What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Walter Piston
American Symphonies
Symphony 6 'Gettysburg'
Lance Friedel
London Symphony Orchestra
BIS

Piston is another symphonist who keeps my attention.

Solid, Jackson!

[Karl Henning]

CD 11
As a rule, I've been listening to discs in this set I had passed on while preparing to write my review of the box. Remembering however, the excellence of both the music itself (concerti by Khatchaturian and Anton Rubinstein) and Oscar Levant's playing, I was not going to skip this.

This remains a richly satisfying listen. @Brian have you had a chance to hear it?

[arpeggio]

I purchased this set back in 2011.



There are over 90 discs in the set. Listening to these discs can be intimidating.

I am halfway through the set, and so far, I have not heard a work that I did not like.

It may be a while before I make another entry.

Wow.  I am listening to a lot of great music 


Right now I am listening to the Sonata in B minor.

I have listened to tons of music I am not familiar with.  I could easily submit an encyclopedic post to the "Music that has blown me away" thread.

So far, I have not heard a work that I would consider a "Turkey".

All Liszt's versions of his piano music were included, including more than 300 premiere performances and recordings, and pieces unheard since Liszt's lifetime, and also all Liszt's arrangements of other composers' works.  The one on the Symphonie Fantastique is fantastique.

Four discs are given to Liszt's seventeen works for piano and orchestra, about half of which were premiere recordings made from unpublished manuscripts. I have not gotten to those yet.

Wish me luck on finishing the set.

[Karl Henning]

Wow.  I am listening to a lot of great music 

Write now I am listening to the Sonata in B minor.

I have listened to tons of music I am not familiar with.  I could easily submit an encyclopedic post to the "Music that has blown me away" thread.

So far, I have not heard a work that I would consider a "Turkey".

All Liszt's versions of his piano music were included, including more than 300 premiere performances and recordings, and pieces unheard since Liszt's lifetime, and also all Liszt's arrangements of other composers' works.  The one on the Symphonie Fantastique is awesome.

Four discs are given to Liszt's seventeen works for piano and orchestra, about half of which were premiere recordings made from unpublished manuscripts. I have not gotten to those yet.

Wish me luck on finishing the set.

Courage!

[Mapman]

Mozart: Divertimento #11, K 251; Oboe Quartet K370
Marcel Tabuteau, Isaac Stern, William Primrose, Paul Tortelier (for the quartet)

It seems that Mozart's Serenades and Divertimenti are popular around here these days. I enjoyed the oboe quartet more than the divertimento. The festival in Perpignan had an impressive lineup of performers!

[brewski]

Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 1 (Juilliard String Quartet, recorded 1990). Haven't heard this in ages, and never followed along with the score.

[JBS]

Martin Jones plays piano pieces by Jean Roger-Ducasse.



Disc 2, with 10 works spanning the years 1916 to 1923.

Martin Jones seems to specialized in recording "complete piano works of ...". And a rather wide variety--Amazon shows Czerny, Mendelssohn, Brahms,Turina, Granados, Grainger, and Luytens among others. But not the Roger-Ducasse set for some reason. (I have the Granados.)

TD
A 1998 recording

[Que]

PS Agreeable but not terribly exciting.

[Harry]

GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (1525/6–1594).
See back cover for details.
The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice.
Recorded: 2012, in The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Summertown, Oxford.
Front illustration: The Resurrection (c1463) by Piero della Francesca (c1415–1492) Pinacoteca, Sansepolcro, Italy.


This Ensemble interprets these magnificent works with an incomparable combination of musicality, erudition and wonderfully sensitive singing. A fine recording, the sound is perfectly captured.

[Madiel]

It seems that Mozart's Serenades and Divertimenti are popular around here these days.

I love being a trendsetter!

[Madiel]

Earlier today, you all saw how I was pressured into it by @Florestan. 



I wasn't paying full attention for various reasons (work being one of them, one must concentrate when one is debating the validity of laws), but I did quite enjoy this. Certainly worth coming back to at some point.

[Irons]

How was that one Irons?

K

Up to usual high standard of conducting French music, K. Jean Fournet's large discography is made of nearly totally French orchestral music with little actually recorded in France. Many fine recordings with Czech Philharmonic for Supraphon, which I treasure. He also recorded in the Netherlands for Philips. Towards the end of his career he moved to Japan and made recordings for Denon. Fournet can safely described as a specialist conductor and worldwide promoter of French music. 

[Florestan]

Martin Jones seems to specialized in recording "complete piano works of ...". And a rather wide variety--Amazon shows Czerny, Mendelssohn, Brahms,Turina, Granados, Grainger, and Luytens among others. But not the Roger-Ducasse set for some reason. (I have the Granados.)

Also Mompou. His is probably the most complete of the "complete" sets of Mompou's piano music: 7 CDs spread over two volumes.

[Madiel]

Currently:



It appears that every single edition of this album, including the one I have, contains a mistake. The order of the movements in K.137 is swapped. The Gramophone reviewer back in the 1980s noticed it, I've noticed it, but somehow nobody making the album ever noticed it. The track timings match what is on the disc, but the 1st movement presented clearly ain't an "Andante" and that 2nd movement clearly ain't an "Allegro di molto", even though the liner notes make a point of highlighting Mozart's unusual decision to put the Andante first. Either Vegh decided he didn't like it and swapped the movements to put the Andante in the middle where it would normally be, or some recording engineer was so used to the slower movement being in the middle that they did it without checking that was right.

Ahem. Yes. Elsewhere this collection of shorter serenades and divertimenti includes one of the less common Vienna ones, K.525, which you might have heard before. Except it appears to be missing a 2nd minuet. Mozart said it had 5 movements and yet everybody always plays 4. That's awkward.

And there's the "Serenata Notturna", named by Leopold Mozart, and the best explanation I can find as to why he named it "night-music night-music" is a suggestion that each genre was for a different time of night, and so he was saying it was suitable for either earlier or later in your evening. It's quite interesting with its solo parts and timpani.

[Cato]

I mentioned this symphony a few days ago: one of the commenters on YouTube calls it a "a VERY American symphony."

And so it is!

Jerome Moross  Symphony (1942)

JoAnn Falletta conducts The London Symphony Orchestra

[Florestan]

Ahem. Yes. Elsewhere this collection of shorter serenades and divertimenti includes one of the less common Vienna ones, K.525, which you might have heard before. Except it appears to be missing a 2nd minuet. Mozart said it had 5 movements and yet everybody always plays 4. That's awkward.

Not everybody.

[foxandpeng]

John Corigliano
Symphony 2
John Storgårds
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Ondine

Whilst working on emails...

[Traverso]

Bach

[Cato]

Thanks to the American Composers/American Symphonists topics...


Peter Schickele: Symphony #2

Wait for references to Schumann, Vivaldi, and Stravinsky! A fun work!

[Kalevala]

Up to usual high standard of conducting French music, K. Jean Fournet's large discography is made of nearly totally French orchestral music with little actually recorded in France. Many fine recordings with Czech Philharmonic for Supraphon, which I treasure. He also recorded in the Netherlands for Philips. Towards the end of his career he moved to Japan and made recordings for Denon. Fournet can safely described as a specialist conductor and worldwide promoter of French music. 

I recalled reading that he was a fine conductor and also associating him with French music.  Any idea as to why he recorded so little actually in France?

K