What are you listening to now?

[Zeus]

Larsson: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, Andrew Manze
CPO
[asin] B00JH53O7A[/asin]
Playing this one for the Swedish team!

Might have to play Brahm's German Requiem next. 

[aligreto]

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 [Kitajenko]





This is quite a dramatic work with a great variety of dynamics and a wonderfully tension filled sound world. This is achieved, for me, through wonderful scoring and a musical language which consists of a large element of dissonances and varying tempi. The performance is assertive and buoyant with great presence. A very fine work given a really very fine performance here.

[aligreto]

I've been listening to this old CBC radio series on Bruckner

https://www.abruckner.com/downloads/downloadofthemonth/April15/

Thank you for posting that link. I have pinned it and will check it out later.

[cilgwyn]

Playing now. I love the fiery Beethoven of Wyn Morris!

[Mandryka]

Baumont is great. Borgstede is loud. If loud is your thing, Borgstede is your man.

Well you can always turn the volume down.

If anyone wants the Baumont set let me know and I'll put it on symphonyshare.

[aligreto]

Anne-Marie O'Farrell: The Hoopoe Song





I was not impressed at all with the vocal line of this song. The piano accompaniment line is, for me on the other hand, a different matter altogether.

[aligreto]

Playing now. I love the fiery Beethoven of Wyn Morris!

Very interesting; I have three works in Mahler under his direction, which I like, but I have nothing of him conducting Beethoven.

[Traverso]

Well, I thought my order of the Baumont box from MDT (UK) was 'in the bag' since there was no indication about non-availability - BUT, just received several emails from them - my other discs are on the way, however, the Couperin Baumont box "has been discontinued by our supplier and is no longer available" - has anyone had recent luck in obtaining this collection?  Thanks - Dave

Happy listening !

[aligreto]

JC Bach: Symphonie Concertante in  major with Flute, Oboe and Bassoon Soli [Halstead]

[Malx]

Eotvos, zeroPoints - Goteborgs Symfoniker, Peter Eotvos.

I have finally got round to playing this for the first time in years.
I bought the disc primarily for the fabulous recording/performance of Beethoven's fifth, but truth be told I wasn't fussed about Eotvos's own composition on first listen. Thankfully my tastes have changed somewhat over the years or at least I have learned to listen with an open mind (ears).

[André]

Very interesting; I have three works in Mahler under his direction, which I like, but I have nothing of him conducting Beethoven.

I second cilgwyn's opinion. This LvB set is splendid in all respects, one of my favourites. A potent mix of big, bold playing, allied to interpretive gruffness. Splendidly recorded, too.

[aligreto]

I second cilgwyn's opinion. This LvB set is splendid in all respects, one of my favourites. A potent mix of big, bold playing, allied to interpretive gruffness. Splendidly recorded, too.

Thank you for that. I will investigate further.

[Ken B]

German Requiem.

Oops. Thought this was the World Cup thread.

[André]

These are recent transcriptions for small ensemble. In the best performances Berg's huge orchestra sounds sensuous, transparent, luminous, qualities that do come to the fore in these transcriptions. Are we missing something ? Probably (most notably the beginning of II in the violin concerto). But it should be noted that composers like Schönberg, Reger, were avid arrangers/transcribers themselves, so there is a certain logic and poetic justice here.

The Winterthur ensemble has a long bergian tradition: they played the 3 Wozzeck fragments as well as the violin concerto under Scherchen in the 1930s. Berg and his wife were frequent visitors to the Werner Reinhart villa in Winterthur, Berg even callin it « a musical haven ».  Reinhart brought composers like Strauss, Schönberg, Schoeck, Berg, Webern, Stravinsky to Winterthur to play/conduct their music with the city's Musikkollegium.

The interpreters make a splendid case for the works and, as konzept, this MDG disc is a success all the way.

[Daverz]

Pierre-Octave Ferroud, previously mentioned in the thread:



Via Tidal.  I don't see the CD selling anywhere for a reasonable price, but Presto has it for download only:

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/classical/products/8027011--ferroud-orchestral-works

If you like the Stravinsky-inspired music of Les Six and Tansman, you'll enjoy this.

We had a Ferroud thread:

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,27305.msg1085035.html

There is a followup disc with more Ferroud, but though I can find it on Tidal, there seem to be no tracks to play!  So I have to use Deezer for that:

[Draško]

Hi Milos ! You are probably right, as the picture you show is obviously a Telefunken recording, and it does not appear in that box titled « the Telefunken recordings » !!

The Brahms symphonies included in the box are:

- 1 with Berliner Philharmoniker, March 1951 (mono)
- 2 with Berliner Philharmoniker, February 1962
- 3 with Bamberger Symphoniker, March 1963
- 4 with Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, April 1960

Yes, that is pretty much it. Only the 3rd he recorded twice for Telefunken: mono in 1951 in Hamburg, and stereo in Bamberg in '63. The mono one, the one in the photo, hasn't been ever released on CD to best of my knowledge, and obviously not included in the box. Shame as it's superb performance, decently recorded.

[NikF]

Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 - Richter.

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[vandermolen]

German Requiem.

Oops. Thought this was the World Cup thread.

Haha 

[listener]

Joseph MESSNER (1893-1969)
Salzburger Festspie-Fanfare op. 55/1     Große  Mozart-Fanfare op. 55/4
Rondo Giocoso, op. 54   Salzburger Suite op. 51
Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg             Ivor Bolton cond

OFFENBACH  arr. Rosenthal  Gaîté Parisienne
New Philharmonia O.,  Charles Munch
Orpheus in the Underworld  Overture
London Philharmonic O.    Stanley Black
IBERT: Divertissement
Paris Concervatory O.,   Jean Martinon

[Malx]

Max Reger, An Die Hoffnung op 124 - Karita Mattila, Berlin PO, Claudio Abbado.
Wolfgang Rihm, Holderlin-Fragmente - Johannes Kosters, Berlin PO, Claudio Abbado.