What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Hindemith
Ludus tonalis, Kontrapunktische, tonal, und Klaviertechnische Übungen (1942)
Bernard Roberts

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[Que]

Que, your story resembles mine own, replete with bike, approximate age and distance and public library.  Just substitute Ravel, Debussy & Ibert for the Beethoven and you have it!

Hotteterre, Jacques-Martin (1674-1763) - Chamber Wind Music from the recordings below; the first w/ Camerata Köln a new acquisition and recent recording; the second a 2-CD set w/ Franz Brüggen on recorder/flute and Danny Bond on bassoon from the mid-1970s - Dave

 

Hotterre is cool!

Q

[Wakefield]

... the second a 2-CD set w/ Franz Brüggen on recorder/flute and Danny Bond on bassoon from the mid-1970s - Dave

 

Just three years ago Brüggen, Haynes and Leonhardt were all still alive. 

[Wakefield]

Daniel Shoskes: Lautenschmaus (Lute Feast)



Instruments:
11 course Baroque lute by Grant Tomlinson. Strung entirely in gut.
13 course Baroque lute by Andrew Rutherford. Strung in nylon, nylgut and copper wound basses.

Recorded in St. Bridget's Church, Johnson County Iowa, March 12-14, 2011.

n the mid 17th century, France was the center of excellence for lutenists who. After much experimentation, they settled on the "d minor" tuning system on an instrument with 11 sets of single and double strings ("courses") tuned f' d' a' f d a g f e d c. Once the "Sun King" turned his attention to the previously low brow guitar and elevated it to royal status, the lute fell out of favor. Performers spread throughout western Europe into the mostly German speaking countries and began to fuse the contemplative cerebral "broken" style of the French lutenists with more Italian influences that emphasized melody (Cantabile) and counterpoint while retaining the popular French dance music forms. In the later German baroque, two additional bass courses were added (b and a) and the music increased in harmonic complexity.

The program on this album is an exploration of this rich and underappreciated repertoire, performed on both 11 course and the later 13 course baroque lute. The 11 course music retains much French influence with separated chords and simple harmonies but introduces more melodic components. The 13 course music introduces the singing cantabile style leading to the complex harmonies and grandeur of Weiss and Bach. Finally, a modern composition by Turovsky shows that the "German" baroque lute has not sung its last new songs.

[Brian]

My current ranking of all the Glagolitic Masses on Naxos Music Library:

1. Warsaw/Wit, Naxos
2. LPO/Tennstedt, BBC
3. Danish/Mackerras, Chandos
4. Birmingham/Rattle, EMI

Listened to these but can't remember them, oops: LSO/Masur, Czech SO/Swarovsky

[Mandryka]

http://www.youtube.com/v/pF-F6-VFCWM

Boulez Repons live at Lucerne, rather good, better than the one on DG, and I think the music's a masterpiece. What would be nice is to hear someone other than Boulez play it.

[TheGSMoeller]

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[Brian]

I have three discs of Klara Wurtz's Schumann, but not this one. Let's see if her gifted interpretations extend to Opp. 12 and 82!

[Drasko]

[Sadko]

Rossini

Il barbiere di Siviglia (in Russian)

Kozlovsky, Firsova, Burlak, Reizen
Moscow RSO
Samuil Samosud
1953

[Wakefield]

I'm enjoying this quite a lot:

[SonicMan46]

Just three years ago Brüggen, Haynes and Leonhardt were all still alive. 

Hey Gordo - forgot that these recordings were also 40 years old - time flies!  Some great musicians gone -     Dave

[EigenUser]

Haven't listened to a violin concerto in several days  and am suffering from serious DTs (deficiency of trills).  Turning now to one of my favorites.  Better make mine a double and I'll listen to the Dvořák, too.

My friend and I read through the Wieniawski a few weeks ago.

Although it is not a violin concerto, you should hear Boulez's short chamber work Derive I. If that doesn't cure your DTs, nothing will.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

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+1

[Wakefield]

I think people will be soon naming this 2-CD set as a reference for Mozart's violin concertos:

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It would happen very quick if the asking price were a bit more reasonable.

[Sadko]

Fauré

Préludes op. 103

Jean Doyen

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[torut]

Haydn - Keyboard Sonatas, Schornsheim (always satisfying)
Schubert - String Quartet No. 1 & No. 2, Taneyev Quartet (Schubert's early works are very fine.)
Catherine Christer Hennix - The Electric Harpsichord, CHORA(S)SAN TIME-COURT MIRAGE (incredible!)
Daniel Lentz - Apologetica (Wonderful chorus work. Beautiful.)

[Sadko]

The greatest complete set of his piano music, without equal.

Yes, I agree. I'm curious how I'll like Kun Woo Paik's selection I bought. Most of what I heard of him was very good:

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[Sadko]

Liszt

Mephisto-Walzer Nr. 1
Années de pèlerinage I, La Suisse - Au lac de Wallenstadt + Au bord d'une source
Variationen über B-A-C-H
Liebestraum Nr. 3 As-dur
Ungarische Rhapsodie Nr. 12 cis-moll
Les Jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este (Années de pèlerinage III, L'Italie)
Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)

Kun Woo Paik

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[listener]

SATIE for a quiet evening: 3 Gymnopédies, 3 Gnossiennes, Jack-in-the-Box, Embryons desséchées... etc.  close to a 'greatest hits' collection
Angela Brownridge, piano
Maybe my volume setting was just right, her dynamics were nicely judged and giving more expression than we usually get with these pieces.  The boredom I feared was missing.    Sometimes Satie can be just right for the moment (or vice versa).
BEETHOVEN: Wind Quintet in E^b      HOLST: Wind Quintet in A^b op.34
BARBER: Summer Music op.31   Claude ARRIEU: Quintet in C
Belgian Wind Quintet