What are you listening to now - I ?

[pastoralguy]

Viktoria Mullova. Brahms Violin concerto. Die Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Claudio Abbado.

Wonderful!

Followed by Brahms clarinet sonatas and piano trio. Martin Frost, Roland Pontinen & Torleif Thedeen on BIS.

Also

[Stanfordian]

Olivier Messiaen:
Des canyons aux étoiles... (From the canyons to the stars...) for four instrumental soloists and orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Christoph Eschenbach
Tzimon Barto (piano), John Ryan (horn), Andrew Barclay (xylorimba) & Erika Öhman (glockenspiel)
Recorded live 2013 Royal Festival Hall, London
LPO own label

Saint-Saens:
Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ’
Cyprès et Lauriers for organ and orchestra
Dance macabre arranged for solo organ
Vincent Warner (Aristide Cavaillé-Coll organ formerly at the Palais du Trocadéro)
Orchestre National de Lyon/Leonard Slatkin
Recorded 2013/14 l'Auditorium de Lyon
Naxos

Jimmy Smith & Stanley Turrentine with Kenny Burrell & Donald Bailey:
‘Midnight Special’
Blue Note (1961)

[Bryn]

Olivier Messiaen:
Des canyons aux étoiles... (From the canyons to the stars...) for four instrumental soloists and orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra/Christoph Eschenbach
Tzimon Barto (piano), John Ryan (horn), Andrew Barclay (xylorimba) & Erika Öhman (glockenspiel)
Recorded live 2013 Royal Festival Hall, London
LPO own label ...

Listening to these discs again I am finding the problems with the piano a bit irksome on occasion, especially in Le moqueur polyglotte. It's not the playing but the instrument. Seems to have something loose (right-most dampers?) which almost makes it sound like Lou Harrison had been at it.

Anyway, I have to admit I was unfamiliar with the name Tzimon Barto, so Googled him and found this, which includes "While at Juilliard he won the Gina Baucher Competition two consecutive years in a row."

Hmm. Either a very clumsy tautology or there was some noisy disagreement over whether he deserved the prize two years running.

[Stanfordian]

Listening to these discs again I am finding the problems with the piano a bit irksome on occasion, especially in Le moqueur polyglotte. It's not the playing but the instrument. Seems to have something loose (right-most dampers?) which almost makes it sound like Lou Harrison had been at it.

Anyway, I have to admit I was unfamiliar with the name Tzimon Barto, so Googled him and found this, which includes "While at Juilliard he won the Gina Baucher Competition two consecutive years in a row."

Hmm. Either a very clumsy tautology or there was some noisy disagreement over whether he deserved the prize two years running.

Hiya Bryn,

I saw Barto play in Berlin in 2011 he played the Pfitzner piano concerto with the Dresden Staatskapelle under Christian Thielemann. I understand he is a body builder and speaks a large number of languages. As chance would have it I should be seeing Barto play the Rihm Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Munich Philharmoniker under Eschenbach in a couple of weeks time in Munich.

[soileduk]

The very first recording of Ives 4 , with Serebrier as assistant conductor IIRC. 1965?

That's the one, as part of a rather splendid box.

[pastoralguy]

Funkadelic.

The electric spanking of war babies.

A must for all funk fans... (It says here...)

[Petrushka]

Stravinsky: Scenes du ballet

[interval]

Mahler: Symphony No 7

Berliner Philharmoniker
Bernard Haitink

[soileduk]

Thrak.

[Beef Oven!]

Jean Sibelius - Symphony #2 in D, Op.43
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, recorded 1st & 9th October 1962, Walthamstow Assembly Hall. Testament.



The building on the right, the building on the left is the town hall.

[Roehre]

Today:


Webern:
Cantata no.1 op.29
Variations for orchestra op.30
Cantata no.2 op.31

McCabe:
Piano Concerto no. 1 (1966)

Martinsson
Open Mind for Orchestra, op. 71 (2007)

Chagrin
Symphony No. 1 (1959)
Symphony No.2 (1971)

Narbutaite
La Barca (2005)

[teamsaint]

Slonimsky.
Piano Sonata .

Tischenko Piano Sonata # 5

Sedmata Zakarian Rutstein.

[EdgeleyRob]

Slonimsky.
Piano Sonata .

Tischenko Piano Sonata # 5

Sedmata Zakarian.

Must try those ts.

Russian Piano Sonatas all the rage here too.

Mysakovsky 4 - McLachlan.
Kabalevsky 2 - Horowitz.

[Beef Oven!]

Jean Sibelius - Symphony #3 in C, Op52.
London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins. Recorded May 1954, Kingsway Hall, London. Decca Eloquence.

Is there a better performance of this symphony available to us?

Kingsway Hall (1962)

[teamsaint]

Must try those ts.

Russian Piano Sonatas all the rage here too.

Mysakovsky 4 - McLachlan.
Kabalevsky 2 - Horowitz.

And I must try the Myaskovsky Sonatas.

The two I am listening two are a quite specific sound world, and something that you are either in the mood for , or not, if that makes sense.
the Slominsky is very spare, base on folk idioms, very rhythmically interesting, always changing and developing.
There is an obvious though not offputting debt to DSCH,I would say.
Fascinating music. In both pieces, you really can't help having Webern come to mind as an influence also.

[antongould]

Rebecca Clarke - Viola Sonata - Michael Hampton and Matthew Jones. Naxos