What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

I have a mini heart attack whenever anyone posts a picture of that recording because she  looks so much like my mother.

[Mandryka]

Yes in this you are dead right, he is aiming for that. But I am not that interested that I will seek out more recordings of him, although on paper it is an promising series. All 11 volumes have different organists, but just a few are om Qobuz, mostly with music or organs of which I already have superior interpretations.

The elephant in the room is the Görlitzer Tabulaturbuch.

[Traverso]

Hamza El Din

It's hot, seems like a good idea to cool down with Hamza.

[foxandpeng]

Alan Rawsthorne: Symphonic Studies
LPO Pritchard (Lyrita CD)
The best performance, I think, of Rawsthorne's orchestral masterpiece.
I've just been watching that fine old film 'The Cruel Sea' on TV which is where I first came across Rawsthorne's music in my teenage years:

This is excellent

[foxandpeng]

Miklós Rózsa (1907 – 1995)
Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
See back cover for details.
Recording venue Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester; 16and 17 June 2009 and 16 June 2010,
(Cello Concerto only).


For some unfathomable reason volume one is not available, whilst I played it a few months ago without problems. Hopefully it is a temporary glitch. I noticed that volume 2 & 3 are filled under the R, volume 1 is in a French version, meaning it is filed under Oeuvres orchestral, and not under the composer's name. Qubuz makes a mess of it. And shortly after I wanted to try again if it would play, it disappeared from Qobuz. I hope that is not an ongoing cleanup initiated by Qobuz.
But a wonderful series anyway, high grade performances and superb performers. SOTA sound.

This is also excellent

[Spotted Horses]

Korngold Suite for 2 violins, cello and piano left hand.



What a delight. The overall form is a bit of a mystery to me, a prelude and fugue where I don't recognize the fugue, a waltz, a grotesque, a short slow movement and a variations finale. The music is all a bit grotesque, in a wonderful way. Fine performance and recording.

[SonicMan46]

Leclair, Jean-Marie - finishing up my listening to this French violin pioneer w/ Adrian Butterfield on Baroque violin performing Bks. 1 & 3 (Op. 1 and 5, respectively); also just ordered the 2 CDs of Bk. 2 (Op. 2) off eBay for about $18 total - may have enough of this guy -    Dave

   

   

[Todd]

[DavidW]

[Linz]

Carl Reinecke Harp and Flute Concertos,  Fabrice Pierre, Harp Concerto Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Patrick Galloi, Flute Concerto

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major,  1880 (aka 1878/80) - Ed. Robert Haas, Berliner Philharmoniker, Günter Wand

[ritter]

Korngold Suite for 2 violins, cello and piano left hand.



What a delight. The overall form is a bit of a mystery to me, a prelude and fugue where I don't recognize the fugue, a waltz, a grotesque, a short slow movement and a variations finale. The music is all a bit grotesque, in a wonderful way. Fine performance and recording.

That short slow movement is a transcription of Korngold's song Was du mir bist, from the Drei Lieder, op. 22

Just as the wonderful adagio of the Piano Quintet, op. 15, is an expansion of another song, Mond, so gehst du wieder auf, from the Lieder des Abschieds, op. 14.


THREAD DUTY:

Robert Craft offers a varied Stravinsky programme (with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Gregg Smith Singers, and vocal and instrumental soloists).



The CD includes a work I've never quite "gotten" —the Cantata (which TBH bores me to tears)—, one I'm on the fence about —the Capriccio—, three favourites —the Septet, the Three Shakespeare Songs and In Memoriam Dylan Thomas—, and arguably the least engaging work from the composer's late serial period —Abraham and Isaac ("thorny" would be a kind way of describing it)—.

[Todd]

Gonna kill the rest of the afternoon.

[Linz]

Jean-Philippe Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie, Orchestra Suite, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken

[Bachtoven]

[Bachtoven]

No.4-6. Excellent playing and sound.

[JBS]

THREAD DUTY:

Robert Craft offers a varied Stravinsky programme (with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Gregg Smith Singers, and vocal and instrumental soloists).



The CD includes a work I've never quite "gotten" —the Cantata (which TBH bores me to tears)—, one I'm on the fence about —the Capriccio—, three favourites —the Septet, the Three Shakespeare Songs and In Memoriam Dylan Thomas—, and arguably the least engaging work from the composer's late serial period —Abraham and Isaac ("thorny" would be a kind way of describing it)—.

Almost all those works are long overdue for another hearing by me. I was going to say I don't remember Cantata being boring, until I realized I don't remember it much at all.

However, tonight some other stuff I don't listen much to, courtesy of the Stephen Hough Erato set.

[steve ridgway]

Stravinsky: Song Of The Nightingale

[AnotherSpin]

Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 18, D.894 from this set.

Serenity and bliss.

[steve ridgway]

Martinů: Sonatina