What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Ravel: Sonatine (Thibaudet)
Hanson: Piano Sonata

The Ravel is a first listen, I think. Loving it so much. A precious work.

The Hanson is loaded with boundless affection, rather typical of his style and I like it quite a lot.

[Brian]

Two pieces I don't know well at all, with some Roussel for dessert. Great program.



Oh! Apparently I'm part of a Honegger Moment and didn't even realize!

[Brian]

I just finished this up this morning. Very generous selection and beautifully played. Not immediately ready to make comparisons to other artists, but I enjoyed it.

[Bachtoven]

I just finished this up this morning. Very generous selection and beautifully played. Not immediately ready to make comparisons to other artists, but I enjoyed it.

So did I. Her Bosendorfer piano certainly sounds good! When I enjoy a recording, I rarely compare it to others: I just enjoy it on its own merits.

[Bachtoven]

Brilliant playing and great sound.

[Cato]

Two pieces I don't know well at all, with some Roussel for dessert. Great program.



Oh! Apparently I'm part of a Honegger Moment and didn't even realize!

Yes!  Honegger is "big, bad, and back in action"...like Shaft!     


One of my favorites:

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki: Symphony No. 2

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[steve ridgway]

R. Strauss: Don Quixote

[vandermolen]

William Walton - Varii Capricci.

That performance of the 1st Symphony is one of the best. I prefer it to the famous Previn LSO recording.

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Études Pour Piano

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki: Symphony No. 4

[Irons]

I agree about the artwork and then they spoit the "run" of nice covers with this one.....!



a famous photo with an odd filter!  But tbh another excellent recording.  Then the Falstaff was good musically but pretty rubbish art-work-wise too!

Another oddity. This set of recordings on LP had for periods two cigarette brands, John Player along with Lambert and Butler as sponsors. In the un-woke 1980's while listening to Elgar you could puff away and sip Bristol Cream sherry in the knowledge you were supporting sponsorship of your beloved Elgar.

[Florestan]

[prémont]

Op. 106

You know, he recorded it twice.

[Traverso]

English Virginal Music

A recording from 1968, where does the time go? The music is first rate and as far as the performer is concerned, one critic claimed that it evoked associations with Frankenstein.
As far as I am concerned, this monster is still the benchmark in the world of the harpsichord with Skip Sempé as a close second.(IMO)
Without exception, the works played here are worth listening to.
Never putting himself in the foreground but letting the music speak for itself, which is also the hallmark of other Dutch musicians such as Haitink, de Waart and Bram Beekman, to name just a few.
Leonhardt almost never disappoints, there is always that inner passion that seems to be contradicted by his outward appearance, as it turns out, this can be misleading and tricky.




Part also of this box

[Traverso]

Rameau

What to say about these unsurpassed performances by Marcelle Meyer

CD 9

[Todd]

For some reason, the box splits this set, so the second disc is disc fifteen, devoted to Dvorak and Komarova.

[VonStupp]

Franz Berwald
Grand Septet in B-flat Major
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Septet in D minor, op. 74

Nash Ensemble

What great works!
VS


A Lady and a Gentleman with Two Girls and a Servant (1742), Nicolas Lancret

[AnotherSpin]

You know, he recorded it twice.

Yes, there is other recording for Philips as well. However, this time I find Op.106 from Pavane's set more interesting — refined, transparent, without excessive pressure.