What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Happy new year, Jeffrey! I have the cds below and love them tremendously. Would you please talk to Alto for the RCA Khachaturian Symphony no. 1 as well? 😄

Will do Manabu!

[Spotted Horses]

Haydn Piano Sonata No 62 (next up on my random list), McCabe



A larger scale work in three movements, sort of innocuous. I find McCabe's performance style attractive.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Mandryka]

I listened to the Anda recording of the Davidsbündlertänze, but for whatever reason it didn't reveal the poetry of the music for me. I returned to Kempff this morning and there is an indescribable quality of Kempff's performance that I connect with. Part of the reason may be that the Anda recording has a very dry accoustic, which I didn't find attractive.

If you ever see his live one it's worth a shot. He does the contrasts well I think, and there are some ravishing little colourful weightless touches. It's rather dry - I suspect that's how he sounded in the flesh.

This.

https://www.discogs.com/release/13363605-G%C3%A9za-Anda-Chopin-Schumann-Schubert-12-%C3%89tudes-Op-25-Davidsb%C3%BCndlert%C3%A4nze-Op-6-Piano-Sonata-D-664

[Linz]

Johannes Brahms Serenade no. 1
Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet concerto op. 74, Hermut Gießer - clarinet,  WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Günter Wand

[VonStupp]

Samuel Barber
Symphony 1
Piano Concerto
Souvenirs, for four-hand piano

John Browning, piano
St. Louis SO - Leonard Slatkin

VS

[Roasted Swan]

Samuel Barber
Symphony 1
Piano Concerto
Souvenirs, for four-hand piano

John Browning, piano
St. Louis SO - Leonard Slatkin

VS

fine disc!

[Iota]

Ravel: Sonata for Violin & Cello

Stylistically for Ravel this sonata seems somewhat of an outlier, I can't currently think of any other work that sounds quite like it. Written a couple of years after Debussy's death, it's dedicated to him, and I find it a very captivating work, particularly the hypnotic first movement. It's given a superb performance here.

[Linz]

Hugo Alfven  Bergakungen, The Mountain King, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Yevgeny Svetlanov

[AnotherSpin]

[André]

Hugo Alfven  Bergakungen, The Mountain King, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Yevgeny Svetlanov

One of my favourite recordings in the swedish section of my collection.

[André]

The strangest thing about this recording is that the symphony was composed in 1947, but it sounds like it was composed a century earlier. In all honesty I haven't heard a symphonic work that sounded so basic and uneventful in a long time.

The Three Wasans are songs for baritone and orchestra. Nice music, very good singing by Fukushima. The Scherzo con sentimento is oddly named. It's not sentimental at all. Enjoyable, pleasant, joyful. So, half a disc's worth of okay music. The symphony is entirely forgettable.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 In D Minor, 1878 Version Ed. Fritz Oeser (Scherzo coda not included) Based on 1880 Stichvorlage, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lovro von Matačic

[foxandpeng]

George Lloyd
Pervigilium Veneris (Vigil of Venus)

Carolyn James, soprano
Thomas Booth, tenor
Welsh National Opera - George Lloyd


My wife is having a colonoscopy in the morning, so there is nothing like listening to an ancient Latin text given a full-throated treatment the night before. 
VS

I'm sure she will appreciate the sentiment. You are a kind and generous man.

[foxandpeng]

I was the first on GMG to hear it, and found it to be fabulous.

I do need to get ahead of this one. I've got her symphonies all saved in a playlist and ready to roll, but it never seems to be a priority!

[Lisztianwagner]

Edward Elgar
Symphony No.1

Georg Solti & London Philharmonic Orchestra

[foxandpeng]

Karin Rehnqvist
Silent Earth
Swedish RSO
Swedish Radio Choir
Dima Slobodeniouk

Prompted by threads elsewhere. I enjoy Rehnqvist's music very much, and was pleasantly surprised by my attraction to this choral piece.

[Duke Bluebeard]

NP:

Jones
Symphony No. 3 "Palo Duro Canyon"
LSO
Lance Friedel



A fantastic symphony! I like the Schwarz recording on Naxos, too.

[foxandpeng]

Bent Sørenson
Concertos
Serenided
Thomas Sondergard
Martin Fröst
Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Sørenson is another composer to whom I'm often drawn. Better half can't stand him, mind. Honking, squeaking, tuneless nonsense, apparently.

[Linz]

François-Joseph Gossec Contemporaries of Mozart, volume 1 CD 9, London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert