What are you listening 2 now?

[VonStupp]

Ildebrando Pizzetti
Requiem
De Profundis
Gian Malipiero: De Profundis
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere
James MacMillan: Miserere
Giacomo Puccini: Requiem

Jon Thorne, viola
Vasari Singers - Jeremy Backhouse

I don't think I have heard Pizzetti's Requiem since that Hyperion album.
VS

[Karl Henning]

Hans Rosbaud conducts Stravinsky's Agon, with the Southwest German Radio Orchestra Baden-Baden.



A classic recording of a fascinating score!

On CD 5 of this treasure trove of a set:

Terrific!

[Karl Henning]

I'm sure you all knew this, but it's news to me: the Koechlin piano quintet is a towering masterpiece.

Fewer of us know, than you might suppose!

[Karl Henning]

I'm again going to cheat and say where I am rather than what I'm listening to. Though while here I've heard various snatches of organ music put on for tourist and school groups...

I'm in Barcelona. I've just stepped outside of the Palau de la Música Catalana. And I'm shaking a little, because I think the concert hall must be one of the most beautiful rooms on the planet.

It's a beauty. I once played an audition there.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Cemal Reşit Rey: Scenes From Turkey. Hikmet Şimşek, Budapest Symphony Orchestra.

[Cato]

For the Feast of Corpus Christi, this marvelous hymn by Cesar Franck , Panis Angelicus (Angelic Bread), sung here by Luciano Pavarotti with a boys' choir.

Text is by St. Thomas Aquinas: a translation is provided on the YouTube page:

A soprano gave a competent performance this morning at my Catholic parish: no choir was available today for some reason (summer vacation already?).

[Cato]

Also this morning, I listened again to this Kammerkonzert by Karl Henning!

[Symphonic Addict]

Bristow: Symphony No. 3 in F-sharp minor

Among the American symphonies from the 19th century, this is a very good one and has nice parts for the harp.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Violin Concerto

Isabelle Faust (violin)
Daniel Harding & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Karl Henning]

Also this morning, I listened again to this Kammerkonzert by Karl Henning!

Thanks again!

TD:

A first listen

Schnittke String Quartet № 3 (1983)
Pacifica Quartet

[Karl Henning]

I'm sure you all knew this, but it's news to me: the Koechlin piano quintet is a towering masterpiece.

It's been too long since I listened to this, so I'm in! The Schnittke Third Quartet was brilliant, BTW.

[Symphonic Addict]

Stankovych: Symphony No. 2 'Heroic'

This is brooding stuff, music not for the faint of heart. The other two symphonies on the disc are in a similar dark vein.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra.
Timothy Ridout, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins.

[NumberSix]

Now streaming on Apple Music:



Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Alice Sara Ott

[Madiel]

Nocturnes No 6, and 7. Le Sage



Now we are getting to Faure's middle period, where his style becomes more distinct from his traditional influences. No 6 contains some impressive pianistic pyrotechnics. No 7 is very familiar, since it is the one that I used to develop an impression of the various pianists with significant (to me) Faure discographies. I am enjoying Le Sage's efforts.

Next is No 8, which Mandryka pointed out is part of the Opus 84, pieces breves. Probably I will go to one of the complete sets to hear it in context. Maybe an excuse to listen to a little Pennetier.

I think 6 and 7 are maybe his greatest piano works.

Though I always find myself playing number 7 then number 6. It works that way because of how number 7 ends in major.

[NumberSix]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Alice Sara Ott
Canellakis, Netherlands RPO

[Symphonic Addict]

Turina: Sinfonía Sevillana

[DavidW]

The melodic V-L 1st and 2nd

[Symphonic Addict]

Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3

This was fantastic. The poetic slow movement was the highlight of the work.

[JBS]

Actually, it was his 'deathday'. 

Birthday on March 31.

So it was his saint's day. (What, does anyone think the Lord would let the Devil have Haydn?)

TD
CD 19 of the Warner Lars Vogt box
Hindemith Kammermusik 2
Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time