What I listened to today

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:43 am

Belle wrote: ↑
Sat Oct 15, 2022 9:27 pm
Mussorgsky: "The Great Gate of Kiev" from "Pictures at an Exhibition".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9JpKXBw5Z4

Tragedy unlimited in Odessa: Shostakovich?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JecXKK2rmCc

Yes, that passage is from his eleventh symphony.

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Mon Oct 17, 2022 8:37 am

https://www.discogs.com/master/999482-E ... -Bach-Book

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Tue Oct 18, 2022 12:21 pm

Pletnev live in 1987, Chopin, Liszt, Balakirev,Ravel. Distinctive readings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVtyD5ZE0zU&t=1860s

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:02 am

Bartok String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7. It's the most accessible of all Bartok's quartets, the last couple being very difficult (for me). This one seems to adopt a somewhat Beethovenian aesthetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PL_uT3ZFI

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:58 am

Belle wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:02 am
Bartok String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7. It's the most accessible of all Bartok's quartets, the last couple being very difficult (for me). This one seems to adopt a somewhat Beethovenian aesthetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PL_uT3ZFI

Indeed a challenge, and No.1 the place to start. Of the rest, I probably only listen to Nos. 2 and 5, and not often.

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:49 pm

On this we will agree, but never on politics over at 'that other place'!! I respect your musical intelligence. Most of my music-loving friends are light years behind me with regard to intensity and interest in the art form, so I'm glad to contribute here.

There's something of that classical formal rigidity/austerity I've talked about elsewhere with reference to Brahms that you also find in Bartok.

This one also appeals to me, for much the same reason (never mind the well-known movement!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgZlwbLt8UQ

At our music group 3 years ago I presented a program on the music of John Corigliano and we listened to his String Quartet (1995) - which can be difficult. Some in the audience winced, whilst others were patient and polite. My friend, an ethnomusicologist, asked afterwards, "why do you like this?". His questions are often traps for the unwary!! I replied, "because it's demanding, tense, austere, contained and dramatic". And these works can sometimes also be what I describe as "crunchy".

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:30 pm

Brahms, Symphony #2 in D Major, BPO/Rattle. I can't decide which of the phenomenal Brahms symphonies I like the best. It's been a lifelong puzzle and this is desert island music.

Reading along with the score makes such a big difference to one's understanding of how Brahms put these works together. How he tosses the melody and fragments, themes and sub-themes between the woodwinds, strings, brass; how he employs appoggiaturas when he's repeating even a tiny melodic fragment, just to enliven the mood and provide variety. Augmentation and diminution. Then the reiteration that in the other instruments; not that you'd always detect this in performance! His varied time signatures - all the while the piece sounding as though it isn't actually in a new rhythm. The glorious, rich Adagio of the second movement; Brahms loved the (French) Horn and this provides a poignant rendering of the first theme while the violins take the second and the viola and cello provide the counterpoint. The winds echo the fragments, as if playfully. But it's those leaps in the first violins, along with dying falls, followed by rich string counterpoint which brings me to my knees - with the horns growling a different mood in the background. The magisterial ending of the 2nd movement.....the power and intensity of the last movement....

"Take me to you, imprison me, for I.... never shall be free" (Donne).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtXkWh7yjVY

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:49 am

Brahms's Second Symphony is the easiest to conduct, while I and III pose more difficulties, especially the first movement of III. When David Oistrakh ventured on to the podium, he presented Brahms II in Germany and did it very well.

Here is my favorite recording of Brahms II, with Solti/Chicago. The page below also offers links to the other three Symphonies led by Solti.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/v ... ction=view

Sir Georg Solti Chicago Symphony Orchestra Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1877 during a visit to Pörtschach am Wörthersee, a town in the Austrian province of Carinthia. Its composition was brief in comparison with the fifteen years it took Brahms to complete his First Symphony.

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 11:34 am

All the Brahms symphonies are great, but No. 3 perhaps my fav and perhaps as the result of the recording of No. 3 I have, William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh on a 35mm Command lp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKNjiSZQ-c4

neilnw · Post by **neilnw** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 11:47 am

maestrob wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:49 am
When David Oistrakh ventured on to the podium, he presented Brahms II in Germany and did it very well.

Ditto. I've got it in both my laptop libraries.

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:39 pm

maestrob wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:49 am
Brahms's Second Symphony is the easiest to conduct, while I and III pose more difficulties, especially the first movement of III. When David Oistrakh ventured on to the podium, he presented Brahms II in Germany and did it very well.

Here is my favorite recording of Brahms II, with Solti/Chicago. The page below also offers links to the other three Symphonies led by Solti.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/v ... ction=view

Sir Georg Solti Chicago Symphony Orchestra Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1877 during a visit to Pörtschach am Wörthersee, a town in the Austrian province of Carinthia. Its composition was brief in comparison with the fifteen years it took Brahms to complete his First Symphony.

I've been to the magnificent Wörthersee; on its shores there is also a little house which belonged to Mahler!! Yes, that long gestation for the First Symphony, and the agonies...it's all documented in the letters to Clara Schumann. Of course, the Piano Concerto in D Minor, performed in Leipzig to somewhat ambivalent audiences, probably damaged the composer's confidence. He was furious and wouldn't accept a posting in Leipzig!! Revenge.

I have seen the CSO/Solti in concert playing Brahms #4 at the Adelaide Arts Festival in 1988 and the same orchestra at the Musikverein in 2011 with Muti out front. I've forgotten what they played; it must have been Beethoven (the woman sitting next to me complained about Muti's Beethoven tempi during the interval and she did have a point!!!) What a magnificent orchestra; within the top 5 in the world. That year I had a chance to compare virtually all of them (just one was missing, the LSO)!! It wasn't easy.

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:45 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 21, 2022 11:34 am
All the Brahms symphonies are great, but No. 3 perhaps my fav and perhaps as the result of the recording of No. 3 I have, William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh on a 35mm Command lp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKNjiSZQ-c4

Glowing!

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:58 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 21, 2022 11:34 am
All the Brahms symphonies are great, but No. 3 perhaps my fav and perhaps as the result of the recording of No. 3 I have, William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh on a 35mm Command lp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKNjiSZQ-c4

The Steinberg Brahms Symphonies have been issued twice on cd, first by mca in the 1980s and recently by DGG in superb sound. I have both sets.

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 5:04 pm

This drab and overcast Spring morning I'm listening to this (fairly recent) account of the Ravel Piano Trio in A - a work I've long loved. My own CD of this work is from the Vienna Piano Trio.

In the Passacaille I'm not convinced by the string playing!! It somehow lacks intensity, normally being something of a high-wire act!! I'm only hearing the safety net:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0FFyxSnZE

I must finish the Roger Nichols Ravel biography; I became bogged down, and stalled, because of the huge amount of musical analysis contained in the prose. It only hesitatingly let me into the world of Ravel, which is what interests me. He still remains an enigmatic figure!

Ravel dedicated the Piano Trio in A Minor to his counterpoint teacher Andre Gedalge, the same person who taught Conrad Salinger of the MGM Freed Unit. Here is Salinger with Gedalge in this photo: Salinger is the last one on the left and Gedalge is seated at the piano.

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:01 pm

The Ravel Trio is indeed amazing, my recordings by the Caecilian Trio and the Heifetz,Rubinstein,Piatigorsky Trio (I prefer the Caecilian), here fww the Caecilian in the 2nd movement ( entire recording is at YT ):

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

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Sat Oct 22, 2022 12:49 am

I listened to that movement and it was very fine. Earlier today the Beaux Arts Trio reading of the Ravel Trio in A Minor. Recorded in 1987 in the UK for television.

At the moment this wonderful String Quartet in F Major of Ravel. (The spouse is chewing the political fat with a friend in another part of the house!) The second movement pizzicato is something else!! So very original.

I was re-reading some earlier passages in the Nichols biography and my eyes fell upon sentences about Ravel playing piano in the salons from 1901/2, when Debussy was there and Ravel, when playing with his companions in piano 4 hands, would only play Mozart!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieRQyyPowH0

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Sun Oct 23, 2022 5:22 pm

Just at the moment, Granados Goyescas with Alicia de Larrocha from 1963: hers is one of the finest versions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tg1MKyGTKs

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Fri Oct 28, 2022 12:15 pm

A colorful, light-handed, brilliant live performance of Saint-Saens’ PC # 5, the “Egyptian” by a young lady pianist not previously known to me. Orchestra is Phion, Orchestra of Gelderland & Overijssel.Also ( I did not hear ) on the programme Berlioz’ “Corsaire” Overture and Franck’s Symphony in D.

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/a2bf ... anoconcert

22 Oktober 2022, Musis, Arnhem

Tung-Chieh Chuang (Dirigent), Yang Yang Cai (piano)

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:39 am

Do not think I’d heard Hough play Brahms PC # 2, and some critics do not feel his best strengths lie in such works, but I found excellent here, great cellist in slow mov., too.I did not hear the Stravinsky.

Enregistré le 13/10/2022 à la Salle Philharmonique de Liège

Johannes Brahms - Concerto n°2 en si bémol majeur, pour piano et orchestre, op.83

Encore: Chopin Nocturne

Igor Stravinsky - Petrouchka, Scènes burlesques en quatre tableaux : 1 : La foire du mardi gras, 2 : Chez Petrouchka, 3 : Chez le Maure, 4 : La foire du mardi gras (la nuit)

Stephen Hough, piano
OPRL
Lionel Bringuier

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concer ... id=2955688

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sun Oct 30, 2022 5:02 pm

Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 live.

All new artists for me, but one of the composer’s 2 awesome cello concertos ( 2 of my favs ), this one certainly deserves equal billing with the Dvorak,Elgar , great reading here:

Concert voor cello en orkest nr.1, op.107 , Dmitri Sjostakovitsj

Nederlands Kamerorkest, Giuseppe Mengoli (Dirigent), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello). The cellist won the 2017 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition.

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/50f1 ... mer-orkest

October 21,2022, Amsterdam

Encore: Suite voor cello nr.2, BWV 1008 , “Sarabande”, Johann Sebastian Bach

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 9:27 am

Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, one of my fav PC’s, live Oct.29,2022 in Amsterdam, Pierre-Laurant Aimard,pianist, Netherlands Radio Phil. under Stephane Deneve. Not sure I'd heard Aimard play the work ; wonderful as expected.

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/a7ab ... d-en-ravel

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 7:29 pm

One of the great (and demanding ! ) violin concertos, wonderful reading here, although more urbane than my Gitlis recording. I did not hear the Brahms.

Enregistré le 07/04/2022 au Arturo Toscanini RAI Auditorium, Turin

Béla Bartók - Concerto No. 2 pour violon et orchestre, Sz. 112

Johann Sebastian Bach - Loure, de la 'Partita No. 3 en Mi Majeur, BWV 1006' (bis)

Johannes Brahms - Symphonie No. 1 en do mineur, op. 68

Leonidas Kavakos, violon
Orchestre Symphonique National de la RAI
Daniel Harding

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concer ... id=2956594

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Tue Nov 01, 2022 2:10 pm

A robust reading of one of my fav VC’s. I did not hear the Dvorak , yet.

Enregistré le 27/03/2022 à l' Opéra de Zurich

Serge Prokofiev - Concerto No. 1 en Ré Majeur pour violon et orchestre, op. 19

Johann Sebastian Bach - Largo, de la "Sonate No. 3 en Do Majeur, BWV 1005' (bis)

Antonín Dvorák - Symphonie No. 7 en ré mineur, op. 70

James Ehnes, violon
Philharmonia Zurich
Gianandrea Noseda

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concer ... id=2956760

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Thu Nov 03, 2022 2:37 pm

Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor Op.84
Heath Quartet , Tom Poster (piano), live in London recently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rd8z

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:00 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 30, 2022 5:02 pm
Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 live.

All new artists for me, but one of the composer’s 2 awesome cello concertos ( 2 of my favs ), this one certainly deserves equal billing with the Dvorak,Elgar , great reading here:

Concert voor cello en orkest nr.1, op.107 , Dmitri Sjostakovitsj

Nederlands Kamerorkest, Giuseppe Mengoli (Dirigent), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello). The cellist won the 2017 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition.

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/50f1 ... mer-orkest

October 21,2022, Amsterdam

Encore: Suite voor cello nr.2, BWV 1008 , “Sarabande”, Johann Sebastian Bach

Laferriere was absolutely brilliant. If he plays this well consistently, I look forward to many CDs in his future. Thanks for this! Wonderful conducting as well.

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Fri Nov 04, 2022 2:02 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 31, 2022 9:27 am
Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, one of my fav PC’s, live Oct.29,2022 in Amsterdam, Pierre-Laurant Aimard,pianist, Netherlands Radio Phil. under Stephane Deneve. Not sure I'd heard Aimard play the work ; wonderful as expected.

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/a7ab ... d-en-ravel

This too was well done, although I would have wished for more presence from Aimard in the opening of the concerto. The Salome was very good also. Stephane Deneve should be better known, IMHO. Many thanks, Steve!

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sun Nov 06, 2022 4:45 pm

A young cellist I have been following, wonderful performance , vitality injected into this warhorse I had not heard for years . I heard only the Dvorak.

Enregistré le 03/05/2022 à la Philharmonie, Cologne

Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnos

Antonín Dvorák - Concerto en si mineur pour violoncelle et orchestre, op. 104
- Leave Me Alone, extrait de '4 chants op. 82' (bis)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphonie No. 4 en fa mineur, op. 36

Kian Soltani, violoncelle
Orchestre Symphonique de la WDR
Krzysztof Urbanski

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_concer ... id=2958123

(To my ear, the Dvorak last mov. has always seemed too long ; the composer’s error, not the performers’.)

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Mon Nov 07, 2022 2:34 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 03, 2022 2:37 pm
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor Op.84
Heath Quartet , Tom Poster (piano), live in London recently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rd8z

Excellent Elgar, a personal favorite, with beautiful playing in the Mozart as well. Thanks!

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:11 am

Yet another piano competition this year, but I picked out a couple to hear based solely on works they played that , in my limited experience, are rarely heard live, let alone in a competition, and got lucky with some remarkable performances. Each recital totaled about 30 minutes , but I heard usually just the works I was interested in, fww:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEJbF3JwGoA Liu Qiao, at 45:00 in, Barber Sonata,Op.26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGDFnpAte0k Han Hee Jin, at 24:00 in, Dutilleux Sonata,Op.1,3rd Mov.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_yXaKBIkus Takubo Moka , at 2:04:00 in, Prokofieff Sonata No.1,Op.1

The Barber and Dutilleux were amazing.

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:56 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:11 am
Yet another piano competition this year, but I picked out a couple to hear based solely on works they played that , in my limited experience, are rarely heard live, let alone in a competition, and got lucky with some remarkable performances.

More remarkables from the Paderewski:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FoZ3sUJTMk&t=37s Kim Seunghui 3:32:00 Schubert Sonata D.784

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FoZ3sUJTMk&t=14014s Ota Saya 4:15:00 Scriabin Sonata No.7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUYIJRkbJ8E Lee Minsung 58:00 Bartok Piano Sonata,Sz.80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUYIJRkbJ8E Lopez Salas Pedro 1:15:00 Whole recital (Haydn Sonata Hob.XVI:12, Scriabin four Op.22 Preludes, Ginastera Sonata No.1,Op.22). He may be a winner !

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 3:36 pm

Cello concertos today:

Marie Jaell - Cello Concerto in F,Raphael Perraud (cello) Orchestre Nationale de France, Debora Waldman (conductor)

Mentioned here before in the context of her piano works, and her background also given at the start of the BBC broadcast .Delightful work.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001dpj7

Enregistré le 16 septembre 2022 à la Salle Philharmonique (OPRL), à Liège

William WALTON - Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre
Serge PROKOFIEV - Marche, extraite de "Musiques d'enfants, op. 65", arrangement de Piatigorsky (bis) Franz LISZT - Faust-Symphonie, S. 108

Gautier Capuçon, violoncelle, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège , Gergely Madaras, direction

One of the great, if bit enigmatic, cello concertos.

https://auvio.rtbf.be/media/concert-de-13h-2960172

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 6:56 pm

The most impressive Saint-Saens PC # 2 I’ve heard, wonderful orchestral support as well. Alexandre Kantorow,pianist, live with the Netherlands Kamerorkest under Gordon Nikolic.In Amsterdam, but date not given although I suspect within last couple days:

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/445c ... aint-saens

Interesting encore, a slow movement from one of Beethoven’s or Mozart’s violin sonatas (?), played presumably with the concertmaster ( not the piano sonata named in the programme).

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sat Nov 12, 2022 10:07 am

More from the Paderewski:

Another “ rare”, Piotr Pawlak plays well the Godowsky “Passacaglia” (!) , also gutsy live especially at a competition ( it is first on the programme, not third as advertised) , and Prokofieff’s 4th Sonata, another relatively rare. His required 2 brief Paderewski’s were better music than I expected . Starts at about 2:57:00 in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6DNrAjfCm4

Takubo Moka plays Shostakovich’s clangorous Piano Sonata No1.,Op.12,I believe my first hearing as I have a recording only of Sonata No.2. At about 1:22:00 here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y3A-jss-ME

Mateusz Krzyzowski plays Ginastera Piano Sonata No.2,Op.53, a first hearing for me as I’d only heard his Sonata No.1.At about 40:00 in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpDv2RLWh1Q&t=101s

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sun Nov 13, 2022 12:17 pm

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 12, 2022 10:07 am
More from the Paderewski:

Gutsy,even for this Competition, an all-Paderewski recital by one Georgi Vasilev.About the only Paderewski piano works I’d heard previous to this Competition were the famous Minuet, the Nocturne, Op.16,#4 , Piano Sonata, and Piano Concerto.Given the very fine Nocturne and great slow mov. of the Concerto, guess should be no surprise Paderewski wrote some other attractive pieces a bit above the level of a typical piece d’salon. The more extended Variations here, at about 2:36:00 in, were well worth hearing, perhaps inspired by the Brahms' Handels (?) . The YT audio was out of sync with the video.

Album de Mai: Chant d’amour, Op. 10 No. 2
Humoresques de Concert: Sarabande, Op. 14 No. 2
Humoresque de Concert: Burlesque, Op. 14 No. 4
Variations and Fugue in E-flat minor Op. 23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMJfQbG9Oo

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:34 am

Piotr Pawlak plays Franck's PC&F and Ravel's "La Valse" at the Paderewski Competition now ongoing.He is one of the 5 Finalists, results to be announced about 3 pm CST today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRssOfyRo5k&t=15s

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 8:12 pm

The Shostakovich 10th Symphony, with the Vienna Philharmonic live in July,2022, at a Swiss festival, Enrique Mazzola conducting:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001f5sr ( At about 27:00 )

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:29 pm

Hummel’s 5th Piano Sonata, one of the great piano sonatas , period, here the late Constance Keene,mine from her Newport Classics cd set of the complete Hummel sonatas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbLs-Zqsno

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:14 pm

The Poulenc Piano Concerto ( for one piano ) , the first piano concerto I heard live, 1964, Ozan Marsh, pianist, with the NYPO, Andre Kostelanetz, at then Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC , a Summer “ Proms “. In my limited experience, the solo piano concerto not performed nearly as often as the composer’s 2-piano concerto, but for me an elegance, and at times depth, in the first two movements not matched by the 2-piano. Here my first hearing of a Stephen Paulello piano, and this pianist :

Maroussia Gentet, pianist, Mikko Franck,ORTF in Paris,2019 , video:

https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusiqu ... et-2807500

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Wed Nov 30, 2022 9:53 am

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:29 pm
Hummel’s 5th Piano Sonata, one of the great piano sonatas , period, here the late Constance Keene,mine from her Newport Classics cd set of the complete Hummel sonatas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbLs-Zqsno

Delightful work Steve. Thanks!

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sat Dec 03, 2022 12:12 pm

A very finely done , unhackneyed programme by an ensemble new to me , as were the Brahms and Jorgensen works. While the Op.114 pleasant,I prefer Brahms’ 2 Clarinet Sonatas, Op.120, and his extraordinary Clarinet Quintet,Op.115.The Turina is a brief gem, the Shostakovich a long-time fav of mine.

From Radio4 : “ Voor het eerst in Europa: de Chamber Soloists of Detroit vieren hun 10-jarig jubileum met als gast klarinettist Olivier Patey met werken van Brahms, Turina, Sjostakovitsj en muziek uit de bekroonde HBO-film Black Boy Joy.”

https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/119f ... of-detroit

Pianotrio nr.2, op.76
Joaquin Turina

Trio voor piano, klarinet en cello, op.114
Johannes Brahms

Suite, "Black boy joy"
Ryn Jorgensen

Pianokwintet, op.57
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj

(Bis) Stukken voor 2 violen en piano (5) - nr.1, "Prelude. Moderato" (Arr.)
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Tue Dec 06, 2022 2:01 am

Help needed please. I can't find this CD to buy anywhere. Anybody got any clues where I might get it? I absolutely adore Thomas Quasthoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TE7lsBVhVE

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:32 pm

Belle wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 06, 2022 2:01 am
Help needed please. I can't find this CD to buy anywhere. Anybody got any clues where I might get it? I absolutely adore Thomas Quasthoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TE7lsBVhVE

Hello Belle.

That may have been a special edition, if it was even issued on CD at all. At present, Amazon USA allows you to stream the 8+ hour contents if you are a Prime member, and the same title is available on Spotify. This may be part of the new trend of streaming-only issues. I've not read anything about it in the press. A hint that this is so would be that the contents on Spotify are not broken down by disc number.

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:18 pm

Thank you for your helpful response. My head is still in the era of the CD, so I don't deal with streaming, Spotify etc. I like to hold a CD in my hand and be able to access the tracks as and when needed - and then be in no fear of technology failing me, and of losing the lot. (Too much grief with digital pictures from years of travel!)

Apropos the Thomas Quasthoff recording; German is the only language to set to music, IMHO!!

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:11 pm

Beloved Tommy Quasthoff interviewed at Wigmore Hall three years ago: intelligent, funny, insightful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etvcfwt89cc

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:31 am

Pianist Nelson Goerner live recently.
One of my fav pianists playing perhaps my fav Schumann work,, wonderful here, a work that plays into Goerner’s strengths.I did not hear the Liszt Sonata.I am starting to become more enamored with the LvB Op.101 as time passes.

Enregistré le 27/11/2022 à la Salle Philharmonique de Liège

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Sonate n°28 en la majeur pour piano, op. 101
Robert Schumann - Carnaval, op. 9
Franz Liszt - Sonate en si mineur pour piano, S. 178
Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo, n°2, extrait de "Six pièces pour piano, op. 118" (bis)

https://auvio.rtbf.be/media/concert-rec ... zt-2971138

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 12:10 pm

Pletnev usually worth hearing, as here, even if you dont always care for his interpretations. Per the YT poster:

“ When the Gothenburg Symphony invited Pletnev to play with them in the mid 00s, Pletnev said: "I absolutely don’t want to play anything romantic and virtuosic. But I’d be happy to play Bach. Very slowly." This phone call with the BPO... went differently. “

I’d say so !

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.1 in F-sharp minor, Op.1

Mikhail Pletnev, piano
Paavo Berglund / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Source: Radio Broadcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy3a6rFcRqQ&t=4s

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Fri Dec 09, 2022 4:42 pm

This "Rach 1" is unjustifiably neglected. It's a lovely work, especially the moody and tender second movement. I remember it well from my childhood, where I listened to it regularly from (circa) age 9, my mother by my side explaining the music.

However, I think this performance from Pletnev is just too fast. It loses its grandeur right from the start; he's playing it as though it's the Rach 3. He 'recovers' somewhat in the second movement. Alas; having set a cracking pace in the first movement, the last one all but breaks up in the allegro sections under the sheer speed.

This is the recording I grew up with! Richter sets a cracking pace, but he's never less than fluent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdIikTjGE0Q

Rach3 · Post by **Rach3** » Sun Dec 11, 2022 6:14 pm

Lazar Berman, live, Lugano, 1989, Aura Classics cd, Scriabin Fantasie Op. 28, Schubert-Liszt (5), Rachmaninoff Op.16:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... 8iulwHScZU

Belle · Post by **Belle** » Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:16 pm

We're heading to Perth later in the week but, in the meantime, I'm enjoying as much sacred music as I can. One of the most ravishing pieces of music in the western musical canon: and, to think, there are plenty more where this came from. (And, Barney, "Here is" is understood in brackets at the beginning of this sentence!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAqGw-9u4L0

And

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

People, like one of my sisters, who scoff about religion ("surely you don't still believe in all that mumbo jumbo"!?); how in the world do they manage with a composer like JS Bach? I don't go to mass, except at Easter and Christmas, but as to the spiritual life....nothing can match its cultural legacy.

maestrob · Post by **maestrob** » Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:34 am

Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 11, 2022 6:14 pm
Lazar Berman, live, Lugano, 1989, Aura Classics cd, Scriabin Fantasie Op. 28, Schubert-Liszt (5), Rachmaninoff Op.16:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... 8iulwHScZU

Berman always worth hearing as he rewards concentrated listening. Many thanks, Steve!

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