What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

Since this is actually heard as part of the Naxos Complete Beethoven set, the complete music from King Stephan fills out CD 2 to a length of  84 minutes and 35 seconds.

[Kaga2]

No, that would be Myaskovsky.

Weinberg wrote the 21st symphony, then 4th Chamber Symphony the following year. He died before completing symph no 22.

Doh!

[San Antone]

Golijov : Yiddishbbuk



A really good work.

[SimonNZ]

[Kaga2]

A marvelous disc.

Haydn, ever more Haydn ...
Actually I am very much enjoying going through all the quartets again. I do it at least once a year, and I listen to various ones at random regularly.

[Symphonic Addict]

Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 1 [Svetlanov]





This is actually only the first time that I have heard this work. The set was recommended to me by Symphonic Addict methinks.

I do not know his symphonies yet but I do know that Rimsky-Korsakov was an excellent orchestrator. And so it is here. He weaves a wonderful tapestry of atmospheric sounds in this work. These attributes are also enhanced with wonderful tension and drama scattered throughout this work.

Glad you liked it!

[Symphonic Addict]

Berlin Symphony Orchestra, on the East side of the Berlin Wall at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konzerthausorchester_Berlin

TD:

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Tuneful and charming music.

This symphony is impressive. The slow movement is just tremendous. I love CPO for these great and rare releases.

[SimonNZ]

[bhodges]

Dipping in and out of Music Never Sleeps NYC, a 24-hour livestream featuring artists in NYC performing from (mostly) their homes. Right now: one of the event organizers and hosts, cellist Jan Vogler, playing his favorite Bach Cello Suite, No. 2 in D minor.

The event is scarcely 6 hours in, with much more to come.

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I70AQGmOchg

Facebook:
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Info and schedule:
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--Bruce

[Mandryka]

Finnissy Piano and Clarinet Sonata, based on modifications to Beethoven op 110, in a procedure which reminds me of Cage's Apartment House, Finnissy's changes more fundamental. I've not seen the score but it sounds to me as though much if not all of the piano part is for one hand. Does anyone know?

[Tsaraslondon]

Bernac and Poulenc are of course the perfect interpreters of Poulenc's songs and equally at home in those of Debussy, Ravel and Satie.

[Que]

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[Tsaraslondon]

Lambert: The Rio Grande - Christina Ortiz (piano), Jean Temperley (mezzo-soprano), London Madrigal Singers, London Symphony Orchestra - André Previn

Lambert: Piano Concerto - Richard Rodney Bennett (piano), members of the English Sinfonia - Neville Dilkes

Lambert: Elegiac Blues
Lambert: Elegy
Walton: Old Sir Faulk - Richard Rodney Bennett (piano)

Walton: Symphony no 2 - London Symphony Orchestra - André Previn

The Rio Grande is a lot of fun and very enjoyable in this performance. I also much prefer this version of the Piano Concerto to the one I was listening to yesterday with Ian Brown and the Nash Ensmble, which seemed a bit too relentlessly loud.

Previn's Walton is very good too.

[Madiel]

Another (late) song evening.

Listening to the first set of Moravian Duets that Dvorak composed (the only ones for a male/female pair).

[Maestro267]

Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

[vers la flamme]

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.8 in C minor, op.65. Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Is this DSCH's darkest symphony? It's quite possible. The first movement is massive, slow, and mostly quiet. It sounds like the aftermath of mass destruction; I'm tempted to mention Strauss' Metamorphosen as a possible touchstone. It's definitely quite far removed from the Leningrad. There's a glimmer of hope in the final notes of the movement, and it's clear from the beginning of the second movement that the inner movements will bring something new to the symphony.

[Harry]

From the SEON box. CD 62 & 63.

Luigi Boccherini.

String Quintets, opus 29, 1-6.
Sonatas for Cello and BC.

Sigiswald Kuijken & Alda Stuurop, Violins.
Lucy van Dael, Viola.
Anner Bijlsma & Wieland Kuijken, Cellos.
Hopkinson Smith, Guitar.

Fine performances, sound can be a bit hard on the ears, especially in the first violins. Those are the 1977 recordings.

[Madiel]

Shostakovich's second set of Pushkin songs, op.91



The accompaniment of the first song sounds rather a lot like the E minor prelude from the op.87 preludes and fugues...

[Madiel]

Debussy: the first section of the 'Recueil Vasnier', which contains his first attempts at setting the poetry of Verlaine.



Some pretty great stuff. By this point Debussy was writing quite attractive songs (still only around 20-21 years old).

[not edward]

First listen to this recording:

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I first ran across Zeynep Gedizlioğlu's music on the Kesik disc on Col Legno, where she seemed to me to be a promising miniaturist in the central European modernist tradition. This recording shows her successfully expanding into larger forms, and I think her voice is developing nicely.