What are you listening 2 now?

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Steinway D

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Levit is a fine pianist, but I think he underplays the big moments in Liszt's Sonata and Busoni's Fantasia Contrapuntistica too much. Berg's Sonata and the shorter pieces works better.

Mapman

Happy birthday, Malcolm!
Arnold: Scottish Dances
Penny: Queensland


Baxcalibur

Chamber works by Dvořák and Josef Suk, the violinist's grandfather. Suk was 17 when he wrote the Piano Quartet, and it's a really good one.

Mandryka

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Quote from: premont on October 21, 2023, 08:59:25 AMI bought it in 2018 when it was released because of the attention it caused. Listened to it a few times but it didn't make any lasting impression on me. I wonder if it would be different today.

Well I've been listening to it a lot this past couple of days and I am sure that it is impressive (in the sense of "makes an impression")  and original. The reason, or a part of it, is the way he plays the counterpoint.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Que

Morning listening:



A recording by Stimmwerck that I wasn't familiar with, and the 1st AEolus recording that I come across on Spotify! Stimmwerck is here joined by Franz Vithum, the late leader of the Dufay Ensemble, and the ensemble La Villana Basel.

The recording's focus is on vocal and instrumental arrangements on Lassus Missa Susanne un jour. The fact that this is not a vocal-only recording by Stimmwerck, is probably the reason I never bought it. I'm not keen on the use of instrumental support in the Missa. But still glad I can now hear it streaming - it's a lovely recording.

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Aeolus_AE10053.html


vandermolen

'Destination Rachmaninov - Departure'
Piano Concerto No.2
Philadelphia Orchestra, Daniil Trifonov/Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
I went into the local HMV shop yesterday, in Tunbridge Wells. Their Classical Music section gets depressingly smaller every time I go in there.
However I found this excellent DGG CD at half-price (£6.99). Oddly enough, the companion volume CD featuring the PCs 1 and 3 was at full price. This is a most beautifully played, recorded and presented performance - as good as I have heard, which brought this familiar music alive again. The 4th PC is my favourite, so I look forward to hearing it:

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Que



A superb recording that is worthy of getting on disc, if I manage to find a copy.

Roasted Swan

Quote from: vandermolen on October 22, 2023, 12:20:01 AM'Destination Rachmaninov - Departure'
Piano Concerto No.2
Philadelphia Orchestra, Daniil Trifonov/Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
I went into the local HMV shop yesterday, in Tunbridge Wells. Their Classical Music section gets depressingly smaller every time I go in there.
However I found this excellent DGG CD at half-price (£6.99). Oddly enough, the companion volume CD featuring the PCs 1 and 3 was at full price. This is a most beautifully played, recorded and presented performance - as good as I have heard, which brought this familiar music alive again. The 4th PC is my favourite, so I look forward to hearing it:



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Mandryka

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Quote from: Que on October 22, 2023, 12:59:30 AM

A superb recording that is worthy of getting on disc, if I manage to find a copy.

This is what I thought about it nearly six years ago -- it's clear to me that I'm more of a Hiliard man, or was!  Haven't really listened with attention since.


Quote from: Mandryka on January 06, 2018, 10:16:32 PMI'm now a bit clearer what I think of Call of the Phoenix.

The first thing to say is that the selection for the CD is fabulous and much of it not available elsewhere. I especially valued the religious music by John Bennet and the first anonymous piece called Stella Celi. But really the whole CD is a good listen. I'm glad to know it.

The performances are full of life, and it's interesting to look at how they give them life. My hypothesis is that Orlando Consort's idea is that English music of this period derives its tension from rhythm rather than harmony. It's not dissonances which draw our attention in the performances, it's the clear and changing rhythms. This inscisive rhythmic sensibility  is combined with a leaning towards relatively fast pulses and not much by way of expressive embellishment through dynamics or timbre. It was a contrast with Hilliard Ensemble mainly, where they've recorded the same music, which helped me to see this - The Plummer, Fry and the Dunstable are examples.

This is something which, I propose, Orlando Consort share with Gothic Voices. When I posted about Gothic Voices' Missa Ventrem Hominem I suggested that what they do misses a trick of two from the point of view of expression. And I believe that there's greater expressive possibilities in the music on Call of the Phoenix than Orlando Consort are open to. Nevertheless I don't want to be taken for believing that Hilliard's accounts are better, especially because some of them are on their final CD called Transeamus, and I have some reservations about this recording. I just propose that the Hilliard approach is different and shows a good deal of potential.

From this point of view it's a really interesting exercise to listen to three versions of Plummer's Anna Mater Matis - Orlando and the two from Hilliard, one on Transeamus (very late Hilliard) and one on  their Medieval English Music
 


Tempest fugit. Here's my meditation for Sunday.


 
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

AnotherSpin


AnotherSpin


Que

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Quote from: Mandryka on October 22, 2023, 02:13:37 AMThis is what I thought about it nearly six years ago -- it's clear to me that I'm more of a Hiliard man, or was!  Haven't really listened with attention since.

I think you do have a point on the harmonic tension. I'll give the Hilliard a go as well. :)


Thread duty:



This recording has been reissued since - twice, actually.

Papy Oli

Handel - Italian Cantatas (La Risonanza)

Continuation of vol.4

Olivier

pjme

Earlier this morning on German Radio (WDR3) - live :

"100 Jahre Radio" LIVE vom MDR Benefizkonzert des Bundespräsidenten


Pavel Haas
Radio-Ouvertüre op. 11
für Orchester, Männerquartett und Rezitation

Papy Oli

Exploring Bartok further.

String Quartet no.3

Takacs quartet.

Getting a bit thornier for my own tastes.. :-\
Olivier

Traverso

Bach

The Rübsam (philips) recording that I listened to a few days ago was a much more positive listening experience for all kinds of reasons then a week earlier which was a disappointment, it appears to be a temporary issue as I am much more postive now. It may not be my favorite choice, but I am much more positive, definitely a set to return to!
Now on to this new set, which I am now going to listen to for the second time, alternating with other recordings.

CD 1



 

Papy Oli

LVB

SQ op.18/6
SQ op. 59/1

by Quartetto Italiano
Olivier

Que


Traverso

One of the possible barriers to listen to a new recording is an expectation based on a recording you are familiar with. The new recording may bring a different approach to the work that takes time to get in touch with.  The intentions and possible (hopefully) new approach to a well-known work. For example, you may experience a feeling of loss, too little this or that, and after living with it for a while it actually gives you a deeper experience that you previously did not expect.  You may know a lot about music theory, but ultimately your ears and brain will have to give you access by simply listening and sharing in the inner movements of both performer and composer.


You don't have to be a car mechanic to enjoy driving.:)


Now on to another performance of the Christmas Oratorio


Bach



Iota



Haydn: Piano Trio No. 38 in D major, Hob.XV:24

A complete delight.