What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Haydn; piano trio no.2 in C major



String quartets are not my only option... still struggling to feel like a functioning human being a week after getting home. West-to-east jet leg is the pits. If anybody is going to make me feel human, it'll be Haydn.

[LKB]

Mahler 3, Movt. 2. LKB Philharmonic, Smithee. 

[Madiel]

Mozart: Divertimento no.13 (one of the ones for wind sextet), K.253



Honestly, whoever was responsible for categorising and numbering the serenades and divertimenti deserves a good slap. And certainly doesn't deserve to listen to such relaxing music.

[Cato]

On Dayton Classical Radio:

Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestra Suite  No 3 in D BWV1068  Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert
from the Archiv CD.

and:

Roussel: Suite in F  (although, from the album cover, one might think that Celibidache is the composer!      )

[Traverso]

Yesterday I listened to Bach's organ works played by Pieter van Dijk. Now I have listened to this set twice in its entirety and enjoyed it, but....... When I listened yesterday I was tired. I listened to this music on the small speakers near my computer and it was as if I was listening to it for the first time. Van Dijk lets the music speak for itself, but there is certainly a subtle contribution of his views. I had noticed that before, but now for the first time everything felt like a fitting glove and I was moved and no longer felt undercooled. So you see, everything has so many facets, moods and the like, there are so many possibilities to experience and joy gives what first made a detached (I hope I use the right word) impression.
It may be just around the corner

No organ for now, but Debussy and his piano works.

[Madiel]

Mozart: Piano trio no.1, also known as a... divertimento!

[VonStupp]

Luigi Cherubini
String Quartet 1 in E-flat Major
String Quartet 2 in C Major
String Quartet 3 in D minor
Melos Quartet

I do especially enjoy these early quartets from Cherubini. Early, although he was in his 50s when he started writing SQs and in his 70s at the last.
VS


Entrance to the Palace of Louis XV

[SonicMan46]

Handel, GF - Music Royal Fireworks, Water Music, & Concerti a due cori on the recordings below; of course, hundreds of options in the first two listed and I've culled these for decades but my current collection of these works - reviews attached for those interested.  Dave

     

[Karl Henning]

Then why do they put a cover on it?

Not great design for sure, but it didn't get in my way.

[Spotted Horses]

Gaubert, Symphony in F.



Wonderfully opulent. Written in 1936, but it could be mistaken for a work of the 19th century.

I'm glad @Symphonic Addict mentioned it.

[SonicMan46]

Handel, GF - Concerti Grossi Op. 3 & Op. 6 w/ the groups shown below; I suspect everyone with a Handel collection has one or more versions of Op. 6. For more details, check links to Op. 3 and Op. 6, if interested.

Handel wrote a LOT of music, up to HWV 612 in his catalog, quoted below - attached is a volume chart from the link (click to enlarge); from HMV 1-283, all vocal works (I own just 2 versions of the Messiah in those first 17 volumes (I'm sure others have much more) - the Concerti Grossi are in Volume 17 (HMV 312–335).  Dave

The Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis (abbreviated as HWV) is the Catalogue of Handel's Works. It was published in three volumes by Bernd Baselt between 1978 and 1986, and lists every piece of music known composed by George Frideric Handel. The HWV thematic catalogue serves as the modern numbering system for Handel's compositions. The HWV numbers range from 1 to 612, however they do not represent a global date-ordering of composition. (Source)

 

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Visions De L'Amen

It's a pity that so little of Messiaen by Argerich is available on CD. Which makes this recording one to cherish.
All the more so because he is one of her favorite composers.



Martha Argerich Piano
Alexandre Rabinovitch piano

[JBS]

Messiaen

Visions De L'Amen

It's a pity that so little of Messiaen by Argerich is available on CD. Which makes this recording one to cherish.
All the more so because he is one of her favorite composers.



Martha Argerich Piano
Alexandre Rabinovitch piano

One of the few Messaien works I actually like--in large part due to first hearing it via that recording.

[Traverso]

One of the few Messaien works I actually like--in large part due to first hearing it via that recording.

Pardon me,it is Messiaen,when you also listen upside down Messiaen would be indeed a hard nut to crack.

Have you listen to this recording?

[JBS]

Pardon me,it is Messiaen,when you also listen upside down Messiaen would be indeed a hard nut to crack.

Have you listen to this recording?

No. I know it's highly regarded, but the only recording I have of Vingt Regards is the one by Peter Serkin.

He seems to be a composer who just doesn't work for me.

[Traverso]

No. I know it's highly regarded, but the only recording I have of Vingt Regards is the one by Peter Serkin.

He seems to be a composer who just doesn't work for me.

A hopeless case,     no offence,  have a nice day !

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach Organ Works Vol. 20, Gerhard Weinberger, Hofmann Organ Mechterstaedt, Stertzing Organ Buessleben

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Robert Simpson's First Symphony, twice. There is a new study, just out, by Lionel Pike, about Simpson's symphonies which I bought yesterday. I intend to dive into those eleven...

[Henk]

Listened to some Cherubini the last days. Need to revisit his string quartets of which I have two recordings on cd.


NP:


So good, need to spin it more often.

[Symphonic Addict]

The first cover image rang a bell.

The painting chosen for the cover art is The Bayswater Omnibus by George William Joy.