What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Over the last week or so:

Ives
Symphony no. 2
Symphony no. 3
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
(on CD)




Dvorak
Symphony no. 7
Symphony no. 8
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
(on CD)



One of the best 7ths I've yet heard, but a generally disappointing 8th.


Kodaly
Hary Janos Suite
Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kije
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell
(on CD)




Stenhammar
Serenade, op. 31
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi
(on CD)



Stenhammar
Excelsior!
Symphony no. 2
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi
(on CD)



These Stenhammar works are growing on me! Especially the Serenade.

Love the Stenhammar, my favourite composer from that realm.

[Linz]

Dvorak Cello Concerto in B Minor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jaquelin Du Pre Cello, Daniel Barenboim

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde, acts 2^ & 3^

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[andolink]

August Kühnel (1645 - ca.1700): sonatas or partitas for one or two viols with continuo
Consort Les Voix humaines

[vandermolen]

Klami: Sea Pictures (the last of which, rather engagingly, references Ravel's 'Bolero')

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 im D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker 

[andolink]

Franz Schubert: Piano Trio in B-flat major, D898
The Mozartean Players (on period instruments)



Robert Schumann: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 110
Trio Les Espirits

[Brian]

Some high-stakes streaming of a much-discussed new album:

[Mapman]

Happy birthday to William Alwyn!

Alwyn: Symphony #5, "Hydriotaphia"
Hickox: London

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bloch: Voice in the Wilderness. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov.

[JBS]

Some high-stakes streaming of a much-discussed new album:

Enough to give an opinion?
TD

[Mapman]

Haydn: String Quartet Op. 20/6
Festetics

The highlight is the final movement, 'Fuga a 3 soggetti'.

[Brian]

Enough to give an opinion?
TD

Yeah, it's in the Ravel thread. Short answer is very museumy - very sensitive and pretty and carefully managed, but not very passionate or fun or interesting. And I still think for a "HIP" version that reveals the composer's intentions, there's no reason to doubt Monteux.

[JBS]

Yeah, it's in the Ravel thread. Short answer is very museumy - very sensitive and pretty and carefully managed, but not very passionate or fun or interesting. And I still think for a "HIP" version that reveals the composer's intentions, there's no reason to doubt Monteux.

I think Wilson is very good in British music but otherwise I've avoided him. Guess I'll stick to that approach here.
TD

CD 1 of this


This 10 CD set is a sort of a sampler, but other than the grotesquely short Medtner CD (less than 48 minutes) and the Enescu, it's all music I've never heard before.

[Mapman]

Brahms: Violin Sonata #3, Op. 108
Ricci, Katchen

I don't think I've heard this piece before—it's great, of similar quality to the clarinet sonatas.

Brahms: Clarinet Sonata #2, Op. 120/2
Thea King, Katchen

A nice performance. Despite being recorded in the same year as the violin sonata, this is in better sound.

[JBS]

Probably last thing for tonight


Program
N Matteis Jr Fantasia in a minor
N Matteis Sr Ayres for the Violin--3 selections
JG Pisendel Sonata in a minor
L-G Guillemain Amusement pour le violon seul Op 18--8 selections
JJ Vilsmayr Partita no.5 in g minor
HIF Biber Passacaglia in g minor--selection from Rosary Sonatas

Anyone know if there is a full recording of the Guillemain and Matteis works?

ETA: yes to both. Several of the Matteis and one of the Guillemain, which apparently has been issued twice.


It seems Faust's version of each of the Guillemain caprices is much shorter than Colliard's--2 minutes or less compared to 4.5 to 7 minutes.

[T. D.]

[Florestan]

I think Wilson is very good in British music but otherwise I've avoided him. Guess I'll stick to that approach here.
TD

CD 1 of this


This 10 CD set is a sort of a sampler, but other than the grotesquely short Medtner CD (less than 48 minutes) and the Enescu, it's all music I've never heard before.

În a "Slavic Edition" Enescu is surely the odd man out. 

[Que]

https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/choral-song/the-mysterious-motet-book-of-1539

Like I said first around: for a British ensemble performing Franco-Flemish repertoire (written or performed in Italy), this is quite an achievement.

[Roasted Swan]

Yeah, it's in the Ravel thread. Short answer is very museumy - very sensitive and pretty and carefully managed, but not very passionate or fun or interesting. And I still think for a "HIP" version that reveals the composer's intentions, there's no reason to doubt Monteux.

Something about woods and trees springs to mind!