What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[alankin]

Sergei Rachmaninov – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op.43
— Philharmonia Orchestra – Walter Süsskind
Karol Szymanowski – Symphonie Concertante, Op.60
– Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra – Alfred Wallenstein (RCA Victor Red Seal Records / Sony Music)
Arthur Rubinstei (piano), CD 41 from:

 
 

[JSngry]

Not sure that I am qualified to do much more than ponder this music, which is its own kind of kick, the joy of pondering. But I'll be dammed to make any claims to a deep, actual understanding. Too many contexts are purposely fucked with, it's a context unto itself, maybe, but then Olly Wilson and...world's are existing that give the appearance of being created, but nobody discovered America, if you know what I mean, it was already there, so not going to make that mistaken as assumption of presumption again, no

[JSngry]

 

 

[A Lark Ascending]

Including his two greatest hits. 

Edited August 13, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[Peter Friedman]

String Quartets K.428 and  K.458

[alankin]

Sergei Prokofiev 
– Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 in F minor Op.80
– Five Melodies for Violin and Piano Op.35bis
– Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in D major Op.94bis
Gidon Kremer (violin), Martha Argerich (piano) (Deutsche Grammophon)

   
 

[A Lark Ascending]

[Peter Friedman]

Spohr - String Quartet Op. 29/1

Dvorak - String Quintet Op.97

[A Lark Ascending]

Op 67 of latter

Edited August 14, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

14 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

 

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[king ubu]

lately:

I was indeed crazy enough to complete my Spányi/CPE Bach holdings in the recent BIS sale @prestoclassical's ... enjoying it an awful lot! 

Other than that, the Prohaska got two spins so far, it's good, of course, but fails to really grab me by the guts.

The Enescu on the other hand is moody and beautiful. Not familiar with the music elsewhere (that is except for the third - there is no second actually, Enescu seems to have said it was in his head, too bad he didn't write it down in time - sonata by Lipati), but I think this is a splendid set, really!

Even more splendid is the Gál - great stuff there, full of twists and jagged surprises, but full of melody just as well. Not familiar with his music yet otherwise, gotta check out more, that's for sure (and in light of 51 discs of Spányi/CPE Bach, I really wish there were several dozen more discs to complete Gál's piano music!)

The Schubert by Orkis is wonderful - he plays a Graf fortepiano on disc one (Impromptus D 899 & D 935) and a copy after a Nannette Streicher piano on disc two - and it's disc two that I find even better, with the folksy piano pieces D 946 and the Moments Musicaux (D 780) as well as D 899/1 played from the original pencil draft, and the original version of D 946/1 to end things. Played like this, Schubert's pieces sound intimate, almost as played in your living room, really. A totally different experience (and maybe one that fits with some of the other stuff depicted above, and the mood that listening to it brought me to).

The Weingartner concerto seems to come after Brahms, and his arrangement/completion of the Schubert symphony that follows is probably a bit too full-bodied for Schubert, but both are nice pieces (and actually remind me that I should revisit Weingartner's Brahms symphonies cycle).

Albéniz by de Larrocha is probably about as good as it gets ... thanks to soulpope for insisting (I already have the EMI Icon box of her's, but just bought a few of her later Decca recordings of Spanish repertoire).

[alankin]

Jacques Boyvin – Premier livre d'orgue: Suite du premier ton
Jean Adam Guilain – Pièces d'orgue pour le Magnificat sur les huit tons differens de l'Eglise: Suite du deuxième ton
Johann Philipp Krieger – Passacaglia for Organ in D minor
Johann Kaspar Kerll – Canzona for Organ in E minor
Carl Luython – Fuga suavissima for Organ
Johann Jacob Froberger – Libro secondo di toccate: Toccata No.5 in D minor "Da sonarsi alla Levatione", Capriccio No.2 in A minor, Libro secondo di toccate: Canzona No.6 in A minor FbWV 306
Lambert Chaumont – Suite du deuxième ton for Organ
Abraham Van Kerckhoven – Fantasia for Organ in D minor, Fantasia for Organ in F major
— Gustav Leonhardt (organ) – Organ Music in France and Southern Netherlands (Vivarte / Sony Classical), CD 41 from the Vivarte box

 

[Peter Friedman]

Ries - Piano Concerto Op.151

Franck - Violin Sonata

[king ubu]

the solo Satie disc

[StarThrower]

[king ubu]

(from the Living Stereo box)

[Balladeer]

F. Gerard Errante - The Lyric Clarinet: Treasured works from the vocal repertoire for clarinet and piano (Ravello)

Like Errante´s fullbodied, expressive tone

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, Balladeer said:

F. Gerard Errante - The Lyric Clarinet: Treasured works from the vocal repertoire for clarinet and piano (Ravello)

Like Errante´s fullbodied, expressive tone

Looks interesting .... wonder about the "Deutsche Lieder" part ....

[alankin]

Mauro Giuliani – Concerto for Guitar and Strings No.1 in A Op.30
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Guitar in D major, Concerto for Guitar in A major
— John Williams (guitar, conductor), Colin Tilney (harpsichord) – English Chamber Orchestra (Columbia / Sony Classical)

   

[A Lark Ascending]

[king ubu]

CD 1 of Vol. 1 (4 Vols, each three discs) - enjoying this box quite some!

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, king ubu said:

CD 1 of Vol. 1 (4 Vols, each three discs) - enjoying this box quite some!

Truly superb Schubert .... as this one  .... :

[A Lark Ascending]

A second listen. I've never given the Brahms chamber music enough attention despite having several of the Hyperion discs. Intend to try and get to know it a bit better over the next few months. Seems ideal for autumn.  

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, A Lark Ascending said:

A second listen. I've never given the Brahms chamber music enough attention despite having several of the Hyperion discs. Intend to try and get to know it a bit better over the next few months. Seems ideal for autumn.  

Believe this is one of the worth hearing renditions of the Brahms Q's .... you may be right this being music suited better for the darker seasons though ....