What are you listening to now?

[Todd]

https://www.youtube.com/v/sU83ZAkfvFw

[SonicMan46]

I remember well when I bought this set, years ago, no one was really interested in this box, although I sang praises all over the place, no one bought it let alone react to this purchase. Now Maria is all over the place.  It took long before it sank into GMG and its posters.

Well Harry - just checked my Amazon orders and I bought that box back in Jan 6, 2010, but was probably based on your recommendation? Dave

[king ubu]

I remember well when I bought this set, years ago, no one was really interested in this box, although I sang praises all over the place, no one bought it let alone react to this purchase. Now Maria is all over the place.  It took long before it sank into GMG and its posters.

It doesn't only get positive  reviews though?

[SonicMan46]

Cartellieri, Antonio (1772-1807) - Clarinet Concertos, V. 2 w/ Klöcker et al - new arrival to complement V. 1 -

Dohnanyi, Ernö (1877-1960) - Chamber Works below - just grabbed from the shelf - have not listened to this composer in a while - Dave

   

[Todd]

https://www.youtube.com/v/YSiQynAAWkg

[Wakefield]

Which means, that according to me you do not need to consider the ones you haven´t heard...

Which isn't an irrelevant fact at all.

-- unless you harbour completistic tendencies of course.   

Yes, completistic tendencies are always a risk, but regarding Buxtehude I'm quite more selective than about Vivaldi, Frescobaldi or Monteverdi.

[Harry]

Indeed.  Credit where credit's due!    I was surprised to see when I first opened the little box that these recordings were made from 2004-7.  I thought them more recent for some reason.

BTW, I picked-up this past weekend the disc, below, at a garage sale.  Haven't listened, yet.  Do you know of it, Harry?   

This is the first time that I see this recording. I heard of it of course but never saw it.
Let me know what you find of the content 

[Harry]

Well Harry - just checked my Amazon orders and I bought that box back in Jan 6, 2010, but was probably based on your recommendation? Dave

Yes that must have been around that time Dave!

[Harry]

It doesn't only get positive  reviews though?

Just ignore them, its a marvelous set

[Christo]

BTW, I picked-up this past weekend the disc, below, at a garage sale.  Haven't listened, yet.  Do you know of it, Harry?

I have it, mainly for the sake of the ten short Laudes Vespertinae (1947) by Hendrik Andriessen, from his vintage years as a composer. Though Daan Manneke, present here with his Messa di Voce, is equally interesting. Good to see you have it too, since CDs by this label (Erasmus) weren't widely distributed, IIRC, but Harry will know more about that.

[Moonfish]

Telemann:
Hamburgische Kapitänsmusik, 1755             
Bach/Stapf/Georg/Norin/Türk/Winter/Schopper/Nolte/La Stagione Frankfurt/Schneider

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[San Antone]

https://www.youtube.com/v/zfNcD4ercso

[Moonfish]

Telemann: Concertos for Woodwind Instruments             Camerata Köln

[San Antone]

All Gershwin concert by Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil:

Cuban Overture
An American in Paris
Rhapsody in Blue
Herbie Hancock, piano

[Brian]

Let the Afternoon of Listening to the Berlin Philharmonic Begin!



Mozart | Sinfonia concertante
David and Igor Oistrakh
Berlin Philharmonic

[king ubu]

Just ignore them, its a marvelous set

Will see when I get to explore Skrjabin's piano music in more depth - so far it's mostly been some Ashkenazy and Sofronitzky ... and Ogdon, who gets bad reviews, too. Have Ponti lined up (bought recently), but it will take me some time to get there I think.

Right now, first dip into this:

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This sounds like it is from sometime around the time of Brian, uhm, Jesus ... but I love me some Feuerman and need to explore more (the Heritage CD-R set is here, too ... I wonder, does that label do CD-R releases or would there be a first edition on proper CDs? At least I didn't pay much, as it wasn't announced as CD-R when I ordered it.

[Papy Oli]

Good evening !

More Haydn SQ / Festetics, this time, opp.33 and 42

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[Wanderer]

https://www.youtube.com/v/zfNcD4ercso

Interesting fact: All three of Skalkottas's twelve-tone piano concertos predate Schoenberg's Piano Concerto.


The concerto was not performed in Skalkottas's lifetime; the work's performances a few years after his death, however, were essential for his early posthumous international reputation. Hans Keller, on the event of the concerto's broadcast  by the BBC, wrote: "[despite] artistic solitude... Skalkottas composed... one masterpiece after the other. [He is], in my opinion, the first real and great twelve-note composer since Schoenberg...
Passionately dramatic and lyrical, heroic and tenderly submissive in turns, the Concerto is an immediately fascinating work... There is a new and incisive thought, a novel developmental idea, an unsuspected textural perspective at every corner... the anti-romantic era left him cold, or rather hot: his music is as romantic as all full-blooded music, and as classical as all great art."

[San Antone]

Interesting fact: All three of Skalkottas's twelve-tone piano concertos predate Schoenberg's Piano Concerto.


The concerto was not performed in Skalkottas's lifetime; the work's performances a few years after his death, however, were essential for his early posthumous international reputation. Hans Keller, on the event of the concerto's broadcast  by the BBC, wrote: "[despite] artistic solitude... Skalkottas composed... one masterpiece after the other. [He is], in my opinion, the first real and great twelve-note composer since Schoenberg...
Passionately dramatic and lyrical, heroic and tenderly submissive in turns, the Concerto is an immediately fascinating work... There is a new and incisive thought, a novel developmental idea, an unsuspected textural perspective at every corner... the anti-romantic era left him cold, or rather hot: his music is as romantic as all full-blooded music, and as classical as all great art."

Yes, but Schoenberg's PC was a late work.    

I enjoyed the Skalkottas work, so thanks to those GMG-ers (of whom you might have been) that brought his name to the my attention.

[Brian]

BPO listen-a-thon continues: