What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

That looks like it could be quite interesting!  Are there many traditional influences to the music or are the pieces very modern or other influences?

K

Traditional/folk influenced compositions.

[Symphonic Addict]

Reinecke: Cello Sonata No. 3 in G major

The inspired side of the composer wasn't present in this piece. Too forgettable and plain.




Dubois: Violin Sonata in A major

Much better. There's a good deal of passion in this work.

[JBS]

20 years old, non-major label, but plenty of new copies available on Amazon (although pricing is a bit unreasonable for some of them).
Very good sonics, and playing good enough to make one think they should have recorded more Beethoven than they did.

After that, time for toccatas.

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky: Symphony Of Psalms



This started very well with interesting rhythms and I continued to enjoy the rest of it .

[Madiel]

Bridge: String Sextet



A proper listen this time when I'm properly awake. It's a curious piece, at least as performed here, because there's is lot of midtempo music. The whole 1st movement, the outer sections of the 2nd, and the middle section of the 3rd all seem to be the same kind of sound. It's not that I don't like it, but it does feel as if a bit more energy in the music would change it. This is Bridge at the most lushly Romantic, getting more harmonically complex but not yet up to the big stylistic change.

[steve ridgway]

Scriabin: Piano Concerto



A pleasant and lively piece .

[Madiel]

Dvorak: Legends for piano 4-hands



So well done. Dvorak's 2nd set of piano duets has some definite differences from the 1st series of Slavonic Dances, but there's plenty of colour in these performances.

[steve ridgway]

A few Webern songs .

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki: Concerto For Violin And Orchestra No. 1



Intense stuff.

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky: Apollo



Somewhat smoother and more calming .

[Mandryka]

I was very favourably impressed by that set (I bought it when it was released in 2018). Great stuff!

Listening to her Schoenberg op 19 now - really poetic. I've just ordered her studio Schubert CD.

[ritter]

Bought yesterday at the shop of National Auditorium in Madrid, and listening to now.



Comala is a 1897 (Belgian) Prix de Roma cantata by Joseph Jongen, on texts by Paul Gilson (himself a composer), based on Ossian.

I should have learnt by now that whenever I see "Prix de Rome" on a CD cover, I better run in the opposite direction and never look back... 

[Madiel]

Bridge piano music



Listening all the way through the album is an interesting exercise, with some signs of the stylistic contrasts through Bridge's career. I don't really like the performance of the Three Sketches, which I've actually played myself. The first sketch is tossed away rather too casually. At the end of the album the Piano Sonata completely towers over everything else.

Capriccio no.1 (1905)
Three Sketches (1906)
Capriccio no.2 (1905)
The Hour Glass (1919-20)
Vignettes de Marseille (1925)
Piano Sonata (1921-24)

[Mookalafalas]

One of my favorites in the suites.

[ritter]

Some chamber music by Charles-Marie Widor...

[Mookalafalas]

 

[DavidW]

This morning on my brand new speakers...

Nielsen's violin concerto and Brahms' SQs Op 51 #1-2:

[Bachtoven]

I can imagine that purists won't like any of his additions (interludes, extra ornaments, a few register changes), but honestly, most of it went by without calling a lot of attention. It still sounds like Mozart! His playing is excellent, and the DSD256 sound is superb. Samples and more info: https://www.nativedsd.com/product/euddr2408-mozart-piano-sonatas/

[Mandryka]

Teresa Escandon. I think is really impressive, top tier. But, I'm not sure this makes sense but I won't let that stop me, it's not like the ravishing, velvety smooth, rich tones and colours, that some pianoholics really love. She's not Van Cliburn or Shura Cherkassky. Its interest lies in the rhythms and the counterpoint and phrasing.

[Linz]

Franz Schubert The Piano Sonatas, Wilhelm Kempff , CD2