What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Haydn Piano sonata No.30 in D



A somewhat quirky work, with no real slow movement - the Andante as played here is nearly as fast as the opening Moderato and has an insistent driving rhythm to it. And the liner notes point out that Andante has something of the quality of a concerto movement.

[Que]

Disc 1: Moralia 1-28.

[Roasted Swan]

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.     

Even in an age of brilliant violin players Ehnes is remarkable I think.

[Que]

I couldn't help myself and got this on disc. 

[prémont]

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

Thanks."Bel Acueil" is one of my favorite chansons from that era. It puzzles me why so many of Busnois' compositions remain unrecorded. By the way, I had overlooked this recording by Nevel, so thank you for pointing to it.

[Mookalafalas]

[AnotherSpin]

[Madiel]

L'éventail de Jeanne. By ten composers with varying degrees of continuing fame.

[ritter]

Moving on the CD 2 of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players box. A varied programme of Beethoven, Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston and Elliott Carter.





The Piston and Fine works are new to me. TBH, I don't recall having ever heard any music by the latter. 

[Madiel]

Chopin: Cello Sonata



I really do need to get to know the work better. Possibly in other performances...

[Harry]

I couldn't help myself and got this on disc. 

Understandable, but then I had it already in my collection.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

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.

Interesting, I prefer Gimpel to Novotny for his colorful expression and deep tone. But he sometimes plays too fast and kills the beauty of melodies. I checked the live recording of Jakob Gimpel. He is crazily good pianist, but the Szymonowski composition is too avant garde for me. I will look for other music played by him.

[Traverso]

Bach

This is the completion of the Bach Bram Beekman recordings.An anthology from the individual parts.



CD 1





I sang along yesterday with the fugue from BWV 542 which gave me a great joy. I did not sing along with the leading melody but sang in a second voice that when there was an ascending melody I started a lower second voice and vice versa. It was a wonderful experience that it succeeded so wonderfully on feeling.

[Mandryka]

but the Szymonowski composition is too avant garde for me.

That's why I like it!

Did you ever check this?

[ritter]

Cécile Ousset joue Debussy: Pour le piano, L'Isle joyeuse, Images I & II, Arabesques No. 1 & No. 2, Suite Bergamasque.



Très bien!

I ought to get Mme. Ousset's recording of the Preludes.

[Traverso]

Lautenmusik der Renaissance

CD  2

Spanien

[VonStupp]

Hugo Distler
Die Weihnachtsgesichte, op. 10
Six Advent & Christmas Motets
Athesinus Consort - Klaus-Martin Bresgott

I haven't heard anything from Distler before, but for his dates of 1908-1942, I certainly didn't expect this. I guess I would call his Christmas Story a Neo-Baroque cantata or at least in the mold of Schütz, with great rhythmic freedom and mellifluousness, complete with chanting Evangelist.

The motets are quite beautiful as well, ones I expect I will happily return to and get to know better.
VS

[Karl Henning]

Inspired by the Veranda

RVW
A Pastoral Symphony
Liverpool Phil
Vernon Hadley

[Traverso]

This the last CD of the Bach Bram Beekman recordings .It was great to hear all these recording again.

CD 2

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Symphony № 103 in E^b, « Drumroll » Hob. I:103
NY Phil
Lenny