What are you listening 2 now?

[brewski]

Live from Wigmore Hall, the Quatuor Danel:

Weinberg: String Quartet No. 14 Op. 122
Weinberg: String Quartet No. 15 Op. 124
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp Op. 142

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss  Jansons

[ChamberNut]

Hat-tip to @Karl Henning

Now playing Krenek Symphonic Elegy, Op. 105 streaming via Presto Music



Very nice! I'm definitely going to have explore more of Krenek's music. And since I've giving Presto Music's streaming service a trial*, I figured this would be a good time to do just that.

*I never thought I would be doing the streaming music thing, but there's just so much great stuff out there that I simply don't own and definitely won't own now that I've stopped buying physical media.

Good for you John on doing the Presto trial period!

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now streaming via Presto Music --- Korngold Symphonic Serenade, Op. 39

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Good for you John on doing the Presto trial period!

Thanks, Ray. Yeah, I figured I'd try it out and so far I've been satisfied with the audio quality. Also, it's really easy to navigate their streaming application. To have access to all of this music is rather overwhelming to me at the moment, so I'm trying to keep my composure as I'm browsing through what seems like endless amounts of recordings.

[Karl Henning]

Looks good!

[AnotherSpin]

[JBS]

Which would suggest that the listener's quarrel is with the tuning, rather than with the instrument.

It would be more precise to say with the tuner instead of with the tuning.

[Karl Henning]

It would be more precise to say with the tuner instead of with the tuning.

(* chortle *)

[JBS]

Human beings have theorized and experimented with tunings for many hundred years, and every existing tuning may be said to be theoretical, because there is no natural tuning. Also equal tuning is highly theoretical and experimental.

And as for the Goldberg Variations, we are at a loss, as we do not know the tuning Bach used. He reportedly had his own personal tuning.

In fact, Egarr's theory was that the tuning he used in that recording was Bach's personal tuning.

To be clear, my complaint with that recording had nothing to do with the tuning, and everything to do with its soporific lethargy, as if Egarr was trying to prove that the GVs were indeed composed to be used as a cure for insomnia.

[Brian]

Sampling the two works by Olli Mustonen, Nonetto II (two string quartets and one double bass) and a memorial piece for Casals written for four cellos. Mustonen has a musical style that is old-fashioned but not reactionary, perhaps because it is so straightforward, direct, and relatively simple. The adagio at the heart of Nonetto is very impressive, it's sort of like a romantic minimalist flowering of melody.

[Linz]

]Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovsky CD 1
Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 "Winter Daydreams"
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 17 "Little Russian":
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

[brewski]

Live from Wigmore Hall, the Quatuor Danel:

Weinberg: String Quartet No. 14 Op. 122
Weinberg: String Quartet No. 15 Op. 124
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp Op. 142

Unbelievably, encores: two of Prokofiev's Visions fugitives, arranged for string quartet. An incredible concert, which should be available to view for awhile.

[Que]

[Florestan]

Both quartets are Op. 25? 

[Iota]

Live from Wigmore Hall, the Quatuor Danel:

Weinberg: String Quartet No. 14 Op. 122
Weinberg: String Quartet No. 15 Op. 124
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp Op. 142

Just got in in time to hear the two short Prokofiev Visions Fugitives encores at the end, but was so impressed by those arrangements I'll be seeking out their recording of them all forthwith. And indeed highly impressed by their playing too, so will have a listen at the very least to the Shostakovich I missed.

[ritter]

A programme of short pieces by three favourite composers:

Cristóbal Halffter: Halffbéniz. Orquesta Filarmónica de Malaga, led by the composer.



Olivier Messiaen: Les Offrandes oubliées. Roger Désormière conducts the Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Pierné.



Marc-André Dalbavie: Trois chansons populaires. Yuriy Mynenko (counter-tenor) and the Orquesta Gulbenkian under the composer.

[Symphonic Addict]

Last night at the "liberation concert" on the Amstel river in Amsterdam, I heard orchestra Phion play an over-familiar piece, but I broke my brain: what was it? Until in a flash: Aladdin of course, Carl Nielsen's most exotic score. Glad to get it out again. 

Great work! And I appreciate this recording a lot since it is the only one with the complete incidental music AFAIK.

[Que]

Both quartets are Op. 25? 

 

[Symphonic Addict]

Karlowicz: Episode at a Masquerade

Love this colourful score. The horns are particularly arresting on this recording.