What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

First ever listen to this collection:



I am streaming while working, and decided to make notes of which pieces really caught my ear and made me look to see who wrote 'em.

Up first is the Karelia overture by Sibelius, which includes a brief quote of the much more famous Karelia Suite.

Next is the lively, comic, unusually colorful overture Nummisuutarit by Uuno Klami. This really made my ears perk up.

Then we head through a succession of somewhat more conservative works, most of all the dramatic and Bruch/Mendelssohn-ish overture by Ernst Mielck. Unfortunately, I'd have to say the next piece that really caught my attention was the famous-ish Praeludium by Jarnefelt.

Klami wins!

Thanks! I enjoy Klami's music.

[Harry]

Edvard Grieg.
Symphonic works.
Volume I.
See back cover for details.
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Eivind Aadland.
Recorded: 2010.

Third rerun. Since I installed the Audio modules the sound has become acceptable. I was utterly unaware how much of an influence it has on the sound.

[Que]

1st listen of this most recent Willaert recording by the Flemish ensemble Dionysos Now!

[Traverso]

Bach

[Que]

https://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-8003/

[Harry]

Dmitri Kabalevsky.
Orchestral Works.
See back cover for details.
Kathryn Stott, Piano.
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky.
Recorded: 2002, Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, UK.

It was a while ago that I did listen to the music by Kabalevsky, so I picked from my library the best performances I had. A stunning SOTA sound, and energetic performance, from both the soloist and orchestra. Colas Breugnon is a marvelous piece, as is the Comedians. Riveting  hushed strings, a barely audible ppp, gave me goosebumps it did!

[Traverso]

Bach

Always a joy to return to listen to a Leonhardt recording.During the years that I have collected his recordings I have been continually surprised by the extent to which my life has been enriched by listening to his aristocratic delivery, which seems so far removed from the ugliness of the world.


With Ton Koopman you immediately hear who the musician is, with Leonhardt this seems absent but because of his way of expressing music and not getting in the way of the music with an idiosyncratic interpretation you almost immediately hear the hand of the master who can render the music with a phenomenal understanding and everything falls exactly into place, precisely as a mediator, as he himself called it.

[Harry]

Édouard Lalo (1823–1892)
Orchestral Works.
See back cover for details.
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi.
Recording venue Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn; 6–8 June 2022.


You might not expect that these unknown works by Lalo, are highly complex, and densely scored, but it is. Not easy to perform, and more difficult to record. But somehow Chandos managed to make it in a coherent recording, in which you must listen carefully to find all details. To single a few things out to sample how creative Lalo really was try, "Valse de la Cigarette", from Namouna, and from the Suite No. 1 "Prelude", and the astonishingly movement 4a and 4 b, "Parades de Foire" & "Fête Foraine" A Hans de Bulow, an amazing and creative outpour that may even surprise  admirers of Lalo's music.
As a performance there is nothing to criticize, but I wished the recording a bit better, although it's adequate.

[not edward]

Krystian Zimerman is probably my favourite living pianist, and Brahms is definitely my favourite composer of chamber music, so I'm having a great time with this recording this morning.

[ritter]

Fahmi Alqhai and the Accademia del Piacere preform Spanish Renaissance music (mainly from the Cancionero de la Colombina).

[Karl Henning]

You're right. I think it must have been the Seventh I was not impressed by, not the Fifth, because I remember not caring for the symphony coupled with what I now realize is the Eighth.

It's obviously been too long since I listened to this cycle. But my general memory is that I liked the earlier symphonies more than the later ones.

I need to revisit this set, which means locating the discs....

[Karl Henning]

That was exactly my experience. 

I don't remember being at all put off by that one, but then, I need to find the box again (see above.)

[pjme]

Just in case someone is interested - I got the text fragments (PDF, complete in Czech and in German) for Kabelac seventh symphony. 

I can send a copy.

Peter

[foxandpeng]

I remember liking the first four symphonies, not being impressed by the Fifth (like you), and not caring for the Sixth, which is a choral symphony.

TD
Second go at the Borusans

Oddly, #6 sat OK with me, I seem to remember. I'll give it a whirl later today or tomorrow and see!

Thread:

Miloslav Kabeláč
Symphonies 2 and 3 for Organ, Brasses and Timpani
Marko Ivanovic
Prague RSO
Supraphon

Volume up!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ned Rorem: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Cello Concerto. Mulligan, Wen-Sinn Yang, Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Serebrier.

[Spotted Horses]

Beethoven, Piano Sonata No 10, Badura-Skoda



Really delightful! Yesterday I listened to the Annie Fischer recording of this sonata, and it didn't resonate, but with the sonorities of the fortepiano and Badura-Skoda's sensitive touch it reveals itself. The middle andante always satisfies, but in this recording the inventive figuration of the outer movements comes alive, for my ears.

[AnotherSpin]

[Harry]

Adrian Willaert.
Missa Laudate Deum. Qual dolcezza giamai; Amor mi fa morire; Signora dolce; Qual piu diversa e nova cosa; Ave Maria.
See back cover for all details.
Dionysos Now!.


Let me put it like this, the countertenor is making my life difficult, because he tops over all the other voices almost constantly. Furthermore the tempi are fast, too fast for me. I miss the spiritual element, the balance in the choir that is wholly absent, there is no moment of rest or contemplation. I saw that @Que had a go at it too, I don't know what he is making of it, but my take in it is, no, thank you. With a side remark, that some of the volumes meet my wishes, but this one definitely not. This constant modus of attack and loud singing is unnerving me.

[Harry]

Mozart & Contemporaries,
See back cover for details.
Stadler Trio.
Eric Hoeprich, Basset Horn & Clarinet.
Carles Riera, Basset Horn.
Albert Gumí, Basset Horn.
Robert Sebesta, Basset Horn.
Recorded in the Castle/Museum of Krásna Hôrka, Slovakia, in June 1998.

A well engineered recording, considering the date of recording. The instruments sound unforced and natural. With works I do not hear that often, and thus makes a pleasant detour, from all the other music I play. My first encounter with the Stadler trio, although I knew Eric Hoeprich from other recordings. First class performances.

[Harry]

Another rerun, now that my new speakers are on top of what they can deliver. Sorry ChamberNut for the front cover......not