What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

String Quartets 2 and 3

[JBS]

Another new arrival. Now listening to the first CD of this two CD release.

The music on both CDs is the same program. On CD 1 Beghin plays the sonatas as they were published in 1760. On CD 2 he plays them with embellishments written by CPEB into a copy of the published score or on seperate manuscripts kept together in a single folder.
Not every movement received embellishments, so some tracks are exactly the same on both CDs.

Instrument is a clavichord Beghin owns,  a copy from about 2000 of a Saxon clavichord dated to about the time the sonatas were published.

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky: Agon

[Symphonic Addict]

Mozart: String Quartets 17 and 18

Even though the slow movement of the 17th didn't grab me as much as I expected, these two works have to be favorites of mine. Riveting music making and playing.

[Symphonic Addict]

Continuing my revisit of Penderecki



I liked the Fifth better than the First, but to be honest I am not in a hurry to give either one another listen.

I have the opposite preference. The first symphony is much more impactful and groundbreaking. One of the best first symphonies by a 20th-century composer if you ask me.

[steve ridgway]

Debussy: Images (arr. A. Caplet)



Listenable if I relax into it but still sounds monochrome compared to the orchestral version.

[Symphonic Addict]

Juon: Episodes concertants, for piano, violin, cello and orchestra

A quite good triple concerto despite its apparent lack of distinguishable melodies.

[JBS]

I have the opposite preference. The first symphony is much more impactful and groundbreaking. One of the best first symphonies by a 20th-century composer if you ask me.

I can see why it might have been groundbreaking. But so far the only one to thoroughly impress me has been the Seventh. I did like the Third. I still have to do the Second and the Fourth. The Sixth is not in this set: apparently Penderecki was still working on it when Naxos put the box together in 2012.

TD

[steve ridgway]

Schoenberg: Friede Auf Erden



Trying to imagine myself in 1907 .

[steve ridgway]

Isang Yun: String Quartet 5

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi: Manto

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Six Bagatelles For Wind Quintet



An early piece but nicely varied .

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky: The Rite Of Spring



A cleaned up but still delightfully primitive recording from 1929 I found somewhere on archive.org . It's like a magical window to the distant past .

[AnotherSpin]

Unexpectedly liked it.

[Daverz]

Unexpectedly liked it.

He recorded a very fine 9th with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic on Bis.

[Florestan]

[Madiel]

The radio just told me it's Carl Vine's 70th birthday. So reaching for... one of the symphonies I think.

Over the course of the workday I used streaming (even for the albums below that I actually own) to listen to the following Vine works:

Symphonies 3 and 8 (a first listen for the latter, not entirely a fan)
String quartets 3 and 5
Piano sonata no.4 (possibly a first listen to this as well)



Unaccountably I didn't get around to pulling out the 1st piano sonata which has kind of become Vine's calling card.

[pjme]

I do have some Vine somewhere in the collection...A ballet...? A symphony....?  I'll let you know.

For the moment, this old friend:

[Madiel]

Oh, what the heck.

Vine: Piano Sonata No.1



As I still don't own a recording, I figured I'd try the version from the album that has all 4 piano sonatas. Though of course if I go buy it, Vine will immediately write a 5th... 

It's good. The performance definitely had moments where it gave me the adrenaline rush that made this piece one of my favourite (relatively) contemporary works. The recording quality is high, unlike the Storm Sight album from the sonata's dedicatee Michael Kieran Harvey which annoys the hell out of me with it's muddy sound. There are still other versions to consider, but with non-Vine couplings. Sergei Babayan's performance is excellent, I remember that much.

[Florestan]