What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Lethevich]

Yes your last sentence is the key to Parry's music, you should listen very carefully to him without any notion of what you like or dislike. The inner structure of his Symphonies are all important. If you manage to connect them you have the key to the genius of this music. Mind, Chandos somewhat blurry recordings with little detail do not help.

I second this advice. I disliked Parry's symphonies at first, but I set them aside and re-listened when I was in a more suitable mood, and with the right expectations, and found myself very surprised by the music's quality. So much so, that I forget what problems I had with it initially - was I expecting Tchaikovsky or something?

[karlhenning]

Listening to Karl Henning's Fair Warning, the first movement of his viola sonata.

Sarge

That's a fine work. I wonder what Kim Kashkashian and Robert Levin would make it sound like.

Thank you, gents! Blushing here.

[Dana]

Listening to Karl Henning's Fair Warning, the first movement of his viola sonata.

Sarge

Me too!

[Harry]

Kurt Weill.

Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, opus 12.

Anthony Marwood, Violin.
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Anthony Marwood.

At first a very violent work, insistent, raw, and at times shocking, especially the first movement, not many will stand this. The brutal energy is stunning at times. The writing for wind makes you sit on edge. Don't expect to listen in comfort, it will tax your patience. And it will reward you, for it is in my ears a beautiful work, technically very hard to bring off, the writing is clear and concise, and the lucidity is amazing. But the first listen was disconcerting. Performance is topnotch, and the recording is state of the art. Simon Eadon is a engineer wizard.   

[karlhenning]

Me too!

Heck, me too ; )

[Harry]

Peteris Vasks.

Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra. "Distant Light".

Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Anthony Marwood, Conductor, and Violinist.

One of the finest Violin concertos I know.

[jhar26]

[karlhenning]

Believe it or not:

Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez (1939)
Alfonso Moreno, gtr
LSO
Bátiz

Rodrigo – Muchos conciertos

[canninator]

Believe it or not:

Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez (1939)
Alfonso Moreno, gtr
LSO
Bátiz

Rodrigo – Muchos conciertos

I've never heard this recording. How does it compare to others you may have heard?

Thread duty:

Angel Hewitt plays Messiaen

[Harry]

Albert Dietrich.

Violin Concerto opus 30 in D minor.
Introduction & Romance opus 27, for Horn & Orchestra.

Elisabeth Kufferath, Violin.
Marie Luise Neunecker, Horn.
Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester, Alexander Rumpf.

A fine romantic Violin concerto, with much to like, and nothing to dislike. In the same vein is opus 27. The recording very forwardly recorded, clean sound but rather hard and at times unforgiving. Just keep the volume low. Kufferath is a sensitive Violin player, and feels her way around this work, she is clearly in a higher class as the orchestra, a provincial band, that copes with the material as best as they can, but they miss the spark to ignite the orchestral part. The writing by Dietrich is expertly done, he is by no means a second rate composer, on the contrary.  The soloist in the Horn concerto, can be classed as the Violinist, she is better as the orchestra.  It is a Live Recording.

[karlhenning]

I've never heard this recording. How does it compare to others you may have heard?

I've practically never heard the solo part played poorly . . . so to some degree the many recordings/performances I've heard of the piece (many of them unidentified to me) sound much the same.

The accompaniment here is perhaps a bit better played than in most;  and there is more taste in many of the balances.  For one instance: In some recordings, the brass (for whom the piece is something of a snoozer) are apt to sound a little over-eager (and unnecessarily loud within the texture) at their rare appearances.  Here, they blend into the ensemble well.

[Franco]

Brahms: Complete Piano Trios



Trio for Piano & Strings No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8

[Scarpia]

Brahms: Complete Piano Trios



Trio for Piano & Strings No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8

That is one of my favorite recordings of all time!

[karlhenning]

Those trios need to be my next foray into The Brahms Box!

[Franco]

That is one of my favorite recordings of all time!

Mine too - exquisite playing of flawless music.

[Franco]

Those trios need to be my next foray into The Brahms Box!

What is the group in that box doing them?

I have no complaints with the Florestan, I am just curious.

[karlhenning]

No, I didn't take your query as sonic disloyalty, Franco! : )

Members of the Nash Ensemble, for the Horn Trio, Opus 40.

Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson & Joseph Kalichstein, for the piano trios Opp. 8, 87 & 101.

Karl Leister, Wolfgang Boettcher & Ferenc Bognár for the Opus 114 Clarinet Trio. (And Leister does a great job with the Clarinet Quintet, Opus 115.)

[springrite]

Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson & Joseph Kalichstein, for the piano trios Opp. 8, 87 & 101

That's the one I have and I like it.



Now listening: Lyapunov Piano Concerti

[karlhenning]

A revisitation!

Martinů
Toccata e due canzoni, H. 311 (1946)
Josef Hála, pf
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Ondřej Kukal

Martinů – Sinfonietta la Jolla; Toccata e due Canzoni; Concerto Grosso

[Franco]

Members of the Nash Ensemble, for the Horn Trio, Opus 40.

Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson & Joseph Kalichstein, for the piano trios Opp. 8, 87 & 101.

Karl Leister, Wolfgang Boettcher & Ferenc Bognár for the Opus 114 Clarinet Trio. (And Leister does a great job with the Clarinet Quintet, Opus 115.)

Those are some very nice recordings!

I too have the L-R-K Brahms set (coupled with the Dvorak piano trios) - and I'm pretty sure I have Leister on the clarinet works - these are some of my favorites, so I have several copies of them.

The Nash Ensemble is a group under-represented in my collection, I think all I have by them is one:

Debussy, Ravel: Chamber Music



A beautifully played recording.