What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Op.33/5

Brahms - String Sextet No.2, Op.36

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, alankin said:

Maurice Ravel – Sonate posthume for violin and piano, Tzigane — Rapsodie de concert  for violin and piano
George Enescu – Impressions d'enfance Op.28 for violin and piano, Sonata No.3 for violin and piano A minor Op.25
— Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Péter Nagy (Piano) (ECM New Series)
    

Nice library find for $2 (sealed).

Excellent ....

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 3 of the latter off Spotify...a 50 minute orchestral precis of Parsifal. 

[Peter Friedman]

Lekeu - Violin Sonata

Mozart - Clarinet Quintet

[A Lark Ascending]

The two books of Preludes. Music I never tire of.

[alankin]

C.P.E. Bach – Sonatas & Fantasies
— Andreas Staier (harpsichord & fortepiano) (deutsche harmonia mundi)

 

[alankin]

Now playing:
Robert Schumann – Concerto for Piano in A minor Op.54
Frédéric Chopin – Concerto for Piano No.2 in F minor B.43/ Op.21
— Martha Argerich (piano) — National Symphony Orchestra of Washington – Mstislav Rostropovich (Deutsche Grammophon)

 
 

Edited May 30, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

String Sextet No.1, Op.18

[alankin]

Albert Roussel 
– Le festin de l'araignée — Ballet-pantomine Op.17 (The Spider's Banquet
– Petite Suite Op.39 (Decca ffrr LXT 5035)
Maurice Ravel 
– Le tombeau de Couperin
– Valses nobles et sentimentales (Decca ffrr LXT 2821)
— L'Orchestra de la Suisse Romande  – Ernest Ansermet 

 

Edited May 30, 2016 by alankin

[Peter Friedman]

Schnabel - Mozart Piano Quartet in G Minor K.478

Milstein - Beethoven Violin Sonata No.5, Op.24 "Spring"

[soulpope]

14 hours ago, alankin said:

Albert Roussel 
– Le festin de l'araignée — Ballet-pantomine Op.17 (The Spider's Banquet
– Petite Suite Op.39 (Decca ffrr LXT 5035)
Maurice Ravel 
– Le tombeau de Couperin
– Valses nobles et sentimentales (Decca ffrr LXT 2821)
— L'Orchestra de la Suisse Romande  – Ernest Ansermet 

 

Exemplary Roussel and Ravel recordings ....

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 2 - the early years. 

Disc 1 + 2 (1587, 1619, 1590)

Edited May 31, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[Peter Friedman]

[alankin]

Sergei Prokofiev – Concerto for Piano No.5 in G major Op.55
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano) – London Symphony Orchestra – Lorin Maazel (EMI Classics)

Alban Berg – Chamber Concerto for Piano Violin and 13 Winds
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Oleg Kagan (violin) – Instrumental Ensemble of the Moscow Conservatoire – Yuri Nikolaevsky (EMI Classics)\

 

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, alankin said:

Sergei Prokofiev – Concerto for Piano No.5 in G major Op.55
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano) – London Symphony Orchestra – Lorin Maazel (EMI Classics)

Alban Berg – Chamber Concerto for Piano Violin and 13 Winds
— Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Oleg Kagan (violin) – Instrumental Ensemble of the Moscow Conservatoire – Yuri Nikolaevsky (EMI Classics)\

 

Berg with the Richter/Kagan Combo is very good indeed ...

 

NP :

 

my song of praise stays recurringly with this recording .... reg Bach Partitas Ms Issakadze is - together with Messieurs Gould and Weissenberg - intergral part of my personal triumvirate ....

Edited May 31, 2016 by soulpope

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 6 of the first, 3 of the second. 

[alankin]

Johann Sebastian Bach 
– Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F major BWV 1046
– Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major BWV 1047
– Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major BWV 1048
— Tafelmusik – Jeanne Lamon (Vivarte / Sony Classical)

 

Edited May 31, 2016 by alankin

[king ubu]

[king ubu]

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 4 (6th Book). 

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - String Quartet Op.76/3 "Emperor" 

Beethoven - Piano Trio Op.70 "Ghost"

[king ubu]

[Peter Friedman]

Dvorak - Violin Concerto

[Balladeer]

Flores Argentinas (Troy/Albany): Desiree Halac (mezzo) & Dalton Baldwin (pn) 

I love those Canciones de Carlos Guastavino - and Halac sings them delicately but also with the right temperament

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert Piano Sonata D.840 "Reliquie"

Schubert Piano Trio No.1 D.898