What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Baiano's WTC was just awful, so I didn't what to expect...

But this is very interesting and I might actually quite like it!
Perhaps it is the Italian origins of the toccata form. Baiano's approach is grand, theatrical and rigorous but with great flair. At times simply exhilarating. Very much Italian late Baroque... think Azzolino dell Caija or Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia. It suits these pieces, so why not?

[Traverso]

You can still ask Hyperion for a replacement. I did and they gave me a new one.

They have it only as a download and I want the real thing.  

[Traverso]

The Neidhart recording was the most attractive until now, here again a recording with different repertoire  and the same ensemble

[Madiel]

Tomorrow night I'll be listening to 3 piano concertos, at the Casa da Música in Porto.

It's the final of an international piano competition.

I need to correct this post, as it appears I'll be hearing Tchaikovsky's 1st PC twice. Which is not ideal, unless one of the performers really impresses.

The other performer has chosen the Prokofiev 3rd.

[Todd]

Schuch is one of the great pianists of the day, and his wife obviously has a rather goodly amount of talent, and so this fourth recording of the pair doing their four-hand/two piano thing was most welcome.  The disc includes Schubert's D940 Fantasie, three of Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen, the Brahms Variations on a Theme by Schumann, and LvB's Op 134.  The opening D940 sort of goes against expectations.  Closely recorded, with comparatively little emphasis on tonal luxuriance, it often sounds smaller in scale than some other takes, and it has an edge, a tetchiness to it.  To be sure, the Hungarian-ish melody displays ample beauty, but even that doesn't just flow.  It flows but despite the "eternity" title, sounds grounded, earthly, urgent.  The three Messiaen pieces flank the Brahms.  The Frenchman's music sounds suitably Messiaen like, ethereal and modern and bracing and bright.  The Brahms sounds like more serious, slightly heavier, and more formally structured Schumann, as it should.  The ending LvB Grosse Fuge has ample clarity from all them digits, and it has a bouncy rhythm, to boot.  The Mozart/Debussy/Zimmermann recording Dialogues remains the duo's best effort, and it is stupefyingly great, but this mixed rep recording more than holds its own.

[DavidW]

You can still ask Hyperion for a replacement. I did and they gave me a new one.

I did the same for a defective disc from them.  They didn't even ask for the original, once they had the serial # then a week later a replacement was in my mailbox.

[DavidW]

They have it only as a download and I want the real thing.  

Did you call them?  Because seeing it as oop on their website is not the same thing.  My replacement cd was also out of print. 

If they told you that it was only as a download you could burn it to cd and replace the bronzed one keeping the jewel case and booklet.

[DavidW]

Morning listening: Strauss' Oboe Concerto, Serenade for 13 wind instruments, and some other works.  While I like the Oboe Concerto, I loved the serenade and that was a first listen Friday for me!

[Traverso]

Did you call them?  Because seeing it as oop on their website is not the same thing.  My replacement cd was also out of print. 

If they told you that it was only as a download you could burn it to cd and replace the bronzed one keeping the jewel case and booklet.

I sent them a request regarding the bronzing and possible replacement.

[Mandryka]

Baiano's WTC was just awful, so I didn't what to expect...

But this is very interesting and I might actually quite like it!
Perhaps it is the Italian origins of the toccata form. Baiano's approach is grand, theatrical and rigorous but with great flair. At times simply exhilarating. Very much Italian late Baroque... think Azzolino dell Caija or Lodovico Giustini da Pistoia. It suits these pieces, so why not?

Yes I thought that may be the case.

[SonicMan46]

Danzi, Franz - Bassoon Concertos & Quartets + Clarinet Works - up to 16 Danzi discs - just starting so will likely end up tomorrow w/ the Wind Quintets.  Dave

   

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Kurt Eichhorn

[VonStupp]

Conradin Kreutzer
Grand Septet in E-flat Major, op. 62
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Septet in C Major 'Military', op. 114

Nash Ensemble

Trumpet doesn't do much for me in this septet; I much prefer Hummel's first in D Minor.
VS


The Death of Major Peirson (1783), John Singleton Copley

[JBS]

[NumberSix]

Now streaming on Presto:



Joe Hisaishi in Vienna: Symphony No. 2, Viola Saga
Tamestit, Vienna

I don't know this composer or conductor, but I saw it on new releases and figured I'd give it a go. We'll see...

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

[Roasted Swan]

Now streaming on Presto:



Joe Hisaishi in Vienna: Symphony No. 2, Viola Saga
Tamestit, Vienna

I don't know this composer or conductor, but I saw it on new releases and figured I'd give it a go. We'll see...

We get requested to play some of his things in my string quartet - to say the music is basic in form/harmony/structure/imagination is an understatement.  As I understand it Hisaishi is very big in Japan writing scores for films/videos/gaming etc.  Perhaps this is a blossoming of a profundity hitherto unguessed at.... but I'm not holding my breath

[Karl Henning]

I remember that being so good, I want to listen to it again!

[NumberSix]

We get requested to play some of his things in my string quartet - to say the music is basic in form/harmony/structure/imagination is an understatement.  As I understand it Hisaishi is very big in Japan writing scores for films/videos/gaming etc.  Perhaps this is a blossoming of a profundity hitherto unguessed .... but I'm not holding my breath

I had to pause the symphony for a bit to do something else, and now I'm starting back at the second movement. I can understand that he is known for composing film music because this definitely feels like a film score. It's light music but very pretty and energetic, so far.

I'm liking it.

[Bachtoven]

Wow. Salman Rushdie's niece is quite a pianist!