What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[richardfinegold]

Beethoven
Piano sonatas
¤ No 12, Op 26
¤ No 16, Op 31 No 1
¤ No 18, Op 31 No 3
(I don't quite get the numbering...)

Jeno Jando (Naxos) OK - I know he's not a "big name" but these are very nicely played, and highly enjoyable; well-recorded, and a very good-sounding piano.

Jando is a fine Pianist. It's funny how people always feel compelled to 'apologize' for listening to a recording by him. He was stigmatized by recording pretty much everything in the core Austro German repertoire for budget label. Somehow that didn't seem to hurt Alfred Brendel....

[Bryn]

Jando is a fine Pianist. It's funny how people always feel compelled to 'apologize' for listening to a recording by him. He was stigmatized by recording pretty much everything in the core Austro German repertoire for budget label. Somehow that didn't seem to hurt Alfred Brendel....

[visualnickmos]

Jando is a fine Pianist. It's funny how people always feel compelled to 'apologize' for listening to a recording by him. He was stigmatized by recording pretty much everything in the core Austro German repertoire for budget label. Somehow that didn't seem to hurt Alfred Brendel....

He certainly is. A very fine participant in recordings of chamber music, too. Listening to his Beethoven piano sonatas, and becoming more familiar with them, my impression is that he plays with a sense of 'honesty' if I can put it like that. A meticulous approach that he makes them very pleasing to hear. No loss of detail, and yet still a vibrancy.

[Joseph K]

Milana Zaric and Richard Barrett's fantastic, magical album 'Mirage'. Words don't do justice to how spellbinding these pieces are. It's futuristic, alien music, at times quite haunting, often profound or sparkling and iridescent. Some sounds (for want of a more technical term) are indeed haunting and what I would describe as post-apocalyptic sci-fi sounds (the howling winds of the beginning of the title track, for example) which I'd compare to the title track of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, which is similarly dark in its magic expressive affect. Listening to the piece 'suma' I was reminded of this painting of Ernst:


This music is full of exquisite detail, a delight for the ears. I don't remember hearing music where an electronic element was as crucial as it is here that is as successful as it is here; I pretty much only have Barrett's previous efforts to relate it to, however. I think I ought to start a thread on this topic.

[jayne lee wilson]

Milana Zaric and Richard Barrett's fantastic, magical album 'Mirage'. Words don't do justice to how spellbinding these pieces are. It's futuristic, alien music, at times quite haunting, often profound or sparkling and iridescent. Some sounds (for want of a more technical term) are indeed haunting and what I would describe as post-apocalyptic sci-fi sounds (the howling winds of the beginning of the title track, for example) which I'd compare to the title track of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, which is similarly dark in its magic expressive affect. Listening to the piece 'suma' I was reminded of this painting of Ernst:


This music is full of exquisite detail, a delight for the ears. I don't remember hearing music where an electronic element was as crucial as it is here that is as successful as it is here; I pretty much only have Barrett's previous efforts to relate it to, however. I think I ought to start a thread on this topic.

Thanks K., will seek out.....

[jayne lee wilson]

Soothing sounds for troubled times.....play Josquin often now.... seems to have replaced Bach Cantatas as my December trad...



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[Joseph K]

[Petrushka]

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn

Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Maxim Shostakovich

[BBMmk2]

Berlioz
L’Enfance du Christ
Yann Beiron Narrator/ Centurion
Karen Cargill Marie
William Dazeley Joseph
Matthew Rose Herod
Peter Rose Father/Polydorus
Tenebrae Chor
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis

Yesterday’s listening.
This is taken from the first LSOLive set, Edition du Bicentenaire.

[Mario]

Got this BBMmk2! Good CD.

Mario

[gurnemanz]

Sabine Devieilhe & Alexandre Tharaud – ‘Chanson d'Amour’
Mélodies by Fauré, Debussy, Ravel & Poulenc
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano),
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Recorded 2019 Siemens-Villa, Berlin
Erato CD, new release

Thanks for pointing to this. I have listened with great pleasure on Spotify.

[BBMmk2]

Got this BBMmk2! Good CD.

Mario

Isn’t it just!

[BBMmk2]

Soothing sounds for troubled times.....play Josquin often now.... seems to have replaced Bach Cantatas as my December trad...



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That looks rather tempting!


Holst
Orchestral Works Vol.4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis.

[silvestrione]

Henze, Symphony no. 8, CBSO, Simon Rattle. Off-air, was reminded I had it, by a positive remark about this work on the 'And Finally' thread. Yes, the ending is marvellous.

[Joseph K]

Henze, Symphony no. 8, CBSO, Simon Rattle. Off-air, was reminded I had it, by a positive remark about this work on the 'And Finally' thread. Yes, the ending is marvellous.

Wasn't that the Henze second piano concerto?