What are you listening 2 now?

[Mandryka]

Lovely stuff, relaxing to listen to.

[vandermolen]

Yes! The Nonet!

That's a great set!
NP
Howard Hanson: Symphony 1 'Nordic' and 2 'Romantic'
Hanson Cond. Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Mercury SACD:

[Harry]

PS My impression now hasn't changed much from my initial response to this recording, many years ago: the repertoire sounds lovely but is in general musically just not that interesting...

I did not know that recording, will eventually check it out.

[Mookalafalas]

[Harry]

Dutch Cello Sonatas.
Volume VIII.
See back cover for details.
Recorded:2018, Konzerthaus der Abtei, Marienmünster.

Until now there are 8 volumes in this series, and since I was recently impressed with the composer Witte, I readily turned to this interesting series, and have put all volumes in my Library on Qobuz. It promises to be a interesting journey, of which I had no idea it existed. Volume 8 holds two works by Georg Hendrik Witte, and they delight me at the very first notes. Witte is a underrated composer who deserves a tad more attention. Wouter Hutschenruyter, is also an unknown composer to me. It clearly goes to show how little I know about the Dutch musical heritage. But it must also be said that the Dutch do little to promote themselves, and that is probably the reason I never had an inkling about these recordings.
The performances are really good by artists also unknown to me, and it has SOTA sound. Really worth ones while to explore.

[Harry]

Bo Linde 1933–1970-
Orchestral Works Volume III.
Orchestral Works, vol 3
Symphony No.1.
Symphony No.2.
Pensieri sopra un cantico vecchio.

Gävle Symphony Orchestra Petter Sundkvis.
Recorded on October 18th-22nd 2004 (Track 1-4) and August 19th-22nd 2002 (Track 5) in Gevaliasalen (Gävle, Sweden)[/b]

I had the first two volumes, but the third volume was OOP. Qobuz remedied that. So a first.

[Ian]

Saint Saëns piano concertos.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Pelleas und Melisande

Sir John Barbirolli & New Philharmonia Orchestra

Erwartung
Alessandra Marc (soprano)
Giuseppe Sinopoli & Staatskapelle Dresden

     

[VonStupp]

Alexander Scriabin
Poem of Ecstasy, op. 54
Prometheus, Poem of Fire, op. 60
Philadelphia - Riccardo Muti

I once sang in the chorus of Prometheus. It is a long time to wait.
VS

[Karl Henning]

Again:

LvB
f minor Quartet, Op. 95
Colorado String Quartet

[Karl Henning]

Again:

LvB
f minor Quartet, Op. 95
Colorado String Quartet

It seems always to surprise me, how breathtakingly tight this one is!

[Bachtoven]

Listened yesterday. I liked the sound and simple mood.

Yes, it sounds quite good for a home recording. His son-in-law was the engineer!

[Spotted Horses]

Koechlin, Trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon.





This seems to
Invoke old forms, with a chorale, a fugue, and what strikes me as a arietta. Beautiful.

[Spotted Horses]

Now for something a bit different

Schönberg Erwartung
Krenek Symphonic Elegy
Schönberg Verklarte Nacht

So a Schönberg work I don't particularly care for (sorry, it just doesn't work for me) together with the one Schönberg work I really like, and in the middle a work (the Krenek) I've never heard before).

I will have to look into the Krenek piece.

Oddly the streaming version doesn't include verklarte nacht, which is not in the cover art. I guess it is organized differently in the CD set.

[Symphonic Addict]

Three string quartets by three different composers: Martin, Elgar and Ysaÿe



The Martin is the best piece to my ears, followed by the Ysaÿe which is an arrangement by Jacques Ysaÿe, the composer's grandson. The Elgar, however, sounded less cohesive and without much direction in the first two movements. It's in the 3rd movement where I felt things went better.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak,  Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Taijiro Iimori;

[Karl Henning]

LvB
B^b Quartet, Op. 130
Colorado String Quartet

[Spotted Horses]

It seems always to surprise me, how breathtakingly tight this one is!

Tight refers to the composition or the performance?

[Karl Henning]

Tight refers to the composition or the performance?

The composition, particularly.

[Bachtoven]

One of my favorite recordings: Wonderful music, playing, and sound.