What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

Beethoven
Piano Sonatas nos. 3, 26, 27 & 29
FF Guy
[asin]B00E9IWVM4[/asin]

[Sadko]

Schubert

Symphonies 1 & 2

Philharmonia Hungarica
Peter Maag

[asin]B0018BWTM2[/asin]

[Fafner]

La Finta Simplice, Mitridate, Re di Ponto and Ascanio in Alba. There are arias and ensembles that had my head shaking in complete disbelief.  How could a 12 year old (La Finta Simplice) and 14 year old (Mitridate) compose music like this?? It is baffling!

Totally! I once had Mitridate on a VHS (a performance with Jochen Kowalski and  Ann Murray). Well, I still do, but no way to play it back.

Now:

Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponte
Cecilia Bartoli, Brian Asawa, Christophe Rousset, Natalie Dessay, Les Talens Lyriques, Giuseppe Sabbatini

[springrite]

Totally! I once had Mitridate on a VHS (a performance with Ann Murray). Well, I still do, but no way to play it back.

I have the same VHS and I think I will play it next week! Ha!



Now: Shosty: Symphony #10 (DePriest)

[Fafner]

I have the same VHS and I think I will play it next week! Ha!

Schadenfreude


*cough*,  wrong thread

[North Star]

Beethoven
Piano Sonatas Opp. 109, 110 & 111
FF Guy
[asin]B00E9IWVM4[/asin]

[The new erato]

I have no strong reactions to this disc, but I rather like it.

[asin]B002Q1LK00[/asin]

Score one for Tansman as one of the composers I need to know more of.

[Harry]

I have no strong reactions to this disc, but I rather like it.

[asin]B002Q1LK00[/asin]

Score one for Tansman as one of the composers I need to know more of.

I bought most of the Symphonies during a Abeille sale, and as yet I still have to play them. Uhmmm, that was 3 years ago, but I sampled them, and I know I am going to love this music.

[North Star]

Change of schedule forced me to skip Op. 110 & 111 for now, listening to this instead:

Fr. Couperin
Messe propre pour les convents de religieux et religieuses
Gustav Leonhardt (organ, by Dom Bedos for the abbey church of Sainte-Croix of Bordeaux, restored in 1996)
[asin]B00005S0ME[/asin]

[Karl Henning]

Change of schedule forced me to skip Op. 110 & 111 for now, listening to this instead:

Fr. Couperin
Messe propre pour les convents de religieux et religieuses
Gustav Leonhardt (organ, by Dom Bedos for the abbey church of Sainte-Croix of Bordeaux, restored in 1996)
[asin]B00005S0ME[/asin]

Mm, that does look nice, Karlo.

[North Star]

Mm, that does look nice, Karlo.

And sounds even better! A tad expensive now, but get this marvelous set, and the PDF liner notes ( )
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[TheGSMoeller]

And sounds even better! A tad expensive now, but get this marvelous set,

Just a tad...

[Karl Henning]

Decisions, decisions . . . buy that new, or lease an SUV? . . .

[springrite]

Decisions, decisions . . . buy that new, or lease an SUV? . . .

An SUV won't last you a lifetime!


Wait, then again, you will probably drive the SUV more times than listening to that CD...

[The new erato]

Villem Kapps 2nd symphony from a BBC Music Magazine disc. Some Sibelian echoes here.

[Karl Henning]

An SUV won't last you a lifetime!

Wait, then again, you will probably drive the SUV more times than listening to that CD...

And it is also said, "Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both pffft and whatever."

[Harry]

Villem Kapps 2nd symphony from a BBC Music Magazine disc. Some Sibelian echoes here.

There is a fine CD on Chandos with the music by the Kapp family, father and sons. Neeme Jarvi recorded it. Have it, like it enormously.
Especially Eugen Kapps "Kalevipoeg, Ballet Suite" which has many influences from Finnish composers, but still has a unique flavour.
Villem Kapps Symphony No. 2 is also recorded on the same disc, and was and still is for me a revelation. Arthur Kapps "Don Carlos" is also a fine work.

[North Star]

Just a tad...

This is certainly a brilliant (now with a capital 'b'...) disc, but yes, it's fair to say that the current prices are on the excessive side.

[The new erato]

This may be the same performance of the symphony; BBC Phil with Jærvi; though coupled differently.

[Brian]

First listen to Aho's Chinese Songs and Fourth Symphony: