What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Rubbra: String Quartets 3 and 4

[Linz]

Saint Saëns Organ Symphony, Daniel Roth, organ and Piano Concerto No. 4, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich; Paavo Jarvi

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

[Symphonic Addict]

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.

Good to know you enjoyed it. This composer is mostly known for his flute works, so I'd imagine they should have some merit.

[Symphonic Addict]

Still: Symphony No. 3
Bax: Piano Concertino

The touches of blues are less obvious in this symphony, but the joyful and the characteristically American flavour is never lost.

In spite of Bax's Concertino for piano and orchestra was edited and orchestrated by Graham Parlett, I think he did a most successful and faithful job, it sounds unmistakably Baxian. How not to love, for instance, that utterly eloquent, haunting opening with the piano and the strings providing such striking atmosphere? This is a very strong piece, one that doesn't suffer from being meandering or unfocused. This is the only recording I'm aware of, but thank heaven it's fabulous.

[Linz]

Guillaume de Machaut Messe a Notre Dame, Deller-Consort, Collegium Aurem, Alfred deller

[Madiel]

Dvorak: String quartet no.11 in C major, op.61



Apparently it's nearly 4 years since my last listen. Goodness.

[AnotherSpin]

[Irons]

Still: Symphony No. 3
Bax: Piano Concertino

The touches of blues are less obvious in this symphony, but the joyful and the characteristically American flavour is never lost.

In spite of Bax's Concertino for piano and orchestra was edited and orchestrated by Graham Parlett, I think he did a most successful and faithful job, it sounds unmistakably Baxian. How not to love, for instance, that utterly eloquent, haunting opening with the piano and the strings providing such striking atmosphere? This is a very strong piece, one that doesn't suffer from being meandering or unfocused. This is the only recording I'm aware of, but thank heaven it's fabulous.

I am an admirer of Somm recordings, the Bax a typical interesting issue by the label.

While on subject of Bax I'm digging deep into his 1st Symphony and grown to love the work. Opening of second movement has tingle factor.

[pi2000]

Peter Katin Mozart Sonatas

[Roasted Swan]

Still: Symphony No. 3
Bax: Piano Concertino

The touches of blues are less obvious in this symphony, but the joyful and the characteristically American flavour is never lost.

In spite of Bax's Concertino for piano and orchestra was edited and orchestrated by Graham Parlett, I think he did a most successful and faithful job, it sounds unmistakably Baxian. How not to love, for instance, that utterly eloquent, haunting opening with the piano and the strings providing such striking atmosphere? This is a very strong piece, one that doesn't suffer from being meandering or unfocused. This is the only recording I'm aware of, but thank heaven it's fabulous.

Graham Parlett was a remarkable scholar and his dedication to Bax was both passionate and insightful.  Some years ago I was conducting a local amateur orchestra and Parlett was instrumental in me being able to borrow from the BBC score and parts of his performing edition of "Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan".  Later we were exploring the idea of a three-part concertante piano work; "Maytime in Sussex", the part of the Concertino that Bax most completed and part of the left hand concertante.  The proposed performance never came about for various reasons but Parlett was a model of enthusiastic advice, insight and support.

[Que]

A new recording by Epoca Barocca!
Schickardt was a composer devoted to the recorder, an instrument featured prominently in these pieces.

[Harry]

The Seasons, the Monthes and other Divisions of Time.
Volume I.
See back cover for details.

To be honest, this is one of the best recordings I heard of this composer. It deserves the highest praise in all quarters.  This excellent CD is Volume 1 of a 2 CD set, but sadly volume 2 has never appeared. One of the pieces here, the Seasons, has appeared complete on an excellent CD by the Sirius Viols, but sadly the other parts of the other pieces here have not been issued. And that is, pardon my French, a bloody shame!
The sound is SOTA as is the performance.

Note: I must add that Sophie Watillon, died, when she was 39, as Premont reminded me, not that I needed it, for I am still acutely aware of her early dead. When I played this recording I was vehemently reminded of her tragic dead, and forgot to tell, that I hoped that in honor of Sophie they would find a musician that could  have played in the second volume, honoring Sophie's art. That however never came to fruition.

[Traverso]

Schubert

Along time ago but Schubert it is today...

Piano Sonata in D major D850
4  Deutsche Tänze,from D366

[david johnson]

I'm hearing a bit of Dufay   

[brewski]

In memory of Wolfgang Rihm, "Aestimatus sum" from Seven Passions (2001-2006), posted just three days ago by Cappella Amsterdam.

-Bruce

[Harry]

Tombeaux.
Mourning Music From The Baroque Era.
Michael Dücker, (Lute), Johanna Seitz (Harp)
See for details the back cover.
Recorded: 22–24 April 2020, WDR Köln Funkhaus – Kleiner Sendesaal.

Beautifully done. A fine and detailed recording.

In the French Baroque period, a tombeau is a piece of music in memory of a more or less loved person, but sometimes also of a parrot or canary. But that does not mean that the pieces necessarily have to be sad, solemn music. The genre is also varied because a tombeau can actually take on any type of movement - mourning is done in major and minor, fast or slow. Michael Dücker gives us an exemplary insight into the almost inexhaustible inventiveness and originality with which composers in the Baroque period were able to mourn.

[prémont]

This excellent CD is Volume 1 of a 2 CD set, but sadly volume 2 has never appeared.

Maybe because Sophie Watillon died 2005 only 39 years old.