What are you listening 2 now?

[Bachtoven]

Stunning playing and excellent sound.

[Linz]

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 'Winter Dreams'
Slavonic March, Op.31
Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem op.15, Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev

[DavidW]

Some good ones:

[Bachtoven]

[brewski]

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (WDR Symphony Orchestra / Cristian Măcelaru, live recording from the Kölner Philharmonie on 15 Nov. 2024). Just uploaded today, and enjoying it immensely. Măcelaru is the next music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and I can't help but think how lucky they are.

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Symphony № 83 in G, « La poule »

[Number Six]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Ormandy, Philadelphia

[Que]

Giving this new(ish) 3rd volume in this series a test run on Spotify.

https://earlymusicreview.com/byrd-the-great-service-english-anthems/

https://www.planethugill.com/2024/09/scaling-peak-david-skinner-on.html?m=1

[Madiel]

Haydn: keyboard sonata no.37 in E



The first movement is full of surprising rhythms - it's quite hard to hear where the barlines are at first. And the finale is a menuet-trio that also acts as an early example of one of Haydn's famous double-variation movements.

[Que]

Mostly anonymous repertoire for 12 course lute from various sources.

[Madiel]

Satie: Parade (Markevitch conducting)



The last "historical" recording in the box is of course pretty much the same age as others not marked as "historical". And all the better for it, sonically. I don't immediately remember the other performance of this work in the box (Plasson) because it's 53 weeks since I heard it. But this was good.

And that's it. The end of the box.

...I kind of want to go back to the start straight away.

[Traverso]

Bach

Another two fine cantatas...

[Madiel]

Mozart: Serenade for winds, 'Gran Partita' (K.361)



Such an interesting sound with the instruments chosen. Rich and dark.

[ritter]

Piano music by Louis Durey, performed by Françoise Petit (with Madeleine Chacun in the Two Pieces, op. 7 for piano four-hands).

[ChamberNut]

Mozart: Serenade for winds, 'Gran Partita' (K.361)



Such an interesting sound with the instruments chosen. Rich and dark.

One of my favourite works by Mozart and has been for a long time.

[Roasted Swan]

Mozart: Serenade for winds, 'Gran Partita' (K.361)



Such an interesting sound with the instruments chosen. Rich and dark.

the great theatrical moment in Peter Schafer's "Amadeus" when Salieri describes his reaction to the opening of the miraculous Adagio;

"Extraordinary! On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse - bassoons and basset horns - like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly - high above it - an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight!   This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing a voice of God....."

[Traverso]

Purcell

The last recording of this beautiful set.....

[pjme]

Piano music by Louis Durey, performed by François Petit (with Madeleine Chacun in the Two Pieces, op. 7 for piano four-hands).

I vaguely remember the name of Françoise Petit from the times I listened quasi daily to France Musique.
She had a most interesting carreer:

"Having disappeared from the music scene at the end of the 1990s and retired to the Paris region, Françoise Petit, in the twilight of her life, struck down by illness, had lost the memories of "her magic touch" - which Jacques Berthier already spoke of in 1957 - combined with a fine and accurate interpretation.
She left us on July 5, 2015 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, on the eve of her 90th birthday.
But, fortunately, the disc allows us to listen to her again because she recorded a lot since the 1950s:
Gabriel Fauré: 2nd and 5th Impromptus, 13th Nocturne (1957, Erato, LDE 1016), 1st and 3rd Impromptus, 2nd Nocturne and 7th Barcarolle (1957, Erato, LDE 1046) -
Schumann: Sonatas No. 1, Op. 105 and No. 2, Op. 121, for piano and violin, with Pierre Doukan (1957, Erato, LDE 3048) - Florent Schmitt: Quartet "pour presque tou les temps", Norman Demuth: Divertisement, Charles Rosiers: Sonata for four, Bendall Martyn: Sonata in B minor, with the Paris Instrumental Quartet (1957, Comédie des Champs-Elysées, CEE 25001, limited edition for "Les Amis de la musique de chambre") - "
The three sons of Jean-Sébastien Bach", 4 Sonatas by Jean-Chrétien, Jean-Christophe and Karl-Philip-Emmanuel (1958, Erato, EFM 42027, Grand Prix du disque) -
Debussy: Christmas for children who no longer have a home and Le ruisseau, op. 22, by Fauré as well as La ronde des Fées by Gabriel Pierné, with the Jean-Paul Kreder Vocal Ensemble (1958, Erato EFM 42017)
- Jean-Gilles: Te Deum de Ryswick for soloists, choirs and orchestra "with large choir and symphony", conducted by Louis Martini, with Petit on  the harpsichord part (1960, Erato LDE 3138)
- Albert Roussel: Suite op. 14 (1910), Sonatina op. 16 (1912) and Three Pieces op. 49 (1933) (1962, Oiseau-Lyre OL 50221) - François Couperin: Harpsichord Pieces, Book IV: 24th order in A, 25th order in C (1964, Adès 13035)
- Louis Saguer: Quadrilles for flute, violin, cello and piano, with the Paris Instrumental Quartet, creator of the work in Paris, on January 21, 1965 (1965, Le Chant du Monde)
- Marie Noël: Les Chants sauvages, with Renée Maheux (soprano), Yanet Puech (flute), Michel Chapelier (cornet) and the JMF Chorale (1967, Sofresson)
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: 6 Sonatas for harpsichord and flute, op. 91, with Luc Urbain, flautist (1973, world premiere recording, SFP 81023)
- Jacques Duphly: 18 Pieces for harpsichord (1974, world premiere recording, SFP 91032)
- Louis Durey: Etudes, Preludes, Nocturne... (1974, world premiere recording, Calliope, CAL 1815) -
Joseph Haydn: Concerto for harpsichord, violin and string orchestra, with Jacques-Francis Manzone (violin) and the Orchestre de chambre des Solistes de Paris, conducted by Henri-Claude Fantapié (world premiere recording, SFP 81002)
Villa-Lobos: "The work for voice and instruments" with Anna-Maria Bondi (soprano) and the Solistes de Paris (1974, 3 discs SFP 31024-26, Grand Prix du Disc)
- André Jolivet: Five ritual dances, Hopi snake dance, Study on ancient modes, Mana (1975, world premiere recording, SFP 91046)
- Schubert: "Unpublished pieces for piano": Variations, Rondo, Adagios (world premiere recording, SFP 91051)
- Georges Migot: The Book of Dances, with Yanet Puech (flute), Annie Jodry (violin) and André Courmont (cello) (1983, Cybelia CY 661)
- Bernard de Bury: "complete works for harpsichord", Harpsichord Pieces, Book 1 (1992, Cybelia, CY 880)
- Jean-Michel Damase: Toccata, passacaglia and finale for organ and harpsichord, with François-Henri Houbart ("French creations at the Comminges Festival", 1996, Quantum QM disc 6953, distributed by Studio SM, SM 60).

To our great regret, almost all of her recordings are out of print, except that of Louis Durey (reissued on CD in 2004 by Calliope, Empreintes collection) which can still be obtained, and especially the reissue by the Forgotten Records label of Roussel's piano pieces, recorded in 1962, in which Françoise Petit shows great expression, elegance and intelligence, and which, by coincidence, is being released at the very time of her funeral celebrated on Thursday, July 9, 2015 in the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church in Courbevoie, followed by her burial in the Montmartre cemetery. A newspaper from Vesoul, where she had performed Roussel in concert, wrote at the time that she "brought to light, in Roussel's robust constructions, all the forms of an immense talent: the power of the great harmonic progression and the transparent sonorities of the recapitulation." Certainly, she equals in this disc the remarkable interpretation of her elder Lucette Descaves in her complete works of Roussel's piano pieces that she had recorded three years previously (Versailles MDEX 12.011 and 12.012)."

Source : http://www.musimem.com/Petit_Francoise.htm

[ritter]

Very interesting, @pjme ! Thanks for the information on Mme. Petit.

Now listening to Nicholas Angelich play Prokofiev (Sonata No. 8, Visions fugitives, four of the 10 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet).

[Cato]

Alexander Scriabin's last and unfinished work, called Mysterium or Prefatory Action, was finished after c. 30 years of work by Russian composer Alexander Nemtin:

A performance from 6 years ago or so: