What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - String Quartet K.387

Brahms - Cello Sonata No.2, Op.99

[HutchFan]

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor/ Ivo Pogorelich (DG)
As usual with Pogorelich, his interpretation is "far off the beaten path." 

 

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage - Première année: Suisse / Lazar Berman
from Berman's The Deutsche Grammophon Recordings box 

I admire Pogorelich's Liszt. But I love Berman's. 

[A Lark Ascending]

Op 114 of the latter.

Edited September 15, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

11 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Liszt: Sonata in B Minor/ Ivo Pogorelich (DG)
As usual with Pogorelich, his interpretation is "far off the beaten path." 

 

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage - Première année: Suisse / Lazar Berman
from Berman's The Deutsche Grammophon Recordings box 

I admire Pogorelich's Liszt. But I love Berman's. 

Agreed - but I (also) love Pogorelich`s Chopin and Scarlatti (!!!) ....

Edited September 15, 2016 by soulpope

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[HutchFan]

Brahms: Lieder / Bernarda Fink, Roger Vignoles (Harmonia Mundi)

[soulpope]

Wunderbar ....

[Peter Friedman]

[A Lark Ascending]

The second three parts.

[HutchFan]

Grieg & Schumann: Piano Concertos / Dmitri Alexeev, Yuri Temirkanov, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (EMI)

[Balladeer]

Marcelo Bratke (p) & Susana Lamosa (sopran) -
Santoro: Love Songs and Popular Songs, Paulistinas for solo piano (Quartz)

[HutchFan]

Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto / Ferenc Fricsay, RSO Berlin (DG)
- Triple Cto soloists: Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Géza Anda, Pierre Fournier
- Double Cto soloists: Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Janos Starker

Edited September 15, 2016 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Chopin: 24 Préludes, Op. 28 / Géza Anda (DG)

Immaculate.

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Chopin: 24 Préludes, Op. 28 / Géza Anda (DG)

Immaculate.

!!

[A Lark Ascending]

No. 3. My favourite. Danish Vaughan Williams.

 

Nice programming of three pieces from the same world but with contrasting forces. 

Edited September 16, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[HutchFan]

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 / London Philharmonic Orchestra
What an electric performance! It may be my imagination, but it seems to me that Jochum's personality comes SHINING THROUGH in his work as a conductor -- and the two qualities that strike me most forcefully are his sense of humanism and his sense of the sacred. Better still, while hearing him conduct this music, you realize (sense? remember? hope?) that those two things are really one thing.

That is great artistry.

Edited September 16, 2016 by HutchFan

[A Lark Ascending]

Two very entertaining discs of recent music. First has some very attractive small group pieces with prominent winds; second is more zany in a Looney Tunes sort of way. (Apologies for the size of the second image)

I keep reading about the 'more severe' style of King Priam compared with earlier Tippett but this strikes me as the most immediately appealing of his operas. Maybe it's the more straightforward plot - Tippett's other operas are a bit odd, to put it mildly (especially the hippy-ish later ones). A fair sized orchestra but only occasionally unleashed in full - he makes marvellous use of solo instruments for extensive periods. Some beautiful guitar accompanying Achilles sulking in his tent. 

[HutchFan]

Rudolf Serkin Plays Beethoven (Sony)
CD 6 - Piano Sonatas Nos. 21 "Waldstein," 23 "Appasionata," 24, and 26 "Les Adieux"

A few years ago, I spent an entire afternoon listening to different recordings of "The Appasionata."  There was Moravec, Horowitz, Ashkenazy, Kempff, and several others. It was good fun. . . .And I discovered that I liked Serkin's version best.  

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Op.55/3

Spohr - No.25, Op.82/2

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[Peter Friedman]

Piano Concertos No.14 and No.15

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[Balladeer]

Roberta Alexander (soprano) & Tan Crone (p)  - Charles Ives Songs (Etcetera)

Disc 1

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :