What are you listening to?

[fergus]

CD 1
Horn Concerto No.1&2
Oboe Concerto
Duett-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon and Strings

Lovely music there Dave.

[fergus]

Coincedentally I have just listened to this one....again....

[DaveF]

CD 1
Horn Concerto No.1&2
Oboe Concerto
Duett-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon and Strings

Lovely music there Dave.

I really enjoyed the Oboe and the Duett-Concertino Fergus. I think I heard that Oboe Concerto before a Mahler performance at the NCH maybe a year or two ago.
The two horn concertos didnt do much for me at all but in general I dislike brass instruments in a 'solo' role like that anyway.

[Jared]

Dvorak: String Quintet op.97 & Piano Quintet op.81
Kocian Quartet, Boris Krajny & Josef Suk (Bonton)

sadly, no covber picture anywhere, but the music is predictably great and ermm... Czech

[Seán]

CD 1
Horn Concerto No.1&2
Oboe Concerto
Duett-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon and Strings

Lovely music there Dave.

I really enjoyed the Oboe and the Duett-Concertino Fergus. I think I heard that Oboe Concerto before a Mahler performance at the NCH maybe a year or two ago.

Yep, we did, I enjoyed it too, I don't think Ciaran did though.

The two horn concertos didnt do much for me at all but in general I dislike brass instruments in a 'solo' role like that anyway.

Ah yer weird!

[Seán]

I listened to this on CD Review this morning and I was very taken with it, the playng on the Concerto is wonderful:

SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102; Concertino for two pianos, Op. 94; Jurgen Ellensohn (trumpet), George Vatchnadze (piano), Alexander Toradze (piano), Frankfurt RSO, Paavo Jarvi (conductor) PAN CLASSICS PC10261 (CD)

Me too, and indeed anything with Toradze is a priority: his Prokofiev concertos with Gergiev have been reissued at bargain price



and are an essential recording.

They were comparing with

SHOSTAKOVICH: Hamlet - Concert Suite from incidental music, Op. 32a (original version); Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102;
Valentina Igoshina (piano), Thomas Hammes (trumpet), Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Lavard Skou-Larsen (conductor)
CPO 7777502 (CD)

which they liked, but not as much as Toradze.

I preferred the Toradze, there was no comparison to my ear.

I must have a look out for the Toradze Prokofiev too as I love the Prokofiev Piano concertos and I only have the one complete set. Thanks Ciaran.

Andrew McGregor also mentioned the recent Melnikov/Currentzis recording of the Shostakovich piano concertos which I have and which is excellent!

I have passed on opportunites to buy that in the past too, drat!

[Seán]

Coincedentally I have just listened to this one....again....

Dicky is getting a lot of play time around here, I see.

[Ciaran]

I listened to this on CD Review this morning and I was very taken with it, the playing on the Concerto is wonderful:

SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102; Concertino for two pianos, Op. 94; Jurgen Ellensohn (trumpet), George Vatchnadze (piano), Alexander Toradze (piano), Frankfurt RSO, Paavo Jarvi (conductor) PAN CLASSICS PC10261 (CD)

They were comparing with

SHOSTAKOVICH: Hamlet - Concert Suite from incidental music, Op. 32a (original version); Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet & strings, Op. 35; Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102;
Valentina Igoshina (piano), Thomas Hammes (trumpet), Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Lavard Skou-Larsen (conductor)
CPO 7777502 (CD)

which they liked, but not as much as Toradze.

I preferred the Toradze, there was no comparison to my ear.

I agree, the Igoshina was pleasant enough but once you heard Toradze you weren't interested in Igoshina any more.

[Jose Echenique]

I can´t understand why the incomparable Quatuor Mosaïques left so much Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven unrecorded and are now turning to minor composers. This is not to put off venerable Joseph Wölfl, a most estimable Mozart contemporary, it´s just that he is not in Haydn´s or Beethoven´s level, let alone Mozart.
His quartets are enjoyable Hausmusik. The performances are sublime.

[Seán]

I can´t understand why the incomparable Quatuor Mosaïques left so much Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven unrecorded

That fact has bothered me too.