What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[Bryn]

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (András Schiff), streamable in full, with the 1st, on QOBUZ from today. Brahms with all the lightness of spirit and dance it was composed with, not the heavy stodge that all too often has weighed it down. Schoenberg was right, Brahms was, indeed, "a great progressive".

[silvestrione]

Max Davies Symphonies....:

1-3 Epic Phenomena
4-5 Dichten = Condensare
6-7 Diversify, Conclude, Return
***
8-10 The Undiscovered Country

Gosh, are there really that many?

I have on my 'playlist' 'The Mirror of Whitening Light', 'Ave Maris Stella', the clarinet concerto, perhaps the cello concerto occasionally. The 1st Symphony (and the Fantasia on a In Nomine of John Taverner') were hard going. I liked the St Magnus pieces too, and The Lighthouse. Then lost touch rather.

[jayne lee wilson]

Gosh, are there really that many?

I have on my 'playlist' 'The Mirror of Whitening Light', 'Ave Maris Stella', the clarinet concerto, perhaps the cello concerto occasionally. The 1st Symphony (and the Fantasia on a In Nomine of John Taverner') were hard going. I liked the St Magnus pieces too, and The Lighthouse. Then lost touch rather.

You could say there were actually 12 Symphonies: the Second Taverner Fantasia and Worldes Blis are among his greatest symphonic creations, for large orchestra on an epic scale, and long overdue a resurrection...
Worldes Blis is just devastating, one of the great unknown masterpieces of the 20thC. You won't forget the ending of that in a hurry.

But many at the legendary near-riot of the Proms Premiere left during the piece, most of those remaining booed....
Thank God for the one recording...

[Serial_Apologist]

You could say there were actually 12 Symphonies: the Second Taverner Fantasia and Worldes Blis are among his greatest symphonic creations, for large orchestra on an epic scale, and long overdue a resurrection...
Worldes Blis is just devastating, one of the great unknown masterpieces of the 20thC. You won't forget the ending of that in a hurry.

But many at the legendary near-riot of the Proms Premiere left during the piece, most of those remaining booed....
Thank God for the one recording...

Large numbers - I stayed the course (at home, listening on the radio), and, yes...

[Joseph K]

I stayed the course

I struggled to stay the course, I admit, in the listening room at uni, armed with the score. It's quite slow...

[Bryn]

You could say there were actually 12 Symphonies: the Second Taverner Fantasia and Worldes Blis are among his greatest symphonic creations, for large orchestra on an epic scale, and long overdue a resurrection...
Worldes Blis is just devastating, one of the great unknown masterpieces of the 20thC. You won't forget the ending of that in a hurry.

But many at the legendary near-riot of the Proms Premiere left during the piece, most of those remaining booed....
Thank God for the one recording...

Fond memories of attending early performances, possibly premieres, of Missa Super L'Homme Armé, Revelation and Fall and Eight Songs for a Mad King, at the QEH, back in the day.

[Jonathan]

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (András Schiff), streamable in full, with the 1st, on QOBUZ from today. Brahms with all the lightness of spirit and dance it was composed with, not the heavy stodge that all too often has weighed it down. Schoenberg was right, Brahms was, indeed, "a great progressive".

I'm going to have to give this one a listen, I think!

[jayne lee wilson]

I'm going to have to give this one a listen, I think!

Do look at Schiff's notes on this release if you can - beautifully written and very insightful, with the historical detail on the Brahms Pianos & Orchestras, and the performance practices since......

I'm trying to hold off my audition until the discs get here later today...!

[Bryn]

Do look at Schiff's notes on this release if you can - beautifully written and very insightful, with the historical detail on the Brahms Pianos & Orchestras, and the performance practices since......

I'm trying to hold off my audition until the discs get here later today...!

Not easy to access the booklet notes without buying the CDs, though there are quotes from them in the 4 star Clementine Guardian review.

[jayne lee wilson]

Not easy to access the booklet notes without buying the CDs, though there are quotes from them in the 4 star Clementine Guardian review.

As ever easy on Audirvana/Qobuz.....less directly at Qobuz (Qobuz Player) itself....but probably there if you have the sub.

....Just now, signing into my account (2016 Mac Air, El Capitan) with the Qobuz webplayer on the site itself, did bring up the booklet...albeit needing magnification...

[Bryn]

As ever easy on Audirvana/Qobuz.....less directly at Qobuz (Qobuz Player) itself....but probably there if you have the sub.

....Just now, signing into my account (2016 Mac Air, El Capitan) with the Qobuz webplayer on the site itself, did bring up the booklet...albeit needing magnification...

I will check again once Songs for the Bardo has finished streaming. There was certainly no booklet icon when I used my sub to stream in HD from the QOBUZ app., earlier today.#

Aha! It's there now. Perhaps there was a short-term lack when they triggered availability of the whole of the concertos this morning. Duly downloaded now.

[pastoralguy]

Brahms. The Symphonies.

The Wiener Symphoniker conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. Philips DUO cds. Recorded early 1960s. (50p charity shop find!)

[Joseph K]

Haydn - string quartet in D major op. 64 no. 5 'Lark' - Festetics

[BBMmk2]

A happy birthday to Martha Argerich! 80, today! So I’m carrying on with my theme this morning of recordings celebrating the artistry of Martha Argerich.


The Lugano Recordings
CD 11
Schumann
Adagio & Allegro, Op.70
(Gautier Capuçon, cello, Martha Argerich, piano)
8 Canonic Studies, Op.56 (arr for 2 pianos by Debussy)
(Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein, pianists)
Liszt
Concerto Pathétique, S588(after S176)
(Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein)
Brahms
Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op.56b
(Martha Argerich, Polina Leschenko, pianists)
CD12
Brahms
Sonata for two pianos, Op.34b
(Martha Argerich, Lilya Zilberstein, pianists)
Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op.5b
(Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angelich, pianists))
CD 13
Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker - Suite, Op.71a
(Martha Argerich, Mirabella, pianists )
Smetana
Sonata for two pianos, 8 hands in E minor
Sonata for two pianos 8 hands in C major
Zarebski
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.34
(Dora Schwarberg, violin, Lucia Hall, violin,
Lyda Chen, viola, Gautier Capuçon, cello,
Martha Argerich, piano)

[cloughie]

Faure Requiem - Popp/Estes/LeipzigRCh/DresdenSO/C Davis