What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

Spending the day with the Mitropolous box.

Some meh Mendelssohn. Also included Fingal's Cave and Ruy Blas.


Stupendously superior Shostakovich. One of the best (if not the best) DSCH 10 recordings I've ever heard.



First listen to the Riegger and (I think) the Mennin.

And now


All from

[Karl Henning]

Spending the day with the Mitropolous box.

Some meh Mendelssohn. Also included Fingal's Cave and Ruy Blas.


Stupendously superior Shostakovich. One of the best (if not the best) DSCH 10 recordings I've ever heard.



First listen to the Riegger and (I think) the Mennin.

And now


All from

Truly a stunning Shostakovich Ten!

[JBS]

Continuing on...

[Bachtoven]

I hope he makes a commercial recording of the "Hammerklavier" and soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCXlPt6CIjE&ab_channel=Richard

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

April 2016 in Boston's Church of the Advent:

Cool and jazzy! Nice performance too.

[Karl Henning]

Cool and jazzy! Nice performance too.

Thanks!

[foxandpeng]

Miloslav Kabeláč
Mystery of Time
Marko Ivanovic
Prague RSO


Second listen 🙂

I agree with those who have suggested that this piece of music is of a high standard that is similar to that of the Kabeláč symphonies. I like this very much indeed.

[foxandpeng]

Miloslav Kabeláč
Complete Symphonies
Symphony #7 for Orchestra and Reciter
Marko Ivanovic
Prague RSO

This might be great if I spoke Czech... I'm not sure it would be, but as I don't, it definitely isn't.

[Bachtoven]

No.5.

[lordlance]

Cross post from the Clementi thread -

More fortepiano for me, this time courtesy of a YouTube recommendation -

I have mentioned before how it seemed like the classical era didn't have an overflow of talent like romantic because you had Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert essentially for instrumental music. This concerto though I really did enjoy the first movement - a good theme finally - and I love the prominent timpani part at the start. Always a plus in my book. The next two movements don't match in quality sadly. Still it's very rare to get video recordings of an obscure fortepiano concerto performance from a classical era so it's for the enthusiasta if nothing else.

Incidentally there's a second performance of it with the same fortepianist - https://youtu.be/IJP5fGAQv4A?si=vpHhcewsZjlJXmLd

[NumberSix]

Gaspard Le Roux: Suites for 2 Harpsichords
William Christie, Justin Taylor

I saw this 2024 album pop up on my streaming. I don't know Le Roux, but I felt like some harpsichord action.

Gaspard Le Roux was a French harpsichordist active in Paris at the beginning of the 18th century. Little is known of his life, which is exacerbated by the commonality of his name among musicians and dance instructors in Paris.

Born: 1660, France
Died: June 17, 1707 (age 47 years), Paris

[NumberSix]

Khatia Buniatishvili: Schubert

[Irons]

Fair enough - I think the Herrmann discs suit the style of his film music and the original soundtrack recordings were never intended to reflect any kind of "natural" sound so why not.  I understand why Stokowski was interested in the potential of stereo too.  I find it interesting though that Decca were producing some of the finest 2 track recordings (Solti Ring / Britten conducts Britten etc) at the same time that they were producing these highly stylised (technically) recordings.  As I said in the previous post I understand the motivation - which was essentially commercial - but for me the aural legacy of these recordings limit my ability to enjoy them from a musical perspective.

It is true that the excellent producers and sound engineers of Decca's heyday, people like Culshaw and Wilkinson had zero input in Phase 4 Stereo. This offshoot was a brainchild of Arthur Lilley and Tony D'Amato.
I don't dismiss all of the recordings per se. Some I like in a naughty but nice way, notably my favourite recording of Dvorak's "New World" with Dorati conducting New Philharmonia and a good popular Respighi set with Munch.

   

[vandermolen]

Aaron Copland: 'A Lincoln Portrait'
NYPO Cond. Arthur Rodzinski
Terrific narration by Kenneth Spencer
1946 Carnegie Hall
(forgotten records)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Spencer_(singer)

[vandermolen]

Miloslav Kabeláč
Mystery of Time
Marko Ivanovic
Prague RSO


Second listen 🙂

I agree with those who have suggested that this piece of music is of a high standard that is similar to that of the Kabeláč symphonies. I like this very much indeed.

That's a great CD Danny - I was delighted to find a modern recording of 'Mystery of Time' which I find to be a rather moving piece, especially where the momentum slows down towards the end.

[Que]

[vandermolen]

Elgar


This is by far my favorite Elgar recording

+1 for Sospiri

[Traverso]

+1 for Sospiri

Yes the Sospiri is really something that gets under your skin and is the highlight with which this LP ends.

[Roasted Swan]

It is true that the excellent producers and sound engineers of Decca's heyday, people like Culshaw and Wilkinson had zero input in Phase 4 Stereo. This offshoot was a brainchild of Arthur Lilley and Tony D'Amato.
I don't dismiss all of the recordings per se. Some I like in a naughty but nice way, notably my favourite recording of Dvorak's "New World" with Dorati conducting New Philharmonia and a good popular Respighi set with Munch.

   

Here's an interesting and enthusiastic potted history of Phase 4 recordings.....

https://trackingangle.com/features/the-wonderful-world-of-decca-phase-4-stereo-part-1-bond-and-beyond-with-roland-shaw-and-is-orchestra

[Harry]

Stephen Dodgson.
Complete Chamber Music for Cello & Piano.
Evva Mizerska (Cello), Emma Abbate (Piano)
Recorded in 2016.

This is music very much to my liking. And it fits with my mood today.