What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Now winding down with this:

Shostakovich
Rachmaninoff - Sonatas for cello and piano
Alexander Warenberg
Guiseppe Guarrera
trptk
Qobuz 24/96




Very beautiful sonatas.
If you're in a rather mellow mood, don't be afraid, this is very 'sweet' music!
Wonderfully recorded, as always with trptk.

What a great label trptk is.
Through the Grimm MU1, it all sounds even more natural.
These works are masterpieces.

[ehoove]

Symphony No. Four
Tchaikosky
The Cleveland Orchestra
Lorin Maazel
A Superior piece of vinyl!
Telarc 10047
Regards,
Jim

[bart]

Maxim Shalygin - Lacrimosa or 13 Magic Songs
Shapeshift Ensemble
trptk
Qobuz 24/96




You won't find much stranger music/sounds than this.
I don't know what to think of it.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Gryphon Trio - Great Piano Trios / Grands Trios Avec Piano
via Qobuz




A cool 9 hours of music.

Canada's foremost piano trio, the Gryphon Trio, has a reputation for offering richly detailed performances and excellent ensemble work. This nine-disc set represents not only much of their best work, but also much of the best of the piano trio repertoire. There are six of Mozart's trios; all of Schubert's and Shostakovich's works in the genre; and highlights of Beethoven's, including the three Op. 1 trios, the Archduke and the Ghost trios, and the Op. 11 trio originally for clarinet, cello, and piano. The only noticeable omissions are the Haydn Gypsy Trio and the Dvorák Dumky Trio. Regardless, the selections and these particular performances should not disappoint anyone looking for the most popular pieces of the genre in one set.

This was played again today into my practice.
Amazing what you can tell musically with just 3 instruments...

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Guiseppe Clemente Dall'Abaco - Cello Sonatas
Elinor Frey
Mauro Valli
Federica Bianchi
Giangiacomo Pinardi
Qobuz 24/88.2




It's been a while that we saw a Dall'Abaco album posted here.
This new release offers very agreeable music.

Passacaille Records and cellist Elinor Frey, with harpsichordist Federica Bianchi, lutenist Giangiacomo Pinard, and cellist Mauro Valli, present the first recording of cello sonatas by Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco (1710-1805). Dall’Abaco’s sonatas are full of cantabile melodies with the lightness of folk songs, passagework that demands brilliance and facility, and extraordinary slow movements that bring out the natural beauty of the cello’s tone. Dall’Abaco was a celebrated cellist-composer who participated in significant concerts in many of the major musical centres of Europe, among them London, Paris, Vienna, Verona, Munich and Bonn. In these five sonatas, we find individual movements devoted to regional styles and instrumental exoticisms such as La Zampogna (Italian bagpipe), A modo di Arciliuto, and A modo di Viola da gamba. Frey’s recording includes the original version of the G Major Cello Sonata previously attributed to G.B. Sammartini by way of a borrowed version by Martin Berteau. © Passacaille Records

Playing gently into the waiting room...

[Antonmb]

Brahms & Mozart Clarinet Quintets
Alexander String Quartet w/Eli Egan, clarinet
Foghorn Classics (2020), via Qobuz

An excellent rendition of these two wonderful pieces.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Debussy - Rameau
Víkingur Ólafsson
Qobuz 24/192




Surprisingly nice marriage of 2 composers coming from a totally different era.

We just heard some pieces on the radio while driving.
It left us wanting more.
This really is a great album.

[bart]

This was a waste of my time.
Sound quality wasn't great.
And I don't want additional cadenzas between the pieces.

[bart]

Merel Vercammen & Maya Fridman - Silent City
Qobuz 24/96
trptk




This is a wonderful album, with contemporary music.
Pieces from Peteris Vasks, Bach ('reinvented') and the musicians themselves.
Longing to hear it in multichannel!

[bart]

Hindemith - Kammermusik I - II - III - Kleine Kammermusik
Qobuz 24/48




Like always I find Hindemith intriguing, but rather cerebral.
I guess I haven't understood him yet...

First volume in a series dedicated to Paul Hindemith’s (1895–1963) chamber works includes the first three works in his Kammermusik series together with Kleine Kammermusik written for a wind quintet. This album continues a successful series of recordings of Hindemith’s music together with conductor Christoph Eschenbach. These recordings of chamber music have been recorded with a group of young promising artists, including pianist Christopher Park and cellist Bruno Philippe who are playing the solo parts in the ‘Concertos’, Op. 36.

Hindemith’s postwar period may rightly be described as a time of new beginnings not only for Hindemith personally but also for the European concert world, both in economic and artistic respects. It was during this time that Hindemith wrote his Kammermusik No. 1 (1922), a work for an ensemble of twelve solo instruments. Through to 1929 it was followed by six solo concertos that he designated as the Kammermusiken Nos. 2–7. At the premieres of four of these works the composer himself performed as an instrumentalist or as a conductor. Hindemith described the special character of such solo concertos for chamber orchestra in 1925, when he evaluated compositions that had been submitted to a competition: “The term ‘solo concerto’ is almost nowhere properly understood. Work indeed is done with solo instruments, but they do not perform in concerto style. In others, the prescribed ‘chamber orchestra’ is merely a reduced large orchestra that […] limits itself to producing a noise similar to the one traditionally produced by the larger groups of musicians but with shriveled means. In my view, this chamber orchestra has nothing to do with a proper chamber orchestra, in which only a few instruments of a very specific character (specified by the work) are in operation and with which genuine chamber-musical work is done.” By the time Hindemith ended the series of his seven Kammermusiken in 1929, he stood at the center of the German music world. © Ondine