What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Erkki Melartin.
Complete Symphonies.
Disc I.
Symphony No.1 in C minor.
Symphony No.3 in F major.
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonid Grin.
Recorded: 1994, at the Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland.

When I return to Melartin's Symphonies, its again a discovery of a great Symphonist, who has a particular kind of creativity, and a ability to match melodies together. It is one of the things that draws me into his world. The performance is excellent, with a few reservations, and the sound could be better as it usual is. Still great music.

[pianococo90]

Gyorgy Kurtág
Officium Breve In Memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Op. 28 for string quartet

[Florestan]

Mozart

The Mozart serenades (Sandor Vegh)  are nor complete without this recording on Philips

That's my favorite serenade of them all.

[Karl Henning]

[Spotted Horses]

Haydn Piano Sonata No 62, Brautigam



Previously listened to McCabe. Somehow the sonorities of the fortepiano (and Brautigam) make the music seem more vivid.

Listening to this sonata after Beethoven's Op 10 sonatas gives me some perspective on what Beethoven owes to Haydn, and how he broke with Haydn.

[Traverso]

Johann Strauss

Die Fledermaus - Balletmusik

I love it



 

[Harry]

My complete Library on Roon has itself deleted, for no obvious reasons. I have a empty database, so I must find the cause of this. No music for a while.    

[ChamberNut]

My complete Library on Roon has itself deleted, for no obvious reasons. I have empty data base, so I must find the cause of this. No music for a while.    

Listening to your own thoughts? 

Hope you can resolve it quickly. Do you truly have no more CDs in your home?

[André]

It took me a few times to really appreciate these performances. Cohen's conducting of the orchestra (MI but played with all the trappings of ppp) is strongly profiled whereas Richard-Hamelin's pianism is poetic, thoughtful, infinitely nuanced. At first it sounded like the two partners were not emotionally in sync. Then I realized this is exactly what Mozart's music is made of: a constant shift between the solar and the crepuscular, between unbridled joy and confidence quickly turning to doubt and sadness.

Execution and sound are top notch. I'll buy their next collaboration, concertos 20 and 23 - works which illustrate these opposing aspects even more directly.

[ChamberNut]

It took me a few times to really appreciate these performances. Cohen's conducting of the orchestra (MI but played with all the trappings of ppp) is strongly profiled whereas Richard-Hamelin's pianism is poetic, thoughtful, infinitely nuanced. At first it sounded like the two partners were not emotionally in sync. Then I realized this is exactly what Mozart's music is made of: a constant shift between the solar and the crepuscular, between unbridled joy and confidence quickly turning to doubt and sadness.

Execution and sound are top notch. I'll buy their next collaboration, concertos 20 and 23 - works which illustrate these opposing aspects even more directly.

I've heard Richard-Hamelin perform before live with the WSO in a performance of Chopin's 2nd piano concerto!

[Traverso]

Bach

[Roasted Swan]

My complete Library on Roon has itself deleted, for no obvious reasons. I have empty data base, so I must find the cause of this. No music for a while.    

AAAAARGHHHH!!

[hopefullytrusting]

Fresh off the boat from Germany!

[Harry]

Listening to your own thoughts? 

Hope you can resolve it quickly. Do you truly have no more CDs in your home?

Sure I have, but all of them boxed up.

[DavidW]

I've been listening to my usual favorites. Mostly Bach and Schubert, some Haydn, Mozart, Mahler etc etc

But I did have something to share, a new for me discovery. The Ysaye Quartet's take on these two late Beethoven string quartets is passionate and unique (set apart from the crowd, but not in a screwy way):

[Harry]

AAAAARGHHHH!!

Indeed. I have put a ticket in at the Roon support, and they responded that this was a known issue, and that they would quickly resolve the problem, well let's hope so. It cost me enough, the Roon machine coupled with Qobuz. I have only 55 recordings left in Roon, from the 3600. I tried to restore the database, and at first that was successful , but after a few minutes the counter went back to 55 again. I feel a major depression coming up.

[Roasted Swan]

Indeed. I have put a ticket in at the Roon support, and they responded that this was a known issue, and that they would quickly resolve the problem, well let's hope so. It cost me enough, the Roon machine coupled with Qobuz. I have only 55 recordings left in Roon, from the 3600. I tried to restore the database, and at first that was successful , but after a few minutes the counter went back to 55 again. I feel a major depression coming up.

Fingers crossed it will all miraculously be restored!!

[ritter]

Elgar Howarth (1935 - 13 January 2025) in memoriam...



I haven't listened to Birtwistle for quite some time. It's  a pleasure to revisit his music, and this disc with Howarth conducting the London Sinfonietta in Carmen Arcadiae..., Silbury Air, and Secret Theatre is superb...

The Guardian obituary of Elgar Howarth.

[Linz]

Othmar Schoeck Elegie Op. 36, Andreas Schmidt,  Musikkollegium Winterthur, Werner Andreas Albert

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

Valery Polyansky & Russian State Symphony Cappella