What are you listening to now?

[Todd]

[Mandryka]

More than any other performances of Eton Choirbook music I've heard, including Christophers and Nevel, this from Tonus Peregrinus is the most alive, the one that gives the best impression of singers responding to each other, listening to each other.

[Brian]

Another new (recorded 2014, released this week) recital from the ageless Paul Badura-Skoda. He does make a lot of noise (mumbles, moving around) while he plays.

[Todd]

Another new (recorded 2014, released this week) recital from the ageless Paul Badura-Skoda. He does make a lot of noise (mumbles, moving around) while he plays.

How does he handle the opening movement of the sonata?  D850 is rather challenging.

[SonicMan46]

Weiss, Silvius - Lute Music w/ Jakob Lindberg - Dave

 

[Brian]

How does he handle the opening movement of the sonata?  D850 is rather challenging.

Only listened to D. 946 to be honest. But he does not have world-class technique anymore - more of the enough-to-say-what-he-wants-to-say kind of technique. Looking at track timings, he's 70-90 seconds slower than Endres and most others in the sonata (10:17) and, just checking the first 30 seconds, his repeated chords are not as insistent and commanding as others'. He'll be turning 89 this year...

It was a good D. 946, but non-essential. I'd really love to hear a younger PBS play this music.

[Todd]

I'd really love to hear a younger PBS play this music.

From the 60s/70s for sure.  His earlier complete Schubert isn't what I hoped it would be.

[Brian]

Well, I did discover a 2011 recording. Only 4 years younger, but it's on a late 1820s Conrad Graf fortepiano (my favorite maker) (and Penelope Crawford's).

So...

[listener]

Two new to me discs:
Spanish Symphonies by ARRIAGA, PONS,NONÓ and MORENO
played by the Concerto Kôln
and from Hyperion's Romantic Violin Concerto series more composers new to me
Emil MLYNARSKI   Concertos 1 & 2  and Aleksander ZARZYCKI: Mazurka in G, Intro. & Cracovienne  in D
Eugene Ugorski, violin     BBC Scottish S.O.     'Michal Dworzynski, cond.
both easy listening

[Brian]

Well, I did discover a 2011 recording. Only 4 years younger, but it's on a late 1820s Conrad Graf fortepiano (my favorite maker) (and Penelope Crawford's).

So...

Todd, I don't know if you have this disc, but it's certainly a very good D. 946 (D. 960 is about to start). The most interesting thing for me is how Badura-Skoda chooses to use the "mute pedal". I remember, in our interview, that Crawford said she uses it sparingly and carefully, because once you engage the pedal, it's hard to find a natural place to disengage. PBS takes a much more liberal attitude - he uses it a LOT, often for only 1-2 bars at a time. It feels audacious, but for the most part it works really well and shows me a new perspective on that particular instrumental tool.

[Todd]

Todd, I don't know if you have this disc

I don't have that one, I have the Arcana set.  (I'm assuming they are different.)  Used properly, the moderator pedal can work well.  The application can be very liberal or parsimonious - it's all about how well it works.  PBS has issued a number of interesting looking releases in the past few years.  I'm running low on new Schubert discs . . .


TD:



Disc 1.

[Brian]

BTW this is a 2CD set. There are different performances of D. 960 on an 1820s C. Graf, a 1920s Bosendorfer, and a nows Steinway.

1820s D. 960 - so far, so good. Less profound, more singing/innocent.

[aligreto]

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 played by Kyung - Wha Chung with the London Philharmonic / Tennstedt....

[aligreto]

More than any other performances of Eton Choirbook music I've heard, including Christophers and Nevel, this from Tonus Peregrinus is the most alive, the one that gives the best impression of singers responding to each other, listening to each other.

Duly noted; thank you for your comments.

[Sadko]

Tchaikovsky

Pique Dame

Samuil Samosud 1937

German - Nikandr Khanaev
Liza - Kseniya Derzhinskaya
Polina - Nadezhda Obukhova
Countess - Faina Petrova
Tomsky - Aleksandr Baturin
Prince Yeletsky - Petr Selivanov
Bolshoi Choir and Orchestra
Samuil Samosud

[SimonNZ]

Tielman Susato's Danserye - Philip Pickett, cond.

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Harpsichord Concerto BWV 1055 [Café Zimmermann]....

[Drasko]

https://www.youtube.com/v/aYhriBNcIz8

[SimonNZ]

on the radio:

Bernard Hermann's Clarinet Quintet "Souvenirs de voyage" - Richard Hosford, clarinet, Nash Ensemble

[Madiel]

It's morning, so let's listen to the "Mattinata" quartet.

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