What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Mozart: replacement movements he wrote for the violin concertos

Adagio in E major, K.261
Rondo in B flat major, K.269/261a

[AnotherSpin]

[Traverso]

Scarlatti

Sonatas KK 113-125

[Roasted Swan]

Szymanowski is a good idea. Currently on Stabat Mater .

A GREAT work - these Wit/Naxos recordings are also very fine in this music (and much else tbh!)

[Traverso]

Schubert

You don't see this recording very often, as far as I know it was never released on CD but it is present in the complete Haebler box.

[vandermolen]

Norman Dello Joio
'Meditation on Ecclesiastes'
My favourite work by this interesting composer:

[vandermolen]

A GREAT work - these Wit/Naxos recordings are also very fine in this music (and much else tbh!)

Oh yes! A fabulous CD (all three works)

[Conrad Veidt fan]

I've got a free weekly ticket to the Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert hall and am watching as many concerts in the week as I can.  Right now it's the Tchaikovsky Symphony #5 with Petrenko out front.  It's hard to believe he's trumped the magnificent performance of Symphony #6 but this one is absolutely off the charts.  I've never heard anything like it!!!  MAGNIFICENT.

[Madiel]

Dvorak: Biblical Songs

The two versions that I both own and like.

[DavidW]

The 7th:

[VonStupp]

Enrique Granados
La Maja y el Ruiseñor
Piezas Sobre Cantos Populares Españoles (orch. Ferrer)

Frances Lucey, soprano
Gran Canary PO - Adrian Leaper

VS


Flower Seller, Hans Zatzka

[Todd]

[Selig]

I don't know if I'll proceed with this set (Quinney only got 4 volumes in, it seems), but this first volume is still very solid...
 

[SonicMan46]

Handel, GF - Harpsichord Suites, V.3 - a new acquisition w/ Gilbert Rowland doing the Suites on the back cover of the 2-disc set performing 8 works above HWV 441 (the high number on the sets I owned, bottom row) - thought my Borgstede & Schirmer recordings covered most of Handel's KB compositions, i.e. HWV 426-441, but according to his catalog HERE there are many others, i.e. HWV 442-612! Now, there are just 12 more 'Suites' in the latter list plus a wide variety of other named works.  Dave

P.S. for those interested in Rowland's other 2-disc sets (V.1 & 2), nearly all the performances are from the HWV 426-441 group of Suites, except for 4 which complete the higher numbers on V.3, which would only triplicate most of what I already have in my collection.

 

 

[Spotted Horses]

Finished listening to both books of Debussy's Preludes, over a few days, Shimkus.



I don't know how I got the notion to buy this set (download). It is nicely done, not destined to become an absolute favorite, but it is always interesting to hear a different performance of this subtle music. I'm no pianist, but when I look at the score of the preludes it impresses me that I have no idea what the music should sound like, based on the notes on the page. There is wide latitude.

I will list to Pollini next, I think, after some non-Debussy listening.

[Bachtoven]

At a little over 2 hours, I wouldn't call this "brief," but compared to several of his other works, it actually is!

[SonicMan46]

Hummel, Johann (1778-1837) - Piano Concertos - only the top 3 below for a listen today, but own all 7 CDs - Hummel wrote 8 'Piano Concertos', 6 w/ Opus numbers and several not as shown in the list below - the 2 discs w/ Commellato et al are on fortepiano - symbols assigned each to the recordings for those interested.  Dave

Hummel's Piano Concertos
Op. 17, Concerto for Piano/Violin in G major&+
Op. 34a/36, Concerto for Piano, No. 1 in C major+
Op. 85, Concerto for Piano, No. 2 in A minor*&
Op. 89, Concerto for Piano, No. 3 in B minor*
Op. 110, Concerto for Piano, No. 4 in E major+
Op. 113, Concerto for Piano, No. 5 in A♭ major+
Op. post. 1 – Piano Concerto in F major+
WoO 24 – Piano Concerto in A major&+
* Stephen Hough - 1 CD
& Alessandro Commellato (fortepiano) - 2 CDs
+ Howard Shelley - 4 CDs

 

     

[Lisztianwagner]

Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No.2

Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Claudio Abbado & Wiener Philharmoniker

[Todd]

4.

[VonStupp]

Gustav Mahler
Piano Quartet
Kremerata Musica

I remain contented with what chamber music I can hear from Mahler, but it seems a lost opportunity for what could have been.
VS