What? No Tuesday listening thread yet?

[Chip_B]

Not a big week; spent much of it at casa de mama for Thanksgiving.

Store-bought spinny disc thingees

Ian Moore - s/t. Been a fan of this Blues/Soul/Rock/Pop/Gospel/Funk CD for several years and a fresh spin was overdue. Made to be played at excessive volume levels.

Ian Moore - 'Modern Day Folklore'. More of Ian's soul-injected Blues-Funk. I won't ever get tired of 'Muddy Jesus'.

Paul Thorn - 'Ain't Love Strange'. Basic, but solid Blues-tinted rock-n-roll with quirky (and often funny) lyrics.

There were four or five more, but I cain't 'member 'em.

Compyllayshuns (my own stuff):

'Tie-Dyed and Fried' - Trip 2

'Blues Deluxe' - Disc 14

'Winter Fades'

'Pop Synthabilities' - Disc 7

[Pat D]

Dittersdorf, Sinfonias in D minor, F major, and G minor. Uwe Grodd, Failoni Orchestra. Naxos 8.553974. Really nice sound and performances.

Deems Taylor, Through the Looking Glass; Charles T. Griffes, various works. Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony. Delos DE 3099. The Taylor is a fascinating musical fantasy on the Alice tales. We had a recording when I was a kid.

Beethoven, String Trios Op. 9, nos. 1 and 3; Schubert, Trio Movement D471. Beethoven String Trio of London. BBC Music Vol. II no. 9 available exclusively from BBC Music Magazine. I bought it used. Very nice in every way.

Beethoven, Violin Concerto, Op. 61. Zino Francescatti, violin; Bruno Walter, Columbia Symphony Orchestra. CBS MK 42018. My favorite recording of this work.

Brahms, Symphony no. 2. Gunter Wand, North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. RCA 60087-2-RG.

Bruckner, Symphony no. 4 (Romantic)), 1878/80 version, ed. Haas. Georg Tintner, Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Naxos 8.554128.

J. S. Bach, Orchestral Transcriptions by Stokowski. Robert Pikler, Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Chandos 6532. Not the complete Stokowski Bach, which is available on Chandos with Mathias Bamert, but I like it. The recording is balanced somewhat brightly and needs some bass boost and treble cut. Stoky did a great deal to educate the public on Bach’s music and you would have heard his arrangement of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor in Disney’s Fantasia.

Mozart, Klaviersonaten Kv. 281, 330, and 333. Vladimir Horowitz, piano. DG 431 274-2.

Russian Favorites: Borodin, Symphony no. 2, In the Steppes of Central Asia; Othmar Maga, Philharmonia Hungarica. Ippolitov-Ivanov, Caucasian Sketches; Gliere, excerpts from The Red Poppy Ballet; Siegfried Landau, Music for Westchester Symphony Orchestra. Vox Allegretto ACD 8161. This is the best performance I know of Caucasian Sketches (really just Suite no. 1), although there are recordings with much better sound; it’s pleasant, though.

Ippolitov-Ivanov, Caucasian Sketches, suites 1 and 2. Christopher Lyndon Gee, Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Hong Kong Marco Polo Records 8.220369. Suite no. 2 is much less interesting than no. 1. Wonderful sound, but the performance is not nearly as stylish as Landau above.

Beethoven, Violin Sonatas nos. 5 (Spring) and 9 (Kreutzer). Takako Nishizaki, violin; Jeno Jando, piano. Naxos 8.550283. This is early Naxos (1989) but well worth getting.

C. P. E. Bach, Hamburg Sinfonias nos. 1-6. Christian Benda, Capella Istropolitana. Naxos 8.553285. One of the important 18th century symphonists along with the likes of his brother J. C. Bach, Dittersdorf, Vanhal, Kraus, the Stamitzes, and others.

Double Concertos with Jascha Heifetz: Bach, Concerto for Two Violins, with Erich Friedman, violin; Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante, with William Primrose, violas; Brahms, Concerto for Violin and Cello, with Gregor Piatigorsky, cello. Conductors are Sargent, Solomon, and Wallenstein. RCA 09026-63531-2. Really fine performances all around.

Walton, Symphony no. 1, Variations on a Theme by Hindemith. Handley, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. EMI CDC 7 49671 2. Spectacular recordings.

Walton, Symphony no. 2, Viola Concerto, Johannesburg Festival Overture. Lars Anders Tomter, viola; Paul Daniel, English Northern Philharmonia. Naxos 8.553402.

Night Train. The Oscar Peterson Trio. Verve 821 724-2.

Yeah, I know I’ve mentioned some of these recently, but I felt like hearing them again.