What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

Hayne van Ghizeghem, Hayne van Ghizeghem: De touz biens plaine. Ravishing song, as far as I know never before recorded. The Sollazzo style is very sensual - a bit like Tetraktys,

[Spotted Horses]

Is that based on the Hans C.A. story?
I love those DG OM sets! 

K

I also had a lot of affection for them, but they left me with exasperating gaps and most of the ones I had have been replaced by "complete" editions, Fricsay, Kubelik, Monteux, etc.

[Karl Henning]

CD 3, 2 faves

[JBS]

Hmm. Currently in the middle of Act I.
Crunchy at times.

[Linz]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach The Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 41, Miklos Spanyi

[Karl Henning]

Hmm. Currently in the middle of Act I.
Crunchy at times.

Very fine outfit!
TD: Didn't realize until today how much I've wanted to revisit this.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Dussek, Beethoven & Mendelssohn: Transitions. Olga Pashchenko.

[André]

I felt in need of 'the long struggle towards the sunrise'
Pettersson: Symphony No.6

The 6th: great stuff indeed ! Pettersson's time has come (at least on disc) and we discover a great composer. Who knows, what with the popularity of swedish films and tv series (mysteries, criminal) etc, maybe Pettersson will come to be viewed as an example of mainstream Nordic gloom instead of a sad, ill, maybe mentally challenged loner.

This week I listened to the Bulgarian Emil Tabakov's 9th symphony from 2015, and  Pettersson's name came repeatedly to mind when trying to crack this particularly tough nut. Has Pettersson's music spawned a trend ?

[André]

Thank you for the recommendation. Most likely, I had never listened to works by Henri Marteau before. I started with his Violin Concerto. The music is pleasant, but I can't shake the feeling that I've heard it all before. It seems like some kind of potpourri, pieced together from bits of music by other composers — Tchaikovsky, etc.



Added: I'm continuing to listen HM, now to String Quartet No. 3, Op. 17, and I'm much more impressed!

Indeed, just like with Engène Ysaÿe, another violin virtuoso of the same period, the concerto is a medium that seemed to send them back to the formulaic recipes of Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski (love them, but they ARE rather conventional). The 'real' Ysaÿe and Marteau will be found in their non symphonic music.

Suggestion: not everyone likes Reger's clarinet quintet, but if you do, try Marteau's. If I'm not mistaken there's at least 3 recordings to choose from. I have it on vol I of the CPO series, as well as on a Thorofon disc (coupled with the Reger). It's truly wonderful.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski

[Karl Henning]

RVW
A Pastoral Symphony
LSO
André Previn

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Keyboard Sonata in c minor, Hob. XVI:20
Ekaterina Derzhavina

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Keyboard Sonata in c minor, Hob. XVI:20
Ekaterina Derzhavina

And ...
"Papa"
Keyboard Sonata in c minor, Hob. XVI:20
Jn McCabe

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn London Symphonies, Heidelberger Sinfoniker, Thomas Fey CD1

[Number Six]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Claudio Arrau
Sir Colin Davis, Staatskapelle Dresden

[Karl Henning]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Claudio Arrau
Sir Colin Davis, Staatskapelle Dresden

Nice team!

TD:

"Papa"
Andante con variazioni in f minor, Hob. XVII:6
Jn McCabe

[Number Six]

Nice team!

I do not like the album art, though, even if the version I'd used had been higher res. 

I never enjoy it when they shrink down a perfectly good original cover image like this. 

[JBS]

Birgit Nordin soprano
Sven-Olof Eliasson tenor
Stockholm Philharmonic Choir
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
James DePriest conductor

A choral symphony, dating from 1944, the (Swedish lamguage) texts selected by the composer from among poems by Ragnar Josephson, most of them referring in various indirect ways to the then ongoing Holocaust. This recording is a product of its one and only complete performance in 1974.

Titles of the movements in English
Prelude: In Memoriam
The Jewish Song
Ariel*
Spring Night in Ajalon
May the Whip of Penury...
Prayer for a Gentle Heart
Intermezzo drammatico
The Reviled Word
Prayer for the Approaching Sabbath
We Thank You Lord

*Ariel is a poetic name in the Bible for Jerusalem.

Musical style seems to be 20th century Romantic.

Although he made his career (at first mostly as a music critic) in Stockholm, he was born in Helsinki, and his music education was in Tsarist St Petersburg, with post war spells in Paris and Berlin. The Finnish conductor/composer Simon Parment was his brother, while the Finnish pianist/composer Erna Tauro was his niece via a third brother, Isaac.

[prémont]

Hayne van Ghizeghem, Hayne van Ghizeghem: De touz biens plaine. Ravishing song, as far as I know never before recorded. The Sollazzo style is very sensual - a bit like Tetraktys,

It is among the most recorded pieces of that period. I believe I own around ten versions of it. It's also one of my favorite songs from that time. Numerous composers have created instrumental versions of this chanson.

[Karl Henning]

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.

Interesting (I made a mental note back when you posted. Now listening to Derzhavina and McCabe play it.