What are you listening to now - I ?

[Warlock]

Mahler's 4th Symphony/NYP/Reri Grist, Soprano. 1960 recording.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Today - Louise Farrenc:

Overture No 1 in E minor op23
Piano Quintet No 2 in E op31
Cello Sonata in B flat op46
Variations Concertantes for violin & piano op20
Sextet in C minor for piano & wind op40
Piano Etudes op26 - nos 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 12, 19, 22 & 30
Trio in E flat for Clarinet, Cello & Piano op44
Variations Brillantes on a theme of Donizetti for piano op15
Nonet in E flat major for String Quartet & Wind Quintet op38
Piano Trio in E flat major op33
Melodie in A flat major for piano
Symphony No 3 in G minor op36

Louise Farrenc's ouput concentrated on works for solo piano and chamber music and for me she is the finest woman composer of the 19th century. Her finest works are the chamber pieces which are imaginative and well written for the various chamber mediums. Extensive listening shows hints of the influence of a number of composers however Farrenc's style becomes more distinct the more you listen to her music. Her 3 symphonies are fine works showing excellent craftsmanship and a fair degree of depth.

[Stanfordian]

Mieczyslaw Weinberg:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 67
Britten:
Violin Concerto, Op. 15
Linus Roth (violin)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Mikhel Kütson
Recorded 2013 Jesus Christ Church, Berlin/Dahlem
Challenge Classics (SACD)

Dexter Gordon:
‘Dexter Blows Hot and Cool’
Boplicity Records (1955)

[BBMmk2]

Mahler's 4th Symphony/NYP/Reri Grist, Soprano. 1960 recording.

Welcome to you Warlock!

[BBMmk2]

Welcome to you Warlock!

POULENC

Organ Concerto; Piano Concerto; Concert Champetre.
Gillian Weir9organ), Jean Bernard Pommier(piano),
Maggie Cole(harpsichord),
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

GRAINGER

Transcriptions for wind orchestra. Ivan Hovoran(piano), RNCM WO, Clark Rundell.

TCHAIKOVSKY:

Suite: The Tempest, Op.18; Suite No.2, Op.52. Detroit SO, Neeme Jarvi.

KORNGOLD

The Sea Hawk. BBCPO,Rumon Gamba.

SIBELIUS:

Symphonies, Nos 4 & 5. Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan.

[pastoralguy]

Mrs. PG and I going to hear Vilda Frang play the Britten violin concerto with the RSNO tomorrow nite so listening to it in anticipation. Mislaid Ida Haendel disc () so listening to Maxim Vengerov with Rostropovich instead. It's ok but he's no Ida Haendel!

After some digging, found la Haendel. Amazing violin playing!

Accept no substitutes!

[teamsaint]

Mrs. PG and I going to hear Vilda Frang play the Britten violin concerto with the RSNO tomorrow nite so listening to it in anticipation. Mislaid Ida Haendel disc () so listening to Maxim Vengerov with Rostropovich instead. It's ok but he's no Ida Haendel!

After some digging, found la Haendel. Amazing violin playing!

Accept no substitutes!

Oh, have a great time , PG. The Britten is wonderful, and I have it on good authority that Frang is well worth hearing !
Look forward to your review.

Just now:

its an electrifying performance, sounds fab on my new player.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Today - Gabriel Faure:

Pelleas and Melisande - Incidental Music op80
Piano Quartet No 2 in G minor op45
Nocturne No 5 in B flat major op37
La Bonne Chanson op61
Ballade in F sharp major for piano & orchestra op19
Penelope - Act II
Violin Sonata No 2 in E minor op108
Messe Basse
Barcarolle No 2 in G minor op41
Le Jardin Clos - song cycle op106
Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor op89
Masques et Bergamasques op112
Cinq Melodies de Venise op58
Impromptu No 3 in A flat major op34
Piano Trio in D minor op120

I enjoy quite a lot of Faure's music though there are a number of works I dislike such as the Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine and Apres une reve. It is the Chamber works that I most admire especially the beautiful austerity of the later works such as the Piano Trio, I'm also rather fond of the D Minor Piano Quintet with its searching almost anguished expression. The songs and piano works are slowly growing on me and I was quite intrigued by Penelope which I would certainly like to return to.

[EdgeleyRob]

Henze,Symphony No 10.

BRSO,Janowski.

Extraordinary.

[Roehre]

Today:

CPE Bach:
Clavier-concert in c Wq.43/6 (version for solo-piano, 1770)

Roussel:
Symphony no.3 in g op.42

Lambert:
Piano concerto
The Bird Actors – overture
Prize Fight – ballet in 1 act

[Stanfordian]

Henze:
Ballet Variations - Choreographic poem for large orchestra (1949, rev. 1992, rewritten 1998)
Concertino for piano and wind band with percussion (1947)
Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber - Exercise with Stravinsky - Ballet music on painting by Paul Klee) (1950, rev. 1990)
Chamber Concerto for Piano, Flute and Strings (1946)
Symphonic Interludes from the lyrical drama/opera ‘Boulevard Solitude’ (1951)
Christopher Tainton (piano), Matthias Perl (flute),
NDR Sinfonieorchester/Peter Ruzicka
Recorded 2002/03 Liebermann-Studio, Hamburg, Germany
Wergo

Louis Armstrong & His All Stars:
‘Louis Armstrong plays W. C. Handy’
Columbia (1954)
1997 re-issue with additional tracks
For my money this must be one of the finest jazz records of all-time.

[BBMmk2]

Hi Stan, just thought, I've played Henze's Ragtimes & Habeneras, have you heard this at all?

[Stanfordian]

Hi Stan, just thought, I've played Henze's Ragtimes & Habeneras, have you heard this at all?

Hiya Brassbandmaestro, Yes I'm studying Henze at the moment so I'm intrested in anything connected to him. I once heard Henze's Ragtimes & Habaneras in an amateur performance some years ago but I don't know it well.

[teamsaint]

Schnittke.
Piano Quintet/etc
AFCM Ensemble.
Naxos.

[Roehre]

Today:

CPE Bach:
Symphony in F Wq 122/2 (1755; piano-version Wq 175)
Symphony in e Wq 122/3 (1755; piano-version Wq 178)
Sonatas Wq 50/1-2 (1759)

Dutilleux:
4 Mélodies (1943)
Chanson de la Déportée (1945)
San Francisco Night (1963)