Spinning Today (Classical version)

[jandl100]

Komitas piano music - there's a haunting beauty to it

[jandl100]

New cartridge arrived yesterday, so a lot of LPs were spun.

The 6th from this LP.
Very powerful and emotive performance.
Takes the 'nuclear wasteland' finale rather too fast for me, but most do apart from Rozhdestvensky.



Fascinating, and very busy, works both.


Still the best?

[jandl100]

2 Art of Fugues on the trot yesterday eve.

Both with viol consorts - even in his own day Bach harked back to a previous era, and a viol consort has just the right sort of lucid precision accompanied by lushly vibrant tonal colours that suits the music amazingly well imo.


https://open.spotify.com/album/0P5tFIBL8VDtQoP65dNLr7

then


https://open.spotify.com/album/12RIlnDnWYp3cNeEMfv2cm

About two and a half hours, and not a moment too long.

[jandl100]

And Schubert's Trout quintet again.
This time with fortepiano and authentic instruments.
It works well the way Schubert expected it to sound. Surprise!

https://open.spotify.com/album/59dfkRZ5TjMKRFbww7XRUv

[jandl100]

Long, tiring day yesterday, so just needed something to kick back to and have wash over me.
Paging Maestro Grumiaux and the 12 fantasias for solo violin ! ...


https://open.spotify.com/album/5ZasePKBFKoKDz8vnFXvmu

[jandl100]

Wonderful performance of Mendelssohn Scottish (3rd) symphony

https://open.spotify.com/album/5PnrR5P5iYLmg10Y2GXzeI
Very seriously impressed by this - top conducting by de Vriend and superb playing by the orchestra.
Wonderfully light on its feet and impetuous.
They've recorded a full Beethoven cycle as well, I shall definitely be investigating that.


https://open.spotify.com/album/2nRriBrwjOuX6Mbw1sMys7
I'd quite liked the Lilburn symphonies recording on Naxos, but this one raised the game considerably, especially for syms 1 & 2.

and then to wind down, some very interesting sonorities here ...

https://open.spotify.com/album/2YudYL9aDKM4tvdoQedPeN

[jandl100]

The 2nd concerto from this recent album. Really good performance & sound.


https://open.spotify.com/album/7tJzNnuMJF3F3xbdIjjYAm

Then the mighty 8th


https://open.spotify.com/album/5tN8ebvUo9IW4YxqIipc0p

[jandl100]

Shee-it what totally phenomenal pianism

[jandl100]

Fantastic performance and recording, by far my favourite of this work

https://open.spotify.com/album/1yOv59RHBroxD9ygcvS1GR

Maybe Previn's later efforts are underrated.

I really enjoyed this - started with the Tallis Fantasia. The relaxed style of the older-Previn really hit the spot. So I tried the 5th symphony and really enjoyed that, too. Not much in the way of sharp edges to this music, so the elder statesman approach works well.
The fantastic sound quality doesn't hurt, either.
https://open.spotify.com/album/27UCN5Z6u0L5fUWWkyxhXB

[jandl100]

There's something about Bach's organ music played magisterially on a modern concert grand piano that sends shivers down my spine.
Artur Pizarro does that well.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2ewYBIhms06IYhlGkKMe7J