What I listened to today

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 7:57 am

Yvonne Loriod - Debussy Etudes I & II 1971 Erato 1974 MHS

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:03 am

Yvonne Loriod - Debussy Etudes I & II 1971 Erato 1974 MHS.

downloaded and declicked LP from archive.org. https://archive.org/details/lp_twelve-e ... nne-loriod

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 10:02 am

Febnyc wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 23, 2023 6:49 pm

Tried to find this one on Spotify, but to no avail. The same group did, however, re-record the Loewe Grand Trio on in 2011 on a different label, and that's the one I'll be listening to. Thanks for the suggestion, Febnyc!

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:28 am

maestrob: I'm happy to find someone interested in the "unsung" repertoire that I enjoy investigating.

Please don't forget the de Beriot Trio. It's very musical.

This disc is on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Loewe-Grand-Op-1 ... 93&sr=1-85

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:39 am

Edwin York Bowen (1884-1961) was a prolific composer (don't miss his piano concertos!) - and these sonatas were written for the great British violist, Lionel Tertis. Although he did perform the premieres, Tertis never recorded the works. They're lyrical and really nice.

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:12 pm

Febnyc wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:39 am
Edwin York Bowen (1884-1961) was a prolific composer (don't miss his piano concertos!) - and these sonatas were written for the great British violist, Lionel Tertis. Although he did perform the premieres, Tertis never recorded the works. They're lyrical and really nice.

Agreed. Stephen Hough has a single cd Hyperion of solo piano music which is great ,and Danny Driver has recorded the piano sonatas and concertos.

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:36 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:12 pm
Agreed. Stephen Hough has a single cd Hyperion of solo piano music which is great ,and Danny Driver has recorded the piano sonatas and concertos.

Absolutely. I have the Stephen Hough CD, and Michael Dussek's recordings (on Dutton) of the piano concertos.

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:49 pm

Romantic, quasi-Schubertian, sometimes-Schumannesque - it's a pleasure to encounter these lovely piano sonatas. (Unfortunately, Dutton never followed with a second volume. The Toccata label also issued their first volume, duplicating what's on these two Dutton CDs - but nothing further from them either.)

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:23 am

Febnyc wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:49 pm
Romantic, quasi-Schubertian, sometimes-Schumannesque - it's a pleasure to encounter these lovely piano sonatas.

Thanks, the composer Algernon Ashton new to me. I did hear his Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 and 8, and Op.79 Four Bagatelles from the Toccata cd,Daniel Grimwood ,pianist, and particularly enjoyed the 8th Sonata.Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf0GO8h ... P&index=26

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:31 am

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:23 am

Thanks, the composer Algernon Ashton new to me. I did hear his Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 and 8, and Op.79 Four Bagatelles from the Toccata cd,Daniel Grimwood ,pianist, and particularly enjoyed the 8th Sonata.Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf0GO8h ... P&index=26

Glad you enjoyed. The Dutton two-disc set does not include the Op.79 Bagatelles. I'd like to see one of these labels follow up on their "Volume One" issues.

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Sat Mar 25, 2023 3:55 pm

This is my third CD of music by Richard Stöhr (1874-1967). He was forced to flee occupied Austria. As the notes interestingly point out: Stöhr went from prominence and danger to liberty and obscurity. Late romantic indulgences.

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:34 pm

Smetana's Ma Vlast (Talich 2)

....in a few weeks I'll probably hear Ancerl, live at Tanglewood

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Tue Mar 28, 2023 2:23 am

Lohengrin, Act 1: La Scala/Barenboim with Kaufmann. Glorious!! That Prelude is to-die-for. And what a fine orchestra!! The German language is simply the most magnificent to set to music, in my opinion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjEwJ4Z84YI

(Speaking of the German language: the English film from 1935, "The Passing of the Third Floor Back", directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Conrad Veidt - he hardly had any English at this time - was broadly based on the Lohengrin story. Both men were film makers in exile living and working in the UK - its director from Austria and its star, Veidt, the leading German actor of the day!! The British director Michael Powell said of Veidt and his poor English at that time, "Only in English did he lose his magnificent authority, walking like a tongue-tied Samson among the Philistines".)

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:37 pm

Schumann, briefly; "In der Fremde" and "Mondnacht" from "Liederkreis". Bryn Terfel; a recording from 2000. Excellent accompaniment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5cBF17x7Gw

Mondnacht:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7WBJXog1zU

Extraordinary voice. I don't have this recording but I must have it!!

I found Terfel's complete "Liederkreis" from this CD elsewhere on the internet and here it is. I say again, German is the most magnificent language to set to music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmRK94dSI2w

Some people mightn't like Terfel's 'operatic' approach to these gentle lieder but he provides a wonderful contrast to the more conservative and traditional versions. At times he adopts a spechtstimme style and I think it brings the meaning to life.

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:51 pm

One of Beecham's best-circulated items--

https://www.discogs.com/master/1016159- ... -Overtures

The Quintessence reissue of the late 70s; much better quality than you'd think.

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 5:30 pm

I've just had an email notification from the Wiener Konzerthaus about an upcoming Klavierabend with Alexandre Kantorow one evening next week, followed by Trifonov and Babayan as duo-pianists in May!!

That's it; enough is enough - I simply must return to Vienna at the end of this year!! Long-haul travel be damned!! (Besides, we both adore the Emirates A380 and have been tantalized by our plane-spotting sessions!)

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Sat Apr 01, 2023 8:20 pm

de Falla's El amor brujo (Remoortel, Wiener Symphoniker, w/Jean Madeira, mezzo)

terrific performance....well sung, well paced

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:10 am

neilnw wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 01, 2023 8:20 pm
de Falla's El amor brujo (Remoortel, Wiener Symphoniker, w/Jean Madeira, mezzo)

terrific performance....well sung, well paced

I have that one on CD, Neil, along with The Three-cornered Hat. Jean Madeira was a fabulous singer, for sure.

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Sun Apr 02, 2023 4:50 pm

Bach, "Ich habe genug", BWV 82. Getting back to first musical principles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopQG0Gjgmo

When you're in the mood for this......it's a volcano!! What did Christianity ever offer the world? Pfft.

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Mon Apr 03, 2023 9:16 pm

Rameau, "Les Indes Galantes", Les Arts Florissants/Christie. Danielle DeNiese is in this and she's absolutely stunning. A great production from 2004 when Dr. Christie was a youthful 60 year old!! After the curtain call at the end they all start singing and dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSvwxscsG5w

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Sat Apr 08, 2023 8:52 pm

Emil Gilels' '69 Carnegie Hall recital

Mozart's 39th (Schwarz & the Seattle Symphony....live aircheck from the 2000s)

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 4:20 pm

A review on MusicWeb opines that Edward German's 2nd Symphony (1893) is "the very finest British symphony before Elgar."

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 9:32 pm

Tonight I listened to a concert given in April '78 by our community orchestra (Greeley)--

Handel's Suite in D for trumpet & strings
Verdi's La Traviata prelude
Wagner's "Good Friday Spell" from Parsifal
Persichetti's The Hollow Men
Bartok's Dance Suite

....trumpet soloist in the Handel & Persichetti is William Pfund

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:47 pm

Being laid low with a temporary case of the stomach flu, so tonight I spun a couple of concert airchecks from about two decades ago:

Tchaikovsky's Fifth (Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony)
Borodin's Second (Perlman and the Detroit Symphony)

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Sat Apr 15, 2023 5:44 pm

Steven R. Gerber (b.1948) represented on this Chandos disc by some really muscular and appealing works - all composed within the last 35 years. Very worthwhile.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:28 am

TV broadcast with a great cast.
Puccini Turandot — Petre, Nilsson, Cecchele, Tucci - RAI Torino, 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxOjKVAjHhI

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:35 am

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:28 am
TV broadcast with a great cast.
Puccini Turandot — Petre, Nilsson, Cecchele, Tucci - RAI Torino, 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxOjKVAjHhI

Great find, Joe! Thanks!

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:38 am

Febnyc wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 15, 2023 5:44 pm
Steven R. Gerber (b.1948) represented on this Chandos disc by some really muscular and appealing works - all composed within the last 35 years. Very worthwhile.

This disc from 2020 is on Spotify, so I'll be hearing it later today. Thanks, Febnyc!

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Sun Apr 16, 2023 10:12 am

maestrob wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:38 am
This disc from 2020 is on Spotify, so I'll be hearing it later today. Thanks, Febnyc!

You're welcome. Please let us know your reaction. Thanks.

I particularly enjoyed the Triple Overture.

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 5:13 am

maestrob wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:35 am

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:28 am
TV broadcast with a great cast.
Puccini Turandot — Petre, Nilsson, Cecchele, Tucci - RAI Torino, 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxOjKVAjHhI
Great find, Joe! Thanks!

Here it is in much better resolution https://archive.org/details/turandot-1969
I am searching out more recordings with Gianfranco Cecchele.

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 8:53 am

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 17, 2023 5:13 am

maestrob wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:35 am

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:28 am
TV broadcast with a great cast.
Puccini Turandot — Petre, Nilsson, Cecchele, Tucci - RAI Torino, 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxOjKVAjHhI
Great find, Joe! Thanks!
Here it is in much better resolution https://archive.org/details/turandot-1969
I am searching out more recordings with Gianfranco Cecchele.

Again, many thanks! I'll be watching this today or Wednesday!

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Tue Apr 18, 2023 10:12 pm

Sibelius' Second (Dorati/Stockholm Phil.)

...just about the most logical performance of this piece I've heard

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:02 pm

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 17, 2023 5:13 am

maestrob wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 16, 2023 9:35 am

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:28 am
TV broadcast with a great cast.
Puccini Turandot — Petre, Nilsson, Cecchele, Tucci - RAI Torino, 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxOjKVAjHhI
Great find, Joe! Thanks!
Here it is in much better resolution https://archive.org/details/turandot-1969
I am searching out more recordings with Gianfranco Cecchele.

Heard/saw this today. What a find! Excellent cast all around. Please let us know what you find with Checcele, a superb tenor I had not heard before. He even resembles Corelli!

Many thanks, Joe!

jserraglio · Post by **jserraglio** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:31 pm

maestrob wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:02 pm
let us know what you find with Checcele, a superb tenor I had not heard before.

I'd never even heard of him before. Lots of Gianfranco Checcele operatic recordings on archive.org. Some downloadable. Just found out about him last week from two Europeans on another board, one of whom had heard him live, the other who said he sang the best Prince Calaf ever. I downloaded Bongiovanni's Il Mito dell'Opera compilation and the 1968 Gardelli/TSC Napoli La Gioconda on Hardy. The Mito is fabulous!

https://archive.org/search?query=Gianfranco+Cecchele

Overwheming number of opera offerings from IA member Koncordia https://archive.org/details/@koncordia

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:16 pm

Sibelius' Second (Dorati/Stockholm Phil.)

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:25 pm

Some Toscanini/NBC live stuff--

All-Brahms concert, 2/11/39 (the Fourth, Liebeslieder Waltzes book one, Academic Festival Over.)

2 light music programs, 4/4 & 7/18, both 1944 (Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2, Boccherini's Minuet, Massenet's Scenes alsaciennes, Suppe's Poet & Peasant)

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 9:41 am

jserraglio wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:31 pm

maestrob wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:02 pm
let us know what you find with Checcele, a superb tenor I had not heard before.
I'd never even heard of him before. Lots of Gianfranco Checcele operatic recordings on archive.org. Some downloadable. Just found out about him last week from two Europeans on another board, one of whom had heard him live, the other who said he sang the best Prince Calaf ever. I downloaded Bongiovanni's Il Mito dell'Opera compilation and the 1968 Gardelli/TSC Napoli La Gioconda on Hardy. The Mito is fabulous!

https://archive.org/search?query=Gianfranco+Cecchele

Overwhelming number of opera offerings from IA member Koncordia https://archive.org/details/@koncordia

Thanks for those links, Joe. You're a gem!

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 9:25 pm

Bizet's L'Arlesienne suites (Beecham 2....w/RPO)

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:34 pm

A wonderfully expansive,majestic reading of Ravel's Left Hand PC,one of my fav PC's, at about 1:40:00 into this BBC broadcast, live performance , but its date not given:

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major
Francois-Xavier Poizat (soloist)
Swiss National Youth Orchestra, Kai Bumann (conductor)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l4l5

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Wed Apr 26, 2023 4:53 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:53 am
Pianist Roberto Szidon , my cd , now at YT, plays Villa-Lobos " Cirandas ". A refreshing break, suggest listening over 2 sessions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dop78ae ... rtyVSLAKeK

Again today ; what a delight.

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:10 pm

Here is the blurb from Presto Music: Ukrainian composer-pianist Lubomyr Melnyk (*1948) composes piano pieces whose sound waves are in a constant state of flux and generate fascinating momentum. This language, which he calls “Continuous Music”, is his own invention, combining and blending influences from American minimal music with late-romantic harmonies and melodies. On the 'Sony Classical' label, "ILLIRION" features five works that he has composed and recorded himself. They display the beauty, magic and complexity of “continuous music” in all its many facets. The works are between four and 16 minutes long, and the notes, sometimes played with uncanny velocity, blur to create an unbroken stream of sound, often inducing trance-like states and ineluctably holding listeners spellbound.

One could consider this disc as nothing more than a curiosity. But for some reason the whole project mesmerized me - and it might affect you the same way.

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Thu Apr 27, 2023 10:28 pm

Some stuff stored on my laptop whilst recovering from a bout of nausea--

Rimsky's Sinfonietta on Russian Themes (Swoboda cond. Wiener Symphoniker...early 50s Vox LP)
Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orch. live, doing Dvorak's Serenade in d

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Sat Apr 29, 2023 9:36 pm

Ravel's Gaspard (Gieseking 2)

...also, I dug up some vintage Gerard Schwarz/Seattle Symphony concert airchecks (from the '00s):

Brahms' Second
Borodin's Second
Shostakovich's Ninth

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:09 am

A rare 3 minute video of a Arcadi Volodos encore from his 1998 Carnegie recital ( his debut there I believe), never released by SONY for some reason, Volodos' own variations on a theme from Glinka's " Russian and Lyudmila ":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQWiCKCBFQQ

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:21 pm

These two Oscar Levant LPs:
https://www.discogs.com/release/2939137 ... -Favorites'
https://www.discogs.com/release/9544378 ... th-Century

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Wed May 03, 2023 5:52 pm

Listened for the umpteenth time to this CD of chamber works (well, the Ysaÿe includes a string ensemble) from the early part of the 20th century . These are highly-chromatic pieces with a definite fin de siècle tinge to them. The music reminds me very much of Korngold. It all is beautiful - and so wistful, too.

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Thu May 04, 2023 9:19 am

Febnyc wrote: ↑
Wed May 03, 2023 5:52 pm
Listened for the umpteenth time to this CD of chamber works (well, the Ysaÿe includes a string ensemble) from the early part of the 20th century . These are highly-chromatic pieces with a definite fin de siècle tinge to them. The music reminds me very much of Korngold. It all is beautiful - and so wistful, too.

This looks interesting, thanks! Right up my alley!

Febnyc · Post by **Febnyc** » Thu May 04, 2023 9:33 am

maestrob wrote: ↑
Thu May 04, 2023 9:19 am

Febnyc wrote: ↑
Wed May 03, 2023 5:52 pm
Listened for the umpteenth time to this CD of chamber works (well, the Ysaÿe includes a string ensemble) from the early part of the 20th century . These are highly-chromatic pieces with a definite fin de siècle tinge to them. The music reminds me very much of Korngold. It all is beautiful - and so wistful, too.

This looks interesting, thanks! Right up my alley!

You're welcome. After you've listened, let's have a review!

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Thu May 04, 2023 5:38 pm

Schubert's Ninth (Walter, live w/Stockholm Phil.)

Brahms' First (Schwarz/Seattle Sym. ..........concert aircheck from this century's first decade)

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Thu May 04, 2023 8:05 pm

https://www.discogs.com/master/1149077- ... rnes-Danse

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