What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

[SonicMan46]

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908) - just pulling out some selections today (collection below) - the 4-disc Bakels box qualifies for one-stop shopping (one of the attached reviews list the recordings, if interested) - Scheherazade & Capriccio Espagnol receive some negative comments, so supplemented w/ the Telarc recording.  Dave

   

   

[NumberSix]

Now streaming on Spotify:



Mozart: "Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Serenade No. 9
Mackerras, Prague Chamber Orchestra

Perfect Sunday Morning Music, while I finish my coffee.

[NumberSix]

Yesterday, I found a youtube channel called Pearl Acoustics, where the guy takes a piece and breaks it down - also giving some recommended recordings. He has a video on the Schubert Sonata No. 21, though I have not watched it yet.

His videos on the Eroica and the Sibelius No. 3 were great. In the former, he compares the 4 different Karajan recordings, playing clips from each. In the latter, he plays a lot of Sibelius clips across about 6 different recordings.

[VonStupp]

Franz Schmidt
Piano Quintet in G Major
Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major

Rainer Keuschnig, left-hand piano
Ernst Ottensamer, clarinet
Josef Hell & Peter Wachter, violins
Peter Pecha, viola
Gerhard Iberer & Leonhard Wallisch, cellos

I am becoming rather enthusiastic over Schmidt's chamber music. These are great!

Will probably move on to the A Major in a day or two.
VS

[Cato]

For those who might be newer members, but also for our usual crew:

Karl Henning: Out in the Sun

 

[NumberSix]

Now streaming on Spotify:



Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Nigel Kennedy, English Chamber Orchestra


Speaking of someone else who wasn't liked by the traditionalists, even though he was wildly popular and brought in new fans. . .

I wasn't into classical music back then, and even I remember this album.

[Mapman]

Franz Schmidt
Piano Quintet in G Major
Clarinet Quintet in B-flat Major

Rainer Keuschnig, left-hand piano
Ernst Ottensamer, clarinet
Josef Hell & Peter Wachter, violins
Peter Pecha, viola
Gerhard Iberer & Leonhard Wallisch, cellos

I am becoming rather enthusiastic over Schmidt's chamber music. These are great!

Will probably move on to the A Major in a day or two.
VS

Your post reminded me that I've been meaning to listen to Schmidt's clarinet quintets!

Schmidt: Clarinet Quintet in A



I guess I'll need to listen to the quintet in B♭ at some point.

[AnotherSpin]

[Henk]

[NumberSix]

Very Wes Anderson album art.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Gurrelieder

Susan Dunn, Siegfried Jerusalem, Brigitte Fassbender, Hermann Becht, Peter Haage, Hans Hotter
Riccardo Chailly & RSO Berlin

[ShineyMcShineShine]

Now streaming on Spotify:



Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Nigel Kennedy, English Chamber Orchestra


Speaking of someone else who wasn't liked by the traditionalists, even though he was wildly popular and brought in new fans. . .

I wasn't into classical music back then, and even I remember this album.

Same. New wave haircut, big marketing push, then forgotten.

[André]

It was a CD that I heard in a friend's apartment in the early 90s, and I was simply left speechless. It felt like I was hearing well-known music for the first time ever. The difficulty was that the availability of CDs in Ukraine at that time was strictly limited, and I had no way to buy the same one for myself. A few years later, the situation improved, and I bought the disc. But somehow, I couldn't recreate that very first impression. I suppose that happens often in life. Will listen to it again, who knows.

Absolutely. First impressions are exceedingly hard to replicate. Something goes away and we are left to wonder what exactly. It does not diminish the value of that special feeling.

[Karl Henning]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concertos 1 and 2
Jukka-Pekka Saraste
WDR Sinfonieorchester
Hyperion

Outstanding, of course. #2 most of all. Last ones tonight, but a great way to close out Friday into Saturday's small hours.

Heard that very cellist play #2 in Symphony Hall. 

[André]

Re-posted from the Cello concertos thread.

Listening to Gavin Bryars's cello concerto 'Farewell to Philosophy' (comp. 1995) as I write. A 35-minute work in 7movements (unbroken), firmly new agey in feeling. Late Kancheli, Silvestrov or Rautavaara might be invoked to provide a comparison. Beautiful, not generic or derivative, it speaks to the heart. I had not listened to this in at least a decade but remembered having been impressed by this work.

Give this a try if you can locate a copy or streaming.

[foxandpeng]

Re-posted from the Cello concertos thread.

Listening to Gavin Bryars's cello concerto 'Farewell to Philosophy' (comp. 1995) as I write. A 35-minute work in 7movements (unbroken), firmly new agey in feeling. Late Kancheli, Silvestrov or Rautavaara might be invoked to provide a comparison. Beautiful, not generic or derivative, it speaks to the heart. I had not listened to this in at least a decade but remembered having been impressed by this work.

Give this a try if you can locate a copy or streaming.

Seconded. Deserving of much attention.

[Mapman]

Mozart: String Quartet #22, K 589
Dover Quartet

Another purchase from yesterday's library sale. The final rondo is especially fine, with some inversions of the rondo theme at the end! The quartet of Curtis graduates play excellently.

[Bachtoven]

[Symphonic Addict]

Suk: A Summer's Tale

Very good interpretation of this elusive work, but that quality is what I find fascinating and that grips me. A work that demands attention and pays dividends on doing it. I consider that this is his best work in terms of orchestration. Simply magnificent.




Takemitsu: From me flows what you call time

On me it provoked a feeling of... timelessness. Also flotation, meditation. I liked the use of the percussion, principally. Another example of what I consider a nice palate cleanser.




Sumera: Concerto per voci e strumenti

The strumenti are stringed instruments. Engaging and quirky in spades, but not devoid of certain mysticism (properly heard in the sublime 2nd movement). This is one of his most attractive compositions in my view.