What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

Last night's listening!

Bruckner 8 Boulez-- a very good performance.  Surprisingly warm and not the overly analytical and transparent approach that I think Boulez is stereotyped as having.

Mahler 2 Bychkov-- this conductor has received a great deal of attention and praise from the Mahler forum.  I think most people avoid him due to Hurwitz and his cult following poo-pooing Bychkov's Mahler.  Or so the Mahler forumites have said.  This performance is swift, powerful, and not overly sentimental.  I really like it, and will give his fourth a listen soonish.

[AnotherSpin]

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

[SonicMan46]

Last night, finished my Goldbergs perusal with my 'piano versions' of which I kept the 3 below - there are so many other excellent historic and more recent recordings of these works on a modern keyboard, but even with my rather weak culling efforts, I still own 9 versions of these works -      - yes, I know others likely have dozens and some maybe even 100!    Reviews of the ladies attached for those interested.  Dave

P.S. Janssen is in the 20-disc box, so can I add another 'male' performer like Perahia?

   

[DavidW]

What's your view of the sound quality on this?  Somewhere I read a review which was positive about the performance but said the bass register was largely absent - in the opinion of the reviewer, fatally so.

Plenty of bass for me.  But it has a huge dynamic range and low volume.  I needed to use high gain on my preamp to make it sing.  Sounds like the reviewer was just underamping.

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Michel Kiener, Keyboard Sonata in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:52, Keyboard Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:50, Keyboard Sonata in E-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:49, Variations in F Minor, Hob. XVII:6, Fantasia in C Major, Hob. XVII:4 and Keyboard Sonata in G Minor, Hob. XVI:44:

[Karl Henning]

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.

Love this disc!
TD: My instructor at UVa

[Bachtoven]

Nikita Koshkin is probably the closest that guitarist come to having works written by Prokofiev or Shostakovich, particularly the 30-minute Sonata.

[Karl Henning]

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


 

Superb!

[Spotted Horses]

Bruckner 8 Boulez-- a very good performance.  Surprisingly warm and not the overly analytical and transparent approach that I think Boulez is stereotyped as having.

The beautiful transparency, where all voices can be heard, is what I valued about Boulez when he recorded for Erato and Columbia/Sony. DG failed to capture that, especially in the Cleveland recordings.

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Last night's listening!

Bruckner 8 Boulez-- a very good performance.  Surprisingly warm and not the overly analytical and transparent approach that I think Boulez is stereotyped as having.

Mahler 2 Bychkov-- this conductor has received a great deal of attention and praise from the Mahler forum.  I think most people avoid him due to Hurwitz and his cult following poo-pooing Bychkov's Mahler.  Or so the Mahler forumites have said.  This performance is swift, powerful, and not overly sentimental.  I really like it, and will give his fourth a listen soonish.

I love all of Bychkov's Mahler recordings so far. I ignore the negative reviews, because, most of the time, they just have an axe to grind or something against Bychkov --- whatever that may be. I've been increasingly impressed by his recordings over the years. His Strauss is dynamite! Also, this recent recording of Smetana's Má vlast goes straight to the top of my list of favorites for this work:

[Roasted Swan]

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


 

In a rather blinkered/ignorant way I had never taken the time to understand what "Decoration Day" literally meant - thankyou for this insight.....

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Nice looking set John.

Yeah, it's a great cycle overall. Nice performances.

[Le Buisson Ardent]

I'm going to follow @Cato with his listening of Ives' Decoration Day --- from this recording with James Sinclair conducting the Malmö Symphony Orchestra on Naxos:

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

Fantastic set!

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Now playing a little program I devised:


Holst
Suite de ballet, Op. 10
Northern Sinfonia
Hickox



Glazunov
Scènes de Ballet, Op. 52
USSR RSO
Rozhdestvensky

From this OOP set -

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Fauré
Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45
Trio Wanderer w/ Antoine Tamestit

[prémont]

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: ?

Marcussen's words about it here:

https://marcussen-son.dk/restaureringer/sct-maria-kirke-%C2%B7-helsingor/

Tuning unequal without wolf without further specification and a1 = 435 Hz.

[Iota]

Debussy: Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane
Lisa Wellbaum (harp)
Cleveland Orchestra, Boulez

Utterly gorgeous, both music and performance. The way Debussy conjures alchemy from simplicity is mesmerising.

[Harry]

Marcussen's words about it here:

https://marcussen-son.dk/restaureringer/sct-maria-kirke-%C2%B7-helsingor/

Tuning unequal without wolf without further specification and a1 = 435 Hz.

Thank you Poul, I tried to find info about it, but I failed completely.

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker