What are you listening 2 now?

[Ian]

Just brilliant!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Azerbaijani Piano Concertos. Farhad Badalbeyli (piano), Murad Adigezalzade (piano) & Joan Rogers (soprano). Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky.

[Todd]

[AnotherSpin]

Azerbaijani Piano Concertos. Farhad Badalbeyli (piano), Murad Adigezalzade (piano) & Joan Rogers (soprano). Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky.

A strange choice of photograph for the music of Azerbaijani composers. Шуша (Shusha) — a city that was occupied by Armenia for nearly three decades with military support from the Kremlin and almost complete detachment of the West. For the people of Azerbaijan, this city has been a source of constant pain until recently, when the entire territory of Azerbaijan was liberated from Armenian-Russian occupation. Since the early 1990s, Russian language is no longer used for geographical names in Azerbaijan. The correct spelling is Şuşa.

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VW String Quartets:

[Irons]

I don't think I've ever disagreed with a take more than this. Britten's Piano Concerto is one of the greatest such works of the 20th century. Prokofievian and Ravelian to its very core, full of vigour and life, and one of the great slow movements in the British literature.

Single handily you have sorted first on my playlist this evening.

[Traverso]

Ruth Crawford Seeger

[SonicMan46]

Woelfl, Joseph (1773-1812) - Keyboard Sonatas w/ the performers on the cover art below - Colladant is on fortepiano; others a modern instrument - there are a total of 14 works (see list below) - according to the Wiki link he wrote 68 'piano sonatas' (one review, attached, states 125!). Colladant recorded 3 volumes (the first are 'Piano Trios' and the third, piano-harp duets).  Dave

Joseph Woelfl (also Wölfl) was an Austrian pianist and composer; born in Salzburg, where he studied music under Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn. Moving to Vienna in 1790 he visited Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and may have taken lessons from him. Woelfl was tall (over 6 feet), and with an enormous finger span (his hand could strike a thirteenth, according to his contemporary Václav Tomášek); to his wide grasp of the keyboard he owed a facility of execution, especially in his improvised performances. (Source)

Woelfl, Joseph - Keyboard Sonatas Owned (14)
Op. 6, Nos. 1-3 - Riva (Toccata - Vol. 2)
Op. 25 - Nakamatsu (Harmonium Mundi)
Op. 27, No. 2 - Riva (Toccata - Vol. 1)
Op. 28, Nos. 1-3 - Colladant* (Mandala - V. 2)
Op. 33, Nos. 1-3 - Nakamatsu (Harmonium Mundi)
Op. 38 - Riva (Toccata - Vol. 1)
Op. 58 - Riva (Toccata - Vol. 2)
WoO 113 - Riva (Toccata - Vol. 1)
*Colladant on a fortepiano

[Traverso]

CPE Bach

Flute concerto in D minor Wq,22

[DavidW]

It has been a long time, and I shouldn't have let it go so long:

[foxandpeng]

It has been a long time, and I shouldn't have let it go so long:

Ooh, very nice. Love Norgard.

Thread:

Robert Still
Symphonies 3 & 4
Sir Eugene Goossens
LSO
Myer Fredman
Royal PO
Lyrita

After a positive experience with the Four String Quartets Naxos release, time to poke his symphonies... being coupled with Searle Symphony 2 is a good sign.

No complaints so far!

[Harry]

Ooh, very nice. Love Norgard.

Thread:

Robert Still
Symphonies 3 & 4
Sir Eugene Goossens
LSO
Myer Fredman
Royal PO
Lyrita

After a positive experience with the Four String Quartets Naxos release, time to poke his symphonies... being coupled with Searle Symphony 2 is a good sign.

No complaints so far!

I have put that CD on my list too. I like both composers for their orchestral works.

[Todd]

[kyjo]

Rawsthorne: Piano Concerto No. 2

I didn't remember how magnificent this concerto is. It's right up to the English greatest piano concertos without hesitation.

Indeed, Rawsthorne's two piano concerti are undoubtedly two of his most immediately approachable works, as many of his other works tend to be very serious and sometimes a bit dour. The 1st PC is also highly enjoyable in its Prokofiev-like neoclassical wit.

[kyjo]

String Quartets 2 and 3

These rather academic quartets didn't strike me as being anywhere near the "cream" of the Raff "crop", but I'm curious what you thought of them. His SQ no. 7, 4 piano trios, and 2 piano quartets are a different matter altogether - they're full of masterfully crafted and melodically inspired music.

[NumberSix]

Britten: Piano Concerto (Howard Shelley), Violin Concerto (Tasmin Little)
Edward Gardner, BBC Philharmonic

[vandermolen]

Indeed, Rawsthorne's two piano concerti are undoubtedly two of his most immediately approachable works, as many of his other works tend to be very serious and sometimes a bit dour. The 1st PC is also highly enjoyable in its Prokofiev-like neoclassical wit.

+ The Symphonic Studies

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Weinberg: Symphony No.5

[Lisztianwagner]

Vítězslav Novák
Slovak Suite

Libor Pešek & RLPO

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The Bijlsma cello suites have been rereleased several times with different covers - somewhat confusing.

But the recording using the Stradivarius "Servais" cello is his second recording (1992) - the first of your pictures.

His first recording was for Seon (1979) on a Cello by Goffriller - the second of your pictures.

For the first recording (suite 6) he uses a violoncello piccolo from South Tyrol (1700).

https://bachcellosuites.co.uk/bach-cello-suites-home/list-of-reviews/

Are these historical cellos mostly made of spruce? Just curious.