What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Finally made it back to my Penderecki CD from yesterday.  Initial impressions of it remain:  a thoroughly enjoyable trip (concert) through his music.  A nice sampling of chamber works of his and some choral/religious works plus his flute concerto (written for and performed by Jean-Pierre Rampal).

Finished up by returning to a 2-CD set of his music (the Hommage one with Mutter) and listened to his second violin concerto, Metamorphosen.  Really blown away by it.  It reminded me in parts of Shostakovich and also Berg in others.

Amazing playing by Anne-Sophie Mutter and in wonderful sound.  I should hunt out more of her recordings.  I only have one other one of hers.

[Que]

Disc 3:
Fantasy in C Major, Hob. XVII/4
Adagio in F Major, Hob. XVII/9 - Published in 1786 as 'Zehn kleine Klavierstücke' No. 7
Capriccio in G Major Hob XVII/1 'Acht Sauschneider mussen sein'
Fantasy in C Major, Hob. XVII/4
Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVII/D1
Sonata in F Major Hob XVII/a:1 for four hands 'Il maestro e scolare'
Eighteen Menuets and Aria, Hob. IX/20 and Hob. XVII/F1

[brewski]

Boulez: Notations (1945). A fantastic, sparkling reading from 2015, with Manfred Honeck and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Is there nothing this great orchestra can't play?

-Bruce

[DavidW]

I started

But I'm not clicking with it, so I switched to Chopin (joining the bandwagon) and I immediately prefer this Pollini album:

[Harry]

Wilhelm Stenhammar. (1871–1927)
Orchestral Works.
See back cover for details
Recording, 2018 at the Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden.

I played all, sans the Cantata, which I think is a weak work, and besides I am horrified by the voices and choir. My ears refuse to open for this genre. The rest of the works are exemplary,  easy flowing well defined compositions which brings a smile on my face. Järvi knows how to deal with it, and gets SOTA sound as a bonus.

[Harry]

Les Maîtres de L'Orgue Francais, de Louis XIII a la Monarchie de Juillet.
CD VIII.
Orages et Renouveau.
De Frivolite a la dignite retrouvee.

Organ Music by: Corrette/Benaut/ Armand Louis Couperin/Lasceux/Gervais François Couperin/Boëly.
Organists: Olivier Baumont/Andre Isoir/François Menissier.
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard.
Instruments: Dom Bedos 1748, Boizard, 1714, Riepp-Callinet-Stiehr, 1754-1788-1830-1856, Poirier -Lieberknecht 1862-1864.
Recorded:1987/2000/2002/2013

The last from this box. Track 4-8 I did not play. The Erard fortepiano was dreadfully recorded. The rest pleased me greatly. The organs are beautifully recorded.

[DavidW]

I started

But I'm not clicking with it, so I switched to Chopin (joining the bandwagon) and I immediately prefer this Pollini album:

btw the Heroic Polonaise was one of the very first classical pieces I ever heard!  When I was young I watched a movie about Chopin called A Song To Remember and I was introduced to the piece then.

[Traverso]

Berio

[Traverso]

Maderna

[SonicMan46]

Haydn, Joseph - Baryton Works last few days - because Haydn's employer, Prince Nikolaus was an ardent player of the baryton, Papa Joe composed over 160 works for the instrument (duos, trios-126, concertos, octets, others - LINK) - last few days, I've been listening to my collection of a dozen discs or so (a half dozen shown in the two top rows below).

Many original barytons are in museums (most, likely unplayable), so modern recordings are typically done with reproductions - a few pics of the instrument below (basically a modified viola da gamba with fretted top strings that are bowed and sympathetic strings in the back that vibrate and/or can be plucked w/ the left thumb); video of a performance from the Valencia Baryton Project which has two CDs on Amazon not in my collection w/ an excellent 5* review from Gio - too expensive there so will look elsewhere.  Finally, there is a 21-disc Brilliant box of the complete works.  Dave

   

   

 

Valencia Baryton Project

[Spotted Horses]

Hindemith Cello Sonata, Op. 11 No. 3, Ermert



I like this work. More "modern," less traditional than the violin sonatas, Op. 11 No 1, 2. Striking to me that there are no recordings of the piece by famous cellists (aside from an early Starker recording). Another recent recording is by Wendy Warner, which I will probably listen to soon.

[Mapman]

Haydn: String Quartet Op. 9/2
Festetics

[Linz]

Dvořák The Complete Piano Works, Silhourttes Op.8, Two Minuets, Dumka Op. 25, Forget-me-not Polka, Polka Per  pedes, Polkain E major, Tema con variazioni Op.36, Scottish Dances Op.41, Furiants Op.42 Ivo Kahánek

[Todd]

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Major, 2005 'Neufassung' reconstructed from the 1873-1876-1877-1889 editions. Ed. Peter Jan Marthe, European Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Jan Marthe

[Maestro267]

Gliere: Symphony No. 3
BBC PO/Downes

The finale has one of the longest pedal points I've ever heard. That B is held on continuously rolling timpani for a good 5-6 minutes, I think. Through the climax and past into the calm coda. When the timpani roll finally stops it feels like a release even if the B continues in the low strings.

[Florestan]

btw the Heroic Polonaise was one of the very first classical pieces I ever heard

Same here.

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[ritter]

btw the Heroic Polonaise was one of the very first classical pieces I ever heard!  When I was young I watched a movie about Chopin called A Song To Remember and I was introduced to the piece then.

Same here.

You guys are really strange  ... The first classical piece I remember (I must have been four at the time) is Stockhausen's Gruppen.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Kol Nidre
Friede auf Erden

John Shirley-Quirk
BBC Chorus, BBC Singers
Pierre Boulez & BBC Symphony Orchestra