What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Beethoven

piano concerto No.5

Philharmonia Orchestra 

Wolgang Sawallisch

[Madiel]

Brahms: Cello sonata no.1

[Harry]

Marco Antonio "da Bologna" Cavazzoni.
Organ Works.
And compositions by: Claudio Veggio, Giulio Segni, Jacopo Fogliano.
See back cover for details.
Lieuwe Tamminga, Organ. (See for details about the Organ the back cover)
Recorded: Probably, 2004.
No PDF file, so I do not know the Pitch or Temperament. Guessing can go both ways, I chose the safe side, asking for info.

The first of 18 CD's I bookmarked on Qobuz. The sound is so so. What we would call this in the Netherlands, the organ is swimming. The focus on what the instrument can do and what not, is a guess. The organ is situated in the San Petronio Basilica in Bologna. The small scale instrument is lost in the acoustics, and that is a pity for the Lorenzo da Prato instrument, (1471-1475) is a fabulous organ. So its difficult to record. Still, the line up of composers and their music is near perfect, and Tamminga is doing his utmost. To my ears it's a musical success, but a disaster in sound.

[Harry]

Considering I had polished off a couple of bottles of fine German beer, my wife was working her magic on the freshest fish, and the house was alive with guests, Bach performed by Suzuki went down like a charm.

I can picture the situation, and I would have liked to be one of your guests.

[Que]

From the shelves:



Alessandro de Marchi is an excellent Vivaldian. The title of the recording is taken from the concerto RV1 51 "alla rustica", but there is little of a common denominator in the selection of concerti - "six examples from Vivaldi's concerto oeuvre".

[San Antone]

Bernstein : On the Town
Michael Tilson Thomas, LSO

[AnotherSpin]

[AnotherSpin]

I can picture the situation, and I would have liked to be one of your guests.

If you ever decide to come to Ukraine (after those barbarians get the hell back to their swamps), I'll be glad to welcome a dear guest

[SonicMan46]

Mandelssohn, Felix - Piano Works w/ Ana-Marija Markovina on a Bösendorfer Imperial piano; 12-CD box - she uses the new MWV catalog (compiled by Dr. Ralf Wehner) starting with the years 1820-21 on the first two discs; the 'Songs w/o Words' are arranged in the same manner and not bunched together, which may be a negative for some.  Dave

 

[Harry]

If you ever decide to come to Ukraine (after those barbarians get the hell back to their swamps), I'll be glad to welcome a dear guest

I keep you to that, I will certainly visit the Ukraine again, and will not forget to visit you!

[VonStupp]

WA Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b

Karl Steins, oboe
Karl Leister, clarinet
Günther Piesk, bassoon
Gerd Seifert, horn
Berlin PO - Karl Böhm

Marvelous!
VS

[Mandryka]

Andrej Borjko, Silvestrov 5 - really touching, timeless, deeply felt music.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1889 Version (aka 1888/89) Ed. Leopold Nowak,  NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Günter Wand

[hopefullytrusting]

Now, this is a tone poem!

Ippolitov-Ivanov's Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 1 conducted by Fage with the NSO of Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hviDLNNcGVw

Perhaps, painting is a better word than poem (or, perhaps, another world altogether). To make a space into a place for those who have never been to that space is a rare gift (although, I find that all the Russian composers I've listened to seem to have this gift, in fact, all the composers who are nationalists seem to have this gift of evocation - see Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin, etc.). Superb orchestration with a well-balanced orchestra led by a quality conductor - production is also top notch (no peaks, even when the brass is blaring overlapping with percussive overlapping.

High recommendation.

[Linz]

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, The Philharmonie Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

[JBS]

[Traverso]

Bach


With all the agony in the world this really gives me a sense of beauty......

[Traverso]

I can picture the situation, and I would have liked to be one of your guests.

For the beer or music.....

[Harry]

For the beer or music.....

Both of course

[Lisztianwagner]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.38 'Prague'

Günter Wand & Gürzenich Orchester Köln