What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

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https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/p/pachelbel-complete-keyboard-music/

Stella is a hard worker: After recording the complete keyboard works of Buxtehude, Böhm, Walther, Reincken, and Froberger he now delivers the complete Pachelbel keyboard works on 13 CDs and passes CPO's recording project, which so far produced seven CDs in two volumes, in one sweep. He uses a copy of a Ruckers harpsichord and a modern organ built after German 17th century models. His choice of tempos and registration are convincing, he always appreciates and loves the music he plays. 

This volume will help to place Pachelbel in the right position between Southern and Northern German keyboard schools - he was born in Nuremberg in 1653 and had studied with Kerll, among others, who had been with Frescobaldi in Rome - when he took organist's post in Eisennach and Erfurt he made contact with the Bach family. Heb brought some Italian sweetness to Northern music. 

With his colleague Stefano Molardi covering the organ works of Johann Sebastian, Johann Michael, and Johann Christoph Bach, and Johann Kuhnau, Brilliant Classics gives us a great survey of German keyboard music from the 17th and 18th centuries.

[Peter Friedman]

Piano Sonatas Nos. 58,33,60,38

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Edited December 23, 2018 by soulpope

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Still Goldberg after All These Years

 

https://www.wfmt.com/2018/12/07/still-goldberg-after-all-these-years/

 

Improvisation 1 & Variation 1, by Dan Tepfer
Dan Tepfer, piano

The Introitus Variation, by Uri Caine
Kettwiger Bach Ensemble; David Moss, conductor

Aria, from Goldberg Variations, by J.S. Bach
Jeremy Denk, piano

Ghost Variations, by Misha Zupko

Gilmore Variation, by Jennifer Higdon

Kontrophunktus, by Derek Bermel
Lara Downes, piano

Fantasia Chromatica, from Gold.berg.wek for Instruments and Electronics, by Karlheinz Essl
Christina Neubauer, violin; Martin Kraushofer, electronics

Improvisation on the Aria from, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, by Gabriela Montero
Gabriela Montero, piano

Variation 9 (Canon at the Third), by Uri Caine
Ralph Alesi, trumpet; Don Byron, clarinet; Uri Caine, piano; Reid Anderson, bass

Variation 10 (Fughetta), by Uri Caine
Kettwiger Bach Ensemble; David Moss, vocals

Chasing Goldberg, by Fred Lehrdahl

Variation Fugato, by Bright Sheng

Rube Goldberg Variation, by C. Curtis-Smith
Lara Downes, piano

The Dig It Variation, by Uri Caine
Uri Caine, piano; Dean Bowman, vocals

[j lee]

Oh, it's a mix of learning and memorizing.

I'm really into the A maj and A min English Suites of Bach, but the préludes to both (especially the A minor) are just very, very long.  I'll be happy if I can just keep the Bourées from A major in memory with a nice brisk tempo.

András Schiff is the only person I listen to for Bach, nowadays, but then again I don't like to just sit and listen to the music when I can stumble through it myself.

Still trying to commit to memory Beethoven's Op. 26 (especially the Rondo) and Op. 27 no. 1 (whole sonata).

Beyond that, I just chip away at Debussy (I like Angela Hewitt for guidance or ideas, but again, I don't really sit around and listen to records that much, except to steal some ideas).

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Thereof Bach "Well Tempered Clavier" ....

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Haydn violin concertos in G major and C major

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Discs 4 and 5 (#s 6-9) Otmar Suitner cond. Staatskapelle Berlin - no label on front of cheapo box.

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