What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Poulenc

Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone



Engaging and diverting, and skilled music. Still from reasonably early in Poulenc's career (both 1922, and both revised in 1945).

[Todd]

2.

[steve ridgway]

Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 5

[Harry]

Held by the Ears.
See back cover for details.
Palladian Ensemble.
Recorded in 1999. Venue unknown.
This album was awarded with the Diaspon d'Or.


An extremely entertaining collection of works by Matteis. Played with taste and tact. The sheer joy of playing by the Palladian's includes sonatas, ayres and other gems, making it almost necessary to have and hold it. Some virtuosic recorder playing too! Well recorded. Ravishing! Linn knew how to do that.

[AnotherSpin]

CD 3, 4. Columbia recordings from 50s.

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Complete Piano Sonatas, Rudolf Buchbinder, CD 9

[ritter]

@Symphonic Addict  alerted us of an upcoming release on Naxos of works by Vittorio Rieti, and this prompted me to pull out one of the (IIRC) two CDs of that composer's music in my collection:



I remember getting this because Rieti's name came up in relation to Stravinsky in some books.

[JBS]

Last night

This morning

[Iota]

This strayed across my path recently and has been a thoroughly absorbing experience. All performed on a modern Steinway D, it shines a light on all sorts of beauties in the music, quite revelatory in its introspective way. The Sweelinck Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la and Gibbons Pavan I found particularly affecting, though it's all charming.
MRM seems a pianist of distinctive sensibility, will be interested to hear her in contrasting repertoire.

[Spotted Horses]

Beethoven, Piano Sonata No 2, Annie Fischer, then Claudio Arrau (analog cycle)





A reminder that I should listen to early Beethoven more often, rather than obsessing on the late works.

I've yet to find a performance that makes the second movement, Largo, work for me. Both of these recordings satisfied. Arrau's recording of the finale strikes me as utterly perfect.

[kyjo]

Yes. 

But now honestly, the greatest of them all is Lehar...

No, wait, it's Kalman, right?...

No, wait... I give up!

 

I'll have to start getting into operetta at some point, Andrei! I did hear an aria from Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin recently that was tremendous fun!

[Mandryka]

This strayed across my path recently and has been a thoroughly absorbing experience. All performed on a modern Steinway D, it shines a light on all sorts of beauties in the music, quite revelatory in its introspective way. The Sweelinck Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la and Gibbons Pavan I found particularly affecting, though it's all charming.
MRM seems a pianist of distinctive sensibility, will be interested to hear her in contrasting repertoire.

Very good, delicate and refined.

[Iota]

Beethoven, Piano Sonata No 2, Annie Fischer, then Claudio Arrau (analog cycle)

A reminder that I should listen to early Beethoven more often, rather than obsessing on the late works.

A place of inexhaustible treasures, imo.

[Karl Henning]

The problem I have with Orpheus is that it's not particularly eventful,

There's mild irony in the fact that many have derided Liszt for flash and drama. Yes, I find Orpheus gently lyrical-pastoral. It's at the least a nice contrast.

[Todd]

A little something from one of my top fifty Russian composers.

[AnotherSpin]

Piano Sonata No. 17. Incredible performance. There's no point in analyzing the details of how it was done. Words are unnecessary, terminology means nothing. Finished listening and immediately started it again.

[Bachtoven]

[foxandpeng]

I really like Fernstrom!

[foxandpeng]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 7 'Antartica'
Andrew Davis
Bergen PO
Chandos

This version of #7 feels less glacial than the Manze or Thomson, to me, at least. It feels less austere, somehow. Not saying I don't like it, it just presents as less otherworldly. I'd forgotten how much I like the Manze recording, actually.  I know I'm in the minority on this, BTW.

Probably just me.

[Linz]

Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178, also In Natures Realm and Othello, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Karel Ančerl