What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Almost all those works are long overdue for another hearing by me. I was going to say I don't remember Cantata being boring, until I realized I don't remember it much at all.

In comparison to many Stravinsky scores, the Cantata doesn't really have a striking profile. And arguably I have such clear impressions of the piece because I took three classes specifically targeting Stravinsky at both UVa and UB, but yes, I really enjoy the Cantata.

[Florestan]

Don't know this one but I have these two, which are sheer delight:

[Todd]

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Complete Piano Sonatas, Rudolf Buchbinder CD7

[Irons]

Miaskovsky: String Quartet No.2



Pared down and more concise then it's predecessor, the 1st.

[Linz]

Bedřich Smetana Má Vlast, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ančerl

[Karl Henning]

Bedřich Smetana Má Vlast, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ančerl

Classic!

[Karl Henning]

Very interesting:

Superb piece, @Bachtoven !

[Bachtoven]

This seems to be a John Ogdon day, starting with one of my favorite recordings by him, a few clinkers aside.


And this arrived an hour ago. It's excellent, as one might expect.

[Bachtoven]

Superb piece, @Bachtoven !

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. He should write more chamber pieces, either with or without guitar. We used to be Facebook friends, but FB is now banned in Russia (he lives in Moscow), so we've lost touch.

[foxandpeng]

Tālivaldis Ķeniņš
Symphony 1
Andris Poga
Latvian NSO
Ondine

Ķeniņs is always worthwhile.

[Symphonic Addict]

Liszt: Die Ideale & Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe

His last two tone poems and again, very different each other. The latter (composed in 1881-83) shows a mild degree of sophistication with respect to the previous twelve.

Having revisited all of these tone poems, my assessment of them is as follows:

Really inspired:
Tasso, Les Préludes, Hunnenschlacht

Nearly as great as the three above:
Héroïde funèbre, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, Hamlet

Good, but not too strong:
Mazeppa, Festklänge, Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, Prometheus

The least interesting and/or most banal:
Die Ideale, Hungaria, Orpheus

[Karl Henning]

Liszt: Die Ideale & Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe

His last two tone poems and again, very different each other. The latter (composed in 1881-83) shows a mild degree of sophistication with respect to the previous twelve.

Having revisited all of these tone poems, my assessment of them is as follows:

Really inspired:
Tasso, Les Préludes, Hunnenschlacht

Nearly as great as the three above:
Héroïde funèbre, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, Hamlet

Good, but not too strong:
Mazeppa, Festklänge, Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, Prometheus

The least interesting and/or most banal:
Die Ideale, Hungaria, Orpheus

Interesting, even as my own assessment is otherwise. 

[Symphonic Addict]

Interesting, even as my own assessment is otherwise.

It would not surprise me! Appreciations and perceptions are subject to personal tastes and they may change or not over the time.

[Karl Henning]

It would not surprise me! Appreciations and perceptions are subject to personal tastes and they may change or not over the time.

Absolutely. I know you won't etch these in marble!

[Bachtoven]

Superb playing and sound. She plays a very demanding program, including Nikita Koshkin's Sonata 2.

[Symphonic Addict]

Dvorak: Piano Trios 1 and 2

Is it normal, or even legal, that anyone like him has had this skill for genuine melodic inventiveness? Astonishing to say the least.

[JBS]

A superb performance of The Bells. So is it with the Symphonic Dances I suppose, but I don't respond to this work as much (except its first movement
).

For me it's the reverse. Or at least I've yet to hear a performance of The Bells that makes me want to hear it again.

TD


Ave Maria IV S. 545
Annees de pelerinage Troisieme annee "Italie" S. 163 Nos 2-4
Aux cypres de la Villa de Este I
Aux cypres de la Villa de Este II
Les Jeux d'eau a la Villa de Este
Recueillement S. 204
La lugubre gondola S. 200 1882 Version
La lugubre gondola S. 200 1885 Version
Annees de pelerinage Deuxieme annee "Italie" S. 161 No 7
Apres une lecture du Dante, Fantasia quasi sonata
Ave Maria fur die grosse Klavierschule von Lebert und Stark S. 182 "Die Glocken von Rom"

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Quattro Pezzi

[steve ridgway]

Varèse: Octandre