What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony no. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

[André]

Anton Bruckner Symphony no. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

An acquired taste for many, but for me The Best Evaaahhh !

[JBS]

Very enjoyable performance I think (as far as I can see yours is the only reference to someone listening to it on this site.) I shall have to listen to his Lied von der Erde now too.

I have it, and didn't find it particularly distinctive in anything. Which perhaps is why I refrained from posting about it.

TD

Just finished the first thing on the CD, the meaty Concerto for violincello and orchestra which deserves to be much better known.

The final work on the CD is not mentioned on the cover: Sonata for two mandolins, guitar, harpsichord, and two string orchestras.  No cello seems to be involved, but the short essay by Mr. Canetti indicates it was included because it has never been recorded before.

ETA
The three movement Music for(unaccompanied)violincello also deserves to be much better known.

[JBS]

I have a slightly different interpretation. An embarrassment of riches is when you have so many good options, you have trouble deciding which to choose.

The meaning you proffer is the only meaning I've ever known for the phrase.

[JBS]

Another first listen


Scarlatti on a Steinway
K491 in D
K141 in d minor
K185 in f minor
K492 in D
K238 in f minor
K193 in E Flat
K128 in b flat minor
K466 in f minor
K125 in G
K263 in e minor
K386 in f minor
K462 in f minor
K380 in E
K447 in f sharp minor
K448 in f sharp minor

Perianes obviously has a preference for f minor: 5 of the 15 sonatas performed here are in that key (and 5 more are in other minor keys).

[JBS]

CD 2 Glorias and Credos based on parodies of secular music

[AnotherSpin]

A lovely recommendation, @Harry. Calm, comforting music that suits the gentle sun in a clear morning sky after a quiet night without air raid alarms. Or, perhaps there were alarms, but I did not hear them; I slept well.

[Que]

[steve ridgway]

Boulez - Dérive 2 Pour 11 Instruments

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - Aroura

[steve ridgway]

Varèse - Ionisation

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi - String Quartet 4

[Wanderer]

[Madiel]

Massenet: Werther (seen on OperaVision)

This was basically okay, without really exciting me. I'm not sure how much Massenet I've heard before, but the music is decent.** It's just not especially memorable from this performance anyway. And the plot is reasonable, and credit for not belabouring it. The four Acts take just over 2 hours, with Act One being a bit longer and Act Four being a bit shorter - that one is basically Werther dying, and by operatic standards he's not THAT slow to kick the bucket.

My biggest problem is that the title character is the kind of mildly annoying guy you'd roll your eyes at. In somewhat modern terms he'd be an emo. When he declared at the end of Act Two that he was leaving forever I thought "fine by me". I knew he was lying of course.

So yes, not a waste of time, and not an opera I was inclined to switch off, but also not something I'd rush to see again.

**Apparently someone has described Massenet as a first-class second-rate composer.

[Madiel]

Vivaldi

Violin concerto in D major, RV 210 (described as a manuscript version differing somehow from the published one, very enjoyable)
Bassoon concerto in D minor, RV 481 (spectacular bass notes in the slow movement)
Oboe concerto in A minor, RV 461 (oh dear, I don't like the tone of this oboe much, it's like a weird honking trumpet)

[Wanderer]

[Mandryka]

I have it, and didn't find it particularly distinctive in anything. Which perhaps is why I refrained from posting about it.

 I don't know this music so well, it's a long time since I last heard Mahler 9. I found it unexpectedly angst free in the first movement, and felt positive about that.

[Mandryka]

I just wanted to say that my life at the dining table has been changed since I discovered Sotiris Evaggelou. This is for lunch today

https://youtu.be/Jk1jnjdwxiw?si=cSXuBfWxnvhs36UA

[Madiel]

Beethoven: Piano sonata in F, op.10/2



Not that different to Goode's performance, a little more intense, and Kovacevich doesn't repeat the 2nd half of the finale which makes that movement VERY short. I think I probably prefer Goode just a fraction.

Both performances make want to learn the sonata. Though I probably won't.

[Harry]

It's raining cats and dogs here............