What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

Must be nice!

Indeed. Check this work out if you haven't already, Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Again:
Stravinsky
Le baiser de la fée
Orpheus
LSO
Craft

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Well, hello PD surprised but delighted to see you here. Trust all is well with you.

Thank you Irons!   

And I'm on the right side of the ground, so yes!   

Just listened again to Kodaly's Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12 on that Hungaroton CD.  What a fabulous and fascinating work!  I hadn't heard it 'til quite recently.  The two other works on that CD are the Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 4 (a two-movement work from 1910 which Kondaly apparently struggled with for some time) and his famous Sonate for Solo Cello, Op. 8 written in 1915.  The serenade is from 1920.  If anyone here hasn't heard the serenade, I highly encourage you to check it out.

Best,

PD

p.s.  The recordings are from 1976 and 1968 and the sound is amazing; well done Hungaroton!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Good afternoon all,

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sea Songs - March (military band version)
English Folk songs suite (military band version)
Dawn Patrol

[asin]B00156ZWV0[/asin]

I love that set!  Trust that you are enjoying your 'wanderings'?

[Mirror Image]

Szymanowski
Masques, Op. 34
Ronaldo Rolim

[Papy Oli]

I love that set!  Trust that you are enjoying your 'wanderings'?

Very much so, my success rate with RVW works is much higher this time round than on previous visits in this boxset.

[vandermolen]

Chávez: Symphony No. 6
London SO/Mata

Britten: Violin Concerto
Lubotsky (violin)/English Chamber Orchestra/Britten

Bax: Symphony No. 1
London PO/Fredman

Great choices! I've only come to appreciate the Britten recently.

Olivier - I think that VW's Concerto Grosso is a very enjoyable work. Also, a thumbs up for 'Dawn Patrol'.

Welcome back to PD from me too.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Very much so, my success rate with RVW works is much higher this time round than on previous visits in this boxset.

Excellent!  Happy for you. 

PD

[vandermolen]

A thrillingly dramatic version of Sheherazade if with some controversial tempo choices, the third movement much slower than we are used to hearing and the finale taken at break neck speed. I'm not sure it's how I would always want to hear the work, but it's undeniably exciting.

Couplings are Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia and Balakirev's Islamey.

A great disc!

[Harry]

William Lawes.

The Royal Consort And Lute Songs
Suites, Sonatas, Consorts.

Suite No. 2 in D minor.
Sonata No. 8 in D major.
Consort No. 10 in G minor.

Absolutely fine and thoughtful music, so very well played and recorded. Needless to say that Rene Jacobs vocal contribution were deleted.

[aligreto]

Strauss: Four Last Songs [Schwarzkopf/Szell]





From the first time that I heard this recording a long time ago it was, still is and probably always will be top of the pile for me in the Four Last Songs. Beim Schlafengehen, for me, is outstanding as an interpretation and a performance. Im Abendrot is also not very far behind in terms of interpretation and performance. Sublime! I know that sentiment is not universally shared.

[Papy Oli]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Mass in G minor (Willcocks, Choir of King's College)

[asin]B00156ZWV0[/asin]

[Traverso]

Strauss: Four Last Songs [Schwarzkopf/Szell]





From the first time that I heard this recording a long time ago it was, still is and probably always will be top of the pile for me in the Four Last Songs. Beim Schlafengehen, for me, is outstanding as an interpretation and a performance. Im Abendrot is also not very far behind in terms of interpretation and performance. Sublime! I know that sentiment is not universally shared.

Well,not universally but surely by me.

[San Antone]

Gidon Kremer playing Astor Piazzolla

[aligreto]

Henning: Pour la petite Joséphine





I have been fortunate to hear this work a number of times recently. I really like this music and its tone. It is suitably and appropriately simple; a parent talking softly and tenderly to a newborn child and filling their future world full of promise. I also particularly like the very interesting accompaniment which I think is wonderful.

[aligreto]

Well,not universally but surely by me.

I am happy to read that 

[Harry]

Giulio Caccini.

Le nuove musiche, Firenze 1601-Nuove musiche E nuova maniera di Scriverle, Firenza 1614.

Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras.
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Montserrat Figueras was in 1984 still in good voice, a singer highly lamented by me. She simply passed to soon. That said, this Caccini disc is smashingly beautiful, and I cherish this disc enormously. It represents everything she could do with her voice, and this recording is a monument to her art.
The sound is as fresh as a daisy!

[Ratliff]

John Ireland, Concertino Pastorale, Boult, LPO



A beautiful work for string orchestra in three movements. A first movement with a mysterious atmosphere, a poignant middle movement and ending with a lively toccata. A fine example of 20th century British string music. First rate performance and recording.

[Traverso]

Vaughan Williams

Serenade To Music    
English Folk Song Suite    
March (Seventeen Come Sunday)    
Intermezzo (My Bonny Boy)    
March (Folk Songs From Somerset)    
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1    
Fantasia On 'Greensleeves'    
In The Fen Country    
The Lark Ascending

[Symphonic Addict]

Truly awesome symphonies. The slow movement from his Symphony No. 1 is an ethereal oasis of beauty with a tremendous climax near the ending. A good candidate for great symphonic slow movements. The Symphony No. 2 has an otherworldly atmosphere that intrigued me throughout. A mysterious and highly suggestive composition. The only bad thing is the acoustics of the recording venue. The music feels a bit distant.