What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[bart]

Bach - Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin BWV 1001-1006
Henryk Szeryng
Qobuz 24/96




I never tire of hearing these pieces.
I guess this performance ranks in the top 10 of these works somewhere.

[bart]

Bach - Goldberg Variations
Cédric Pescia
Qobuz 24/44.1




Last one for tonight.
Brilliant playing from the man, born in Lausanne, Switzerland.

[ehoove]

Encores
Stowkowski
The Czech Philharmonic
The London Symphony
A very nice selection of pieces on R2R tape!
The Decca Record Company 1R1 6603
Regards,
Jim

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by ehoove

Encores
Stowkowski
The Czech Philharmonic
The London Symphony
A very nice selection of pieces on R2R tape!
The Decca Record Company 1R1 6603
Regards,
Jim

This must sound great on tape.

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by bart

Glass has become (almost ) as popular as Bach in our house.

Playing this now - Olafsson does a wonderful job with these pieces.

[bart]

This was playing into the practice today:

J. Jenkins - Chr. Simpson - Th. Ford - M. Locke - Music For A Viol - English Viol Music of the 17th century
Wieland Kuijken
Sigiswald Kuijken
Robert Kohnen
via Qobuz

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Now streaming:

Bach - Lambert - De Visée - Weiss - Baroque
Nils Mönkemeyer
Dorothee Mields - Andreas Arend
Qobuz 24/88.2




I heard a piece through my earbuds when I was jogging this morning.
It is Klara recording of the month, and that is well deserved!

The liner notes aren't very clear, so here are the details of this most singular recording, which focuses especially on Bach. Violist Nils Mönkemeyer and lutist Andreas Arend have chosen to perform, in a single "double" suite – BWV 995 and 1011 – the two preludes to the suite, and then the two allemandes etc. – in the knowledge that the BWV 995 is transcription for solo lute made by Bach himself of his own Suite for Cello n°5 BWV 1011… But here, we hear BWV 995 re-written by our two soloists, for viol and lute. As for the Suite BWV 1011, originally written for solo cello, Mönkemeyer has given it over to solo viola, without making any changes to the discourse. At every turn, movement by movement, the juxtaposition shows off the "developed" harmony that Bach gives to the lute, more inferred than really written out, just as in the version for the solo instrument. Mönkemeyer and Arend round off the programme with other examples of the very ancient and widely-practised baroque-era habit of transcription, with pieces by Robert de Visée and Michel Lambert (who were themselves models for Bach when he wrote "à la française") and the famous lutist Leopold Weiss, a friend of Bach's, whose Rondeau was long thought to be a work of Bach's before musicologists credited its true composer. © SM/Qobuz

This album is a joy to hear.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Bach - Sonate a Cembalo Obligato e Traversiere Solo
Laura Pontecorvo
Rinaldo Alessandrini
Qobuz 24/88.2




Terrific new release.


Sadly, the majority of Bach's works for transverse flute and clavier (be that obbligato or continuo) have survived only in truncated form, in manuscripts stuffed full of mistakes – surely the result of a hasty copy job from an older work, now lost – to say nothing of doubtful attributions, meaning that flautists have little choice but to take what they're given and do the best with it they can. And that is exactly what Laura Pontecorvo is doing, ably accompanied by Rinaldo Alessandrini on the harpsichord: the truncated works have been finished, the errors corrected, the transpositions restored to their original form, with the result that we find ourselves confronted by works which are almost "new", but still very much by Bach! What links all these works is that the harpsichord part is more than a simple basso continuo – which would require that the harpsichord player improvise an accompaniment, or at least write one for themselves – but a concerting part, written by Bach himself. Incidentally, this gives us an excellent idea of how one should write one's own basso continuo: imitations galore, a great harmonic transparency, unflagging elegance. The missing parts of the Sonata BWV 1032 – the original manuscript is sadly incomplete – have been deftly filled in by Alessandrini, who manages to perfectly respect the Cantor's discourse. © SM/Qobuz

Last one for tonight.

[bart]

This was playing into the practice today:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Violin Sonatas
Sigiswald Kuijken
Luc Devos
via Qobuz




I'm supporting the local musicians.

[Antonmb]

Alkan: 12 Études, Op. 35
Mark Viner, piano
Piano Classics (2017), via Qobuz

Very well played for the most part, if not always engaging. These pieces require stamina to play, and stamina to listen to at times.
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