What are you listening 2 now?

[Cato]

Alexander Zemlinsky
Sinfonietta

James Conlon &  Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner

All of the Zemlinsky recordings by James Conlon &  Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner are top notch!

[Lisztianwagner]

All of the Zemlinsky recordings by James Conlon &  Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner are top notch!

I certainly agree, they are deeply beautiful and suggestive; only for Die Seejungfrau and Eine florentinische Tragödie I prefer other performances (Chailly).

[Mandryka]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach  Keyboard Music, Vol. 27
Miklós Spányi

I just read Spanyi's essay on these sonatas - I find what he says touching and inspiring. The music is wonderful of course.

[André]

I just had a once in my life experience: The Klemperer Mahler 7.

And you survived !

[André]

First acquaintance with Youn's Mozart. Very fine. Fastidious yet unfussy, with a nice balance between grace, gravity and cheerfulness. Not the last word on the subject, but Youn's tasteful and impeccably behaved pianism is a joy to the ear. I'll give his Schubert a listen soon (Wanderer Fantasie etc).

[Lisztianwagner]

Johannes Brahms
16 Waltzes, Op. 39
2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79

Pianist: Julius Katchen

[Madiel]

And you survived !

I'm not sure which would be worse for record company executives, a recording you can only listen to once and live to tell the tale, or a recording you can only listen to once because you go out on a high...

The preferred model is to sell you the same recording as many times as possible!

[Cato]

I certainly agree, they are deeply beautiful and suggestive; only for Die Seejungfrau and Eine florentinische Tragödie I prefer other performances (Chailly).

Yes again! My first exposure to Die Seejungfrau was the CD by Riccardo Chailly!

[Cato]

Thanks to the Martinu discussions above:

[VonStupp]

@VonStupp You are frequently reminding me that there is so much Villa-Lobos I'm not listening to... I need to rectify that! Hopefully today I won't have so many students flooding office hours and I can get some quality V-L listening in.

I didn't think when I started into his music there would be so much! He must have been a monster with a quill pen, for he has endless compositions, it seems.

I am more often impressed than not, which is always a good attribute.
VS

[VonStupp]

Wilhelm Stenhammar
String Quartet in F minor
String Quartet 5 in C Major
String Quartet 6 in D minor
Stenhammar Quartet

This trio of quartets has been my favorite of Stenhammar's. I was very much up for his cheery mood in No. 5, but they are all finely crafted, 1-6.
VS

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

JSB works, Trevor Pinnock.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I remember being about 10 and hearing the Szigeti, it may well have been my first contact with the muisc, and I just couldn't believe that only one violinist was playing.

Probably 33rpm with a good stereo. It must have been in a great sound.
I like this performance. The music swings like jazz played by black musicians in New Orleans. It dances like jumping fish.

[Keemun]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 (Karajan/Berliner Philharmoniker)

[André]

orchestral music from swiss composer Rolf Liebermann (not to be confused with american Lowell Liebermann, a widely recorded composer 51 years his junior). RL is a Darmstadt-influenced dodecaphonist composer. However, he was of the opinion that Stravinsky's influence would probably be deeper and longer-lasting than Schoenberg's. Liebermann is well known to french opera goers as the General Manager of the Paris Opera during the 1970s.

The 4 works on this recording span 50 years (1945, 1954, 1994 and 1995). The later works show an evolution toward purer, stripped-down textures and fewer concessions to any kind of system. The music of the concerto and especially that of Enigma show real originality. There is a certain greyness to his sound world though, an economy of emotional content that borders on austerity. I'm glad to have made listened to his music (twice) but don't think I'll return to it other than out of curiosity.

[Karl Henning]

[Karl Henning]

[Que]

From the shelves:



Music from the fascinating Trecento!

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2011/Mar11/Stylems_CC72195.htm

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2CU84LHW2IM4N/

[Harry]

JEAN MOUTON (before 1459–1522)
THE BRABANT ENSEMBLE, Stephen Rice.
Recorded on 16–18 August 2011 in the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Summertown, Oxford.

[Mandryka]

Probably 33rpm with a good stereo. It must have been in a great sound.
I like this performance. The music swings like jazz played by black musicians in New Orleans. It dances like jumping fish.

Gypsy violin.