What are you listening 2 now?

[Maestro267]

Even in my case performer is irrelevant. I look more for composer/work and can I afford it at the time.

[SonicMan46]

CPE Bach - Flute Sonatas - both 2-CD sets w/ Barthold Kuijken on period flute - despite the 'Complete' labeling on the second pic, there is NO duplication between these sets; according to this LIST, CPE composed 20 'flute sonatas' although several apparent transcriptions were recorded -  listed below are the works. A 2-disc Brilliant release with Jed Wentz stated to be 'complete' has only 11 works; so 'buyer beware' -     Dave

 

H 505. Flute Sonata in D major (Wq 83)
H 506. Flute Sonata in E major (Wq 84)
H 508. Flute Sonata in G major (Wq 85)
H 509. Flute Sonata in G major (Wq 86)
H 515. Flute Sonata in C major (Wq 87)
H 542.5. Flute Sonata in G minor (BWV 1020)
H 543. Flute Sonata in B flat major
H 545. Flute Sonata in E flat major (BVW 1031)
H 548. Flute Sonata in G major (Wq 134)
H 550. Flute Sonata in G major (Wq 123)
H 551. Flute Sonata in E minor (Wq 124)
H 552. Flute Sonata in B flat major (Wq 125)
H 553. Flute Sonata in D major (Wq 126)
H 554. Flute Sonata in G major (Wq 127)
H 555. Flute Sonata in A minor (Wq 128)
H 556. Flute Sonata in D major (Wq 129)
H 560. Flute Sonata in B flat major (Wq 130)
H 561. Flute Sonata in D major (Wq 131)
Sonata in A minor for Solo Flute (Wq 132)
H 564. Flute Sonata in G major (Wq 133)

[Harry]

British Music for Strings III.
Ethel Smyth, Susan Spain-Dunk, Constance Warren, Ruth Gipps.

Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) Suite for Strings Op. 1A (1883/1890) (Ed. Douglas Bostock).
Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962) Suite for String Orchestra (1920)(Ed. Peter Cigleris) &  Lament for String Orchestra (1934.
Constance Warren (1905-1984) "Heather Hill" for string orchestra (1929-32).
Ruth Gipps (1921-1999) "Cringlemire Garden", An Impression for String Orchestra, Op. 39 (1952).

Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim (Southwest German Chamber Orchestra),
Douglas Bostock.
Recorded, Congress centrum, Pforzheim, 2020.

A thorough and very pleasing CD and project. I enjoyed this recording with female composers more than I thought I would do. What a blast. Apart from Dunk & Warren which were unknown to me, they surprised me with the quality of their music, well Gipps and Smyth were already appreciated by me. Inviting and so creative in their sheer virtuosity. Ethel Smyth's "Suite for Strings" blows me out of my chair, a life enhancing piece of great beauty, and sublimely scored. It is never easy to find the right tone for Smyth's music as I often noticed in other recordings. The brimming energy, and will power, that characterized Smyth as a person jumps out immediately, the Adagio is of impressive depth, while the outer movements demonstrate her compositional skills together with their stunning verve. The contrapuntal finale begins as a fugato in the solo instruments, which quickly returns to the string tutti. That's an amazing feat. The best piece on this disc by far.
And if you think it stops there, think again, for Susan Spain-Dunk delivers a fine example of her compositional talent, which is a evocative thoroughly British work of art. Her Suite for String Orchestra, is of a different calibre as Smyth, but in expression as impressive, just a tad more decent in the English tradition of polite and reserved attitude, which turns out beautifully in "Lament"for String Orchestra.
Constance Warren, delivers with her "Heather Hill for string orchestra" a pastoral poem in so many colours that it took my breath away, but I expect not many will follow me in this opinion.
Ruth Gipps needs no introduction, and her "Cringlemire" Garden, is what we expect of her, a quality piece of great beauty.
SOTA sound, and Bostock delivers a sublime performance.

[AnotherSpin]

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Two members liked the post, guess it was visible for them. I'll repeat just in case.

[Traverso]

Berio / Xenakis

[Traverso]

Trumpet Concertos

[Todd]

Disc three.

[Linz]

Karajan conducts Respighi, Berlioz & Liszt, The pines of Rome symphonic poem, P. 141, Le Carnaval romain, Op. 9: Overture, Les Préludes, symphonic poem No. 3, S97, Philharmonia Orchestra

[ritter]

Two favourite Debussy works of mine, but in little-known transcriptions by the composer lui-même. Both pieces work very well in these unfamiliar garbs.

Danses, sacrée et profane, for two pianos (Massimiliano Demerini & Marco Rapetti).

CD3 of this excellent set:






Jeux, for solo piano (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet).

From vol. 5 of the pianist's traversal of Debussy's keyboard music:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Gliere: Bronze Horseman.

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Prelude in C sharp minor
Piano Sonata No.2

Pianist: Vladimir Ashkenazy

[ritter]

And now, the same two Debussy works, but in their familiar versions.

Danses, sacrée et profane. Alice Chalifoux (harp), The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (cond.)

CD9 of the Boulez "Complete Columbia Album Collection".


This may sound like an exaggeration, but for me the transition from the sacrée to the profane is a highlight of early 20th century music. It's as if the music gets dissolved, almost like water dripping, and then pulls itself together for the beautiful theme of the seconded dance.



Jeux. Rudfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Bruno Maderna (cond.). Recorded live in 1964.


A miraculous performance of this extraordinary score. Wow! The music sways, it dances, there's an ebb and flow that makes all the independent thematic cells fit in perfectly, and the details of the superb scoring can all be noticed.

Wow! 

[Karl Henning]

I've started dipping into this. Tomorrow I'll have a full report for Pohjolas Daughter

One of the most curious things about this disc (recorded in 1991) is the blurb on the back informing us that "Virko Baley is the Music Director and Conductor of the Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra."

I am a big fan of the Artyomov Concert of the 13 (1967) and the Silvestrov Postludium (1985) I was a little slow to get to the Baley—Violin Concerto № 1 (Quasi una fantasia) (1987 ... I'm just realizing that this is the newest music on the disc.) As I read the liner notes: The première of American composer Virko Baley's Concerto ... opened the Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra's six-concert subscription series last November (i.e. Nov. 1987) ... written for Boston-based Yuri Mazurkevich, also Ukrainian by birth. Well, the Baley Concerto is both the latest composition in the program, and yet the one which relies most on plugging into the 19^th century. That would likely have matched well with the Las Vegas band/audience. It's not a bad piece. In ways, I guess it lives into a little too much dependency on Shostakovich as a model. The cavils notwithstanding, it's well written and a reasonably good piece. I guess I'm trying to check myself from knocking the piece for not being something else, and I'll come back to it.

[Lisztianwagner]

Jeux, for solo piano (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet).

From vol. 5 of the pianist's traversal of Debussy's keyboard music:

Nice! I like Bavouzet's interpretations of Ravel very much, how is his Debussy?

[ritter]

Nice! I like Bavouzet's interpretations of Ravel very much, how is his Debussy?

I only have a couple of volumes of Bavouzet's Debussy series. I like what I hear, but he's not my "go-to" Debussy. That would be Paul Jacobs, Aldo Ciccolini, and Théodore Paraskivesco. Having said that, Bavouzet's Jeux is superb (the solo piano reduction has only rarely been recorded). I do not know his Ravel (time to remedy that).

Buonasera, Ilaria!

THREAD DUTY:

As a bonus, two short pieces composed by the conductors of the Debussy works I was listening to earlier.

Pierre Boulez: Mémoriale («...explosante-fixe...» originel). Guy Esched (flute), West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (cond.).





Bruno Maderna: Serenata per un satellite (version by Claudio Amrosini). Ex Novo Ensemble, Claudio Ambrosini.

[Karl Henning]

I only have a couple of volumes of Bavouzet's Debussy series. I like what I hear, but he's not my "go-to" Debussy. That would be Paul Jacobs, Aldo Ciccolini, and Théodore Paraskivesco. Having said that, Bavouzet's Jeux is superb (the solo piano reduction has only rarely been recorded). I do not know his Ravel (time to remedy that).

Buonasera, Ilaria!

THREAD DUTY:

As a bonus, two short pieces composed by the conductors of the Debussy works I was listening to earlier.

Pierre Boulez: Mémoriale («...explosante-fixe...» originel). Guy Esched (flute), West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (cond.).





Bruno Maderna: Serenata per un satellite (version by Claudio Amrosini). Ex Novo Ensemble, Claudio Ambrosini.

Interesting:

[Lisztianwagner]

I only have a couple of volumes of Bavouzet's Debussy series. I like what I hear, but he's not my "go-to" Debussy. That would be Paul Jacobs, Aldo Ciccolini, and Théodore Paraskivesco. Having said that, Bavouzet's Jeux is superb (the solo piano reduction has only rarely been recorded). I do not know his Ravel (time to remedy that).

Buonasera, Ilaria!

Buenas noches, Rafael, thank you for the feedback anyway! I confess I only know Ciccolini among those debussian interpreters you mentioned, he's my "go-to" Debussy too, along with Michelangeli. But if those are pianists that can't be missed, then I must make up for it.
Bavouzet's Ravel is extremely limpid and colourfully expressive, his Miroirs is especially astounding.

[SonicMan46]

Haydn - Piano Sonatas w/ Daniel-Ben Pienaar recorded in 2020 - listened first on Spotify and read Todd's positive comments - SO, decided to make a purchase and received today from JPC.  Dave

 

[Symphonic Addict]

I should have listened to these two ballets before, sheer joy to hear. Wholly invigorating, gorgeous, greatly orchestrated.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I should have listened to these two ballets before, sheer joy to hear. Wholly invigorating, gorgeous, greatly orchestrated.

Wonderful music! I don't like the cover art.