What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bach

Concerto No.6



I still have this luxury edition complete with a Facsimile of the handwritten music notation.

[Linz]

Henri Dutilleux Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 2, "Le Double" Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim

[Traverso]

Neidhart

Neidhart's poems are usually divided into Sommerlieder ("summer songs") and Winterlieder ("winter songs"). The summer songs open with a description of the season, followed by a dance on the village green and a love episode dealing with a knight's (Neidhart's) conquest of a village belle. The winter songs, usually more satirical, describe a dance in a farmhouse and ridicule the boorish peasant youths who are the knight's rivals for the village beauty. A winter song often ends with a brawl. The novelty of Neidhart's settings and his coarse humour inspired many imitators, and mockery of the peasants became a popular theme. In the 15th century many spurious satires of peasants were attributed to him.

[Todd]

Wrapping up this set for the first full run-through since I bought it in 2008.  It's a very nice set, but I have two Dowland lute music cycles - because, you know, why not - along with a smattering of other recordings, and I just don't reach for it much.  Maybe I revisit it in its entirety in 2040.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner.

[VonStupp]

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Piano Concerto in A Major, S4/W24
Piano Concerto in F Major, op. post. 1
Theme and Variations in F Major, op. 97

Howard Shelley, piano
London Mozart Players

VS

[Karl Henning]

Arrived today, so into the CD player it goes.


In my mind I always thought of this as a work of the 1950s or 1960s, but from the liner notes I learn Tippett wrote it during World War II, and the specific impulse was Kristallnacht.

If I once knew that (when in Petersburg I read a Tippett bio) I'd forgotten.

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner.

Ooh, I'll cue that up, too!

[DavidW]

Schnittke: Quintet For Piano, Two Violins, Viola And Cello

I listened to that recently, but the Berman/Vermeer recording.

[DavidW]

Thread duty: vol 7 of Byrd Moroney set:

[SonicMan46]

Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713) - just selections below from my small collection of about a dozen recordings which actually include all of his opus numbers listed below; Op. 5 & 6 probably his most famous - now I own the Op. 5 set as the usual violin sonatas, but the second 2 pics show wind transcriptions/transpositions w/ flute on the Tactus CD and just recorder/harpischord on the last image; despite the goofy picture on the cover, Stefan Temmingh is amazing on the recorder.  Dave

Opus 1: 12 sonate da chiesa (trio sonatas for 2 violins and continuo) (Rome 1681)
Opus 2: 12 sonate da camera (trio sonatas for 2 violins and continuo) (Rome 1685)
Opus 3: 12 sonate da chiesa (trio sonatas for 2 violins and continuo) (Rome 1689)
Opus 4: 12 sonate da camera (trio sonatas for 2 violins and continuo) (Rome 1694)
Opus 5: 12 (6 sonate da chiesa and 6 sonate da camera for violin and continuo) (Rome 1700)
Opus 6: 12 concerti grossi (written in the 1680s, publ. Amsterdam 1714)
op. post.: nearly a half dozen works (Source)

   

[Karl Henning]

Corelli, Arcangelo (1653-1713) - just selections below from my small collection of about a dozen recordings which actually include all of his opus numbers listed below; Op. 5 & 6 probably his most famous - now I own the Op. 5 set as the usual violin sonatas, but the second 2 pics show wind transcriptions/transpositions w/ flute on the Tactus CD and just recorder/harpischord on the last image; despite the goofy picture on the cover, Stefan Temmingh is amazing on the recorder.  Dave

   

That Avison Ensemble disc is brilliant!

[Roasted Swan]

I was not aware of that, thanks. An excellent series of Elgar recordings from CfP with striking artwork of scenes from Manchester by Adolphe Valette.

I agree about the artwork and then they spoit the "run" of nice covers with this one.....!



a famous photo with an odd filter!  But tbh another excellent recording.  Then the Falstaff was good musically but pretty rubbish art-work-wise too!

[DavidW]

[Lisztianwagner]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 5

Sir Adrian Boult & London Philharmonic Orchestra

[Florestan]

From this box:

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner.

Very nice, and I hadn't listened to the piece in an age.

[Spotted Horses]

Koechlin, Divertissemente, Suite en Quatuor, SWR



Lovely, brief works for winds (and piano). Starting to push my threshold for repose at times, but rewarding.

[Traverso]

Byrd

CD 1

This time not Moroney but Pieter Jan Belder.

[Linz]

George Enescu Symphony No. 2 in A Major, Op. 17, Romanian Rhapsody in A Major, Op. 11 No. 1 and Romanian Rhapsody in D major, Op. 11 No. 2, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Horia Andreescu