What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

French Suite No.5 and No.6

[Larry Kart]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

French Suite No.5 and No.6

Try David Cates:
 

or Bradley Brookshire:
 

 

[A Lark Ascending]

The Sierra was enjoyable but a bit plain - lots of Latin effects but nothing you wouldn't find in Falla, Debussy, Ravel or, probably closer to the music's origins, the dances from West Side Story. Barry is still a work in progress for me - I hear some Messiaen in there (a similar way of writing in blocks of material), a bit of minimalism but haven't yet got by head round him. I'll probably experiment with one of the operas soon - 'The Intelligence Park' I think.   

Edited March 29, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

3 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Try David Cates:
 

or Bradley Brookshire:
 

 

I  (with limited exceptions) prefer to hear Bach on piano not harpsichord. 

Gould has been a longtime favorite of mine, especially on Bach.

In fact, just acquired his set of the 5 Beethoven Piano Concertos. Thus far, the couple I have heard were

better than I had expected.

[A Lark Ascending]

Disque deux.

No 2

Edited March 30, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Balladeer]

Cold Dark Matter - Music for Cello & Guitar: Kimberley Patterson & Patrick Sutton (MSR Classics)

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - String Quartet Op.64/6

Mozart - Piano Trio K.502 - Rudolf Serkin, Jaime Laredo, Madeline Foley

Edited March 30, 2016 by Peter Friedman

[A Lark Ascending]

The MD reminded me of Sibelius in places; I seem to recall he was an influence from the 70s onwards. 

Re: Bartok - the early Suite sounds like Brahms/Liszt with a tiny bit of folksy flavouring; the folksiness is much more pronounced in the later pieces - straightforward and tuneful but with a rough, tart feel. 

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc three

No 4. The Beethoven symphony I've listened to least over the centuries. A marvellous piece, especially the ever-varying slow movement (a little like the slow movement in 6) - there's a heart-stopping moment on the (I think!) third statement of the main theme when a flute (flutes?) picks up the tune. And one thing I'd never noticed before - at the start of the development of the first movement a wonderfully mysterious section that seems to pre-echo Gotterdammerung.  

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Symphony No.29, K.201

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.2

[Peter Friedman]

Symphony No.2

George Szell and The Cleveland Orchestra

Edited March 31, 2016 by Peter Friedman

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 1: K174 and K406

Disc 2. An awful lot of very short things. 

No. 8. He was in a good mood when he wrote this one.

Disc 5 - Violin Concertos 1041 + 2 and Two Violins 1043. Absolutely spiffing, as Bach himself might have said (not sure how it translates). 

Edited April 1, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Violin Concerto No.2

Beethoven - String Quartet Op.18/6

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 1 of the Freddie, K515 + 516 of the Wolfy.

Die Seejungfrau, Sinfonietta

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Violin Sonatas K.360 & K.547 - Szeryng / Haebler

Franck - Violin Sonata  - Ferras / Barbizet

[alankin]

Claude Debussy – Préludes Book 1
Maurice Ravel – Sonatine for Piano, Jeux d'eau
César Franck – Prelude Aria and Finale for Piano M 23
— Alfred Cortot (piano) (EMI Classics), CD 9 from:

 

[psu_13]

Not a plain recording, but a couple of super lectures on chamber music given in NYC by Bruce Adolphe

Haydn:

 

Smetana:

 

[A Lark Ascending]

PC off latter - heard bits of it on the car radio whilst doing local chores last week and dug out this BBC Music Magazine cover disc. Afraid it didn't keep my attention. The mid-19thC remains a bit of a black hole for my ears.  

Edited April 2, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[alankin]

Georg Philipp Telemann – Paris Quartets 1-6
— Barthold Kuijken (flute), Sigiswald Kuijken (violin), Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) (Vivarte / Sony Classical)

 

[Balladeer]

Alexander-Sergei Ramirez - Guitarra Clasica del Peru (Avi music)

[StarThrower]

[Peter Friedman]

Burgmuller - String Quartet No.2, Op.7

Haydn - Cello Concerto  No.2 in D Major

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 2 of the Freddie; Op 132 of the Wiggy; all of the Mantovani (a lovely disc but I couldn't helped but be reminded of his nibs on some of the pieces) . 

Just watched yesterday's BBC 4 programme on Maxwell Davies which was very enjoyable. Biggest mystery....how did a working class lad from Salford end up with an accent straight out of Eton? 

St Thomas Wake - the Prom footage of this from the above programme showing 'serious music lovers' letting their hair down was really embarrassing. Reminded me of that dreadful thing they used to do, braying some insider joke in unison before the concert and during the interval to polite titters. They seem to reserve this for a charity appeal nowadays based on my last few Proms. Still pretentious but pretentiousness in a good cause.     

[Peter Friedman]