What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

Anton Bruckner After Breakfast

Symphony 8

[Traverso]

Beethoven

piano sonatas 25-24-27 & 23 "Appassionata"

[Que]

The Missa Caput it is for me  today as well.

I checked, and this is the only recording of this mass once attributed to Dufay. And a very satisfying one - one for the shopping list....  

[Que]

I like it very much -- the thing to say is that it's a real quirky set of performances in a way because of the gothic style. But I like it, he's got an affinity for the music I think.

I quite like it as well!

[Mandryka]

I checked, and this is the only recording once attributed to Dufay. And a very satisfying one - one for the shopping list....  

I enjoyed the anonymous English mass on CD 5 too.

[Lisztianwagner]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.5

Klaus Mäkelä & Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

[Karl Henning]

Again, it's so damned good!

[VonStupp]

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Bachianas Brasileiras 1
Bachianas Brasileiras 4 (version for piano)
Bachianas Brasileiras 5 (flute & bassoon)
Bachianas Brasileiras 6

Donna Brown, soprano
Jean Louis Steuerman, piano
Sato Moughalian, flute
Alexandre Silverio, bassoon
Antonio Meneses, cello
São Paulo SO cellos - Roberto Minczuk

VS

[Karl Henning]

Janáček
Overture to Z mrtvého domu (From the House of the Dead)
Philharmonia
Libor Pešek

[Karl Henning]

Janáček
Overture to Z mrtvého domu (From the House of the Dead)
Philharmonia
Libor Pešek

Now: Taras Bulba, same lineup.

[Todd]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner String Quartet in C Minor, Quatuor Diotima
Friedrich Klose String Quartet in E-Flat Major

[André]

John Corigliano
Symphony 1
Daniel Barenboim
Chicago SO
Erato

Not a composer I know well. Possibly the wrong sort of energy for a late night first listen, but this is pretty good so far. It may be reflective of real pain and emotional turbulence, but I was pretty wide awake and prepared 🙂

Corigliano's grappling with loss and harrowing mental anguish is well described in this work. Anything with a reflective cello melody like Guilio's Song, tugs at the heart strings and is a helpful relief from Corigliano's torment.

It's a very fine work. I heard it here in Montréal in 2004. The composer gave a talk in the lobby after the concert. The kind of night to remember a long time - although apparently Lang Lang played a concerto in the first part of the concert, something I have no recollection of. I guess my memory made a selection of what was really important.

[André]

Some more C.P.E.

[André]

Currently embarked on Siegfried, 1953 Bayreuth production. Deluxe cast : Windgassen, Hotter, Kuen, Mödl, Streich, Neidlinger, Greindl, the crème de la crème in each role.



Siegfried has slain Fafner. Previously, the Forging Song was thrillingly sung (not shouted) by Wolfgang Windgassen - flawless legato, strong and pure top notes, stentorian, laser-focused heroic tenor tones. Excellent sound, making it hard to believe it's a live recording from 1953.

It's a long opera, so Windgassen's 'Das ist kein mann' and  Martha Mödl's 'Heil dir Sonne' will have to wait another day.

[JBS]

First listen


The Amazon page has a brief clip from one of Mrs Philarmonica's sonatas

https://www.amazon.com/Philarmonica-Matteis-Purcell-Ayrton/dp/B0CHYSDD71/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr1_2

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Musica Ricercata

[steve ridgway]

Schoenberg: Four Songs For Voice And Orchestra

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Réveil Des Oiseaux

[Que]

As Mandryka already pointed out, this recording contains another anonymous English mass: the Missa veterem hominem, like the Missa caput on vol. 4 also from the 1440s and closely related. Good stuff...