What Classical Music Are You Listening To Tonight?

[bart]

Originally Posted by eljr

i did find this and m enjoying

Ed, streaming it (Qobuz).
Very good indeed, as we're used from this label.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Marin Marais - Pièces de Viole du Cinquième Livre
Wieland Kuijken - Kaori Uemura - Robert Kohnen
via Qobuz




The brother of our 'house musician' Sigiswald, is an equally great name in classical music.
On these recordings, he shows the reason why.
Very fine, subtle playing by all three musicians.

Playing gently into the practice...

[eljr]

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Awards:
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Editor's Choice
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[eljr]

Originally Posted by bart

Ed, streaming it (Qobuz).
Very good indeed, as we're used from this label.

[bart]

Originally Posted by bart

Forqueray - ...ou les tourments de l'âme Vol. 1
Michèle Dévérité
Qobuz 24/48




Marin Marais, Lully, Couperin, Sainte-Colombe.
In this group of composers Forqueray is to be situated style-wise.
Good music to go into the night.

This gets more playing time than I had anticipated.

[bart]

Originally Posted by eljr

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Awards:
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Streaming it now.
He plays with delicacy, this young man!

[bart]

Krzysztof Penderecki - Horn Concerto - Adagio for strings - Violin Concerto no. 1 - Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki & Michał Dworzyński
Barnabás Kelemen, violin
Radovan Vlatković, horn
Qobuz 24/96




New album, first listen.
The 86 year old composer conducting 3 of the 4 works here!

[Kal Rubinson]

There's also a great multichannel recording of the Horn Concerto and the first Violin Concerto, also conducted by the composer:

FWIW, I got to hear the VC1 with Mutter in Berlin in 2018. Penderecki was supposed to conduct but, although he attended, he was unable to perform.

[bart]

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

There's also a great multichannel recording of the Horn Concerto and the first Violin Concerto, also conducted by the composer:

FWIW, I got to hear the VC1 with Mutter in Berlin in 2018. Penderecki was supposed to conduct but, although he attended, he was unable to perform.

Thanks Kal.
I own it.
I pulled it out yesterday, to compare it in the next days.
One of the greatest composers alive for sure!

[bart]

Alexandre Tharaud - Versailles
Qobuz 24/96



Somehow, I forgot to listen to this album when it came out in November '19.
Maybe I thought that I knew the pieces he plays on this album already too well.
Well, I heard his Rameau on the radio today, and I was exhilarated.
He's doing better than Angela Hewitt!
Hewitt was my reference for Rameau on the piano so far.

Subtle and powerful at the same time, with details, ornaments - it is baroque after all! - in the music coming up more clearly than I had ever heard.
Very heartily recommended for fans of the French music of this era.
I am even more so now.

One never comes across any ordinariness when following Alexandre Tharaud’s career. This new album is as impressive in the originality of its conception as much as its meticulous musical delivery. The French pianist appears to be nostalgic towards two different golden ages: that of 17th-century music, and that of the French piano during the 1950s, specifically Marcelle Meyer’s inspiring playing which Tharaud remains motivated by.
The “Versailles” which has attracted Alexandre Tharaud, and serves as the title for this recital is less Louis XIV’s opulent world of wonder and more of an intimate world of secret music. Without any difficulty, the pianist manages to make these pieces specifically written for the harpsichord his own, even going as far as inviting young harpsichordist Justin Taylor to join him for a rendition of Rameau’s Les Sauvages... for four hands on the piano!
If the pianist Marcelle Meyer had recorded Rameau and Couperin in an era more liberal than today, Alexandre Tharaud has the audacity to go against musicological rules for the listener’s benefit. Of course, we are accustomed to Bach, Scarlatti, Couperin and Rameau on the modern piano, but Pancrace Royer, Robert de Visée, Jean-Henry D’Anglebert and Jacques Duphly are suddenly thrust into the limelight of this musical collection which incidentally highlights their relevance. © François Hudry/Qobuz