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[VonStupp]

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Symphony 10 'Ameríndia'

Leonardo Neiva, baritone
Saulo Javan, bass
São Paulo SO & Choir - Isaac Karabtchevsky

This one is very different than his other symphonies, and I like it. Of course, it helps I am not averse to voices. Reminds me some of his Discovery of Brazil film score which I also enjoyed.
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[Harry]

J.S. Bach.
Lute Music.
Volume I.
Eduardo Eguez, Lute.
Recorded: 1999 at the Convento dell"Annunziata, Rovato, Brescia.

[Irons]

Simpson: Symphony No.3



A cliché but this symphony a 'journey'. From the opening bars there is a sense of urgency and struggle in finding peace and fulfilment which is to be achieved at the coda.

The influence of Nielsen is strong but at no point even a hint of plagiarism. Timpani play a starring role which is not only heard but felt in an excellent recording. 

[Linz]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach  The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 36, Miklos Spanyi

[Traverso]

Praetorius

The Parley of Instruments

Is it just me that in much cheerful Baroque music is a certain reserve that gives in the same time room  for an element of sadness...

[DavidW]

Prefacing each concerto with one of the composer's transcriptions (1st movement of The Bells and Vocalise) was a smart idea. I very rarely listen to the 1st concerto (Rachmaninoff's own favourite), but the 3rd is another story. It's one of the most famous piano and orchestra works in the repertoire, and one of the most challenging for the pianist. Trifonov plays with flair, assurance and insight. There's nothing flashy about his pianism. The engineers place him at just the right distance. It's very well integrated with the orchestra, as it would be in the concert hall (this one's live). An unostentatious reference.

That is my favorite recording of those works.

[DavidW]

[Brian]

First listen to Roussel's violin sonatas. This disc is a 2024 release.

The First Sonata is a big, gorgeous, romantic/impressionistic piece in a similar style to his First Symphony. Or you could think of it the more relaxed cousin of the Franck sonata. At 32 minutes, it's huge, but fills all that space very amiably.

The Second Sonata is a 15-minute piece from the mid-20s and is in the more mature Roussel style, with a jazzy finale full of darting rhythms. The violin part is flashier, too, but in an appropriately salon-sized way.

The String Trio is Roussel's last completed work from the late 1930s. It's more austere and very compact (13:21); half the time is in its lament of a slow movement.

The performers are all teachers at Oberlin Conservatory and do predictably professional work. It's interesting to hear three very different parts of the composer's career together.

[Brian]

Only have time for the sonata in C with piano for now, but sampling a Daverz pick from the 2024 Favorites thread.

[Cato]

I finally had time to give M. Steinberg and his Symphony #2 a chance, and am most pleased by everything!

And far too much time has passed since I have heard this masterpiece by the young Rachmaninoff:

Trio Elegiaque #2, Opus 9:

And never to be forgotten, the wonderful Third Symphony of Sibelius, which work, like the First Symphony, does not get enough attention!

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Holst
Sāvitri

Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Richard Hickox & City of London Sinfonia

[Spotted Horses]

Martinu solo piano music



This time 3 esquisses H160, then 5 esquisses H220 and the Foxtrot. This is what I consider typical spikey Martinu, with the possible exception of the foxtrot, which seems like an homage to Scott Joplin. No 4, Tempo di Valse, from H220 is particularly attractive.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Tveitt: Hardanger Fiddle Concerto No. 2.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Carlo Maria Giulini, Wiener Philharmoniker

[DavidW]

This recording keeps growing in my esteem with every listen:

[JBS]

Evocations Op 15 L 16

Le Festin d l'araignee Op 17 L 19

CD 4 from

[Karl Henning]

Une fête de Roussel!

[Mookalafalas]

Prokofiev 5. Disk is padded out with a lot of other stuff.


  From this box

[JBS]

Une fête de Roussel!

And continuing on with a la Francais


CD 3 of

[Karl Henning]

Hindemith, The Long Christmas Dinner.