What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Maurice Ravel,
Sonata posthume for Violin and Piano.

Ottorino Respighi.
Sonata for Violin and Piano in B minor.

Lydia Mordkovitch, Violin.
Clifford Benson, Piano.
Recorded in 1993.

Wonderful, just wonderful. No matter which recording I pick featuring Lydia Mordkovitch, it's always a shot in the rose!

[JBS]

New releases are usually preceded by a taster/teaser of one or two tracks available streaming. This has just been released and I ordered from jpc, which is usually one of the first.  So I expect this to become available streaming shortly.

Amazon US is showing a US release date of May 17.

[Harry]

Music of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance.
Kiya Tabassian, Ensemble Constantinople.
See back cover for details.

I find the recordings by the Ensemble Constantinople highly satisfying. Always  perfect natural interpretations, whatever the era they choose,, by musicians who are deeply involved in the fabric of the era, and having the right expression in their performances. I have downloaded all the recordings by this ensemble, and never regretted it sofar! This particular release is hugely enjoyable. Good sound too.

[SonicMan46]

Beethoven, LV - starting to go through my Beethoven collection - have a lot of duplications/triplications/and more - maybe some readjustments -   

Last few days, the ones below - all keepers for me, although the Diabelli Variations could be a 'nut job' with so many recordings - these two suit me as a PI/MI combination.  Dave

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Very much enjoying Escandon today - I think I had to approach her with a head free from the memory of other, more middle of the road, performances. Thanks for your advocacy of the recording.

Nice find!
Maybe the playing is slightly afro-latin? Nice implicit rhythms and exotic spacing.

If the Hatto is Haseki, it has been significantly modified. Not just tempo but also colour, timbre. I think Haseki is OK - but Hatto is OKer.

I prefer the Hatto to the Hiseki.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša

[Lisztianwagner]

Kurt Atterberg
Symphony No.3

Ari Rasilainen & NDR Radiophilharmonie

[Linz]

Pierné Piano Trios in C Minor, Op. 45
Fauré Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120
Trio Wanderer

[Mapman]

Haydn: Piano Sonata #60, H XVI/50
Ilse Von Alpenheim

The 3rd movement is especially interesting with some startling dissonances (e.g. B over A♯ and F♯).

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Bruckner Orchestra  Linz, Martin Sieghart:

[SonicMan46]

Beethoven Piano Sonatas for the afternoon - Annie Fischer (first 3 discs in the box) and Penelope Crawford on her 1835 Conrad Graf fortepiano (Brian interviewed her for MusicWeb HERE; she's not brought out anymore sonata recordings) - my other boxes are Gulda, Kempff (stereo - probably should get the mono?), and Brautigam - will sample selectively the next few days and decide if I need some culling/adding?  Dave

[Henk]

Relatively simple, yet charming music. Seems to help calm and clear my mind and see things in a positive way.

[Henk]

NP:

[Todd]

[Lisztianwagner]

Maurice Ravel
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Symphonic Addict]

A good opera suffused with impressionist elements. I was thinking of Juha like a female character, but it isn't, it's a man and the plot is about a love triangle.

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106, Gerhard Opptiz

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Vladimir Peskin, Vassily Brandt, Gustav Cords, Oskar Bohme, et al. Trumpet Concerti, etc.

[JBS]