What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Brahms

Tragic Overture
Academic Festival Overture
Symphony No.2

Wiener Philharmoniker

[71 dB]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Trio Sonatas Wq 145, 148-150.
Les Amis de Philippe
CPO 999 495-2/CD 1

[Linz]

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35
Alexander Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

[Que]

@Que @prémont Which versions would you recommend on the poetic side please?

I only have (and enjoy) La Petite Bande's. Thank you.

For me it's is still that one by Sigiswald Kuijken!   

From the top of my head I don't recall any period performance I would call more poetic than Kuijkens, not even the one on BIS with Ryo Terakado.
So I think some "preauthentic" versions would fit better, e.g. Grumiaux and the Oistrakhs. I have a soft spot for the old (1950es) mono recording of the two solo concertos on Philips with Grumiaux and the Guller orchestra. Particularly the slow movements are very beautiful.

Same! (sofar)

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Josef Woess 1927
New Japan Philharmonic, Toshiyuki Kamioka

[Iota]

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 18 in Bb Major, K.456
Il Gardellino, Olga Pashchenko (soloist & director)


Very nice indeed, Pashchenko has a lovely freedom to her playing and she catches the zest and details of character in the concerto with engaging charisma. Played on period instruments, I find the copy of an Anton Walter fortepiano (circa 1792) she plays an attractive-sounding one.

You can hear a snippet of it here, though in Concerto No.17.

[Mandryka]

Wasn't familiar with that recording..... Noted & bookmarked! 

I'm listening to it this evening - really nice music and performances IMO - of course all the credit for finding it must go to @Harry

[AnotherSpin]

[Daverz]

Can someone explain the meme to this old fart?  Thanks.

Now playing:

Castelnuovo-Tedesco: 24 Caprichos de Goya para Guitara, Op. 195, Cristiano Poli Cappelli, guitar.

[Kalevala]

And, yes, I'm open to contemporary performances of it.

K

I should have also mentioned that the first recording that I heard of it was a Supraphon one (that I had purchased) by Jiri Barta (and Jan Cech on works for cello and piano, including a Novak piece) which I believe is from 2003.    Anyway, off to work on my dinner.

Best,

K

[Todd]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Debussy, Lenny.

[Symphonic Addict]

Getting familiar with Saint-Saëns' string quartets.

My go-to recording of these remarkable works.

[Kalevala]

Can someone explain the meme to this old fart?  Thanks.

And, you're not alone!  I have no idea what @Symphonic Addict was trying to say.  Not trying to be mean to you SA...just clueless.

And dinner is cooking; late one tonight.  So, it goes some days.  Almost done (good because I'm really hungry!).

K

[Symphonic Addict]

Stenhammar's large First Piano Concerto in B-flat minor is much more interesting than I had in mind. It may have some longueurs, but the overall material is very fine, sometimes leaning to the considerably memorable. The relatively fast rendition (42 min long) also helped in my appreciation I reckon. The Second Piano Concerto in D minor is another different matter. I quite liked it on first hearings and I still do. Some passages even reminded me of the buoyancy I often perceive in Saint-Saëns. Very attractive music too.

[Symphonic Addict]

And dinner is cooking; late one tonight.  So, it goes some days.  Almost done (good because I'm really hungry!).

Enjoy!

[Symphonic Addict]

Berwald: Septet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and double bass in E-flat major

Yet another Swede whose work delighted me quite a lot. This is authentically fun stuff! There's well-humoured music and then this piece. Love it! Berwald's creativity shines in all its glory in this delightful septet.

[Bachthoven]

[Daverz]

Two recordings of Enescu's String Octet:

The combined Ebene and Balcea quartets:

And the Kremerata Baltica



I very much prefer it with the larger body of strings.

[André]

THE disc to discover why Rautavaara is such a great composer.