What are you listening 2 now?

[kyjo]

Claudio Santoro
Symphony 4 'Sinfonia da Paz'
Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paolo
John Neschling
BIS

Something less emotionally demanding to work towards the day's end. I should listen to Santoro more often.

A fabulous disc - both music and performances! The 4th Symphony is a really life-affirming, energetic work. The darker, more acerbic 9th Symphony on the same disc is the perfect foil to it, but it still possesses a similar rhythmic, propulsive energy. I had high hopes when Naxos began recording Santoro's other symphonies recently, but so far I've been rather disappointed. None of the ones I've heard so far have struck me as being as inspired as the 4th or 9th, but maybe it's just me...

[kyjo]

Camargo Guarnieri
Symphony 3
Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paolo John Neschling
BIS

More engaging South American music before calling it a night. Again, I should listen to more of this music.

Great stuff! The 3rd is my favorite of the Guarnieri symphonies, but all 6 of them are fine works. Guarnieri very successfully melds Brazilian folk influences with a strong symphonic structural "backbone".

[kyjo]

Alexander Zemlinsky
Sinfonietta
6 Maeterlinck-Lieder

Petra Lang (soprano)
Susanna Mälkki & ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

Two fine works! The Sinfonietta is a great example of how Zemlinsky's style became more acerbic (though never atonal or 12-tone) in his later years. The slow movement is particularly haunting, even spooky at times!

[kyjo]

I listen to the Harris more than the Adams although I like both works.

I'm generally a fan of John (Coolidge) Adams, though something about his Violin Concerto is quite unappealing to me. I've never made it past the first few minutes without turning it off...maybe it gets better as it goes?

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach Cello Suites, Hidemi Suzuki 2nd CD of them

[Lisztianwagner]

Antonín Dvořák
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No.1, Op.21

Guarneri Trio Prague

[Traverso]

Cesar Franck


 

[Lisztianwagner]

Two fine works! The Sinfonietta is a great example of how Zemlinsky's style became more acerbic (though never atonal or 12-tone) in his later years. The slow movement is particularly haunting, even spooky at times!

I concur, Zemlinsky's Sinfonietta is absolutely a little gem! Agreed, the second movement is really impressive, with those veiled tonality, great intesity and gracefully mysterious phrasing in imitation between woodwinds and strings, with floating ostinati, sometimes very sinister and mesmerizing. Berg said that in that movement the real sound of Zemlinsky can be recognized, perceivable in every phrase.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Kurt Eichhorn

[AnotherSpin]

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach  Organ Works Vol. 06, Gerhard Weinberger (Treutmann-Orgel Grauhof)

[Que]

[Lisztianwagner]

Granville Bantock
Celtic Symphony

Vernon Handley & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

[Symphonic Addict]

Dallapiccola: Canti di prigionia, for chorus, two pianos, two harps and percussion

One of the few works by him I've listened to so far and I must say this drew my attention. I was expecting something more cacophonic and thorny, but it was rather deep-felt with some tinges of drama.

[foxandpeng]

A fabulous disc - both music and performances! The 4th Symphony is a really life-affirming, energetic work. The darker, more acerbic 9th Symphony on the same disc is the perfect foil to it, but it still possesses a similar rhythmic, propulsive energy. I had high hopes when Naxos began recording Santoro's other symphonies recently, but so far I've been rather disappointed. None of the ones I've heard so far have struck me as being as inspired as the 4th or 9th, but maybe it's just me...

4 and 9 are also my standouts, so far!

[foxandpeng]

Great stuff! The 3rd is my favorite of the Guarnieri symphonies, but all 6 of them are fine works. Guarnieri very successfully melds Brazilian folk influences with a strong symphonic structural "backbone".

Agreed. These are fine works 😁

[foxandpeng]

Thomas de Hartmann
Orchestral Music
Une Fête en Ukraine (Suite for Large Orchestra)
Lviv NPSO
Theodore Kuchar
Toccata

This is great music that is cheerful, affirming and beautiful. Good 'unwinding' music at the end of a long day.

[Lisztianwagner]

Dallapiccola: Canti di prigionia, for chorus, two pianos, two harps and percussion

One of the few works by him I've listened to so far and I must say this drew my attention. I was expecting something more cacophonic and thorny, but it was rather deep-felt with some tinges of drama.

Cool, I didn't know Salonen recorded Dallapiccola, I must check that recording out. Glad you enjoyed this work, it is absolutely beautiful and intensely dramatic; despite its tension, Dallapiccola's dodecaphony is quite lyrical, it isn't as harsh and strident as the Second Viennese School.

[Todd]

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[Bachtoven]

This astonishing Ukrainian guitarist returns with an excellent new recording.