What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Rodrigo

More than fifty years I bought this LP.

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) - Keyboard Works - own the 4 collections below - the PDF attachment lists nearly all of Luigi's music for keyboard (including transcriptions) - note these are all on fortepianos:

Ensemble Clavier - 4-disc Brilliant box - include all 12 Op. 56/57 quintets (G. 407-418); half of these works on 2 discs also performed by Patrick Cohen & Quatuor Mosaiques.

Op. V KB Sonatas (G. 25-30) (violin/cello transcriptions) w/ Franco Angeleri & Enrico Gatti; same set, Laura Vlvini doing the G. 143-48 'Piano Trios' on period instruments.

Op. 26 (G. 195-200) String Quartet arrangements for fortepiano (Arthur Schoonderwoerd et al). So for those wanting some Boccherini fortepiano chamber works, plenty available!      Dave

 

 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - Orchestral Works.

[Iota]

What a lovely cantate is "Gott ist unsere zuversicht"

Bach: Cantata BWV 197 'Gott ist unsre Zuversicht'
Hana Blažiková, Damien Guillon, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki

Thanks for sowing the seed of this idea a couple of days ago @Traverso, I don't think it's too much to say the BWV 197 cantata occasioned a sense of bliss here tonight. Lovely indeed!

[vandermolen]

NP: Hovhaness Symphony No. 6, Op. 173, 'Celestial Gate'

One of my favourite Hovhaness CDs - great cover as well!

[vandermolen]

Holst: Beni Mora - oriental suite
Choral Symphony

[Que]

Piano quartet no. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15   
Sérénade for piano and cello, Op. 98
Piano quartet no. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45

Splendid performances.

[Linz]

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major Op. 21
Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 26
Toronto Symphony Orchestra  (
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, TH 57, Paul Tortelier
Philadelphia Orchestra
Klauss Tennstedt

[DavidW]

A sublime clarinet concerto, but the whole recording is charming and never rushed.

[Karl Henning]

Anti-Formalist Rayok (whose text is more interesting than its music)

That's fair.

TD:

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1896 Edition [Doblingler] Revision by Franz Schalk
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leon Botstein

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1889 Version (aka 1888/89) Ed. Leopold Nowak
Rundfunk-Sinfoneorchester Leipzig, Herbert Kegel 

[André]

In this 2-disc Thorofon set we get all of Genzmer's works for violin and piano - 3 sonatinas, 4 sonatas and a didactic work called 'progression', designed to further advanced students' skill and fuidity.

Everything Genzmer throws at his students (he was a much sought after teacher) is musically interesting, even challenging, not just academic or formulaic. Genzmer expected his students to not only master the technical challenges but to integrate them within a musical conception of his works. That's why he has found himself one of the most often played living composers in Germany, and by quite a wide margin.

Like Haydn, he was entirely adaptable to the circumstances at hand and, like his beloved teacher Hindemith, the realm of sounds, whether they came from a piano, an organ, a trumpet, a string quartet, full symphony orchestra, a wind instrument or even obscure stuff like theremin - it all was in his playground.

This is not stuff to be listened to while chopping up veggies, sipping wine and exchanging gossips with dinner guests. It doesn't require full, undivided attention and note-taking seriousness either. Listening while breathing, maybe ?

[André]

Apart from perennial favourites like the Alla Turca A Major sonata or the Sonate facile, this disc includes a work that features in every solo piano recital containing a work by Mozart. Anytime, everywhere. It made sense to play them all on a disc (or in recital).

Mozart in minor is recipe for a welling up of emotions, a plunge into melancholy. Too much maybe ? I was surprised at first by Konstanze Eickhorst's way with the opening work on the disc, the D minor Fantasia K 397. It's sometimes given the Tragic Treatment, with angst, foreboding and tears of blood vying for the listener's daily quota of musicemotion. Sometimes it goes the other way, all  restraint, reserve and sublimated torment. 

In her recital Eickhorst conceives the corpus of works as a musical and intellectual unit. There is a clear, unbroken thread that unifies her conception of the works - even as they are from different periods and moods. Her musical approach denies pathos and emotional effusiveness to fester and grab the listener's attention. She is more subtle than Uchida or Hewitt, more forthright than Kempff and definitely more pliant and willing to inflect her playing into a non-Mozartean timeline than Hamelin.

A very special Mozart recital.

[Symphonic Addict]

I love this symphony. The slow movement, in particular, is gorgeous.

Indeed. The whole work manages to make an impression whenever I revisit it.

[Symphonic Addict]

Holst: The Planets

Quite simply one of the most extraordinary and memorable orchestral works I know, and this is one of the best interpretations I've heard so far. A perfect match.

[Linz]

George Frideric Handel Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Part II
Isabelle Poulenard, Jennifer Smith, Nathalie Stutzmann, John Elwes
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

One of my favourite Hovhaness CDs - great cover as well!

Yes, indeed. A fantastic disc all-around.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Adams Harmonielehre



One of my all-time favorite works from any composer.