What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Julius Röntgen.
Piano Music, solo, volume II.
See back cover for details.
Mark Anderson, Piano.
Recorded: 2014- 2015 at the Nimbus Records at Wyastone, Leys, Monmouth, UK.

This is truly wonderful music, neglected and unloved, and not heard by many. I am grateful that it is recorded at all. Mark Anderson is doing well at the second volume, lost the brusqueness of playing in the first volume, and properly feels his way into the music. Good for him and me. Excellent recording, which is not always the case with Nimbus.

[Harry]

Love the Caspar David Friedrich cover image - although, partly ruined for me by one of my History of Art students who pointed out that they look as if they are sitting on a roast chicken!

This student should seriously consider checking her eyes, the chicken was probably in her head, when seeing the painting, due to the fact of eating a leg which was not properly grilled, and getting sick afterwards. My advice is "Ignore her"  

[vandermolen]

This student should seriously consider checking his eyes, the chicken was probably in his head, when seeing the painting, due to the fact of eating a leg which was not properly grilled, and getting sick afterwards. My advice is "Ignore him"  

HAHA 
PS it was a 'her' actually!

[brewski]

Love the Caspar David Friedrich cover image - although, partly ruined for me by one of my History of Art students who pointed out that they look as if they are sitting on a roast chicken!

    

[Brian]

There was some talk about this symphony in another thread, and I realized that I hadn't listened to it in possibly 10 years!



I think it might be better without the motto theme starting every movement (in his Second Symphony the composer is much more adept at weaving a motto through the work), and Slatkin notes in the booklet that he adopts some orchestration changes to fix the young composer's mistakes. However, the work overall is a load of fun, and it feels very "Russian romantic" (the Five, etc.) in a way that even his later works don't, quite.

[Karl Henning]

Indeed. I'd really love to hear a more modern performance of it (are you reading this Maestro Schwarz?), but I don't foresee this happening unfortunately.

Is Schwarz still active?

[Harry]

HAHA 
PS it was a 'her' actually!

Corrected! If she was pretty, you may forgive her

[SonicMan46]

Schumann, Robert - Piano Music with Dana Ciocarlie vs. Eric Le Sage, both on modern pianos - recording dates, Ciocarlie, 2012-16 & Le Sage, 2001-09 - both 13 discs - will listen to about a half dozen discs combined - Ciocarlie are 'live' performances but there is absolutely no audience noise. Both are keepers for me and not sure which one I'd cull out?  Dave

P.S. a more recent (completed in 2021) even larger 'complete' box has been released with Florian Uhlig - have not heard any of these discs so no comments. 

 

 

[Karl Henning]

HAHA 
PS it was a 'her' actually!

Perhaps she was hungry at the time...?

[AnotherSpin]

So, on one side of the scale, we have Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony performed by Svetlanov in Japan. On the other side, we have the mad Putin and Wagner's private army, raping prisoners and smashing their heads with hammers.

Does it balance out? I don't know. There is no logic or balance in the world, just a pitiful, futile attempt of the mind, nothing more.

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 1

[Karl Henning]

Bach

CD 1

Superb!

[brewski]

RIP  Sofia Gubaidulina

My first CD....

That's a great one.

[Wanderer]

Love the Caspar David Friedrich cover image - although, partly ruined for me by one of my History of Art students who pointed out that they look as if they are sitting on a roast chicken!

She must have been really hungry that day! 

The CD cover presents a rather terribly colour-adjusted/calibrated and zoomed-in photograph of this superb Caspar David Friedrich painting (Mondaufgang am Meer). 

This one is better (and closer to the impression the actual painting conveys to the eye), but, as always, still no match for seeing it in person. 

[hopefullytrusting]

Popov with Kabalevsky and the Moscow PO playing Kabalevsky's Piano Concerto No. 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKIhhHUo-Ao

Put a pep in your step! For such a short piano concerto, it is is grand, in all senses.

[hopefullytrusting]

Oistrakh with Kabalevsky and USSR State Symphony playing Kabalevsky's Violin Concerto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEL5kj_13UQ

Such pluck, such an energetic composer. You will surely not be lulled to sleep.

[Linz]

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 "Eroica, Coriolan Overture
The Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

[Lisztianwagner]

I'll join the members who have listened to some Gubaidulina's music, in homage to the composer:

Sofia Gubaidulina
Symphony in 12 movements

Gennady Rozhdestvensky & Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

[Linz]

Sergei Rachmaninoff Destination Rachmaninov Arrival,  Daniil Trifonov piano, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

[Henk]

R.I.P. Sofia Goebaidoelina (1931-2025)

Listening to 'Jetzt Immer Schnee'. It was composed for this recording. The other composition performed on this recording is titled 'Perception'.