What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

[Iota]

Haydn: String Quartet in Bb major, Op. 76/4, "Sunrise"
Takemitsu: Landscape I For String Quartet

The Schumann Quartett adopt a rather romantic approach to the Haydn, not quite sure how I feel about it. A fresh, lively feel to it though, and the closing 'più allegro allegro/presto' of the last movement is brilliantly done.
The Takemitsu is a bleak, interesting thing on first hearing, but will need to listen again to form a clearer view.

[brewski]

Missed this livestream yesterday, but am catching up with it now. Not familiar with the pianist, and the program is alluring, especially the Medtner.

Boris Giltburg
Live from Wigmore Hall

Chopin:
Nocturne in B Op. 62 No. 1
Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 1
Nocturne in F sharp minor Op. 48 No. 2
Nocturne in F Op. 15 No. 1
Nocturne in G minor Op. 37 No. 1
Nocturne in E flat Op. 55 No. 2
Nocturne in C minor Op. 48 No. 1
Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2

Medtner: Piano Sonata No. 3 in G minor Op. 22
Tchaikovsky: Dumka Op. 59
Stravinsky: 3 Movements from Petrushka

-Bruce

[Brian]

First Listen:



Hard to imagine, now, a day when major composers were commissioned to write TV soundtracks - and then major orchestras and conductors recorded those soundtracks. (Although BIS did record a symphony based on "House of Cards"...)

[Spotted Horses]

Just a thought - have you heard HJ Lim's op 106? Divisive hence interesting.

Around here if you express anything but contempt for HJ Lim's Beethoven you are a pariah. I have it, have listened to some of it, and found it interesting.

[DavidW]

One of Penderecki's finest orchestral works:

[foxandpeng]

Bob Brookmeyer
Music for String Quartet and Orchestra
Fanfares and Folk Song
American Beauty
A Frolic and a Tune
Wood Dance
Metropole Orkest
Gustav Klimt String Quartet

Ok. Nice. Jazz composer primarily? Doesn't feel too much like jazz, but the influences are there. Maybe I need more jazz (although I deeply doubt it).

Easy listening for a Wednesday afternoon while grinding out multiple emails and spreadsheet updates.

[AnotherSpin]

Around here if you express anything but contempt for HJ Lim's Beethoven you are a pariah. I have it, have listened to some of it, and found it interesting.

I try not to rush into expressions of contempt or adoration for the performers of the sonatas. What is is.

[VonStupp]

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Concertino in G Major, op. 73
Piano Concerto in A-flat Major, op. 113
Gesellschafts-Rondo, op. 117
London Mozart Players - Howard Shelley

Hadn't realized the Concertino was the blueprint for the Mandolin Concerto. I think I prefer the piano, but hearing a mandolin is not something which happens too often.
VS

[AnotherSpin]

D.887

[Mandryka]

Around here if you express anything but contempt for HJ Lim's Beethoven you are a pariah.

Do we know what's happened to her? She seems to have gone quiet.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Garcia Abril Guitar Music.

[Leo K.]

MARTINŮ: THE SYMPHONIES. MEISTER, Vienna.

I rather like what I am hearing so far in this set.

[prémont]

Around here if you express anything but contempt for HJ Lim's Beethoven you are a pariah. I have it, have listened to some of it, and found it interesting.

I have it as well and have listened to a part of it. I find it intriguing and I am somewhat puzzled by the aversion it seems to evoke in many GMGers.

[Todd]

Book I.

[Spotted Horses]

Do we know what's happened to her? She seems to have gone quiet.

I only see the Beethoven set and disc of Scriabin. Quite likely she is still performing. Her home page seems to have a notice of an incoming concerti, but it is in Korean.

[Karl Henning]

Just a thought - have you heard HJ Lim's op 106? Divisive hence interesting.

Around here if you express anything but contempt for HJ Lim's Beethoven you are a pariah. I have it, have listened to some of it, and found it interesting.

Curious.

TD:

RVW
A Pastoral Symphony
LSO
Previn

[Karl Henning]

One of Penderecki's finest orchestral works:

I ought to give that a listen.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I only see the Beethoven set and disc of Scriabin. Quite likely she is still performing. Her home page seems to have a notice of an incoming concerti, but it is in Korean.

@Mandryka

According to Wiki (if this is the same pianist), she has passed away.

"Catherine Collard (11 August 1947 – 10 October 1993) was a French classical pianist.

She entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 14, where she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Germaine Mounier. She was awarded the first prize in piano in 1964, and the first prize in chamber music en 1966. She won a number of prizes in competitions (the Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, Fondation de la vocation amongst others), which began a career of distinction.[1] André Tubeuf, writing in Gramophone magazine, characterised her as "an artist too often classed in a line of descent from Clara Haskil but who, in her timbre and sonority, is without question much closer to Yves Nat."[2]

She was a frequent piano duo partner of Anne Queffélec. She was on the piano teaching faculty of the conservatoire of Saint-Maur. She died of cancer at the age of 46."

PD

[prémont]

@Mandryka

According to Wiki (if this is the same pianist), she has passed away.

"Catherine Collard (11 August 1947 – 10 October 1993) was a French classical pianist.

Yes, Catherine Collard passed away in a young age, but Mandryka's question was about HJ Lim.