What are you listening 2 now?

[NumberSix]

Checking out the new Mozart album from Khatia Buniatishvili.

[NumberSix]

Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Mackerras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra


I forgot today is Saturday, and I needed to get in a Saturday Symphony! So I will pause Ms. Buniatishvili following her lovely Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 (and probably get back to her tomorrow), and we will engage in a symphonic quickie from Wolfie.

[Karl Henning]

Well he did seem to feel he was competing with Beethoven.

He felt an awful shadow. 

[NumberSix]

Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Norrington, Stuttgart

Mozart symphonies make me happy, and this one makes me the happiest of all. Thank you, Milos Foreman, for introducing me to it 40 years ago.

[Mookalafalas]

Disc three.

Theme? I thought you were playing through Cortot after your earlier post. When someone just mentions a disk number, they're generally working through the whole box. Or, are you going a set of boxes, playing "disk 3" etc. from each?

TD

[NumberSix]

Some Bach from Glenn Gould.


ETA: Wow, I really love the "Sarabande" from French Suite No 6. It's such a nice contrast from the blazing speed and busyness of what's come before.

[Karl Henning]

Mozart: Symphony No. 25
Norrington, Stuttgart

Mozart symphonies make me happy, and this one makes me the happiest of all. Thank you, Milos Foreman, for introducing me to it 40 years ago.

I do enjoy that box.

[NumberSix]

I do enjoy that box.

I have to admit that I checked out Norrington because Hurwitz raves so strongly against him.

I was curious.

Turns out I've liked pretty much everything I have heard from him. Took me a minute to get used to the fast London Classical Players LvB 5th, though. But I had not heard much in the way of HIP Beethoven at the time.   

[NumberSix]

But: Is it just me, or am I hearing talking? Or maybe that's the infamous Gould humming? I don't like it. It's distracting. I keep pausing the music to see if I am hearing people outside walking by.

[steve ridgway]

Kagel: Das Konzert



This was an unexpectedly pleasant 25 minute piece for solo flute, harp, percussion and strings .

[Que]

I'm generally not a big fan of Gregorian chant - it really depends on how it is done.  And I've had good experiences in this with this ensemble before, so:



https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/les-trois-marie

PS It is nicely done. Some might object to the use of female voice, creating an "eathereal" sound. For once I do not mind ... it creates wonderful transpancy and makes the music lighter. This will be perfect for a repeated listening around Easter.

PS II The booklet indicates that this 14th century liturgical Easter drama was performed by Benedictine nuns in the Abbey of Origny-Sainte-Benoîte. So the use of female voices is completely authentic!

[steve ridgway]

Stockhausen: Solo Für Melodie-Instrument Mit Rückkopplung



This performance of solo trombone accompanied by tape delays, snatches of primitive electronic chatter and the German national anthem from Hymnen worked out pretty well .

[Que]

After an enthusiastic review of Que I decided to buy this recording. I found a buyer in GB and purchased the CD on September 6. I paid custom tax twice, once to the seller, but at customs they found that this was not enough, so I paid almost double the price of the CD because of the administration costs and such.
A month ago I received a message that after payment the mail would be delivered, this happened a full month after the announcement.

Anyway, now I'm going to listen....

Damn! I agree with Harry: ordering from the UK is a real sh%t show...    And - so it seems - unlike the custom services in some of the countries our fellow members live in, Dutch customs is pretty much infallible and quite ruthless. Apart from the VAT, it is the administrative "handling fee" that is killing for any small order.

UK sellers that charge UK VAT for items ordered from abroad are simply wrong but too lazy I guess... I once objected and got a reply avoiding a straight answer. "If you order with us you have to pay VAT (in the UK)". Well, no... that doesn't make sense if I do not live in the UK... I wonder if this is even legal in the UK... I highly doubt it.

UK sellers are able to join a EU scheme that enables them to collect VAT for orders (under €150) from the EU and those packages will fly through customs without any issue. Presto Music does this, so it is save to order with them. But it seems most UK sellers cannot be bothered and rather lose their customers from the EU. Some have another work around by dispatching orders from the EU from a location within the EU.

https://vat-one-stop-shop.ec.europa.eu/index_en


Anyway, after all this I do hope you still enjoyed the recording? 

[Que]

Moving up just another century, because this recording I found in my mailbox. This completes for me the Fayrfax series of five volumes by The Cardinall's Musick on disc.

[Daverz]

John Ogdon playing his own Piano Concerto.  It's really a very fine concerto.

[Que]

Musically still in the 16th century with lute music by Albert de Rippe (ca. 1500 - 1551), who was actually an Italian from  Ripa near Mantua who ended up at the French royal court!



A wonderful recording, and the presentation - a digipack with a pretty booklet containing interesting notes - is an ample reward for getting this on disc.

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/rippe-un-perfaict-sonneur-de-leut-paul-odette

[Iota]

I'm suppressing several snarky remarks, and will only observe: I wish I could write so bad a First Symphony.  [Brahms]

Well he did seem to feel he was competing with Beethoven.

As human beings we seem to find it very easy to impose such shackles upon ourselves, but the 'ode to joy theme' in the last movement of the Brahms always feels like paean of love to LVB, to me.

[Todd]

Theme? I thought you were playing through Cortot after your earlier post. When someone just mentions a disk number, they're generally working through the whole box. Or, are you going a set of boxes, playing "disk 3" etc. from each?

I'm listening to both the Cortot and Rubinstein boxes.  There's no theme, no schedule, no conscious overlap.  I may work my way through one or both boxes, or I may not. 

[Lisztianwagner]

Carl Nielsen
Violin Concerto

Bomsori (violin)
Fabio Luisi & Danish National Symphony Orchestra

[Todd]

Disc five.  Cortot's first electrical Debussy, and his second (!) recording of Weber's Invitation to the Dance.  I am unaware of any other pianist who recorded it twice, though I suspect someone else may have.