What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Schuman
To Thee Old Cause. Evocation for Oboe, Brass, Timpani, Piano & Strings (1968)
Harold Gomberg, ob
NY Phil
Lenny
Recorded 22 Oct 1968

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Schuman
To Thee Old Cause. Evocation for Oboe, Brass, Timpani, Piano & Strings (1968)
Harold Gomberg, ob
NY Phil
Lenny
Recorded 22 Oct 1968

Dynamite little concertante piece, and a prime example of music I might never have heard apart from the Lenny Concertos-Plus box.

[ritter]

music by Stravinsky conducted by Boulez. I am listening to this especially for Agon, which is my personal favourite of Stravinsky's ballet scores.

That is a wonderful Agon (also a favourite score of mine), but it isn't conducted by Boulez, but rather by Hans Rosbaud . Boulez did conduct Agon late in his career but, alas, he never recorded the piece.  These comments on Boulez and late Stravinsky might interest you.

Cheers,

[kishnevi]

Dynamite little concertante piece, and a prime example of music I might never have heard apart from the Lenny Concertos-Plus box.

Kishnevi digs through his memory banks and realizes he has that one on this CD (actually an issue with a different cover that Amazon says is now unavailable, but the contents are the same)
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Memory banks assert that he liked In Praise of Shahn more, and but both suffered from being afterpieces to the Barber concerto.

[Karl Henning]

Memory banks assert that he liked In Praise of Shahn more, and but both suffered from being afterpieces to the Barber concerto.

Hmmm . . . wonder if In Praise of Shahn made it into this here Box . . . .

[Karl Henning]

That is a wonderful Agon (also a favourite score of mine), but it isn't conducted by Boulez, but rather by Hans Rosbaud.

I did wonder about that, but did not have my Domaine Musical box to hand.

[kishnevi]

Hmmm . . . wonder if In Praise of Shahn made it into this here Box . . . .

It may be in the Symphonies box.   It is on YouTube
https://youtu.be/iqBsEdEQ0Cc
The CD splits it into two tracks, so followon to the second video for the last part.

[aligreto]

Music by Felix Krohn and Uuno Klami....





Krohn: Odalisque -  an arrangement by Leo Funtek of the original piano composition which I have not heard.
Klami: The Cyclist - A wonderful, quirky and vivacious work.

[Karl Henning]

Игорь Фëдорович [ Igor Fyodorovich (Stravinsky) ]
Concerto for Piano and Winds
Seymour Lipkin, pf
NY Phil
Lenny
Recorded at the Columbia's 30^th Street Studios, 26 Oct 1959

The outer movements are (very agreeably) janglier than I typically hear;  and the accompaniment is splendidly crisp and focused.  The Largo feels a little on the static side.  On balance, very pleased with this.

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Schuman
In Praise of Shahn. Canticle for Orchestra (1969)
NY Phil
Lenny
Recorded 12 Feb 1970

[Karl Henning]

It may be in the Symphonies box.   It is on YouTube
https://youtu.be/iqBsEdEQ0Cc
The CD splits it into two tracks, so follow on to the second video for the last part.

Thanks!  And thanks for the suggestion, which led to discovering that it is, indeed, in this box.

It's pure serendipity that I, too, listened first to the Barber Vn Cto today, and then these others, since they are sundered over separate discs in this treasure trove of a box 

[Marc]

This set is on Spotify, and features Guschlbauer(Nulte), Sieghart(1, 3, 4) and Eichhorn(the rest) at the helm. I've only listened to the 5th, 6th and 7th. The 5th performance with Eichhorn is to die for, most notably the broad and gloriously delivered finale. Would love to get my hands on some hard copies of these [...]

Yeah, I know how you feel.
I own a hard copy of Eichhorn's 2nd and I think that's a very good performance, too.

Thread duty:
Adagio. Sehr feierlich und langsam.
2nd movement of Bruckner 7, played by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado.

[Kontrapunctus]

[aligreto]

The B side of this album contains various smaller works the highlights of which for me are Malinconia Op. 20 and Romance in D flat major Op. 24 No. 9.

[ritter]

Progressing in my survey of Manuel de Falla, now with the (major) piano pieces. Continuing this CD where I dropped it off last night:


I have always (relatively) neglected Falla's piano music, something that relistening to the Fantasía Baetica now strikes me as rather silly. What a wonderful work! It appears "tranistional" to me, as its is still very Andausian, but is also imbued by that certain ascetic spirit that pervades Falla's later output. It shows a real love and knowledge of flamenco, but has nothing "postcard" about it. The way Falla ranslates the world of the flameno guitar to the piano is stunning...(and, wait a minute, is that Debussy I see smiling in the background?  ). Rafael Orozco is excellent in this piece as well.

[Mandryka]

Rübsam, G. Silbermann/Dresden, Orgelbuchlein, don't know the temperament.

[SimonNZ]

Georg Ritter bassoon quintets -  I Virtuosi Italiani

heard one from this set on the radio as I was waking up this morning and was pleasantly surprised, so checking out the whole disc

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

It's certainly among my favorite Sculthorpe works as well, but I'll be honest and say I haven't heard a work of his that I actually didn't enjoy. He was an incredibly consistent composer and one of things I do like about his music is that there's a unity in his oeuvre it seems. He's been known to reuse a melody of his and orchestrate it in a different way and this gives that melody a whole new life. One area of his oeuvre that I'm becoming more familiar with are his string quartets. What amazing works these are! Do you own many recordings of his music?

Yes I do believe that about the unity. Possibly also due to his very individual take on the things that inspire his music most: Asian and Australian music and especially the incredibly varied Australian landscape itself. I haven't heard many of his quartets apart from his well known 8th quartet, so this is an area I would like to explore.....

These are the recordings I own:



and also this one has a few Sculthorpe works on it:



But I am not so much an avid listener or collector of his music. I have performed some of his stuff before; his guitar music is really nice to play.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

That is a wonderful  Agon (also a favourite score of mine), but it isn't conducted by Boulez,  but rather by  Hans Rosbaud . Boulez did conduct  Agon late in his career but, alas ,  he never recorded the piece.  These comments on Boulez and late Stravinsky might interest you.

Cheers,

Yes, very true, and thanks for drawing my attention to that.

[Autumn Leaves]

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Alone, Op. 26



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