What are you listening 2 now?

[ritter]

Arnold Schönberg
Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene
Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra

Michael Gielen & SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg

A great piece...from a great set! 

[Steinway D]

This is quite a tour de force of compositional and playing techniques. (Toccata No.2 is available, and Toccata No.3 is on the way, both played by Abel Sánchez-Aguilera.)

[Lisztianwagner]

A great piece...from a great set! 

It definitely is, I'm pleasantly surprised by Gielen's Second Viennese School recordings (at least Schönberg's works, since I haven't listened to his Berg and Webern yet), they're absolutely remarkable.

[Karl Henning]

Dvorak
Symphony no. 9
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
(on CD)

In fact, here we go, from this set:

[ritter]

It definitely is, I'm pleasantly surprised by Gielen's Second Viennese School recordings (at least Schönberg's works, since I haven't listened to his Berg and Webern yet), they're absolutely remarkable.

Yes...Gielen was very attuned to that repertoire. And the recording of Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, op. 42 is with the great (and under-recorded) Claude Helffer. Hope you enjoy it.

The one time I saw Gielen live was with the Staatskapelle Berlin, and the programme included Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra and Der Wein; it was memorable! I'm sure you'll like his Berg, Ilaria! 

TD:

Moving from Falla's Retablo to Stravinsky's Renard seemed like a natural step...



The classic Boulez /Domaine Musical recording, in Charles Ferdinand Ramuz's French translation, with superb vocal soloists (Giraudeau, Devos, Depraz, Rondeleux).

And, what the heck, I'll listen to the Symphonies d'instruments à vent as well. 

[DavidW]

Sorry to hear that; I've been kicking myself that I didn't buy those recordings and have been wanting to hear them.

PD

That was the best they could do because the master tapes were not well preserved.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Minor, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Staatskapelle Dresden Giuseppe Sinopoli

[kyjo]

The race is on to see who will post reply #100000! 

First listens to some cello concertos:

Widor's Cello Concerto is a really beautiful work full of memorable themes. It's certainly more inspired than the other two works on that Dutton disc IMO. And V-L's CC no. 2 is a very fine work as well (I haven't heard no. 1).

[Karl Henning]

The race is on to see who will post reply #100000! 

First listens to some cello concertos:

100000:

The last CD to play devoted to this composer. A truly stupendous craftsman all round.

[andolink]

Alexander Goehr (b. 1932): Symmetry Disorders Reach
Huw Watkins, piano



Ib Nørholm (1931-2019): Piano Trios - - Trio No. 1 Op. 22
Trio No. 2, Essai Prismatique Op. 77
Trio No. 3, Essai in Memoriam Op. 155

[JBS]

I feel I have no choice but to get back to my more chronological Mozart listening, so that I can eventually justify listening to my new purchases "properly". 

Symphony No.48, which is derived from the overture for Ascanio in Alba. I know I've listened to the opera at some point but don't remember much.

Better memory than me. I listened to it last year, and remember nothing from it.

TD:
See the Jazz thread.

[Madiel]

Haydn: string quartet (divertimento) in E flat, op.1/2



Listen to the first couple of movements of this, and you'll hear examples time and again of how Haydn already understood how to vary phrase lengths to avoid square-sounding tunes. Instead of 4 bars plus 4, you'll get 4 bars plus 2. It's glorious, and he had several more decades of honing his skills to go.

The 19th century Romantic era has to lot to answer for in ever taking him out of the first rank of composers.

[Madiel]

Better memory than me. I listened to it last year, and remember nothing from it.

"I don't remember much" was a pretty generous description.

TD: Mozart symphony no.14



To be followed by a Menuetto in A, K.61g/i, as an "appendix". I haven't yet been able to find an explanation as to why Tate adds this to the recording, i.e. any evidence that it needs to be associated with the symphony.

EDIT: The symphony itself has a kind of extra sophistication, possibly stemming from the 1st movement being "Allegro moderato" rather than a faster tempo. Also, I seem to rather like it when Mozart is in A major.

SECOND EDIT: Ah, I've found one faint suggestion that there's an "original" crossed-out Menuet for the symphony that Mozart replaced in the final version. So that may be the explanation. EDIT: Except that K.61g/i and the crossed-out Menuet for symphony no.14 might well be different things. More checking to see if EMI have stuffed up the labelling...

FINAL EDIT: Yes, the labelling is wrong. What Tate recorded is the discarded Menuet from the 14th symphony. It is not K.61g at all.

[Mapman]

Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18/6
Artemis Quartet

I've been listening to the Op. 18 quartets over the past week or so, finishing today with #6. I think it's my favorite of the set. The scherzo is extremely syncopated, possibly the most rhythmically complicated thing I've heard from early Beethoven. The themes in the 1st movement are especially attractive, and the final movement has a very interesting combination of slow and fast sections.

[atardecer]

Debussy - Complete Etudes Monique Haas (1951)

The more I hear from this pianist, the more she grows in my esteem.

[Madiel]

Tubin: Symphony No.2, "The Legendary"



Wow. That really is something. It's a few years since I streamed the symphonies and put them on my shopping list, but I'm pretty sure no.2 was one of the ones that got my attention. It's grandiose but in the best possible sense of the word. I'm quite glad I had it on at a reasonably loud volume, because it's a work where the big loud parts really do pay off.

[Harry]

John Dowland.
The Collected Works.
CD I, from 12.
First Booke of Songes, No.1-21.
Emma Kirkby, David Hill, Jacob Lindberg, Nigel North, Anthony Rooley, Robert Wilson, The Consort of Musicke.
Recorded in 1976-1977. at the DECCA studios West-Hampstead, London.

I will be bold this morning, this box is unsurpassed in performance and recording, L'Oiseau-Lyre at its peak! These performances are a constant joy, and visited on a regular basis.

[vandermolen]

Some selections from Martinu's solo piano music series from Koukl, volume 1

Three series of miniatures, Finetre su la jardin, 3 esquisses, 5 esquisses de dances.



I think the dance-inspired piano pieces of Martinu are the most effective.

Nice cover image too.

[vandermolen]

Bliss: Miracle in the Gorbals (ballet suite)
This is an excellent Bliss CD featuring my favourite recording of A Colour Symphony (RPO, Groves) and the otherwise unrecorded Edinburgh Overture.

[Que]

Morning listening:



Early English polyphony by a French ensemble, which makes sense considering the close Anglo-French connection in the 14th century.

I'm surprised the original 2002 issue is still available - such a beautiful recording! But I guess for a small crowd...