What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Litaniae de venerabilis altaris sacramento K243, Arias K369 & 528, Overtures "Cosi van tutte", "Magic Flute", "La Nozze die Figaro", Margaret Marshall soprano, WDR Sinonieorchester Köln, Choir & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Günter Wand, Vol. 2 CD 5

[North Star]

Bach
Cello Suites nos. 1, 3 & 5
David Watkin


Haydn
Symphonies nos. 50, 62 & 85
Kammerorchester Basel
Giovanni Antonini

[Madiel]

I started two chronological projects.

As I'm currently reading Robert W. Gutmann's Mozart: A Cultural Biography, I thought it would be an excellent idea to listen to the works mentioned in the book as they appear and which are ipso facto arranged chronologically. And since in the book the Mozarts have just returned home from their 1764-66 Grand Tour which took them to Paris, London, The Hague, Zurich and various other French, English, Dutch and Swiss cities, today I've been listening to the following:

The "Paris" sonatas for keyboard and violin K6-K15
The "London" symphonies K16, K19a
The "Den Haag" symphonies, K19, K22, K. Anh. 221/45a
The piano variations K24 "Laat ons juichen, batavieren" and K25 "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe" (factoid: it was Leopold who suggested to Wolfferl that he should write 7 variations for the latter, as there were 7 United Provinces commonly represented by the anthem)

Tomorrow I'll be listening to the "Dutch" sonatas for keyboard and violin K26-K31, and then back to Salzburg to take the book's cues in the next chapter.

For this project I use the Philips Complete Mozart Edition.



The other project is Chopin. I'm not reading any book on him but I've had the Abdel Rahman El-Bacha's complete traversal of his solo piano music arranged in chronological order for far too long, it's high time to start listening to it. Here's the first disc:

I have brought you up well.

[Traverso]

Yes but Bach was born 150 years after the Reformation, when the schism was in full effect.

Well.Bach was not a catholic but Luther was before he was kicked out...The sale of indulgences was one of the reasons as you know, Luther tried to change these policies and abuses of Rome. That was not appreciated, don't interfere with  our money, little has changed.

[Karl Henning]

I started two chronological projects.

As I'm currently reading Robert W. Gutmann's Mozart: A Cultural Biography, I thought it would be an excellent idea to listen to the works mentioned in the book as they appear and which are ipso facto arranged chronologically. And since in the book the Mozarts have just returned home from their 1764-66 Grand Tour which took them to Paris, London, The Hague, Zurich and various other French, English, Dutch and Swiss cities, today I've been listening to the following:

The "Paris" sonatas for keyboard and violin K6-K15
The "London" symphonies K16, K19a
The "Den Haag" symphonies, K19, K22, K. Anh. 221/45a
The piano variations K24 "Laat ons juichen, batavieren" and K25 "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe" (factoid: it was Leopold who suggested to Wolfferl that he should write 7 variations for the latter, as there were 7 United Provinces commonly represented by the anthem)

Tomorrow I'll be listening to the "Dutch" sonatas for keyboard and violin K26-K31, and then back to Salzburg to take the book's cues in the next chapter.

For this project I use the Philips Complete Mozart Edition.



The other project is Chopin. I'm not reading any book on him but I've had the Abdel Rahman El-Bacha's complete traversal of his solo piano music arranged in chronological order for far too long, it's high time to start listening to it. Here's the first disc:

I think I've got the Gutmann. For most of my tenure in Danvers, it rested in the Choir Room, so on theory, I ought to be able to find it easily.

[Florestan]

I think I've got the Gutmann. For most of my tenure in Danvers, it rested in the Choir Room, so on theory, I ought to be able to find it easily.

It's a very good book, extensively informative and eminently readable. Fine sense of humor, too. Gurn defined it perfectly: instructive and entertaining.

[hopefullytrusting]

But, he was Catholic before he was Lutheran, right?

Well, everyone's allowed a mistake or three ...

[ritter]

Robert Craft conducts a varied selection of vocal and choral works by Schoenberg, spanning the years 1895 - 1938.

[Florestan]

Well, everyone's allowed a mistake or three ...

After James Joyce publicly announced his renouncing the Catholic faith, an American lady, misunderstanding the issue, congratulated him for converting to Protestantism. He replied: Madam, you are mistaken. I lost my faith, not my reason.   

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bartok: Dance Suite / Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian Folksong. Gyorgy Lehel/Budapest.

[Linz]

Ferdinand Hérold Overtures and Symphonies, Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana; Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild

[Papy Oli]

I have brought you up well.

I'll put a fiver on Andrei to finish the traversal first   

[Florestan]

I'll put a fiver on Andrei to finish the traversal first   

This time I will. Both of them.

[Iota]

There's some very high-octane playing on this release. I like it, but it might not be to all tastes.

Yes indeed, she always burns such a blazing light across the sky especially in big, bravura repertoire, parts of the Mephisto Waltz on that disc are quite insane. I'm a big fan of hers even when I don't particularly like what she's doing, she has such charisma it's always worth a listen.
The two most successful pieces on the recording for me are the Liebestraum and B minor sonata. The former maybe my favourite version of it, and the Sonata is pretty irresistible. Her climaxes are so fresh and unbridled, it really feels as if she's just throwing herself to the wind, and when Liszt drifts off into one of his dream-like passages, she plays them like no other, absolutely mesmerising.

[Madiel]

I'll put a fiver on Andrei to finish the traversal first   

Well sure. He's using a book, I'm using the whole Köchel catalogue. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. EDIT: And now I'm "wasting" my Mozart time on the Netherlands Wind Ensemble.

More worrying is how @Traverso  listens to one Bach Suzuki disc per day and I take 2-3 months to do the same at top speed.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphonie No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak,  Rudfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Heinz Rogner

[Madiel]

I meant to add yesterday's non-randomized Schumann piano trial:



This was okay, but the op.22 didn't make an impact and it's been one of my favourite pieces on a couple of other recordings. So this was just 'okay'.

[André]

Spotted this Telemann recording on Spotify! 

It's good, the playing is quite (too?) serious and edgy. The concertos for 4 violins are the interesting pieces here.

https://www.biberfan.org/reviews/2023/1/13/telemann-music-for-violins

Rapier-like ?

[Klavierman]

Yes indeed, she always burns such a blazing light across the sky especially in big, bravura repertoire, parts of the Mephisto Waltz on that disc are quite insane. I'm a big fan of hers even when I don't particularly like what she's doing, she has such charisma it's always worth a listen.
The two most successful pieces on the recording for me are the Liebestraum and B minor sonata. The former maybe my favourite version of it, and the Sonata is pretty irresistible. Her climaxes are so fresh and unbridled, it really feels as if she's just throwing herself to the wind, and when Liszt drifts off into one of his dream-like passages, she plays them like no other, absolutely mesmerising.

I just thought that some of her extreme tempos in the Sonata, both slow and fast, might bother some, but I love them. She certainly embraces the Romantic era's penchant for larger than life expression!

[Klavierman]

This is very enjoyable.