todd]

[VonStupp]

Joseph Marx
Herbstchor an Pan
12 Orchestral Songs

Christine Brewer, soprano
Apollo Voices / Trinity Boys Choir
BBC SO & Chorus - Jiří Bělohlávek

A mistype with Chabrier yesterday leads me to this Marx recording I have been waiting for. Fate?

The 20-minute Herbstchor is the most interesting, with shades of Scriabin to my ears. I am reminded to some degree of Britten's Spring Symphony as well. The rest of the symphonic choral works are majestic flag-waving.

The songs lean more towards Korngold, but it is good they used Strauss/Wagner soprano Christine Brewer for her expresiveness and full-voice type.

A very enjoyable program!
VS

[ritter]

Revisiting the Ur-Three-Cornered Hat, Falla's El corregidor y la molinera (Teresa Berganza, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Jesús López-Cobos).



EDIT:

Following the above with some chamber music by Ravel: the String Quartet (Melos Quartet), Introduction et allegro (Osian Ellis —harp— and the Melos Ensemble), ant the Piano Trio (Beaux Arts Trio).

CD5 of this set:

[Spotted Horses]

Schubert Sonata D958, Ingrid Haebler



This is really remarkable. Less legato, slower in the outer movements, the music comes alive in a way which is unlike other recordings I have heard. I'm becoming a huge fan of Haebler's Schubert.

[vers la flamme]

Schubert Sonata D958, Ingrid Haebler



This is really remarkable. Less legato, slower in the outer movements, the music comes alive in a way which is unlike other recordings I have heard. I'm becoming a huge fan of Haebler's Schubert.

That description sounds fascinating. Going to see if I can find this.

[vers la flamme]

Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition. Seiji Ozawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Well damn, this is a REALLY good recording. Absolutely stellar, virtuosic playing from the whole orchestra, especially the winds and brass, and overall a really big, expansive sound. I found this at a local record shop today, glad I picked it up. Now I'm very curious to hear more of Ozawa's recordings in Chicago from the '60s, as well as some of Jean Martinon's recordings, Martinon of course being music director in Chicago during the same period that Ozawa was conducting a lot of his earliest recordings there.

Round two with this whole CD this morning. What a find!

[ritter]

That description sounds fascinating. Going to see if I can find this.

Exactly what I thought when I read Spotting Horses' post! 

[Roasted Swan]

Round two with this whole CD this morning. What a find!

Well you've convinced me - just ordered a copy! (Your commission is on its way  )

[vers la flamme]

Well you've convinced me - just ordered a copy! (Your commission is on its way  )

Hope you like it!

[JBS]

Well you've convinced me - just ordered a copy! (Your commission is on its way  )

Cancel it and get the Ozawa Chicago set.
Which contains one of the best Bartok PC recordings ever made (with Peter Serkin). [Had it included the Second PC it would probably be flat out the best one.]

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

No.21-23 form this superb set.

[Traverso]

Mozart

After these concertos I like to listen to her Schubert and Mozart sonatas 

pianoconcertos 14-15 & 16

Colin Davis  & London Symphony Orchestra

[Lisztianwagner]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.36

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Roasted Swan]

Cancel it and get the Ozawa Chicago set.
Which contains one of the best Bartok PC recordings ever made (with Peter Serkin). [Had it included the Second PC it would probably be flat out the best one.]

I already have a couple of the other discs and Bartok isn't high up my list of must-have-more-versions!

[SonicMan46]

Bach, JS - Flute Sonatas - new additions (culling my Papa Bach's flute chamber works just a little) - Pahud on a modern flute and Wentz on a PI - Dave

 

[JBS]

I already have a couple of the other discs and Bartok isn't high up my list of must-have-more-versions!

Ah, I understand. [In fact having two out of the six CDs in the set has kept me from getting it up to now. I have the Serkin as part of the Complete PS RCA set.]

[Henk]

[SonicMan46]

Bach, JC - KB Sonatas, Op. 5/17 w/ Bart van Oort on fortepiano.  Dave