What Are You Listening To Now? - II

[mahlerei]

Franz Liszt
Opera and song transcriptions for solo piano
Paraphrase on a waltz from Gounod’s Faust
Paraphrase on themes from Verdi’s Aïda
6 Polish Songs (After Chopin)
Isolde’s ‘Liebestod’ from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Songs of Clara Schumann
Widmung (After R. Schumann)
Totentanz
Gábor Farkas (piano, Steinway D)
STEINWAY & SONS STNS 30065

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[gurnemanz]

I do enjoy those Liszt's transcription. Thanks for the link. I have Leslie Howard on Hyperion.

Just listening to Monteverdi - Third Book of Madrigals with Antony Rooley and friends (incl Emma Kirkby)

[BBMmk2]

Agreed, Gurnemanz! Those transcriptions are on a differently level.

[Stanfordian]

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’
Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31
Debussy La Mer
Berliner Philharmoniker/Dimitri Mitropulos
Recorded live 1960 Salzburg festival
Orfeo

Handel - Lucrezia - Three Cantatas - Véronique Gens
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Les Basses Réunies/Bruno Cocset (direction, cello)
Recorded 1996/97 Eglise de Bon-Secours, Paris
Virgin Veritas
Véronique Gens a super singer who I had the good fortune of seeing perform in Munich a few weeks ago.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Yesterday:

Bach: St Matthew Passion; Soloists/Gabrieli Players/McCreesh
A recording that I appreciate and enjoy more and more with each hearing although the close-miking in the earlier stages of Part One is still unpleasantly obtrusive. (Incidentally, bearing in mind frequent comments on a regularly-broadcast choir, the singers here are a group of soloists who nonetheless very definitely know how to sing as a choir when the Musical demands so require.)

Wagner: Parsifal, Act One; Soloists/BPO/Karajan
Oh, the joy of hearing this Music in Stereo ! Still, IMO, the very finest recording of the work.
(Incidentally, reading the synopses of the work on the various recordings, it strikes me that this isn't a work I'd particularly want to see staged: it really cries out for the "Leeds Town Hall, Opera North, semi-staged" treatment. )

Schutz: St Luke Passion; Cappella Augustana/Matteo Messori
Perhaps my favourite of the Schutz Passion settings - but that wasn't my opinion when listening to the John or Matthew settings! - certainly given a superb performance and recording here.

Tallis: Lamentations; Oxford Camerata/Summerly
Beautiful work, beautiful performance, lovely recording.


- generously given to me by former Forumista RowanTree, who

[BBMmk2]

A Maggini Quartet session today. In tribute to David Angel, co-founder.

Vaughan Williams
Phantasy Quintet(Garfield Jackson);
String Quartets Nos.1 & 2.

[mahlerei]

Agreed...Those transcriptions are on a differently level.

Yes indeed. And Farkas is a pianist to watch.

[Pulcinella]

Yesterday (amongst others)

Stravinsky: Septet

(1) European Soloists Ensemble/Ashkenazy (Double Decca: I wonder if this is the same performance that Oddball mentions on YouTube on the The Rest is Noise thread: the piano is certainly quite prominent)
(2) Tashi (in the big Stravinsky box)

Today, possibly the other two recordings of Septet in the big Stravinsky box, and something played by the Maggini quartet too; Bbm's RVW choice would be a good one.
(At long last measuring up for new shelving for books/scores and the CD collection in the new house!)

[Pianorak]

Catching up on iPlayer with TTN: Catriona Young presents a recital by pianist Luis Fernando Peréz with music by Mompou, Albeniz and Granados.

[BBMmk2]

A Maggini Quartet session today. In tribute to David Angel, co-founder.

Vaughan Williams
Phantasy Quintet(Garfield Jackson, viola);
String Quartets Nos.1 & 2.

Walton
String Quartet in A minor
Piano Quartet(Peter Donohoe, piano).

Maggini Quartet.

[silvestrione]

Is it just me, or is this thread getting too bulky now? It takes ages to load on my computer.

[BBMmk2]

Is it just me, or is this thread getting too bulky now? It takes ages to load on my computer.

I find that on my PC as well but it's only 638 pages?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mine, too - time for WAYLTN3??!!

[Pulcinella]

Mine, too - time for WAYLTN3??!!

Agreed!
Takes an age to load on my iPad.

(Yes, I listened to the other two recordings of the Stravinsky Septet; probably like Tashi best, but it wasn't a real comparative listen. Clarinet too distant in the later Stravinsky recording, I thought. Didn't get round to any Maggini recording yet, and the RVW is now packed away again, so current shelving can be moved more easily later, once the new stuff arrives!
Also now too late to go to a free local performance of the St John, by a visiting choir and orchestra from Utrecht; during the performance there is a procession and stripping of the altar, apparently! Maybe I'll put the version on from the bargain box of JSB Choral Works I bought recently, instead of listenting to the Dvorak Requiem on R3.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I find that on my PC as well but it's only 638 pages?

Yes - it's very odd that it's only taken 18 months for it to get to the "long time a-loading" point, but it does seem to be causing delay for a number of Forumistas, Bbm. As the original "onlie begetter" of series 1 of WAYLTN?, how do you fancy initiating "Volume 3"?