What are you listening 3 now?

[Philo]

Hans-Joachim Hespos: Complete Organ Works (Live):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBH6XfjGETY

A comment from two years ago sums it up nicely:

Es klingt, als ob Sie ein Herrenhaus betreten und ein Geist Sie hereinlässt. Diese Musik ist geheimnisvoll, eindringlich und doch wunderbar.

It sounds as if you are entering a manor house and a ghost is letting you in. This music is mysterious, haunting, and yet wonderful.

Martin Sturm playing the Trost Organ Waltershausen

Truly incredible.

[Traverso]

Mozart

 

[Traverso]

Debussy

[Mandryka]

With respect, l've always found common cause with JRR Tolkien's " cordial dislike " of Mr. Shakespeare. While l would never contest his facility with the English language, he is frequently more verbose than the occasion warrant's.

WS never uses five words where ten will do... 

POLONIUS . . . —What do you read, my
 lord?

HAMLET  Words, words, words.

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

Prelude:
Toccata
Théodore Dubois

Offering music:
Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands
Samuel Scheidt

Postlude:
Jubilate
William Mathias

[VonStupp]

Eugene Zádor
Accordion Concerto
Piano Quintet (orch. Smolij)
Suite for Brass Instruments
Hungarian Fantasy for violin
Romance for cello
Berceuse for violin

Klaudiusz Baran, accordion
Dávid Pintér, violin
Richárd Rózsa, cello
Anna Górecka, piano
Budapest SO MÁV - Mariusz Smolij

Broadly lighter fare compared to previous volumes, all very appealing. Zádor's background in film music makes its strongest appearance here, although this is all original and well-developed music.

I think this recording makes it the eighth volume dedicated to Zádor's orchestral music on Naxos; I wonder if a ninth is in the works?
VS

[(poco) Sforzando]

With respect, l've always found common cause with JRR Tolkien's " cordial dislike " of Mr. Shakespeare. While l would never contest his facility with the English language, he is frequently more verbose than the occasion warrant's [sic].

WS never uses five words where ten will do... 

Just what would you cut? Since you say WS never uses five words, etc., no doubt in all 37 of his plays, no doubt you have some ideas.

Perhaps to start, we could take Lear's:

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stone.

Thou'lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never!

And strip them down to:

No, come, let's away to prison.

Howl! O, you are men of stone.

Thou'lt never come no more!

[(poco) Sforzando]

POLONIUS . . . —What do you read, my
 lord?

HAMLET  Words, words, words.

Obviously Hamlet could just say "words" once. And instead of "except my life, except my life, except my life," a few speeches later, he could just say "except my life." Once.

By the time we're done, we could reduce this 4-hour play to a nice 1-hour TV episode, with room for commercials.

[Spotted Horses]

Returning to Beethoven Piano Sonata No 28, Badura-Skoda performing on fortepiano (following Annie Fischer yesterday).



Very satisfying. The instrument seems closer to a modern piano than some fortepianos I have heard on recordings. Nevertheless the instrument gives the music a certain clarity of line.

[Bachthoven]

I gave this a second listen after buying the hi-res download. Here's a video of Shibe talking about the album:

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Mozart

[Iota]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata F sharp major, Op. 78
Penelope Crawford (fortepiano)

Always loved this sonata, I remember the first time I heard it being wowed by the sudden gear changes from major to minor in the 2nd movement. And in a tactile sense it always felt different to play from other LVB sonatas, I guess because of the keyboard 'topography' of F# major and some of the figurations. Crawford forges ahead with high energy and some delightful fortepiano-type timbral contrasts particularly in the last movement. Fun.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Holst
The Planets

Antonio Pappano & London Symphony Orchestra

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Symphonies CD 16
Symphony No.55 in E flat major,  "Der Schulmeister"
Symphony No.56 in C major
Symphony No.57 in D major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Adam Fischler

[AnotherSpin]

Obviously Hamlet could just say "words" once. And instead of "except my life, except my life, except my life," a few speeches later, he could just say "except my life." Once.

By the time we're done, we could reduce this 4-hour play to a nice 1-hour TV episode, with room for commercials.

By the way, why did it never occur to anyone to put commercials on CDs? Like, between the movements of a symphony? It could have been a great way to fund the artists and sound engineers. You could even do it during live concerts, or right between opera arias.

[LKB]

By the way, why did it never occur to anyone to put commercials on CDs? Like, between the movements of a symphony? It could have been a great way to fund the artists and sound engineers. You could even do it during live concerts, or right between opera arias.

People usually don't wish to pay for " commercials ". And inserting such between movements during a live performance seems an excellent way to discourage attendance.

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles

[steve ridgway]

Maderna - Concerto For Oboe And Chamber Ensemble No. 1