What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[alankin]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Quartets K478, K493
— Paul Lewis, piano – Leopold String Trio (Hyperion Records)

   

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, alankin said:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Quartets K478, K493
— Paul Lewis, piano – Leopold String Trio (Hyperion Records)

   

Excellent ....

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 3 of the Telemann; 53 of the Bach - mainly 4th Sunday of Advent cantatas including 147 with the famous tune.

Off Spotify. Someone I've read about (and seen mentioned here) but I got curious after an enthusiastic recommendation by someone I was chatting to in a concert. Turned up in a book I was reading yesterday so gave it a crack. Really liked the last piece in particular which does a wonderful job of drifting to some distant plain at the end.

Always like a trip through the Sibelius symphonies in the dark time of the year. No. 1. 

Edited December 22, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[soulpope]

Had the chance to witness Mr. Bronfman in concert with Tschaikovsky PC 2 - so needed to replay this one ....

Edited December 22, 2016 by soulpope

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn - Op.76/1

Brahms - Violin Sonata No.3, Op.108

[JSngry]

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Piano Trio No.2, D.929

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 35:
Samuel Barber – Capricorn Concerto for Flute Oboe Trumpet and Strings Op.21 — Robert Sprenkle (oboe), Sidney Mear (trumpet), Joseph Mariano (flute)
Walter Piston – The Incredible Flutist (Ballet Suite) — Joseph Mariano (flute)
Charles Tomlinson Griffes – Poem for Flute and Orchestra — Joseph Mariano (flute)
Kent Kennan – 3 Pieces for Orchestra
William McCauley – 5 Miniatures for Flute and Strings — Joseph Mariano (flute)
William Bergsma – Gold & The Señor Commandante (Ballet Suite)
— Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra – Howard Hanson (Mercury Living Presence)

 
 

[A Lark Ascending]

Disc 4 of the Telemann.

[soulpope]

Very good indeed ....

[soulpope]

[JSngry]

Live recording from 1957. Pretty engaging music.

[Peter Friedman]

Op.33/1, Op./33/2, Op.33/3

[JSngry]

Liking this a lot, especially the string quartet.

[A Lark Ascending]

Another listen to this record from a few years back. Really engaging compositions from this young composer - especially like the clarinet concerto. I really need to listen to them one at a time rather than all in one go. There's a concert of one of these pieces plus a new piano concerto (along with a music by Boulez and Carter) in Birmingham in March that I'm strongly tempted to make the journey for.

Two other discs that have been bewitching me of late. The recording quality of the Norgard is stunning. 

And today's seasonal choice...

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - Piano Quartet No.2, K.493

Schubert - Fantasy in C major, D.934 - Szymon Goldberg & Raud Lupu

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - Piano Sonata D.784

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.2

[StarThrower]

Piano concertos; Le Tombeau de Couperin

[Peter Friedman]

Schubert - String Quartet D.703 "Quartettsatz" & D.804 "Rosamunde"

[StarThrower]

Disc 1

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 23:
Niccolò Paganini 
– Centone di Sonate for Violin and Guitar Op.64/1 in A major
– Sonatas (6) for Violin and Guitar Op.3/6 in E minor
– Sonata Concertata for Violin and Guitar in A major Op.61/MS 2
– Cantabile for Violin and Piano in D major Op.17
Mauro Giuliani
– Duo concertant for Violin and Guitar in E minor Op.25
Itzhak Perlman (violin) & John Williams (guitar) (Columbia Masterworks / Sony Classical)

 

Edited December 26, 2016 by alankin

[alankin]

Now playing, CD 12:
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No.4 (Sony Classics)
Carlos Chávez – Sinfonía India (Sony Classics)
David Diamond – Symphony No.4
— New York Philharmonic – Leonard Bernstein (Sony Classics)

 

[Peter Friedman]

Mozart - String Quartets K.172 & K.173 

Brahms - Serenade No.2

[StarThrower]

[Peter Friedman]

Brahms Piano Trio No.2, Op.87

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.20, K.466