What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[visualnickmos]

Beethoven
Piano sonatas
Friedrich Gulda
German Decca 'Eloquence' complete piano sonatas & piano concertos with Wiener Philharmoniker / Horst Stein

Casually meandering through, and in and out of, this superb set. What's not to like ? Excellent on the sound / technical front, too.

[bluestateprommer]

Have the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra stream running now (don't tell my boss ), with Gustavo Gimeno about to conduct Dvorak 8, live:

https://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/live

[Padraig]

Bach: The Seven Keyboard Toccatas.

'It is not clear for which instrument they were written - organ or harpsichord. Either is possible, and the piano makes an excellent case for them as well.' Angela Hewitt.

[jayne lee wilson]

Mes favoris
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Rundfunkchor Berlin/Windplayers of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Gijs Leenaars, conductor
Pentatone 24/48 New Release Qobuz-S

....wonderfully apt coupling, fine, slightly dry, sound...

[gradus]

Schumann's utterly extraordinary op14 piano sonata played by Bavouzet, very impressive playing and recording but made me want to listen to the old Horowitz version that sounds as though there were tacks stuck on the hammer heads.

[Dave2002]

Not perhaps classical music as we know it, but currently listening to virtual harpsichord (samples) at

https://vis.versilstudios.com/harpsichord.html

Short extracts such as this https://soundcloud.com/samulis/sam-g...psichord-demos on Soundcloud.

I have managed to get some of Versilian VIs to work, and this Italian harpsichord seems cheap enough to be worth a punt at $15.
It does sound quite good, and is based on a real original instrument.

[BBMmk2]

Mes favoris
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Rundfunkchor Berlin/Windplayers of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Gijs Leenaars, conductor
Pentatone 24/48 New Release Qobuz-S

....wonderfully apt coupling, fine, slightly dry, sound...

This looks most tempting!

[jayne lee wilson]

It is indeed....you should enjoy that one......& how nice to see a string of BBMmk2 on the threads again....
(Did you know there's a Cuckoo in the E Minor Mass? Spot the Cuckoo!)

Just in medias res with the Hindemith Kammermusik now, but need to get some more sleep....post later...

[gurnemanz]

Brahms Violin Concerto - Anne-Sophie Mutter with Kurt Masur/New York Phil. I have very belatedly only just come across this recording by the route of deciding to listen to her version of the rarely played Schumann Fantasy op 131, which is the filler on the disc. A beautiful and exhilarating live performance.

[Stanfordian]

Brahms Violin Concerto - Anne-Sophie Mutter with Kurt Masur/New York Phil. I have very belatedly only just come across this recording by the route of deciding to listen to her version of the rarely played Schumann Fantasy op 131, which is the filler on the disc. A beautiful and exhilarating live performance.

I certainly agree gurnemanz that this is a very fine performance by Mutter; a work in which she excels and I love to hear her play.

[BBMmk2]

It is indeed....you should enjoy that one......& how nice to see a string of BBMmk2 on the threads again....
(Did you know there's a Cuckoo in the E Minor Mass? Spot the Cuckoo!)

Just in medias res with the Hindemith Kammermusik now, but need to get some more sleep....post later...

Many thanks, JLW. Great to be back.

Today’s offering

William Byrd
My Ladye Nevells Booke
Christopher Hogwood, various keyboards.

[jayne lee wilson]

.....music qua music qua music....

Hindemith
Kammermusik 1-4.
Vogt/Georg Faust/Blacher/Berliner Philharmoniker/Abbado. EMI CDs. Rec. 1996-9.

So replete with invention and musical event, I love the way these works can change, almost cyclothymatically, mood to mood, minute to minute...
Perhaps a degree more warmth and melodiousness compared to Chailly; both are equally virtuosic...but Vogt really gets those plates spinning in No.2...

[Joseph K]

Those are nice pieces, JLW. I started listening to them a while ago but I didn't finish... maybe I should start and finish some time... soon...

[johnb]

Buxtehude
Trio Sonatas Op 1
Arcangelo ensemble
Alpha Classics

Lovely stuff.

[teamsaint]

Those are nice pieces, JLW. I started listening to them a while ago but I didn't finish... maybe I should start and finish some time... soon...

There are some free downloads of the Kammermusik works here, JK. Check out agp 153 also.

http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/AvantGardeProject/agp152/index.html