What are you listening 2 now?

[Number Six]

Lunch Break Listening!



Mozart: Piano Concertos 27 & 29
Garrick Ohlsson
Welser-Möst, Cleveland Orchestra

[Spotted Horses]

Indeed, a nice disc which has been in my collection for ages. The Serenata, op. 46a is Casella in top form IMHO. It's an orchestration (one of the original six movements didn't make it in the transformation) of the Serenata, op. 46 for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin and cello, and it's  also very attractive in this chamber format.

AFAIK, the only recording of the complete original chamber Serenata is the one by the Ex Novo Ensemble on Stradivarius. Well worth exploring.



EDIT: Listening to the Casella disc conducted by Alun Francis on the CPO label now. Hat tip to Spotted Horses! 

I will have to listen to that recording of the chamber ensemble version of the Serenata.

I have another recording of Casella from the Ex Novo Ensemble, on the now defunct ASV label.



I can't find any sign of it in the marketplace, either for purchase or streaming.

In the Alun Francis recording, I remember from past listen that The Divertimento per Fulvia, Op 64, was the highlight of the disc, especially the final movement, apoteosi.

[Linz]

Hakon Børresen Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 3
Serenade for horn, strings & timpani
Nordic Folk Tunes, for string orchestra
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra,  Ole Schmidt

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

João Carlos Victor, guitar recital.

[Cato]

Alexander Goedicke, a few years younger than Scriabin and Rachmaninoff, needs his symphonies recorded yesterday!

Only one recording is available: from 1957, and the sound is more like 1937.

Nevertheless, an exciting, albeit conservative work from 1922:

Is anyone here from NAXOS?  Ovchinnikov, Protopopov, Goedicke, Nikolai Tcherepnin!!!  Let's get this going!

[Karl Henning]

Lunch Break Listening!



Mozart: Piano Concertos 27 & 29
Garrick Ohlsson
Welser-Möst, Cleveland Orchestra

Pf Cto 27 and Symphony 29! I noticed that because I discovered recently how much my budgie likes the A Major symphony.
TD: the fact that the Haitink/RCO Live box is soon to arrive, owing to both a helpful pointer from and the baleful influence of @brewski reminds me that I have not yet finished listening to Vol. 7 of the RCO Live Anthology. At unmethodical random, I'm therefore listening to CD 4:
Sibelius
Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49 (1906)
Sir Colin Davis

Szymanowski
Vn Cto № 1 (1916)
Vesko Eschkenazy, vn
Sir Mark Elder

Sibelius
Symphony № 5 in E^b, Op. 82 (1915-19)
Paavo Berglund

[Lisztianwagner]

Franz Liszt
Dante Symphony

Damenchor des Rundfunkchors Berlin
Daniel Barenboim & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, 1872/77 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas
SWR-Sinfonieorchester, Baden-Baden, Hans Zender

[Que]

[Number Six]

Pf Cto 27 and Symphony 29! I noticed that because I discovered recently how much my budgie likes the A Major symphony.
TD: the fact that the Haitink/RCO Live box is soon to arrive, owing to both a helpful pointer from and the baleful influence of @brewski reminds me that I have not yet finished listening to Vol. 7 of the RCO Live Anthology. At unmethodical random, I'm therefore listening to CD 4:
Sibelius
Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49 (1906)
Sir Colin Davis

Szymanowski
Vn Cto № 1 (1916)
Vesko Eschkenazy, vn
Sir Mark Elder

Sibelius
Symphony № 5 in E^b, Op. 82 (1915-19)
Paavo Berglund

D'oh! Thanks. You know, I recall earlier thinking, "There doesn't seem to be much piano here." 

[brewski]

TD: the fact that the Haitink/RCO Live box is soon to arrive, owing to both a helpful pointer from and the baleful influence of @brewski reminds me that I have not yet finished listening to Vol. 7 of the RCO Live Anthology.

"Baleful influence," I'll take it.

 

(Hope you enjoy the box.)

[Symphonic Addict]

Two fascinating pieces that keep me spellbound by her unique style.

[Cato]

It has been too long since I cranked up Rimsky-Korsakov's best opera: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya.

We are so lucky these days to have a complete recording of this and other operas by him. 


In the good old days, the only Rimsky-Korsakov opera on a recording was Boris Godunov !   


Also today....




😇  Bruckner: Symphony #3  😇  Eugen Jochum  Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

and Alexander Scriabin's sketch of a scene for an opera, realized by Alexander Nemtin:

Finally...

One comment mentions how Mravinsky's face looks somewhat less than ecstatic!  😇

[San Antone]

Wuorinen: Six Trios - Trombone Trio (1985)
Group for Contemporary Music

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Alexander Goedicke, a few years younger than Scriabin and Rachmaninoff, needs his symphonies recorded yesterday!

Only one recording is available: from 1957, and the sound is more like 1937.

Nevertheless, an exciting, albeit conservative work from 1922:

Is anyone here from NAXOS?  Ovchinnikov, Protopopov, Goedicke, Nikolai Tcherepnin!!!  Let's get this going!

Sounds nice! I love Goedicke, especially his trumpet concerto.

[JBS]

Love that disc! Which I reviewed for GMG. And yes, as the original version was officially titled Lady Macbeth.... One of the (Moscow, I think) opera houses did present it as Katerina Izmailova, but the composer only gave it that title when later revising the opera.

Having gotten around to reading the liner notes, it turns out two of the intermezzos used in that suite were newly written for the revised version of the opera, and the suite itself prepared in conjunction with the revised version, so the description of it being from 1934 is wrong. Apparently the person who created the track listing did not read the liner notes.

TD

[Harry]

Source?

The source is me.....

[AnotherSpin]

The version of Vater Unser im Himmelreich by Böhm that is dearest to my heart is still in this recoding.

[AnotherSpin]

The source is me.....

That's what I thought. Thank you

[Que]

An old favourite!