What are you listening to now?

[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:

[ritter]

Inevitably, but since I'm not in the mood to listen some actor/actress chatting away, I've opted for these--extended--symphonic fragments:

Claude Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien, fragments symphoniques - Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl (cond.)

On CD4 of this set:
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[Karl Henning]

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

And he might never have written one, without Oscar Levant's entreaty.

[San Antone]

And he might never have written one, without Oscar Levant's entreaty.

Before or after he went bonkers?

[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

Interesting, but Herbie did not seem to have full command of the work.  Anyway, I'm now listening to this curiosity - MTT and the LAP playing along with the piano roll of Gershwin



Also, interesting.

[listener]

15th Century courtly songs by DUFAY, LANDINI and others
Gothic Voices, with Imogen Bakford, medieval harp
and HINDEMITH: 3 Organ Sonatas + DISTLER 4 pieces from op. 18/1 and KROPFREITER: Toccata française
Peter Hurfurd, organ in Ratzeburg Cathedral

[ritter]

Hat tip to Abuelo Igor for reminding me of this:


The Debussy and Schmitt works...

[San Antone]

Third time's the charm



The best ... IMO.

[Mandryka]

Christopher Stembridge plays some organ and harpsichord music by Ascanio Mayone. First thing to say is that this is beautifully recorded on some very attractive instruments. Second thing to say is that the interpretations make Mayone sound like an interesting composer to me, because, in Stembridge's hands, it's not just a bunch of convoluted keyboard effects designed to wow the crowd: Stembridge makes it sound full of noble humanity. The Cds are new to me, and I'd previously given up on Mayone, only knowing his music through Tasini's recordings. How wrong I was!

Everything Christopher Stembridge touches turns to gold.

[The new erato]

Fresh through he door:

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This is worthwhile stuff in a fine recording.

[prémont]

Which isn't an irrelevant fact at all.
Yes, completistic tendencies are always a risk, but regarding Buxtehude I'm quite more selective than about Vivaldi, Frescobaldi or Monteverdi.

Well, Monteverdi is one of those composers which have not got hold of me until now, while I on the other hand give a very high priority to Frescobaldi.