What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

That's the album I have. I think the old Penguin Guide put me onto it.

That set was my introduction to Schubert's chamber music. I bought that and the Beaux Arts Trio 2fer of the piano trios.

[Madiel]

Mozart: piano sonatas 10 to 12 (K.330-332)



The Köchel catalogue gets the dating of these sonatas (and the next one) badly wrong**, but I'm following the K6 catalogue otherwise I'll lose my place.

The relatively famous no.11 in A major (with the Alla Turca finale) is actually my least favourite of the three, though I do still like it. Whereas no.10 in C major is one of my favourite Mozart piano sonatas. The 1st movement is one of the things I play on the piano the most. I wish I could play the finale like Uchida does!

**There are quite a few works where somebody seems to have reasoned that if Mozart didn't write something in Vienna, he must have written it before he moved to Vienna, as if he never went on any travels once he got there.

[Florestan]

[DavidW]

[Karl Henning]

@Cato 

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Schoenberg
Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18
Various soloists
BBC Singers, BBC SO
Boulez

From this OOP set -

[Cato]

@Cato

That work got me interested in quarter-tone music when I was 14 or so!

I think (I am not sure) it was on a CRI record.

Of interest:

"...Charles Ives wrote the Three Quarter-Tone Pieces in 1925 for a concert designed to showcase a quarter-tone piano developed by Hans Barth..."

Sadly, Hans Barth, whose quarter-tone piano concerto was considered worthy of performance by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, has become a footnote in Music History.

Supposedly his manuscripts are archived at the University of Florida, where he taught music.

See also:

https://thelistenersclub.com/2020/06/26/ivess-three-quarter-tone-pieces-adventures-in-microtonality/

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube:

Arnold Schönberg
Verklärte Nacht

Fabio Luisi & Danish National Symphony Orchestra

[Le Buisson Ardent]

On youtube:

Arnold Schönberg
Verklärte Nacht

Fabio Luisi & Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Very nice, Ilaria. I'll be curious to know your thoughts on the performance. I'm going to wait until this whole project gets done before I commit myself to it.

[Roasted Swan]

The GREAT Andre Mallabrera!!!!

[SonicMan46]

Schumann, Robert - Works for Piano Trio on the double-disc recordings below - there are so many excellent performances of these works, but I like both of these packages - now for those trying to decide among many options, reviews attached.  Dave

 

[DavidW]

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Schoenberg
Kammersymphonien Nr. 1 und 2
Vier Orchesterlieder, Op. 22
Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano
Ensemble Intercontemporain
BBC SO
Boulez

From this OOP set -

[Le Buisson Ardent]

What do you think about this performance, Dave? I own it, but I've only heard once (I believe). My go-to Moses und Aron has always been the Solti/CSO:



I really like the Kegel, too:

[Linz]

Nicolo Paganini Complete Chamber Music CD8

[Le Buisson Ardent]

NP:

Schoenberg
Suite, Op. 29
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Boulez

From this OOP set -

[Bachtoven]

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim

[JBS]

My more or less favorable impression when I first listened is sustained. The music is slightly thorny, but the pay off is good. The cadenza at the end of the concerto's middle movement was apparently improvised by Power, is over 4 minutes long, includes a distant sounding vocalise*, and was a highlight of the concerto.

*I think. If it wasn't a neighbor singing to themself on the street outside...

[ritter]

Diane Andersen plays late piano music by Gabriel Pierné: Six airs à danser, op. 38, Trois pièces formant suite de concert, op. 40, and Variations en ut mineur, op. 42.

CD3 of this set: