What are you listening to now?

[Que]

Arpeggione on the cover: Anton Mitteis, Leitmeritz, 2nd quarter 19th century
https://www.sim.spk-berlin.de/en/_arpeggione_790.html

Q

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Copland
Symphonic Ode (1928-29)
SFS
MTT

Top-shelf Copland!

[Karl Henning]

There's the odd chance that these are first listens, too, curiously.

Meyerbeer | Coronation March from Le Prophète
Mendelssohn | War March of the Priests from Athalie
NY Phil
Lenny

[springrite]

Andrea Lucchesini plays the very dramatic Berio sonata. A half hour long coherent sweep in which this poor little b flat tries to  overcome a bunch of very nasty attacks by the other notes on the piano.

Sounds interesting!



Now: Bach Cello Suites (Arnau Tomas)

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Harpsichord Concertos No. 2 BWV 1053 and No. 7 BWV 1058....

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Morty
Out of 'Last pieces' (1961)
NY Phil
Lenny
Recorded 11 Feb 1964

[Kontrapunctus]

Wonderful in all aspects.

[Brian]

There are worse fates.

(Not going to suggest any.)

I'll suggest one.

A fate worse than listening to Haydn 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102 and 103 is listening to Segerstam 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102 and 103!

[André]

Symphony no. 6 by  Frederic Cowen (1852-1935).
Symphony in A minor by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912).

[Drasko]

[Karl Henning]

Пётр Ильич [ Pyotr Ilyich (Tchaikovsky) ]
Andante cantabile, after the second mvt of the String Quartet № 1 Op.11 (1871)
NY Phil
Lenny

[Spineur]

This summer project: go through Wagner Ring one more time...

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Tonight & tomorrow night Das Rheingold.  Last time I watched it was a good 8 years ago....

[ritter]

Revisiting some favourite works by Elliott Carter, from this CD:

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[Karl Henning]

Lenny
Prelude, Fugue & Riffs
Benny Goodman
NY Phil
Lenny
Recorded 6 May 1963

[kishnevi]

There's the odd chance that these are first listens, too, curiously.

Meyerbeer | Coronation March from Le Prophète
Mendelssohn | War March of the Priests from Athalie
NY Phil
Lenny

If you have the Dohnanyi recordings of Mendelssohn,  you have the Athalie there.

First-Listen Fridays!

Morty
Out of 'Last pieces' (1961)
NY Phil
Lenny
Recorded 11 Feb 1964

Hmm. The cover says Ligeti...Goes looking on Amazon.
Atmospheres....hmmm.  How is it?
One more for the List. Thank you.

TD
Finishing the Charles Rosen Sony box with the final three Beethoven sonatas


Going by the Amazon listings, both CD reissues of this performance are OOP, like much else in this set, so for those interested, the set is by far the cheapest option even if you only want some of the recordings.

eta: or maybe not, now that I see the Amazon listing starts at over $200.
I guess they let the set go OOP too.

[Karl Henning]

Lenny
Prelude, Fugue & Riffs
Benny Goodman
NY Phil
Lenny
Recorded 6 May 1963

This piece is much better than I gave it credit for, back when first I listened to it (long decades ago).

And now:

Lenny
Serenade after Plato's Symposium
Zino Francescatti, vn
NY Phil
Lenny
Recorded 22 July 1965

[Karl Henning]

Hmm. The cover says Ligeti...Goes looking on Amazon.
Atmospheres....hmmm.  How is it?

I am not sure I have listened to that one.  Sounds odd, but for whatever passel of reasons, I am hopping about in those boxes!

[bhodges]

Berio: Sinfonia (Christian Baldini, conductor / UC Davis Symphony Orchestra / Volti) - Quite good, and shows once again just how far today's music students have come, that they are able to play this piece with such confidence and beauty.

Berio: Piano Sonata (Andrea Luchessini, piano) - Definitely for people who love the note, B-flat.  (Thanks, Mandryka, for the tip.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z0xIMYh0_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ne7G-4Fvys

--Bruce

[Ken B]

First-Listen Fridays!

Copland
Symphonic Ode (1928-29)
SFS
MTT

First listen to the Symphonic Ode??

Or do you mean just that recording?

TD

Last Listen Fridays!
Alan Bush, Lascaux Symphony

[Karl Henning]

First listen to the Symphonic Ode??

Or do you mean just that recording?

I really think it is the first I have heard this piece!