What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Beauty Farm did Early Music lovers a big favour with this recording of 4 masses by Noel Bauldeweyn, a neglected Franco-Flemish master from the generation that was active around 1500.

What this has to do with a bearded guy in a hoodie against a pschodelic background is anyone's guess... 

[vandermolen]

I met some rescue owls this Thursday last. Marvelous birds.

I gather that Malipiero's home was some kind of sanctuary for animals.

[ritter]

Some (light) Mahler today: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, with Eugenia Zareska (ms), amd the London Philharmnic Orchestra, conducted by Eduard van Beinum.



Van Beinum (whose work I'm not really acquainted with) achieves very light (and very attractive) orchestral textures. Zareska mya at some points sound a tad operatic, but is very convincing and expressive in the songs. A very enjoyable recording!

[Madiel]

Mozart: first listen as far as I know to Vesperae solennes de Dominica, K.321

Possibly this cover is the original iteration of a recording that's been in a few forms.

[Iota]

Bach: Sonata No. 1 in B minor, BWV1014
Lucy van Dael (violin), Bob van Asperen (harpsichord)

A highly pleasant experience. I love the way the violin's first entry just seems to emerge from the lamenting harpsichord introduction. Van Dael's ornaments feel relaxed and free whatever the speed of the music, indeed her playing overall feels very free-spirited. She and van Asperen sound a very comfortable pairing.

I think they're an item, as they say.

Ah, that may explain some of the ease with which they play. Whatever factors are at play, their musicianship makes for very pleasant listening indeed, More of them today from the same cd with Bach's Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1015, with JSB conjuring up a particularly sparkling Allegro second movement.

[Iota]

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:

Haha, now that you've made me aware of it, so am I.   Will check out the string quartet in the light of this colourful information.

[Roasted Swan]

I am very guilty as a listener of seeking out the new and unfamiliar while taking "standard" repertoire or performances for granted.  Then once in a while I listen to a couple of such discs and remember what all the fuss is about;

Recently two such discs -



Yes of course it really is a toweringly classic performance.  The VPO blaze in a way that really doesn't sound at all like them.  Sometimes you have to listen to it all over again to make the point afresh!  Then a recording of classic repertoire;



Oh no, not Tchaik 1 again again.....  But what a great piece it is.  This is a performance I had no particular expectations of - the coupling of the Tanyev completion of the 3rd concerto was the draw.  But how wrong I was.  Glemser plays with real old-school virtuoso flair and attack.  And Wit and Polish National RSO are inspired collaborators.  This shouldn't be a surprise given that Wit/PNRSO have produced superb large scale recordings of Turangalila and other works to great effect.  I did wonder if the mid-90's recording date meant that back then the orchestra still had a  bit of that Eastern-bloc bite and snarl that for me works so well in this kind of repertoire.  Possibly because this is from the time when Naxos meant cheap discs quickly recorded with often sub-par results this meant have slipped under the radar.  30 years on it measures up very well indeed....

[DavidW]

@Roasted Swan That Kleiber recording is one for the ages! I'm always up for a listen to Tchaikovsky's piano concerto #3, so I'll add that one to the list.

[Traverso]

Bach

Continuing with these recordings with a beautiful organ from Amsterdam.

CD 2

[Mookalafalas]

[vandermolen]

Haha, now that you've made me aware of it, so am I.   Will check out the string quartet in the light of this colourful information.

Extract from Musicweb review:
The sixth string quartet L'Arca di Noe completed in 1947 is yet another example of Malipiero's unconventional approach. The subtitle ('Noah's Ark') has given way to several, sometimes diverging interpretations. Some think that it refers to the fact that Malipiero's home was a refuge for numerous animals and that he was said to be used to composing with an owl perched on his shoulder! Others think that it refers to Malipiero's attempt at gathering sometimes disparate elements into one single entity. Needless to say that I think the latter is the most likely.

[vandermolen]

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Symphony 12
Uirapuru
Mandú-Çárárá
São Paulo SO & Choirs - Isaac Karabtchevsky

Finishing up the symphonies, here paired with two symphonic poems, the second with chorus. I will probably pick up with V-L's string quartets after the new year.
VS

The magical Uirapuru is my favourite work by VL.

[vandermolen]

Can't stop playing Steinberg's 3rd Symphony
The redemptive 'Triumph-against-the-odds' conclusion is very moving and has me on the edge of my seat. The whole work is terrific. Miaskovsky comes to mind throughout the work and I was pleased to read that the Symphony is dedicated to him.

[ritter]

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58. Rudolf Serkin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy.

CD 2 of this set:

[foxandpeng]

Can't stop playing Steinberg's 3rd Symphony
The redemptive 'Triumph-against-the-odds' conclusion is very moving and has me on the edge of my seat. The whole work is terrific. Miaskovsky comes to mind throughout the work and I was pleased to read that the Symphony is dedicated to him.

On my list

[Harry]

On my list

And so it Should!

[foxandpeng]

And so it Should!

I hear you

[Karl Henning]

It's been a while since I last listened to any of Prokofiev's symphonies. So today, I've pulled Symphony No. 4 from the shelves, in both its versions (op. 47 and op. 112). Mstislav Rostropovich conducts the French National Orchestra.

CD 1 of the "Complete Symphonies" set."

The Op. 112 has grown on me.

TD: Listening to the Jerusalem Quartet play "Wolferl."
K. 157, 458 & 589.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Alexander Yossifov violin concerto No. 1.

[Traverso]

Schütz

Musikalische Exequien

This if my first Schütz recording and I still love it.