What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

[Peter Friedman]

String Sextet No.2, Op.36

[erwbol]

 

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, erwbol said:

 

Could you pls share your impressions .... ?

[erwbol]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Could you pls share your impressions .... ?

New arrival. I just put the first disc in. Sound is fine at least.

My Amazon FR order from a couple of weeks ago got lost in the mail. After my refund was processed I order through the local classical music store.

Comes in a slimline box. Booklet is 40 pages in three languages. Contains an interview where it is explained why the second finale to op.130 was not recorded, but I have yet to fully read it. I prefer the Grosse Fuge anyway.

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, erwbol said:

New arrival. I just put the first disc in. Sound is fine at least.

My Amazon FR order from a couple of weeks ago got lost in the mail. After my refund was processed I order through the local classical music store.

Thnx .... didn`t know about this new release before your post at all .... probably you can drop a line here after your impressions have deepened ....

Edited November 22, 2017 by soulpope

[erwbol]

Here are the only two reviews currently available:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/08/beethoven-the-late-string-quartets-cd-review-quatuor-mosaiques-naive

https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles/quatuor-mosaiques-excels-in-late-beethoven/

 

I have listened twice to Op.127, Op.131, & Op.135 now. The performances are sublime imo. I do not have as extensive a classical knowledge and library as you do, so there is little to add. Tonight I'll put on Op.130 & 133.

[Peter Friedman]

Op.59/1

[soulpope]

Thereof Symphony 6 ....

[Larry Kart]

My first Tubin symphony. Impressed, I ordered most of the rest.

Sadly deceased at a fairly young age, Lee Hyla, on the basis of these three works, was one heck of a modern composer, with a terrific and to my mind unique sense of timbre and rhythm. One of these works discretely incorporates the bass line of a piece from the AEC's "Le Stances de Sophie." Hyla had a background in that music in his early days in the Boston area.

[Larry Kart]

Lee Hyla obit:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2014/06/10/lee-hyla-former-new-england-conservatory-professor-composed-scores-that-melded-energy-and-complexity-rock-and-classical-music/KlkfuYyA4hDqOMi6ayBvFJ/story.html

[Peter Friedman]

Disc two - Op.33, 41, 50, 56, 59, 63

[alankin]

Johann Sebastian Bach – John Williams Plays Bach — The Complete Lute Music On Guitar (Columbia Masterworks / Sony Classical)
– Lute Suite No.1 in E minor BWV 996
– Prelude Fugue & Allegro for Lute in E flat major BWV998
– Lute Suite No.2 in C minor BWV 997
– Lute Suite No.3 in G minor BWV 995
– Lute Suite No.4 in E major BWV 1006a
John Williams (guitar)

 
 

[soulpope]

Thereof op. 130 ....

[Peter Friedman]

Disc 2 - K.283, K.284, K.311

[Balladeer]

Robert Fürstenthal - Songs and Ballads of Life and Passing (Toccata)

Somber, melancholic Lieder, great stuff, and there´s a life story behind it!

Thanks to young baritone Rafael Fingerlos, pianist Sascha El Mouissi and the Toccata team for discovering this music and presenting it on  a wonderful album!

[Peter Friedman]

Haydn String Quartet Op.76/1

Brahms String Quartet No.1, OP.51/1

[soulpope]

Earlier today .... :

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.10, Op.96

Schumann - String Quartet No.3, Op.41/3

[jeffcrom]

Harold Shapero - Serenade in D for String Orchestra (Arthur Winograd/Winograd String Orchestra (MGM LP). A really nice piece by a composer some will know from "On Green Mountain" from the Brandeis Modern Jazz Festival LP. My copy of the MGM LP, which I found years ago, is a later pressing - it has the full liner notes on the back, but the cover just says "MGM Records Classical Reprints; Limited Edition-Request Series."

[soulpope]

Sublime and moving performances by Evgeni Koroliov .... (IMO) "must have" ....

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

Gerard Lesne at his very best ....

[Peter Friedman]

Beethoven - String Quartet Op.74 "Harp"

Dvorak - Violin Concerto Op.53

[soulpope]