What are you listening to now?

[Artem]

I was able to listen to these two CDs tonight while entertaining my baby daughter, which is not easy when you try to concentrate on music.

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[Ken B]

Sibelius
Symphony 7
CBSO Rattle

Not great. But Scene with Cranes is very beautiful.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



A new acquisition. This is my first-listen to this work. I've heard the suite for this ballet before, but this is the only recording of the complete ballet. Sounds nice so far.

I took a little cat nap and am now returning to this recording.

[Green Destiny]

You're embarking in a wonderful journey, Conor71! As Froh says at the end of the second scene, "Glück auf!"

Out of curiosity, which is the other cycle you ordered?

Cheers,

Sorry for the late reply and thanks for the well wishes
The other cycle I bought is Solti's - I am expecting it to be delivered next week and will try to listen to both cycles for comparision.

[Ken B]

Stravinsky
Symphony in 3 movements
Philharmonia, Constantin Silvestri

This is another conductor who died fairly young, in the late 1960s. A splendid one too.

Update. This is outstanding, very detailed. One of the best performances of this for sure.

Now: Bartok, Divertimento
Philharmonia
Silvestri

Also excellent so far. A good sense of Bartok's distinctive sound world. You can sense Silvestri's control of the orchestra.

[Que]

Back to a Golden Oldie, the Baumont disc that won me over!

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Q

[Moonfish]

Bantock:
A Celtic Symphony
The Witch of Atlas
The Sea Reivers
A Hebridean Symphony

Royal PO/Handley

An enchanting disk! The Witch of Atlas is mesmerizing!

[Mirror Image]

Bantock:
A Celtic Symphony
The Witch of Atlas
The Sea Reivers
A Hebridean Symphony

Royal PO/Handley

An enchanting disk! The Witch of Atlas is mesmerizing!

It certainly is a great recording, Peter. Even though The Sea Reivers is such a short work, it's one of most riveting orchestral miniatures I've heard, especially towards the end with that horn part which signals an orchestral frenzy until finally subsiding. Absolutely glorious!

[North Star]

Bantock:
A Celtic Symphony
The Witch of Atlas
The Sea Reivers
A Hebridean Symphony

Royal PO/Handley

Joining in on this. 

[Mirror Image]

Continuing on with Saraste's Sibelius:



Finishing Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52. Fantastic performance.

[Moonfish]

It certainly is a great recording, Peter. Even though The Sea Reivers is such a short work, it's one of most riveting orchestral miniatures I've heard, especially towards the end with that horn part which signals an orchestral frenzy until finally subsiding. Absolutely glorious!

You're definitely right about the horn. It is otherworldly in its steady pulse that just keeps going and going at the end of The Sea Reivers. Hypnotizing!

Joining in on this. 

Yay!   

[Mandryka]

Back to a Golden Oldie, the Baumont disc that won me over!

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Q

Enjoyable music. I have the recordings by Brigitte Haudebourg, including my own transfer of Bk 2. I've never heard Baumont but I may check it out today.

[Camphy]

Symphonies 88 & 89

[Camphy]

[North Star]

Sibelius
Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 58
Erik T. Tawastjerna
https://www.youtube.com/v/8NeldBBGD-s

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

"I have written out my soul in the concerto, Sym II & the Ode & you know it...in these three works I have shewn myself."

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[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn String Quartet E flat op.2/3 played by the Kodaly Quartet




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Happy Birthday, Nielsen! Listening to a superb collection of his shorter works, Dausgaard conducting the Danish National SO.




Sarge

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Happy Birthday, Nielsen! Listening to a superb collection of his shorter works, Dausgaard conducting the Danish National SO.



Sarge

Cover of your Nielsen Pan and Syrinx recalled a woman we met at the Renaissance Faire here several weeks ago, standing in front of us at one show.  "If my horns are in your way, I can move," she kindly suggested!

[Mandryka]

Serge Schoonbrodt and Ensemble Carmina Sacra perform music by Du Caurroy and Titelouze, but i'm really focused on the latter. Schoonbrodt plays in his charactaristicly passionate way, and I find that completely winning. He  doesn't have the same sense of spiritual weight and depth as Bates on the same organ, but he does have more vigour. But what makes this a really special performance is the singing, or rather the responsiveness of the organ to the chant alterné. It reminds me of Albritzer's recording of Couperin's Parish mass with Ensemble Organum: you feel as though your're there, listneing to a service, by people who are really making musical poetry happen. All reservations are thus confounded.

Parenthetically I'll mention that the link between Du Caurroy and Titelouze seems a bit forced musically to me, just listening to the CD, I don't know if they knew or knew of each other. They probably did since they were both northeners.

Any ideas why there's a picture of a shadoof on the cover?