The classical what are you listening to now ? thread.

[BrianPK]

More wonderful violin concertos from the Benda family.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000050PG4/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[davidjt]

https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/beethoven-piano-concertos-24-bit-download.html

Thanks to Record Review I need yet another set of these concertos.

 

[TheDecameron]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001HKPO94/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[TheDecameron]

https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/beethoven-piano-concertos-24-bit-download.html

Thanks to Record Review I need yet another set of these concertos.

Thank you for the link! The box set is pricey but stuffed with goodies. I enjoyed the review on R3 this morning- what stunning performances. I regret my off the cuff remark when Rattle took over the job in Berlin that he “polishes everything to death” because these are performances of unbelievable standards! I’ve never heard better playing.

 

[davidjt]

I went for the cheaper download-only option.

It's certainly a new benchmark, although her previous set with Kurt Sanderling is pretty wonderful, too.

 

[mjw]

Gordon Crosse - Dreamsongs.

 

[BrianPK]

Some very nice Cannabich symphonies.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00000DHRA/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[TheDecameron]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00004VG0P/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[windhoek]

I'm now playing the last CD in this Sviatoslav Richter Live At Carnegie Hall box set that I bought way back in July 2017. Although the audio quality is rough in places - particularly the first discs in the box set - on the whole, the performances have been quite entertaining and well worth the price of admission.

 

[BrianPK]

My second Cannabich cd with more delightful music.
It’s years since I last listened to it and I don’t know why as it’s marvelous stuff....Really enjoying it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00002R2TH/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[windhoek]

Wagner - Tannhäuser Without Words (Maazel/Pittsburgh SO

I think it's safe to say I like Wagner's music when it's just that. Operas, not so much.

 

[windhoek]

Wagner - Piano Transcriptions for Four Hands (Tal & Groethuysen)

 

[alanbeeb]

Talking of four hands.... Was listening earlier to Debussy's La Mer for piano duet, composer's own arrangement.... It doesn't lose much at all compared to the full orchestral version.
Alexander Melnikov also does a great job in the 2nd book of Preludes.

Here is the amazon link, but as ever, Presto Classical have it as a download in MP3, and up to 96/24 FLAC

 

[BrianPK]

W.F.Bach Harpsichord Concertos .

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003H2E3DS/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[Mark_R]

Byways of the French Baroque:

French Baroque Concertos, Musica Antiqua Koln, Archiv 447 286-2

https://www.discogs.com/Blavet-Bois...ebel-French-Baroque-Concertos/release/3683017

Pulled at random from my too-large CD collection. A delightful disc. Some people might cavil at MAK in French music, but I find the performance elegant but rhythmically buoyant and the tone is always sweet. Excellent recording as well.

 

[BrianPK]

JC Bach Sinfonie Concertanti...light,delicate and delightful.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001ND9BOO/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[Todd A]

In 2017, I finally got my hands on Enrico Pace's incomplete set of the Années. The set has some of the best Liszt playing I've heard. Now, I belatedly got my hands of Francesco Piemontesi's recording of Suisse, and it's much the same. Piemontesi's Liszt is sort of anti-virtuosic, like Kempff's, but Piemontesi does occasionally play with ample technical swagger. Vallée d'Obermann is chock full of such playing. But the same piece also has some almost ridiculously gentle and beautiful playing. Julian Gorus pushes his pianissimo playing to Yaeko Yamane levels, and Piemontesi does, too, though when the Swiss pianist does it, it sounds sweeter. And there's lyricism aplenty throughout. Au lac de Wallenstadt is a lyrical dream. So is Eglogue. The bells in Les cloches de Genève chime gently, at least to start. Piemontesi does indeed deliver grander playing in passages in the opening piece, in Orage, and elsewhere as appropriate, but, at least for me, it is the almost hypnotic beauty and poetry that the pianist delivers that enthralls. I'm hoping, really hoping, that Piemontesi does the right discographical thing and records all three years. The encore of the second Legend also indicates that he should record more Liszt, like, say, the Harmonies.

I went the high res download route rather than the physical media route here, and the sound is SOTA.

A great disc.


Amazon UK link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BF46SYY/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[BrianPK]

Now listening to the 4th disc of my JC Bach box set.
I’ve become so aware of how sweet and pleasing his use of woodwind is I’ve decided that I definitely need to order this cd of some of his woodwind concertos...Halstead and the Hanover Band.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000001S06/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[BrianPK]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00000417F/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21
I’ve spent the day listening,on and off, to JC bach’s Piano Concertos ...two cd on Philips label.it’s a few months since
I last played them but they are so attractive I’m reluctant to make s start on Franz Benda’s Flute Concertos which arrived in post this morning.Perhaps later.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000CAOIJ/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

 

[BrianPK]

CPE Bach...Complete Keyboard Concertos...marvellous music and recording.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00B7B0WF4/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Just the type of music to encourage me to get out into the garden for a spring clean instead of just looking out the window and admiring the few early daffodils now that the days have warmed up.