What are you listening 2 now?

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More Feldman --- Palais de Mari



This Feldman solo piano set on Another Timbre with Philip Thomas is fantastic. In fact, all of the Another Timbre recordings I own of Feldman are great.

[Spotted Horses]

Weinberg, Sinfonietta No 2, Chmura



A brief work, much to enjoy, especially a first movement bursting with energy and dissonance.

[Spotted Horses]

Saygun, String Quartet No 2. More edgy than I would have expected, based on my experience with Saygun's orchestral music (symphonies and concerti). I like it.

[Karl Henning]

Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet no. 5 in f minor, Op. 9
The Stamitz Quartet

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Before lunch --- Carter A Mirror on Which to Dwell



I still don't quite get on too well with Carter's SQs, but there's much of his other music whether for orchestra, chamber or solo piano that I do rather enjoy.

[Roasted Swan]

Now here is a piece that I would bet no innocent ear would identify as by Georges Bizet!



It sounds a bit like latter-day Rossini if anything!  Its quite compact with its 4 movements totalling less than 20 minutes.  However it is still a demanding sing for the soloists who do a really good job on this disc especially soprano Angela-Maria Blasi.  She sings beautifully in the main work - the Gounod Sainte Cecile Mass too.

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi - Cello Works - last few days have been going through Luigi's cello works from Sonatas, Quintets to Concertos (wrote 12) - at the bottom I own the 'Cello Box' with 3 discs of all those Boccherini concerti played by Julius Berger on presumably a restored Stad used by the composer himself - NOW, Enrico Brozni performs these same works w/ a period band (not sure about the details and not in my collection) - anyone familiar with him in these performances?  Dave

ADDENDUM: Attached is a negative Fanfare review of the Bronzi performance (at the bottom) but the author mentioned a 3-disc recording by Geringas (added last pic) - listened on Spotify and was impressed - hard to find at a decent price but available as a $10 USD MP3 DL on Prestomusic?

   

   

   

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Skoryk: Violin Concertos Nos. 5-9.

[Symphonic Addict]

Zeisl: Kleine Symphonie nach Bildern der Roswitha Bitterlich
Sohy: Symphony in C-sharp minor

Two thoroughly remarkable symphonic discoveries, quite different each other. It's the first work I hear by the Austrian composer Eric Zeisl (1905-1959) and I was sold. How fun that symphony is, almost cartoonish (in a very good way) in a large extent.

Charlotte Sohy is one of those female composers who has been revived from oblivion lately and well-deservedly so. Having heard her two strong string quartets, the turn today is for her only symphony which is confident, eloquent, muscular when needed and well-crafted.

Revisiting great music and discovering new one feed my musical interests with absolute delight.

[Traverso]

Bach

Vol.10 CD 3

[Linz]

Lennox Berkeley Symphony No. 1 Op. 16
Symphony No. 2 Op. 51
London hilharmonic Orchestra, Norman Del Mar

[Iota]

Britten: Children's Crusade Op. 82
Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Russell Burgess {cond.)

Written to mark the 50th anniversary of Save The Children, Children's Crusade is a piece written mainly for children, though some instrumental parts are played by adults. It is a strange and haunting piece, on a Brecht poem about a group of Polish children orphaned by WWII, starving and abandoned, in a search for peace that seems unlikely to succeed. A heartfelt expression of the futility of war as seen through the eyes of children, and Britten's profoundly dark score, contrasting with the innocence and vulnerability of the children's voices, is a potent evocation of the sense of hopelessness. The fact also that it's largely performed by amateurs, only adds to its power.

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NP: Strauss Vier letzte Lieder

[Traverso]

Bach

Vol.10 CD 4

[JBS]

Now here is a piece that I would bet no innocent ear would identify as by Georges Bizet!



It sounds a bit like latter-day Rossini if anything!  Its quite compact with its 4 movements totalling less than 20 minutes.  However it is still a demanding sing for the soloists who do a really good job on this disc especially soprano Angela-Maria Blasi.  She sings beautifully in the main work - the Gounod Sainte Cecile Mass too.

Bizet here as well, but a full opera


Which I have as part of this


And from which the Te Deum is totally absent.

[Roasted Swan]

Bizet here as well, but a full opera


Which I have as part of this


And from which the Te Deum is totally absent.

Oops!

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NP: Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra Op. 31

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Variations for Orchestra

Dimitri Mitropoulos & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1873 Original Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
Staatskapelle Dresden, Yannick Nèzet-Sègun

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NP: Reich Radio Rewrite