What are you listening 2 now?

[brewski]

Schnittke: Tango from Faust Cantata (Fiona Kimm, mezzo-soprano / London Schools Symphony Orchestra / Sian Edwards, conductor). Of course, once I started poking around, there are many versions of this striking sequence, such as this one. Especially grateful for the English translations of the text.

-Bruce

[SonicMan46]

Well, still on my Bach Goldberg Variations - have reduced my half dozen non-KB recordings to just the three below, i.e. Aulos Quartett w/ two oboes, Trio Echanton (a string trio) and Kurt Rodarmer on guitar BUT not solo, using multiple guitars (esp. two for this project, including a 'bass' instrument), he multi-tracts himself playing multiple guitars to simulate the playing of a keyboardist - the most interesting listening of the threesome - a must hear IMO - recommended to me by another member of the forum (sorry, forgot who?) - Dave

[Symphonic Addict]

Toch: Piano Concerto No. 1

Such a brilliant score, with the right dose of dissonances to make it tasty and quirky. It could easily make my list of favorite 20th century piano concertos. BTW, the Piano Concerto No. 2 is the Symphony for piano and orchestra.

[Daverz]

Boccherini: String Quintet in F minor, G348.  Several recordings on Qobuz.

It was a recording of this by the Karski Quartet & Raphael Feye that really perked up my ears.  Their tone is rather aggresively HIP and in a very resonant acoustic, but the performance is very passionate and really makes this sound like one of Boccherini's best quintets. 

I also listened to recordings by the Sarasa Ensemble on Naxos and the Elisa Baciocchi String Quartet on the Da Vinci label, but neither of those were as engaging.

Finally, came "home" to the older recording by the Vanbrugh Quartet on Naxos Hyperion who play on modern instruments with, thankfully, vibrato and good acoustics.  Not as passionate as the Karski, but still better than the others above and easier to listen to.

[Symphonic Addict]

Weingartner: Symphony No. 3

It may not be as thematically memorable as his first two symphonies, but this one features truly imposing moments, e.g. the tremendous climax in the slow movement with an organ included. The recording is incredible too.

[JBS]

I'd passingly assumed the cover image was a portrait of Louise Farrenc but evidently not;



so I have no idea why this image was chosen......

I think the face is the face of Ms. Farrenc, but for no obvious reason costumed from the Gibson Girl era.  The painting you posted, by Luigi Rubio, (more precisely, the head from that painting) appears in the booklet.

TD
From the Warner Lars Vogt box; there are a number of CDs recorded at the Heimbach Festival Vogt founded and directed, so two of them tonight, mostly Brahms: the First Piano Trio, and the First and Third Piano Quartets, with a Haydn trio for flute, cello, and piano.


[The Dvorak appears later in the box; the Schubert being Vogt-less not at all.]

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
New York Philharmonic
Bernstein

From this OOP recording -



I bought all of the Tchaikovsky Bernstein Royal Edition recordings awhile back and they are all glorious. Bernstein was in his element in Tchaikovsky. These have been remastered and what's interesting is when Sony reissued Bernstein's Tchaikovsky in one of those budget sets, it wasn't remastered.

[Symphonic Addict]

Bowen: Viola Concerto

An exuberant concerto I previously had underestimated. Bowen had great skills for orchestration and this work proves that.




Tveitt: Harp Concerto No. 2

I don't know many harp concertos from Nordic lands, but Tveitt's is really a fine exemplar. I like the doleful, tragic character of it, where the movement Memorias dolorosas contains the most poignant music. Just fabulous.

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101
Emerson String Quartet

From this set -

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Tveitt: Harp Concerto No. 2

I don't know many harp concertos from Nordic lands, but Tveitt's is really a fine exemplar. I like the doleful, tragic character of it, where the movement Memorias dolorosas contains the most poignant music. Just fabulous.

That is a fine disc. I should revisit it. Nykken, for me, is a masterpiece of symphonic tone-painting.

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Last work for the night:

Villa-Lobos
Rudá, "Dio d'amore"
Slovak RSO
Roberto Duarte



I think this is the only recording of his work. I remember the member snyprr (spelling?) called Villa-Lobos' music "everything but the kitchen sink jungle music". I think it's an apt description of this particular work. The front cover painting by Henri Rousseau is appropriate to say the least.

[Mandryka]

As satisfying and distinctive an op 131 as any I have heard - Quartetto di Cremona is an excellent sounding ensemble and they have been given  a good quality recording.

[Harry]

Nicola Antonio Porpora.
Violin sonatas,op.12- Nr.2,4,5,8,11,12.
Recorded:2000.
See back cover for info.

Porpora is not often recorded, at least not his Violin Sonatas. Anton Steck makes it worthwhile. His fabulous technique and thoughtful approach lets one discover all the felicities this music holds, and those are many. Rich ornamentations, textbook use of musical rhetoric and great melodic inventiveness, make this music a compendium of late Baroque means of expression. Good sound.

 

[Cato]

In America, "Decoration Day" (i.e. for decorating graves at the cemetery, especially after the Civil War) was a special time, captured musically by Charles Ives:

Here is an explanation of today's significance:

https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/decoration-day-memorial-day-american-tradition-nearly-150-years


 

[vandermolen]

Agreed. In almost every case I prefer Boulez' earlier recordings on Columbia (Sony) to the later recordings on DG.

I agree

[vandermolen]

NP:

Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101
Emerson String Quartet

From this set -

Nice looking set John.

[vandermolen]

Bowen: Viola Concerto

An exuberant concerto I previously had underestimated. Bowen had great skills for orchestration and this work proves that.




Tveitt: Harp Concerto No. 2

I don't know many harp concertos from Nordic lands, but Tveitt's is really a fine exemplar. I like the doleful, tragic character of it, where the movement Memorias dolorosas contains the most poignant music. Just fabulous.

I've never got on well with Bowen's music but I must try again.

[Harry]

Dietrich Buxtehude.
The Complete Organ Works.
CD 1 from 6.
Bux 156, 211, 148, 191, 192, 137, 189,188, 144, 217, 145, 174, 197, 223, 182, 157.
Eric Lebrun plays on the organ of St. Mary's Church, Helsingor, Denmark, built between 1634 and 1636 by Johan Lorentz.
Temperament: quarter-comma meantone? Pitch: ?
Recorded between 2005-2006.
No PDF file, so no info about registrations pitch and temperament.

When you are streaming older material you may count yourself lucky if you get a PDF file. That would be my only criticism, that record companies do not find it necessary to provide info on top of the recording itself.
I have to say what I hear sounds very good indeed. The Organ is a gem, the playing is clear, and meticulous, and very well recorded. If the rest is like this, I will gladly try to get this set, with booklet and all.

[Harry]

I've never got on well with Bowen's music but I must try again.

York Bowen is a composer well liked by me. I am somewhat puzzled why you never got on with him.