What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

[Symphonic Addict]

Time to revisit the most magnificent string quartet cycle ever. Today 1 and 2.

The Melos Quartett play these works like if they were masterpieces. The op. 18-1 is especially phenomenal.

[DavidW]

JS Bach:


CPE Bach:

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1889 Version (aka 1888/89) Ed. Leopold Nowak, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

[Iota]

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor

Muti & co contrast the widescreen cinemascope expansiveness and martiality of the first movement brilliantly, as they do the extraordinary, amphetamin-ised Agitato sections of the third. And the thundering orc-like stomping of marching in the last is memorably visceral. Am highly impressed and entertained. 

[Daverz]

Now that is a badarse name. 

Must have been hell as a kid, though.  My impression was that his music is entertaining, but I should give it another listen.

Thread duty:

Bartok: Piano COncerto No. 1 - John Ogdon, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent.

An unlikely pairing, but they really knock this out of the park.  Excellent sonics, too.

[Karl Henning]

Martinu, Parables, Ancerl, Czech Philharmonic



Usually I am most attracted to Martinu's neo-Baroque/neo-Classical style, but this more romantic/expressionist piece is beautiful in this recording. It appears on a Praga compilation, but the original recording seems to come from Supraphon in the 1970s.

I find Ančerl and Martinů a most felicitous combination.

TD:

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Wesendonck-Lieder

Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Seong-Jin Cho (pianist)

[AnotherSpin]

[ritter]

Some vintage Bruno Maderna live recordings: the composer conducts his Oboe Concerto No. 2 (with Lothar Faber and are since Orchestra of The Hague —1968–) and Quadrivium (RAI Orchestra of Rome —1969–).

[Linz]

Franz Schubert Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammopnon Wilhelm Kempff CD7

[Karl Henning]

This will make @vandermolen smile:

[Florestan]

Op. 35

An ultra-Romantic take, uncompromising and aggressive, extreme tempo and dynamic contrasts, bordering on bipolar --- more Liszt than Chopin. Recorded as if the mics were all placed inside the piano, which greatly enhances the punch. Certainly not for the faints of heart. @Mandryka if interested in hearing it, just PM me --- valid for anyone else, of course.

[Todd]

Disc four.

[Karl Henning]

Brahms
c minor Symphony, Op. 68
NY Phil
Lenny

[hopefullytrusting]

Was thinking of spring, which made me think of Schumann, and here we are:

[Symphonic Addict]

Brahms
c minor Symphony, Op. 68
NY Phil
Lenny

That's a very good account in my view.

[Symphonic Addict]

Tubin: Symphonies 1 and 2

The first feels rather confident to be his inaugural work in the form. However, I wish it were more memorable and without many cymbal crashes. The 2nd is an incredible improvement over the first. The orchestral piano is a brilliant element in the score.

[vandermolen]

This will make @vandermolen smile:

Absolutely! The Pine Trees is a fine, richly atmospheric work.

[Karl Henning]

That's a very good account in my view.

Agreed!

Now:

LvB
Symphony N^o. 7 in A, Op. 92
CSO
Giulini