What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Muffat

Toccatas

SACD 1

[Spotted Horses]

Revisited the three violin concerti on this release. The first and third, both of which strike me as having a neoclassical style, really struck me with arresting moments of beauty. There is a passage in the middle of the second movement of the third concerto where the full orchestra creates a sound of transcendent beauty, gentle yet forceful.

[Wanderer]

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Pelleas und Melisande

Michael Gielen & Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

[Harry]

Muffat

Toccatas

SACD 1

Perfect performances, Kelemen, is one of my favourite organists.

[Maestro267]

2023 Year in Review, Programme 3

Carter: String Quartet No. 5
Pacifica Quartet

Shostakovich: Cello Sonata
Rosler (cello), Würtz (piano)

Bartók: String Quartet No. 6
Alban Berg Quartett

Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1
Keller Quartet

[DavidW]

Pärt's 3rd, Penderecki's Magnificat

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Pelleas und Melisande

Michael Gielen & SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg



The other Pelleas und Melisande from the Gielen Edition, but recorded with a different orchestra.

[Todd]

Disc six.

[Cato]

Arnold Schönberg
Pelleas und Melisande

Michael Gielen & SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg




The other Pelleas und Melisande from the Gielen Edition, but recorded with a different orchestra.

How does it compare to other performances (Von Karajan, et al.) ?

[Karl Henning]

Afriend of mine has written a fun clarinet unaccompanied piece:

[Karl Henning]

[Henk]

Well the pedal makes the sound go quiet, I think when it's depressed only one string in the piano is hit by the hammer, instead of three. The result is quite a special timbre, and it seems to me quite spooky. It's some sort of fortepiano, by the way. You'll find it on spotify etc - but not as far as I can see on YouTube.

It's very good, you must hear it. It features two versions of first impromptu, one early and maybe not recorded elsewhere. Both very interestingly performed.

I found the recording on Spotify and have just listened to it. It sounded indeed like fortepiano to me. I guess it's the left peddle on an ordinary piano, I remember it from my youth and the sound of it.

Strong performances. I like the aggression he puts into it. He strikes a good balance in everything that has to do with performing classical music. It would be pedagogic for musicians who are at a certain level of artistry I guess.

[Lisztianwagner]

How does it compare to other performances (Von Karajan, et al.) ?

Well, I confess I haven't listened to many recordings of Pelléas und Melisande, because about that Schönberg's work, I usually tend to turn to Karajan's performance, which is the most thrilling and mesmerizing for me, unbeatable. Gielen's performances impressed me a lot anyway, they're both powerfully passionate and beautifully tense, maybe the first one with the Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart more than the second one with the Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden (Anfang at the beginning is more haunting, for example, and the orchestra is more energetic and compelling when the piece grows in intensity). They haven't got exactly Karajan's accuracy of sonorities, but nonetheless the orchestral timbres are handled very well, and there's great gracefulness when needed.

[Karl Henning]

Berlioz
L'enfance du Christ

[JBS]

[JBS]

The rest of tonight's program

[DavidW]

Gorecki's 4th from my little FiiO player.  Unlike the third symphony, the fourth has a variety of moods and themes.

[AnotherSpin]

I found the recording on Spotify and have just listened to it. It sounded indeed like fortepiano to me. I guess it's the left peddle on an ordinary piano, I remember it from my youth and the sound of it.

Strong performances. I like the aggression he puts into it. He strikes a good balance in everything that has to do with performing classical music. It would be pedagogic for musicians who are at a certain level of artistry I guess.

Yes, aggression is the word. Also, some nervousness, jumpiness. Anyway, I didn't listen to the album till the end.

[Karl Henning]

Most interesting!