What are you listening 2 now?

[VonStupp]

Leroy Anderson
Woodbury Fanfare
A Harvard Festival
BBC CO - Leonard Slatkin

Happy US Independence Day to my fellow New World residents!
VS

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue. Lenny, NY.

[Harry]

Peder Gram.
Orchestral Works.
Volume I.
See back cover for details.
Recorded: 2006, at Musikhuset Sonderborg, Danmark.

A  fine composer. Excellent performances and ditto sound.

[Todd]

[Spotted Horses]

Koechlin, Violin Sonata



Koechlin's Violin Sonata, inexplicably omitted from the SWR chamber music collection. A rather expansive four movement work, in a generally tranquil style. The finale is a nearly 14 minute meditation on a single musical idea, with the intensity of expression increasing and receding in the course of the development.

[DavidW]

Happy Independence Day!

[Harry]

Ester Mägi.
Orchestral Works.
See back cover for details.
Recording years: 1953/1968/1972/1983/1995/2000/2002.
Venue: Estonia Concert Hall, Estonian Radio,

Not much recorded, but well loved by me! Performance and sound and intonation are Sub par, alas. Nevertheless, gorgeous music, she however deserves a better presentation, by better forces,

[NumberSix]

Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Bernstein, NYPO

It's July 4th. I should probably be listening to Copland or Sousa or Barber — or even one of Bernstein's own compositions.

But I was feeling like some Mahler this morning with my coffee, and I didn't want to pick one of the depressing ones...

[Maestro267]

Schuman: Symphony No. 10 ("American Muse")
Seattle SO/Schwarz

Ives: A Symphony: New England Holidays
Chicago SO/Tilson-Thomas

[Todd]

[NumberSix]

Ives: A Symphony: New England Holidays
Chicago SO/Tilson-Thomas

Idea stolen!

[Bachtoven]

Not feeling the least bit patriotic today.

[NumberSix]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Karajan, Berlin

After something like the Ives Holiday Symphony - which was lovely, btw - it's nice to come back to a more traditional piece.

[brewski]

Ives: The Fourth of July (Orlando Cela and Alex Blake, conductors / Arlington (MA) Philharmonic)

-Bruce

[Lisztianwagner]

Elliott Carter
Piano Sonata

Pianist: Paul Jacobs

[steve ridgway]

R. Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder

[Cato]

Ives: The Fourth of July (Orlando Cela and Alex Blake, conductors / Arlington (MA) Philharmonic)

-Bruce

I was just about to add this same work by Ives as performed by Leonard Bernstein and the N.Y. Philharmonic!

So let's really crank things up with The Robert Browning Overture of Charles Ives!

[pi2000]

Brahms VC Silvia Marcovici Swedish Radio Orchestra Conductor Evgeny Svetlanov 1981

[JBS]

Ives: The Fourth of July (Orlando Cela and Alex Blake, conductors / Arlington (MA) Philharmonic)

-Bruce

Which for the occasion of that piece should have been called the Menotomy Philharmonic...

[NumberSix]

Dvořák: "American" String Quartet