What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

The entire album is wonderful!

Yes, a very original program.

[Symphonic Addict]

This morning, Bernstein's Serenade (with the composer and Francescatti) and David Maslanka's Wind Quintets!



Quoting as a reminder to myself to stream it this week!

Even Ormandy conducted it:

[Symphonic Addict]

You can't ask for a more delicious disc than this one.

[Symphonic Addict]

Schumann: Piano Quartet
Frankel: Clarinet Quintet

[Daverz]

Dello Joio: Variations, Chaconne and Finale, for orchestra

Dello Joio wrote some outstanding, approachable, tonal music, yet he's barely regarded as a good composer.

I'm trying to pin this down -- what was the scuttlebutt on Dello Joio back in the day -- but not having much luck.  I seem to recall Stravinsky badmouthing him, but I could never take the old man's catty comments about other composers very seriously.  What matters is our own reactions when we actually listen to the music. 

TD: Mahler 5 - Paavo with the Tonhalle in Dolby Atmos surround.  Very satisfying.

[VonStupp]

Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt: Suite 1, op. 23
Peer Gynt: Suite 2, op. 55

Jean Sibelius
Swan of Tuonela, op. 22/2
Valse Triste, op. 44/1
Finlandia, op. 26
NYPO - Leonard Bernstein

The conclusion of this set. Bernstein certainly has a hot-blooded view of Sibelius.
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From this set:

[Symphonic Addict]

I'm trying to pin this down -- what was the scuttlebutt on Dello Joio back in the day -- but not having much luck.  I seem to recall Stravinsky badmouthing him, but I've could never take the old man's catty comments about other composers very seriously.  What matters is our own reactions when we actually listen to the music. 

You have said it. It's all related to tastes and how music resonates with each of us. For me, Dello Joio is a very good second-tier composer on the basis of what I've heard by him.

[Symphonic Addict]

Hoddinott: Symphony No. 4

There are other recordings of other Hoddinott symphonies on YouTube, but this one has better sound quality. Another gripping piece.

[Mister Sharpe]

Interrupting my Satie-fest to test run an LP I picked-up today at a thrift shop, a London "blue back" from 1959, seemingly in very good - near mint condition! So, is it really audiophile? Affirmative.  And what was it Satie said about Ravel? I remember : "M. Ravel refuses the Legion of Honor, but all his music accepts it." 

[Que]

4 discs of Machaut, combining Amoureus Tourment, Le Remede de Fortune and Mon Chant vous envoy. Wanted to give this set a good try.

[Irons]

British Composers
Guide to Britain

A fun quiz guessing works by place list on cover.

[Harry]

A fun quiz guessing works by place list on cover.

Blimey, that's my back garden    

[Que]

[Selig]

4 discs of Machaut, combining Amoureus Tourment, Le Remede de Fortune and Mon Chant vous envoy. Wanted to give this set a good try.

Lately I cannot get enough of Mauillon's Dame, vostre dous viaire - his voice was tailor-made for Machaut, IMO

[Traverso]

Joaquin Rodrigo 

[Lisztianwagner]

A fun quiz guessing works by place list on cover.

I'm sorry it would have been to long to list all the compositions of the entire set, but it includes various British composers with works inspired by various parts of Britain, from London to Scotland (for example, Elgar's Cockaigne Overture, Holst's Egdon Heath, Bax's Tintagel, RVW's Epilogue from Symphony No. 2, Butterworth 's A Shropshire Lad, etc.). Here' s the actual list:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7998605--the-british-composers-guide-to-britain?srsltid=AfmBOoocgIz7VdN1KVZVFshu-HmFffrGePLxzPzykfK2frbl1hddx0vH

[Mister Sharpe]

Determined to enjoy as many CDs in this set as I can today. Tout indeed. 

[AnotherSpin]

Joaquin Rodrigo 

It's not especially important, but still, someone might find it interesting. The music of Joaquín Rodrigo was practically off-limits in the USSR. It wasn't performed, wasn't played on the radio or television, and I don't recall ever seeing a single LP. The reasons aren't entirely clear. Perhaps it was because his music was so closely associated with the years of Franco, against whom the USSR was more or less officially at war in the 1930s. Or perhaps it was simply that Rodrigo's music was too beautiful—so beautiful that anything officially sanctioned by the Communist Party would have looked painfully coarse and ugly beside it. Rather like a Soviet suit next to something quietly impeccable from Savile Row.

[Brian]

It's not especially important, but still, someone might find it interesting. The music of Joaquín Rodrigo was practically off-limits in the USSR. It wasn't performed, wasn't played on the radio or television, and I don't recall ever seeing a single LP. The reasons aren't entirely clear. Perhaps it was because his music was so closely associated with the years of Franco, against whom the USSR was more or less officially at war in the 1930s. Or perhaps it was simply that Rodrigo's music was too beautiful—so beautiful that anything officially sanctioned by the Communist Party would have looked painfully coarse and ugly beside it. Rather like a Soviet suit next to something quietly impeccable from Savile Row.

This is quite interesting. Especially as they freely allowed American jazz influence. Maybe Rodrigo's folksiness was considered "minor". Strange!

[Florestan]

This is quite interesting. Especially as they freely allowed American jazz influence. Maybe Rodrigo's folksiness was considered "minor". Strange!

Rodrigo didn't leave Spain after the Civil War. 'Nuff said.