What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

My study has replicated this, lol.

Tier 1
Del Pueyo, Schepkin, Schoenhals

The rating of Del Pueyo demonstrates conclusively that the methodology is sound.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum

[AnotherSpin]

John Cage - Chamber Works... 1943-1951

Apartment House


In a Landscape for piano (1948)
Six Melodies for violin & piano (1950)
Amores for prepared piano & percussion (1943)
Haikus for piano (1951)
String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
Music for Marcel Duchamp for prepared piano (1947)
Dream for piano & cello (1948)

[Spotted Horses]

Hindemith, Sonata for flute and piano, oboe and piano, clarinet and piano. Farinelli, et. al.



I got tired of the wild goose chase of finding Hindemith wind sonatas and settled on this set. Flute sonata was attractive, oboe sonata didn't grab me, clarinet sonata wonderful. I think this is the third recording of the clarinet sonata I have heard and all have pleased.

[prémont]

It is a fun experience, and it is making me more familiar with one of my favorite pieces while also helping me get closer to defining the indefinable quality I like about the recordings I like the most.

My next 4, I believe, are all speed demons:

Nate Wambolt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMrNogGlwWk
Rudolf Buchbinder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O3F2jkYCXY
David Allen Wehr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QZIYwfPxec
Park Sang-moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKETGYwafbE (I think, I used the Edge translate function, lol.)

Updated ranking. Reflects only which ones I enjoyed the most, so I won't put them into tiers.

1. Eduardo Del Pueyo/ Sergey Schepkin, can't choose between them
2. Tengku Irfan
3. Maroussa Gentet
4. Seokyoung Hong/ Drew Petersen
5. Joel Schoenhals
6.Dawid Allen Wehr (eloquent and lyrical but I would prefer a little more drive in the Perpetuum Mobile)
7. Robert Maciejowski
8. Marta Czech
9. Nicolas Namorade
10. Jean Muller
11. Rudolf Buchbinder (disappointing workmanlike performance)
12. Tumaini Sango (light and dancing Menuetto but the Perpetuum mobile lacks propulsion even if beautifully articulated)
13. Anastasia Frolova (solid but average performance)
14. Nate Wambolt (a little better than Villar, but not much)
15. Park Sang-moon (sounds synthetical - el-piano? Midi?)
16. Eliseo Villar (has learned the notes, but not to make music of them)
17. Alberto Sanna (sigh!)
18. Fritz Jank (I gave up rather fast)

[ritter]

John Cage - Chamber Works... 1943-1951

Apartment House


In a Landscape for piano (1948)
Six Melodies for violin & piano (1950)
Amores for prepared piano & percussion (1943)
Haikus for piano (1951)
String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
Music for Marcel Duchamp for prepared piano (1947)
Dream for piano & cello (1948)

That looks interesting. Early Cage (with his influence on Boulez and Darmstadt) is something I wish to explore further.

[hopefullytrusting]

15. Park Sang-moon (sounds synthetical - el-piano? Midi?)

I will update my rankings, accordingly. I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, but that you also have those doubts compels me to take them off the list entirely (it does explain how they were so fast and smooth, lol).

My last 22s for the day:
Maia-Maria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_UXidKW_jU
Alexander Kobrin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWJ83iF02oM
Peter Bradley-Fulgoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7X5HiZMio
Pengcheng He: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HtnUiO2DEk @Todd alert - he did all 32 piano sonatas (on YouTube)

[prémont]

My last 22s for the day:
Maia-Maria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_UXidKW_jU
Alexander Kobrin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWJ83iF02oM
Peter Bradley-Fulgoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7X5HiZMio
Pengcheng He: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HtnUiO2DEk @Todd alert - he did all 32 piano sonatas (on YouTube)

I shall go on with these tomorrow.

[Linz]

Antonin Dvořák Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner

[ritter]

Two works connected to the book I'm currently reading (Blaise Cendrars' D'Oultremer à Indigo) and that were first performed on the same evening by Rolf de Maré's Ballets Suédois at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 23 October 1923. Darius Milhaud's La Création du monde, to a scenario by Cendrars, and Cole Porter's Within the Quota (orch. Koechlin). In the book, Cendrars takes a visitor from Brazil, "Colonel" Bento, to listen to some music by his "New Yorkais friend Cole Porter" at the Folies-Bergère.

[hopefullytrusting]

Ranking the 22s - done with classical music for the day, I think - I need a break, lol:

Tier 1
Kobrin, Del Pueyo, Schepkin, Schoenhals
Tier 2
Maia-Maria, Bradley-Fulgoni, Gentet, Irfan
Tier 3
He, Solomon, Wehr, Andsnes, Buchbinder, Namoradze, Petersen, Hong, Brown, Sango, Villar, Frolova, Czech
Tier 4
Wambolt Maciejowski, Muller
Tier 5
Insanity: Sanna
Untiered
Bad Transfer: Jank
Disqualified: Sang-moon

[Mister Sharpe]

Hard to imagine a more effective antitoxin for trying times ... unconditionally recommended.  My wife and I had this CD on steady rotation when it  was released in the '80s, which doesn't mean what you think it means.  Here it refers to the fact that it rotated in our CD player over and over and over again with nothing else coming between it and us for well over a month. We had a CD player in the car and it rotated there, too.  Time cannot extinguish the charm of its melodies, nor the allure of its captivating lyrics, several of which we memorized.  Poulenc, besides having very large (and talented!) ears, had quite the eye for some of the very best 20th century French poetry.   

 

[Lisztianwagner]

Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons

Gil Shaham & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

[ritter]

Hard to imagine a more effective antitoxin for trying times ... unconditionally recommended.  My wife and I had this CD on steady rotation when it  was released in the '80s, which doesn't mean what you think it means.  Here it refers to the fact that it rotated in our CD player over and over and over again with nothing else coming between it and us for well over a month. We had a CD player in the car and it rotated there, too.  Time cannot extinguish the charm of its melodies, nor the allure of its captivating lyrics, several of which we memorized.  Poulenc, besides having very large (and talented!) ears, had quite the eye for some of the very best 20th century French poetry.   

 

"C", from the Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon, is a little gem, and one of my favourite mélodies in the entire repertoire.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies

[Linz]

Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 32
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen

[Todd]

[Symphonic Addict]

Schubert: Piano Sonatas D. 568, 575 (Endres) and 571 (Dalberto)

[Symphonic Addict]

Saeverud: Lucretia Suite

Phenomenal music. It contains all of his trademarks, perhaps except the bizarre.

After Grieg, Saeverud is my favorite Norwegian composer.

[Karl Henning]

Copland: Symphonic Ode

Great piece!