What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

My internet connection is having drop outs this morning - but my physical collection comes to the rescue:



This might still be my favourite album by Cut Circle. Disc 2 has some interesting music on it: two songs on "L'Homme Armé" and two masses on the same theme: one by Josquin Desprez and one by his contemporary and his Flemish colleague in Rome Marbrianus De Orto.

[Madiel]

Mozart/Stadler: Piano trio in D minor, K.442



Stadler, who completed a number of Mozart works, put together 3 movements for piano trio, and the result is really rather good. Then again I also thought Stadler's completions of violin sonatas were quite good. The man seems to have had some skills.

[Madiel]

Mozart: Horn Concerto no.3

[Papy Oli]

Morning all,

Mahler - Das Klagende Lied
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Johan Botha (tenor), Anna Larsson (contralto), Jörn H. Andresen (chorus master)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
Pierre Boulez

[Wanderer]

My internet connection is having drop outs this morning - but my physical collection comes to the rescue:

I had a similar situation a few days ago, when the internet connection went down for several hours because they're installing a fiber optics (FTTH) network in the neighbourhood. So it was mobile data for the boring stuff (work) and the good ol'CD-player for the tunes. Physical collections are the best. 

[Papy Oli]

Boulez himself now:



 

[Roasted Swan]

Tangentially, @Elgarian Redux obliquely led me to this:

@vandermolen will be pleased!

This accompanied me on my morning dog walk today.  The great wadges of string tone really suits the Chicago SO and Gould brings a high-romantic power to it all.  That said my dogs weren't that fussed..........

[Que]

Disc 2 is, like the one before, recorded on the Scherer organ in the St.Stephanskirche in Tangermünde.

[Madiel]

This is the spot I've been trying to get to in the Mozart catalogue. Now we're getting serious 

Mozart: Piano Concerto no.14 in E flat



The first of the great series of piano concertos. The opening entry in Mozart's notebook of works and completion dates.

[Traverso]

English Classical Clarinet Concertos

Lighthearted Concertos unknown by many but attractive nevertheless

[Que]

Nice, interesting music and excellent playing! 

https://earlymusicreview.com/tomasek-fortepiano-sonatas/

[ritter]

First listen to Henri Sauguet's ballet Les Forains. Michel Plasson conducts the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra. The CD also contains Satie's Parade and Relâche, with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra conducted by Louis Auriacombe. A very circusy, street-fairish programme. Perfect as background music while cooking lunch. 

[André]

Sauguet's ballet Les Forains is an enchanting score. It's fun, bittersweet, elegant, saucy, very French. This seems like a wonderful disc !

[Harry]

Georg Philipp Telemann.
Complete Violin Concertos.
Volume III.
See details on the back cover.
The Wallfisch Band, Elizabeth Wallfisch.
Recorded in 2009.

Again an excellent performance, with some oddball compositions on this disc. That's the advantage of recording all the Violin concertos, for Telemann always finds a unusual way to shock or delight us. And he does, just listen to the first movement of the Overture in D major, were the disc starts. It is recorded in France, which gives detailed sound but a bit hard on the ears.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Mendelssohn
Symphony For Strings No. 9 in C, "Swiss"
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Masur

From this set -

[Traverso]

Dufay

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Bach
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
Carolyn Sampson, Daniel Taylor, Mark Padmore, Peter Kooy
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

[VonStupp]

George Lloyd
Violin Concerto 1
Violin Concerto 2

Cristina Anghelescu, violin
Philharmonia - David Parry

Why these VC's haven't caught on in the concert hall, who knows. They would certainly be crowd pleasers.
VS

[Harry]

Carl Nielsen.
The Complete String Quartets.
Volume I.
See for details back cover.
Zapolski Quartet.
Recorded: 1997, Arken Museum of Modern Art.

The performances have drive and impulsiveness, and yet they never lack differentiation in detail. These are in fact very beautiful performances, precise, warm blooded, and the strings sound amazing, almost embracing you. I consider this a SOTA recording. I've heard more interpretations of the SQ, but not as gorgeously recorded. Still, they are my number one to go for when I want to hear these SQ.

[Iota]

NP:

Bach
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
Carolyn Sampson, Daniel Taylor, Mark Padmore, Peter Kooy
Collegium Vocale Gent
Herreweghe

That really is a great set!

Here:



Hindemith: Kleine Sonata for Viola d'amore, Op. 25, No. 2
Gunter Teuffel (Viola d'amore), Anthony Spiri (piano)

Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 6, Op. 46, No. 1

The Kleine Sonata is a lovely, haunting, little off-the-beaten-path jewel, the kind that seems to trip out almost unnoticed from Hindemith's endlessly creative mind. I don't know if the Kammermusik No. 6 is much better known or not, but it sure ends up going on a strange journey for a large stretch of its duration. The central section seems to drift off into some very remote state, like someone walking through a strange but oddly intimate forest, and suddenly realising they're wandering through their own subconscious. That's how it struck me anyway, very intriguing and much liked. It's all very well done indeed by Teuffel and pals.