What are you listening to now?

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Bartók, Kocsis, disc 2. Such extraordinarily rich music, especially in the Suite Sz.62. Why-o-why isn't this music heard more often...

[Parsifal]

Great to hear! Agreed - he has really transformed them into a world-class orchestra.

I don't think they ever played better than they played under Maazel.

[kyjo]

I don't think they ever played better than they played under Maazel.

Yeah, I didn't mean to slight Maazel's achievements with the PSO. A great partnership for sure.

[kyjo]

Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony no. 1:

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A superb disc all-around, even if I ultimately prefer the sextet version of Verklarte Nacht.

[Que]

Morning listening:

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[pi2000]

Gavrilov Rahmaninov (Oslo)
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/oslo-filharmoniske-orkester/FMUS10000889/21-03-1989

[prémont]

As far as I can see Raml didn't record this one.

Yes he did. On the CD Tabulatura Nova vol.1.

And Christoph Lehmann here, not to forget:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Die-historische-Orgel-in-Tangerm%FCnde/hnum/9751338

[Madiel]

I've been sadly neglecting the Danish discs I acquired in Denmark. They've been languishing at the bottom of the new acquisitions pile.

Holmboe: Notations for 3 trombones and tuba, op.140 (Royal Danish Brass)
Pedersen, aka 'Fuzzy': Seven Postcards from Ebeltoft and Vicinity (Royal Danish Brass)
Bruun: A Walk in the Forest (Vandring i skoven) (Danish National Vocal Ensemble)

[eljr]

Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs

Genre
Classical
Release date:
27 Oct 2017
Runtime
45 minutes

[Madiel]

Scriabin, 9 Mazurkas, op.25

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The op.25 mazurkas are better than the op.3 set, but they still don't strike me as among Scriabin's best works (at least, as performed here, as this is the only performance I have to go on, but I'm not sure the performance is the issue).

Scriabin's desire to fill the page with notes is sometimes at odds with a strong dance rhythm, and some of the pieces sound more like caprices than mazurkas. Having said that, some of them did make a decent impression.

[Madiel]

First ever listen to Brahms op.17, songs for women's chorus with harp and horns. Really rather beguiling.

https://www.youtube.com/v/r56b4pS0jHo

[Maestro267]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
Berlin PO/Karajan

Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 8
Sao Paulo SO/Karabtchevsky

[HIPster]

Morning listening ~

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Alonso Lobo was recognized by his contemporaries and later generations as one of the great masters of Spanish polyphony. Favorite disciple of and assistant to Francisco Guerrero in Seville, Lobo was the only musician of the time to serve as chapel master at both Seville and Toledo cathedrals, which were at the top of the Spanish ecclesiastical system. His Liber primus missarum (1602) was widely circulated in Spain and the New World. Of the six masses included in the original printed edition, La Grande Chapelle has chosen the Prudentes virgines and Beata Dei genitrix masses, neither of which is available in a modern edition. Using Guerrero's motets of the same name as a starting point, Lobo combines, with unequalled mastery, erudite imitative techniques such as enigmatic canons with daring harmonic and expressive flourishes that have drawn comparisons with the work of El Greco, his exact contemporary in Toledo.

[Maestro267]

Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 2
Ukrainian State SO/Kuchar

[San Antone]

Morning listening ~

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Looks lovely.



TD:

Tye Consort Music / Phantasm

[Karl Henning]

I'm sorry, but I'll have to sell you all off for scientific experiments...

Cheers,

LKB

"God has blessed us so much, I can't afford to feed you anymore."

[Mirror Image]

The 2nd VS:

[Sergeant Rock]

Henning Gloria from Mass Op.106

https://www.youtube.com/v/IbaEiUemXak


Sarge

[Maestro267]

Sierra: Missa Latina, "Pro Pace"
Murphy (soprano), Webster (baritone)
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Milwaukee SO/Delfs

[Karl Henning]

Henning Gloria from Mass Op.106

https://www.youtube.com/v/IbaEiUemXak

Sarge

Will be even better still, later this month.