What are you listening 2 now?

[SimonNZ]

on the radio: the Tartar folk song "Allüki" from this album.

[Daverz]

Copland: Symphony No. 3 comparisons



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Wilson opens up the usual cuts, apparently (as does the new Slatkin on Naxos, I believe).  Haven't gotten that far yet.

[San Antone]

Ives : Symphony No. 3 - Tilson Thomas

[Spineur]

Ibert, Jacques (1890-1962) - Chamber Music & Flute Concerto - own just two and a half CDs of this often delightful French eclectic composer - love the 2-disc 'Chamber Music' set - a shortened intro bio quoted below w/ link - NOW, I've no orchestral works and the Divertissement & Escales seem to be his most famous in that genre - any recommendations?  Thanks - Dave
 

I love Jacques Ibert and my favorite piece is "Les chansons de Don Quichotte".  He also composed the music for a ballet entitle "Le chevalier errant" on the same theme.  You can find both pieces in this old and OOP recording of Feodor Chaliapin, who created the work

For more recent recordings, I would recommend José van Dam and Kent Nagano


The last song "the death of Don Quichotte" is just sublime.

https://www.youtube.com/v/a0nuuxo-4ZE

[Kaga2]

More Haydn. I am playing through the Buchburger Quartet recordings of the complete quartets. Just starting in on op17.

One nice thing about Haydn is my wife doesn't object. There won't be much Wagner on the platter for a while.

[Karl Henning]

More Haydn. I am playing through the Buchburger Quartet recordings of the complete quartets. Just starting in on op17.

One nice thing about Haydn is my wife doesn't object. There won't be much Wagner on the platter for a while.

I feel ya!

[Symphonic Addict]

Blimey, you're right, forgot about that. Hat tip to you then, and apologies.

No problem at all! 

[Symphonic Addict]

Symphony No. 1

What an intensely gorgeous work! The freshness and pleasantness the beginning presents us is enough to be hooked instantly, not to say the lively and sparkling last movement. This is great music. A remarkable rediscovery.

[Roasted Swan]

Copland: Symphony No. 3 comparisons



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Wilson opens up the usual cuts, apparently (as does the new Slatkin on Naxos, I believe).  Haven't gotten that far yet.

"the usual cuts" are no more than an extended final peroration which Bernstein suggested - and I think he was right - made a slightly grandiose finale one wafer thin mint too OTT.

[Symphonic Addict]

At first sight I read Frederick Coronavirus, I really did! 

Paranoia? Where? 

[André]

Bruckner 9. A terrific version.

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Right now:



Not sure what to think of that one. Burgon is known mostly for his film and TV series music (Brideshead Revisited, The Chronicles of Narnia). He wrote extensively for the voice (song cycles) and vocal ensembles. I am sometimes reminded of Penderecki, Boulez (the screechy stratospheric soprano line with its impossible intervals). Droning basses, menacing brass, organ interjections and thundering percussions evoke a desolate, forbidding place (appropriately so, one might say). Not for the faint of heart, this. The disc cover is totally misleading.

[Symphonic Addict]

Khachaturian Symphony No.3
This symphony tends to get a bad press but I've always enjoyed it:

I listened to Stokowski recording two days ago, but I think it doesn't surpass Glushchenko/BBC Philharmonic on Chandos in its monumentality and sheer thrill.

[j winter]

Beethoven 3 & 4, Norrington SWR.  Zippy, but good.

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich Op 87, Ashkenazy  Love these, should really listen to them more often...

Love it!

[Karl Henning]

Hindemith
Mathis der Maler (complete opera) on Wergo

Rather a chore, alas!

I'm going to recant, completely. I posted after (with insufficient attention, I must suppose) listening to the first two scenes. I then paused, saw to some other tasks, and then picked the opera up where I had left off. I found scenes 3 through 7 so immediately engaging, that I wanted to test my impatience with scenes 1 and 2. I just don't know what my problem was ... maybe my brain was elsewhere.

[vers la flamme]

I'm going to recant, completely. I posted after (with insufficient attention, I must suppose) listening to the first two scenes. I then paused, saw to some other tasks, and then picked the opera up where I had left off. I found scenes 3 through 7 so immediately engaging, that I wanted to test my impatience with scenes 1 and 2. I just don't know what my problem was ... maybe my brain was elsewhere.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it. I suspect I will give it a listen at some point, but probably not anytime soon. I would like to start getting into opera, soon, finally.

[T. D.]

I'm going to recant, completely. I posted after (with insufficient attention, I must suppose) listening to the first two scenes. I then paused, saw to some other tasks, and then picked the opera up where I had left off. I found scenes 3 through 7 so immediately engaging, that I wanted to test my impatience with scenes 1 and 2. I just don't know what my problem was ... maybe my brain was elsewhere.

Thanks for the comments. Mathis has long been on my list of "want to hear" operas. And I've been listening to Hindemith of late.

[André]

Karl Henning:

From the Evening Service in D, op 87. Short works for an officiant, choir and two trombones. The Nunc dimittis is particularly beautiful.

Other works of sacred choral music: Bless the Lord, O My Soul, Pascha nostrum, Nuhro, Psalm 150, etc.

Very suitable fare for the times and excellently crafted works in their own right 0:).

[Karl Henning]

Karl Henning:

From the Evening Service in D, op 87. Short works for an officiant, choir and two trombones. The Nunc dimittis is particularly beautiful.

Other works of sacred choral music: Bless the Lord, O My Soul, Pascha nostrum, Nuhro, Psalm 150, etc.

Very suitable fare for the times and excellently crafted works in their own right 0:).

Thank you!

[Karl Henning]

Hindemith
Sancta Susanna, Op. 21

Among much else, sweet clarinet licks, and a creepy Kyrie eleison.