What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto



By now it's probably a couple of decades since I last heard this album on cassette. This is what happens when I play a Gershwin musical, I suddenly remember I still don't own a recording of Rhapsody in Blue. Which I'll probably start listening to in about 60 seconds...

EDIT: The album also includes Litolff's scherzo, and Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy (with a different pianist/orchestra to the rest)

[Irons]

Panufnik: Sinfonia Sacra.



Arresting piece, not least trumpet fanfare opening reminiscent of Janacek's Sinfonietta. This is followed by soft strings but the mood is changed again by a shattering sequence of percussion rolls. And so it goes... 

[AnotherSpin]

Original 1873 Version, ed. L. Nowak. The case when the performance of the original version is full of meaning. Very well done.

[foxandpeng]

Emil Tabakov
Symphony 6
Emil Tabakov
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
Toccata

Glorious drama and intensity.

Grandeur and epic defiance required? Look no further.

[Harry]

Emil Tabakov
Symphony 6
Emil Tabakov
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
Toccata

Glorious drama and intensity.

Grandeur and epic defiance required? Look no further.

Never could connect with this composer, so kudos for you being able to grasp him

[Traverso]

Weber

Der Freischütz


 

[foxandpeng]

Never could connect with this composer, so kudos for you being able to grasp him

Harry, I am shocked! Tabakov may well be my all-weather, desert island composer.

You have a gentler disposition than mine, no doubt.

[DavidW]

[Kalevala]

That's a lovely set!  I bought it years ago (back in the day when it had its original cover). 

K

[Harry]

Harry, I am shocked! Tabakov may well be my all-weather, desert island composer.

You have a gentler disposition than mine, no doubt.

Well finally I was able to shock you for a change  
I can stomach a lot of modern composers, but Tabakov escapes me totally.
I am sorry for the inconvenience      

PS. Tell me @foxandpeng which of those Symphonies you like most, and I will try it again, and maybe perish in the process, but for you I will attempt it.

[71 dB]

TV (Yle Teema & Fem): Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Concert in Musiikkitalo, Helsinki

Brahms - Tragic Overture
Ysaÿe - Amitié
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F-Major "Pastoral"

Emma Mali, violin
Laura Vikman, violin
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Collon

[foxandpeng]

Well finally I was able to shock you for a change  
I can stomach a lot of modern composers, but Tabakov escapes me totally.
I am sorry for the inconvenience      

PS. Tell me @foxandpeng which of those Symphonies you like most, and I will try it again, and maybe perish in the process, but for you I will attempt it.

Almost any, to be honest 🙂. Maybe 7, 2 and 6?

I applaud your willingness to try again 👏. Try not to expire as I would never forgive myself!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bloch: America - An Epic Rhapsody. Leopold Stokowski & Symphony of the Air.

[Florestan]

Staying with Nikolai Andreyevich.




My Russian is very rusty (not that it was ever more than a 2-year course in secondary school) but I can still understand a few words here and there. It doesn't matter, though: when listening to songs in a language I don't understand, I just treat the voice as an instrument and pay attention to the general mood expressed by the music itself as it engulfs me.

R-K's songs (I think they are called romantsy in Russian) are simple but affecting and very melodious. I imagine this is the kind of music the characters in Turgenev's novels sang during their evenings in the countryside. The choice of poets denotes great literary taste as well: Pushkin, Lermontov, Fet, A. K. Tolstoy, Mickiewicz, Heine, Byron.

The all-Russian singers line up guarantees totally committed and idiomatic performances --- and the judicious alternation between male and female voices is boredom-proof.

A superb release, highly recommended for anyone willing to explore art songs off the beaten tracks.

[Linz]

Costanza Festa Magnificat - Mass parts - Motets - Madrigals,  Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel
A Secret Labyrinth CD 9

[Iota]

Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28

A work of unceasing and gorgeous dramatic yearnings, that include a particularly beautiful and stirring second movement, where melodies and counter melodies writhe around each other like courting sea serpents, rising to indescribably lovely climaxes. Rachmaninov's big heart/big hands/big technique qualities are plentifully on display and Hayroudinoff rises superbly to their challenges.

[SonicMan46]

Louis Spohr - some new arrivals today from JPC - all on sale, about 20 Euros for 4 discs attached:

Clarinet Concertos and some more String Quartets - Dave

[Florestan]

Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28

A work of unceasing and gorgeous dramatic yearnings, that include a particularly beautiful and stirring second movement, where melodies and counter melodies writhe around each other like courting sea serpents, rising to indescribably lovely climaxes. Rachmaninov's big heart/big hands/big technique qualities are plentifully on display and Hayroudinoff rises superbly to their challenges.

I second each and every word above. All the more so because of this:

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,29166.msg1586334.html#msg1586334

Also, SOTA sound.

[ritter]

The Noga Quartet play Reynaldo Hahn's String Quartet No. 2 in F major (a work I vastly prefer over the SQ No. 1), an arrangement by Joan Bachs —the quartet's cellist— of Debussy's Ariettes oubliées (with soprano Siobhan Stagg), and Debussy's String Quartet.

[Todd]