What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

Thomas Langlois, The Holborne Last Will and Testament on an opharion

[foxandpeng]

Andrzej Panufnik
Symphony 6 'Sinfonia mistica'
Łukasz Borowicz
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
CPO

Saturday afternoon, a book, and coffee. The first real opportunity to sit uninterruptedly with music for any length of time for almost an entire week.

[Spotted Horses]

Looks like by Hindemith Sonata journal has been derailed by a Bacewicz obsession. Catching up on the cpo orchestral music releases, from volume 2 Symphony No 2, Variations for Orchestra, Musica sinfonica en tre movimenti.



The symphony is similar in texture to No 3 and 4, expressive with an overall neoclassical feel. The Variations for Orchestra and Musica sinfonica en tre movimenti are more experimental, relying on weird sounds. I like them but will take time to internalize them.

Then Bacewicz, Piano Quintet No 1. Wow, prime Bacewicz, thorny, sometimes quite dissonant neoclassicism. The central slow movement his a haunting masterpiece in it's own right. The release also has a Tasman piece, Musica a cinque, which I briefly sampled and though was quite attractive.

[Harry]

Andrzej Panufnik
Symphony 6 'Sinfonia mistica'
Łukasz Borowicz
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
CPO

Saturday afternoon, a book, and coffee. The first real opportunity to sit uninterruptedly with music for any length of time for almost an entire week.

For me two weeks and counting......

[Mandryka]

@prémont - I thought of you while listening to this remarkable performance if Busnois' Bel Acueil from Paul van Nevel. Happy Christmas!

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Symphony No. 14 in A
AAM
Christopher Hogwood 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

How is this violinist?

The problem with historical violin recordings is that they all play the same stuff. Once you've heard Hubermann in Beethoven and Milstein (or Hubermann) in Tchaikovsky what else do you need? 

I like his style and ideas. Not a big fan of Milstein.

[foxandpeng]

For me two weeks and counting......

I feel the lack. Music has a unique capacity to reset and settle the heart and mind.

Hope you are doing OK with it!

[Lisztianwagner]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
An Oxford Elegy
Flos Campi

John Westbroock, Bach Choir, Cambridge King's College Choir
David Willcocks & Jacques Orchestra

[Linz]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 40, Miklos Spanyi

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 2

[Mandryka]

I like his style and ideas. Not a big fan of Milstein.

When I first discovered Gimpel's Bach I was really impressed by the candid expression. At much the same time I discovered Bretislav Novotny and Christian Ferras, who I thought were similarly eloquent. I just listened to some Gimpel and Novotny because of your post - and I feel even more positive about Novotny than before - more aristocratic than Gimpel maybe, and no less moving for me.

Do try to find the Szymonowski piano recordings, op 33 etudes,  which Jakob Gimpel made, Bronislav's bro. If they're not on youtube in where ever you are, let me know and I'll let you have them.

[ritter]

A varied programme of solo, chamber and vocal music by Luigi Dallapiccola.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Khachaturian violin concerto. Kogan and Monteux, Boston.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski

[Linz]

Arvo Pärt Cello Concerto; Symphonies Nos. 1-3, Bambueg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

[Madiel]

Chopin: piano trio



Someone on Amazon is trying to sell the LP for 35 thousand dollars thanks to the wonders of those silly algorithms, but won't ship to my location. 

[steve ridgway]

Maderna: Requiem



Another impressive pre avant-garde composition (1946) .

[Daverz]

Chopin: piano trio



Someone on Amazon is trying to sell the LP for 35 thousand dollars thanks to the wonders of those silly algorithms, but won't ship to my location. 

BAT LPs aren't at all rare.  When I was still buying LPs, I would not have spent over $5 on something like that.   

TD:  James Ehnes playing all the other Sibelius music for violin and orchestra.

Even being very familiar with the classic recordings by Heifetz, Oistrakh, etc., I was gobsmacked by the beautiful playing in the Concerto.  And these more modest works get the same treatment.     

[steve ridgway]

Szymanowski: Demeter