What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

Komm, Jesu, Komm....Motet

Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam

[Harry]

ANTONIO DE CABEZÓN (c. 1510 - 1566).
Organ Works.
See back cover for details.
Léon Berben plays the Gothic Organ (c. 1425/30) of St. Andreas Church at Soest-Ostönnen (Germany).
Recordings: September 2018, St.Andreas, Soest-Ostönnen.
a1= 482 Hz at 16°C.
Temperament after Schlick, 1511, in an interpretation by Harald Vogel

Rerun. A fantastic recording, and superb performed. No wishes open here.

[DavidW]

Nielsen's 1st

[Todd]

Disc one.

[Cato]

Thanks to Dayton Classical Music Radio...

Holst - Indra

[SonicMan46]

Ravel, Maurice - ending my Ravel listening with the recordings below - Dave

     

[Cato]

After Siegfried, embarking on Götterdämmerung from this set:

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This performance with Joseph Keilberth conducting is not to be missed!

Hindemith: Cardillac



With the great Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau!

[DavidW]

[Karl Henning]

The Taneyev Quartet playing Myaskovsky's first string quartet in a minor, Op. 33 № 1.

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

The Taneyev Quartet playing Myaskovsky's first string quartet in a minor, Op. 33 № 1.

Probably just my second go at this quartet. The Andante sostenuto is predictably exquisite. Gotta wade right into the Op. 33 № 2, in c minor

[Karl Henning]

[Karl Henning]

Somehow I never really connected with this piece until now. The first time I listened to the celebrated ECM disc, long ago, I didn't dislike it, but didn't think past a "pleasant background music" feeling.

[aukhawk]

I'd like to belatedly join in the chorus of appreciation for Messiaen's Livre du Saint Sacrement.

It is a very religious work, which develops in eighteen pieces, applying the graces of Christ to each feast of the liturgy. This work could be described as a great symphonic poem carried by the immensity of the organ instrument. ...

Fortunately, not having a religious bone in my body doesn't seem to be any impediment to appreciating or at least enjoying this music.  I enjoy quiet, contemplative music, and I really like crunchy chromatic chords, and Messiaen is a past master at both.
The version i have owned for a while is played by Jennifer Bate.  Bate's Messiaen credentials are second to none, to the extent that, when the composer abruptly decided to step away from his commitments as a concert recitalist, he handed his entire future diary of organ recitals over to Bate.  It was Bate's recordings, made around 1980, that first introduced me to Messiaen's music.  She gave the British premiere of Livre du Saint Sacrement at Westminster Cathedral in 1986, and made this world premiere recording in May 1987.


Messiaen, The Organ Works - Jennifer Bate

Like the later recording by Hakim, Bate used the organ at L'Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité, with the dubious advantages of having the composer in attendance and apparently running interferance on 'his' organ stops (see image above), and of being recorded by the legendary sound engineer, Bob Auger (who I have always felt produced a rather dry sound - though admittedly it's good here).

I shall look forward to at least sampling the other recordings that were mentioned above.  After all, premiere recordings are rarely the best, when viewed in retrospect.  I note that the Gramophone review of this (pictured) set leans towards Gillian Weir.  I also have the recording by Paul Jacobs (recorded in New York) but haven't really listened to it, always preferring Jennifer Bate as my first pick.

[Karl Henning]

A lovely little piece:

[VonStupp]

Franz Schmidt
String Quartet in A Major
String Quartet in G Major
Franz Schubert Quartet of Vienna

I really, really liked the A Major Quartet, even if the same magic didn't happen for me in Schmidt's G Major.

It has been impossible to track down a recording of the Moyzes Quartet in this same music. I'll keep searching.
VS

[Linz]

Beethoven Piano Trios,  Wilhelm Kempff, Henryk Szeryng, Pierre Fournier

[Bachtoven]

I'm having a Britsh morning. Both are excellent.

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No.3

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
André Previn & London Symphony Orchestra

[Todd]