What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? IV

[Tapiola]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgFuQhgPm9Y&list=RDvgFuQhgPm9Y&start_radio=1

[pastoralguy]

Schubert. Trout Quintet.

I Musicante, Peter Donohoe, piano and Leon Bosch, double bass. SOMM label.

This is a new recording that’s being released on 17/10/25. I’ve only heard it on the PRESTO app which I can access on my mobile phone but it’s proving to be a bit of a disappointment. Just completely lacking in charm and Viennese Gemutlich, imho.

I hope the disc will prove me wrong but I suspect it’ll be as wooden albeit with better quality sound.

[Tapiola]

In actual Schumann, now, the early Toccata in C, op. 7. I have always found it a particularly harrowing work, pianistic difficulties aside. It's emotionally and psychologically exhausting.

[Stanfordian]

Rachmaninov
The Bells, Op. 35
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Luba Orgonášová (soprano); Dmytro Popov (tenor); Mikhail Petrenko (bass)
Rundfunkchor Berlin / Simon Halsey
Berliner Philharmoniker / Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded Live, 2010/12 Philharmonie, Berlin
Warner Classics, CD

Glazunov
Five Novelettes for string quartet, Op. 15
String Quintet in A major, Op. 39
Fine Arts Quartet
Nathaniel Rosen (cello)
Recorded 2005, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Naxos, CD

[richardfinegold]

https://youtu.be/0Rtj2W7nEw0?si=KUzsR9n9J8E8hA31

[smittims]

Thanks for posting that.

Yum, yum! Never mind the music, I'll just have the pianist,thank you.

[gradus]

Mozart : Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K364. The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner. An Argo recording from 1971.

This work is often played as a 'double-concerto' with celebrity guests, but in this case the two soloists , Alan Loveday and Stephen Shingles , have been carefully balanced within the texture so that , although they are quite audible, one hears more of Mozart's rich and wonderful orchestration . This is a memorable record, especially with the lovely reproduction of Pater's 'Fete Galante ' .

I've never been able to agree that Marriner and the Academy were bland . His tempi, especially in Mozart, seem faultless to me. Maybe his experience playing in the Philharmonia under Furtwangler and Toscanini helped .

... and the LSO under Monteux.

[HighlandDougie]

Thanks for posting that.

Yum, yum! Never mind the music, I'll just have the pianist,thank you.

God strike me down for having no sense of humour but I actually find that comment to be offensive. Page 3 of the 'Sun' level.

[richardfinegold]

Thanks for posting that.

Yum, yum! Never mind the music, I'll just have the pianist,thank you.

. You will notice in the comments that she has her fair share of admirers, but half of them think that she was intoxicated.

[visualnickmos]

Thanks for posting that.

Yum, yum! Never mind the music, I'll just have the pianist,thank you.

Cheap and offensive comment. I never imagined that sexually objectifying women would happen here. "Just banter" was it?

[Jonathan]

Currently spinning Florent Schmitt - Piano Music on a 2011 Naxos disc I got while in Valetta, earlier in the year. Not quite sure to make of it, hyper perfumed might be a good description (Debussy on steroids!) and requiring a superb technique which the pianist here (Vincent Larderet) has in spades. Another one which will require careful listening in detail.

[Barbirollians]

Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano - Ogdon

[smittims]

I apologise to Highland Dougie and visualnickmos for annoying them. Funnily enough , I'm usually the one castigated for not having a sense of humour .

But I make no apology for my original remark.

[HighlandDougie]

I apologise to Highland Dougie and visualnickmos for annoying them. Funnily enough , I'm usually the one castigated for not having a sense of humour .

But I make no apology for my original remark.

I need no apology but I find it rather sad that someone should see women in this way - and should be so unapologetic about it. “0 tempora, o mores”, I suppose. What a depressing world we live in.

[Barbirollians]

Thanks for posting that.

Yum, yum! Never mind the music, I'll just have the pianist,thank you.

It's really offensive - objectifying the pianist as if she is a thing to be " had " by a man .