Discoveries.

[AjAjAjH]

Over 50years of listening to music, I am still making discoveries. I recently bought the Abbado recordings of Mendelssohn's symphonies and overtures. I had never heard of the 'Overture for Wind Instruments'. It's a gem. (IMO)

What piece of music have contributors come across recently that you'd not heard before?

[Roehre]

Over 50years of listening to music, I am still making discoveries. I recently bought the Abbado recordings of Mendelssohn's symphonies and overtures. I had never heard of the 'Overture for Wind Instruments'. It's a gem. (IMO)

What piece of music have contributors come across recently that you'd not heard before?

With over 40 years of listening I am making real discoveries very regularly.
This year the 150 Sweelinck Psalms offered three dozens or so of real gems.
But to stay with Mendelssohn: the recent "Mendelssohn"-discoveries as produced by Chailly are for me for the best part really discoveries too.

Btw, the overture op.24 is quite regularly broadcast in TtN.

[Thropplenoggin]

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.18 op.31 'The Hunt'. The reason being that I don't yet own a complete Beethoven sonata cycle (tho' have my eye on Gilels almost complete set).

Thus, I was working through Qobuz's collection of Sviatoslav Richter playing Beethoven and came across a Decca disc of a live performance. I was transfixed from the first chord. An amazing work given (I believe, not knowing other performances) a wondrous performance. I don't always rate Richter in Beethoven (his op.111, for instance, where he rattles through the arietta) but sometimes he just nails it.

EDIT:

I may have to qualify that Richter op.111 statement. In the Leipzig performance, it really seems to work without losing any of its transcendence.

[Thropplenoggin]

There's also Emil Gilels playing the 3rd movement of the Appassionata in 4'24", though I suppose this is more a transfiguring performance than new discovery. Gilels sounds in a fury, utterly livid. I've never heard a performance like it. Perhaps someone dropped their program during the 2nd movement?

Visceral, thrilling and terrifying in equal measure. NB. It starts of very loud!

[mercia]

how did this thread get into the refreshment room ?

[Pabmusic]

The symphonies and other orchestral music of Asger Hamerik have been a good find. Not the greatest ever, granted, but eminently listenable, and good evidence of why, 100 years ago, Hamerik was the pre-eminent Danish composer.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

how did this thread get into the refreshment room ?

... a Thread about discoveries that refreshen one's zest for Music?

[Nick Armstrong]

how did this thread get into the refreshment room ?

:)







I'll slide it into Talking about Music....

[amateur51]

The symphonies and other orchestral music of Asger Hamerik have been a good find. Not the greatest ever, granted, but eminently listenable, and good evidence of why, 100 years ago, Hamerik was the pre-eminent Danish composer.

Just finished a few hours of listening to his works on Spotify, Pabs. I agree with your assessment, eminently listenable

[mercia]

nice slide-technique there, mr trombonist

[Nick Armstrong]

nice slide-technique there, mr trombonist

Oom-pah oom-pah

[Tevot]

Hello there,

Currently on listen again - Afternoon on 3 - Monday April 22nd - Sibelius Spring Song - what a lovely, uplifting big tune...

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[aeolium]

I have recently enjoyed listening to Arriaga's string quartets, played by the Guarneri Quartet. I'm sure it's more of a rediscovery than a discovery as I must have heard these works before but probably inattentively. They are very attractive quartets, if harking back in style to the period of later Haydn and Mozart (though written in the 1820s). It was a great shame that Arriaga died so young as he was very talented.

[cloughie]

MARSCHNER:Hans Heiling Ov - bought a Chritian Thieleman German overtures CD which included this hitherto unknown work. Good to hear 'new to me works' 52 years after my first LP purchase.

[Madame Suggia]

Liszt Dante Symphony

heard a segment of it on the radio in the middle of the night and it's haunting me.

Can't decide on a recording ; Barenboim, Conlon, Masur or Lopez-Cobos ... Rather tempted by the Gyorgy Lehel on Hungaroton