What are you listening 2 now?

[Luke]

Excellent disc - programme/performers/engineering - Decca/Marriner et al doing what they did best.  Iona Brown's "Lark" is a near-top favourite version - Hugh Bean is for me the first amongst equals......

I feel the same way about his Elgar Concerto. Very poetic player.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bach Sonatas and Partitas. Gérard Poulet.

[Madiel]

Bach, Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49



I wasn't really responding that much to my first listen to this, until I hit the final movement which is excellent.

Another disc done. Only 5 more to go. So I might even finish by Easter!

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Three Pieces For Two Pianos

[steve ridgway]

Ives: Robert Browning Overture

[steve ridgway]

Crumb: Lux Aeterna

[steve ridgway]

Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maître

[AnotherSpin]

The 5th Symphony by Krenek is a vivid example of how good the music can be once composer freed himself from the unnecessary burden of contrived concepts like atonality.

[Que]

Another "stellar" performance by Beauty Farm of masses by early Franco-Flemish masters: Maître (Pierre?) Barbingant (fl. c.1440-1460) and Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435-1511). Just three singers.

[vandermolen]

Godfried Devreese: Violin Concerto No.1
A nice new discovery although I've owned the CD for a long time - a touching late romantic work from 1937:

[Que]

Thnx to Harry, I found it now I knew what I was looking for!
It had been too long that I heard these pieces anyway. Eduardo Eguez make them sound very different compared to my go-to Lutz Kirchhof (Sony).

[vandermolen]

Malipiero SQ No.5 'dei capricci' (1950)
I was pleased to read that Malipiero composed with an owl perched on his shoulder.
One of my favourite SQs:

[Valentino]

This is new,  very good, written for the performers, just out, and available on all major streaming platforms:

[Que]

3rd and last disc:



I've ordered the remaining three volumes.

[Madiel]

Mompou



So far, I've listened to Impresiones íntimas and Cançó i dansa no.1. (Number 2 while typing)

Not my first ever Mompou, but I've not heard much. Alicia de Larrocha seems to capture the mood perfectly, so different from most of the composers in this series.

Unfortunately, the 1980s album from which most of this is drawn suffers some of the same recording deficiencies as the Granados Spanish dances. Not terrible sound, but simply nowhere near as good as most of the 1970s recordings. There's a lack of depth. They really did drop the ball for a little while.

[prémont]

Thnx to Harry, I found it now I knew what I was looking for!
It had been too long that I heard these pieces anyway. Eduardo Eguez make them sound very different compared to my go-to Lutz Kirchhof (Sony).

As mentioned above, I have ordered this volume, which should arrive in two weeks. The most remarkable recording I have ever heard of the pieces on this CD is by Peter Waldner on the lute-harpsichord. Unfortunayely it's out of print, but Harry is aware of where it can be streamed, and some portions are available on YouTube.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 1

[Traverso]

Mozart

CD 4

Divertimenti

Holliger Wind Ensemble

 

[Harry]

Philipp Scharwenka.
Piano trios, opus.110 & 112.
Cello sonata op. 116.
Trio Parnassus.
Recorded probably in 1994.

[Que]

I love the pictures of all the organs you post! 

Dutch national heritage.