What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Another run of this. According to the ensemble's website the 1st of three volumes with music by Richafort.

[Harry]

Another run of this. According to the ensemble's website the 1st of three volumes with music by Richafort.

They are very much to my liking Que, enjoyed them more as I thought I would.

[Madiel]

Today's Schumann piano sampler was a pretty good one I thought.

[Harry]

Ernest Moeran (1894–1950)
Chamber Music.
Fidelio Trio.
Recorded in Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey on 1–2 May 2021

The performances are absolutely wonderful stylish virtuosity instinctive brilliance they get it just right"
BBC Radio 3 Record Review.

The Fidelio Trio give a performance of terrific impetus and refinement. In both works their interpretative touch is secure, their rapport instinctive. Together with their eloquence and passion, this all adds up to something  special..
Gramophone (Editor's Choice)

[Daverz]

I pay Qobuz a significant amount for my annual subscription, and I couldn't care less where the material they stream comes from.

Okie dokie.

Thread duty:

Panufnik: Sinfonia Sacra - Gerard Schwarz/Seattle Symphony.  This is from a whole disc of Panufnik in the "Gerard Schwarz Collection" box.  Disappointingly enervated sounding compared to the old Nonesuch recording conducted by the composer or the newer Borowicz on CPO.

[Cato]

One of the best historical recordings of the work. I also recommend the LSO under Leopold Ludwig (Everest). Straight, unvarnished, powerful performances both. Those were the days before M9 became a favourite of all 'hot' conductors.

YES to Leopold Ludwig and his recording with the London Symphony Orchestra of the Mahler Ninth Symphony on the old Everest label!

[Madiel]

Dvorak: From the Bohemian Forest



The only piano duet set that he didn't orchestrate. Although the individual piece "Silent Woods" found its way there indirectly.

[Harry]

Wallada & Ibn Zaydun.
A story of love and Poetry.
El Arabi Ensemble, Eduardo Paniagua.
Recorded: 2001.

[Cato]

Etienne Mehul: Symphony #4


A candidate to be the French Beethoven?   

[Iota]

Haydn: Symphony No. 46 In B Major

Such a great symphony. Seems particularly in tune with the bright, crisp morning here. And a performance to match. Fischer and the Austro-Hungarians as fresh-edged and alive to Haydn's buoyant, nimble qualities as ever.

[Florestan]

[Harry]

Kurt Weill. (1900-50)
Symphony No.2.
Violin concerto.
Tamás Kocsis violin, Op.12.
Ulster Orchestra, Jac van Steen.
Recorded at Ulster Hall, Belfast on October 12-14, 2021.


Beyond the Threepenny Opera.
Although Weill gained his fame through his collaborations with Brecht, the one-time Busoni student spanned a wide range in his oeuvre from musical theater to jazz to the concert hall. His Violin Concerto of 1924, dedicated to Joseph Szigeti, is a tribute to Busoni, his teacher, who was seriously ill, and contains allusions to Stravinsky, Mahler, and the popular music of the Berlin cabarets of the Roaring Twenties. Composed a decade later, the Second Symphony was premiered by Bruno Walter and the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and demonstrates Weill's contrapuntal mastery and his extraordinary talent for original orchestration.

[Harry]

Grażyna Bacewicz 1909–1969
Complete Orchestral Works Vol. 3.
Symphony No.1, Polish Overture, Partita Concerto for Large Symphony Orchestra, In una parte.
WDR Sinfonieorchester Łukasz Borowicz.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Walter Braunfels. Two remarkable scores by a composer whose name was practically unknown 20 years ago. Fantastical Apparitions (1917) exhausts the possibilities of transforming a them and coating it in ever more original colours. A tour de force. ... It's actually quite substantial (4 movements, 31 minutes) and deep both in feeling and in musical complexity. Excellent booklet note by our own Jens F. Laurson.

Ah, chucks. Thanks much for the kind words!

TD:


Jean-Philippe RAMEAU
Pieces de clavecin en concerts 1-4
Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin
Bruno Procopio et al.
PARATY


Good stuff!

[Que]

[DavidW]

My head accepts but my heart rejects the label "historical" for a recording made when I was 7 years old.

I think of the pre-50s as historical. Certainly, the stereo era shouldn't have that label.

[DavidW]

its availability on Qobuz is reason enough for me to consider it legitimate.

I wouldn't go that far. I've found bootleg needle drops on Qobuz before. These dodgy record labels have found their way into cd shops in the past and are now on streaming services. It doesn't make them legit.

[DavidW]

Thread duty:

[Traverso]

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[André]

I think of the pre-50s as historical. Certainly, the stereo era shouldn't have that label.

I agree, but that's exactly how this particular cd is advertised in large font : « Historical Mahler ».

Maybe I should have used the term 'epochal' instead. It was recorded in 1966, as the Mahler renaissance had already started. I thought it dated from the late fifties. My bad.