What are you listening to?

[Diapason]

Enjoying an afternoon off:

[fergus]

Playing around on Naxos Music Library I found this recording on the Northern Flowers label and was quite taken by it. The soprano is darker and more mournful than Sutherland giving the piece a whole new dimension. Recommended.



Wartime Muisc
Gliere Coloratura Concerto and Harp Concerto

NF9989

Thank you for that Don....any idea who the soprano was on that CD?

[fergus]

Haydn Piano Sonatas - Alain Planés from the Lumières Set

I am glad that you enjoyed those Haydn Piano Sonatas Mark; they are wonderful, charming works and not all that well know or spoken about.

[fergus]

Enjoying an afternoon off:

I have that full Strauss/Zinman set Simon and I have always liked it.

[fergus]

[DonKC]

Playing around on Naxos Music Library I found this recording on the Northern Flowers label and was quite taken by it. The soprano is darker and more mournful than Sutherland giving the piece a whole new dimension. Recommended.



Wartime Muisc
Gliere Coloratura Concerto and Harp Concerto

NF9989

Thank you for that Don....any idea who the soprano was on that CD?

St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra

Dmitry Khrychov, cello

Olga Trifonova, soprano

Alexander Titov, conductor

I note that the CD seems to be a bit hard to get, may be OOP. And I was wrong, the other work on the disc is the Cello Concerto.

[fergus]

St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra

Dmitry Khrychov, cello

Olga Trifonova, soprano

Alexander Titov, conductor

I note that the CD seems to be a bit hard to get, may be OOP. And I was wrong, the other work on the disc is the Cello Concerto.

Much obliged for the information Don.

[Jose Echenique]

Fortepianist expert Arthur Schooderwoerd has just moved to the Accent label and it seems he´s starting a new Mozart Piano Concertos cycle. He recorded a few years ago a startling but absorbing Beethoven Piano Concertos cycle (remember them Fergus?) where he played them not only in fortepianos but with the original number of musicians that Beethoven used, often only a couple of violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, double bass and winds.
Here he does the same for Mozart, making these concertos almost chamber music.
The results are startling too, but often revealing.

[fergus]

Fortepianist expert Arthur Schooderwoerd has just moved to the Accent label and it seems he´s starting a new Mozart Piano Concertos cycle. He recorded a few years ago a startling but absorbing Beethoven Piano Concertos cycle (remember them Fergus?) where he played them not only in fortepianos but with the original number of musicians that Beethoven used, often only a couple of violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, double bass and winds.
Here he does the same for Mozart, making these concertos almost chamber music.
The results are startling too, but often revealing.

I do indeed remember those versions of the Beethoven Piano Concertos by Schooderwoerd Pepe and they were very different! That looks like a very intriguing series of the Mozart Piano Concertos and perhaps Schooderwoerd's approach might be more suitable to Mozart's music?

[jaybee]

Tempest, by my favorite Beethoven-ist