What are you listening 2 now?

[ritter]

Too much Romantic piano music for me today. I needed something completely different and went for this:



Here's a zarzuela that even @ritter might greatly enjoy. Boccherini's sensuously mellifluous style works wonders when put to comic use. The singers are very good with respect to voices (less so with respect to diction, though, despite being an all-Spanish cast) and the orchestra sounds wonderful. SOTA sound. The only quibble I have is that they excised the dialogues and this makes the action difficult to follow --- it's more like a succession of rather disconnected arias and ensembles than a coherent whole. But with such glorious music as Boccherini's, who cares for the action, which is your typical 18th century silliness anyway? Highly recommended.

I very much like Clementina. That's a nice recording, and I had the chance to see it fully staged here in Madrid at the Teatro de la Zarzuela some years ago. A very enjoyable evening at the opera, that was...

[Todd]

[DavidW]

[Lisztianwagner]

Johann Sebastian Bach
Die Kunst der Fuge

Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, 1872 First concept version. Ed. William Carragan, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner

[AnotherSpin]

[Linz]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Keyboard Music, Vol. 5. Miklos Spanyi

[Bachtoven]

An excellent new release.

[ritter]

Hindemith's The Four Temperaments (which would become the first ballet George Balanchine choreographed for his and Lincoln Kirstein's Ballet Society —the forerunner of the New York City Ballet—, with a young Tanaquil Le Clercq as one of the lead ballerinas) and the Piano Concerto.  Siegfried Mauser (piano), with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Werner Andreas Albert.

[SonicMan46]

Tchaikovsky, Peter - String Quartets + Sextet with the two groups below (I guess old and new school) - decided to keep them both!     Dave

 

[Todd]

The Dutilleux.

[Karl Henning]

And Liberace included the Polish Dance in an album that dates to 1952

Fascinating!

[Linz]

Wilhelm Stenhammar Symphony No. 1 in F major, The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

[Symphonic Addict]

Cras: String Quartet

What a tremendous piece. It doesn't feature the exotic, the marine quality that other pieces of his do. Instead, a solid musical argument with a notable mournful demeanor (above all in the first two movements), refined writing, distinctive rhythms, is what abound in this masterful, rather ambitious quartet which I put just behind the ones by Debussy and Ravel. Fascinating rediscovery.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Lenny, Zarathustra, etc..

[VonStupp]

Wilhelm Stenhammar
Excelsior!
Symphony 2 in G minor
Gothenburg SO - Neeme Järvi

A lot of interesting ideas in this symphony, and the overture is great fun.
VS

[SonicMan46]

Tchaikovsky, Peter (1840-1893) - Piano Music w/ Viktoria Postnikova on 7-discs - owned the older Erato release (far left) - now on Amazon and new cover art - does anyone need this much solo PT piano music? OTOH, Postnikova is quite good and the works are an enjoyable listen (reviews attached for those interested). Just starting in on my Peter T. collection (own about 40 CDs - see attachment - think I need to 'thin out' the symphonies?).

Now I was wondering who else may have recorded this MUCH of the composer's solo piano music?  There are some older recordings, BUT I was reviewing the 10 CD set of Valentina Lisitsa (second row of images), a newer offering but seems OOP as a physical item (except 'used); available on Spotify though - BUT just wondering if others know her performances in these NUMEROUS compositions?  Thanks.  Dave

   

 

[hopefullytrusting]

Simply beautiful, in fact, I might even call it sublime.

[Symphonic Addict]

Brun: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major

The opening movement Chaconne has an ominous character I found quite effective. It's been one of the most interesting ones so far, albeit its ending was not particularly satisfactory.

[foxandpeng]

An excellent new release.

Wow. A second release of this so quickly! How encouraging 😁

Now playing this, obviously 🎻😁