What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Mozart

Symphony No.39  Lovely Mozart playing.

[steve ridgway]

Ring modulators.  In electronics terms, they are about as archaic as a druid's staff.



I saw the Kontarsky brothers play it live, with the composer sitting on the edge of the platform dressed like an underpaid schoolmaster.  In that performance the electronics was not subtly done.

That sounds like fun. I enjoy such effects in early 1970s rock music where they are generally quite prominent.

[Roasted Swan]

On the last day of April Foulds' lovely "April England" from this (highly and rightly praised) disc;



Foulds explores a very similar sentiment and musical structure to Bridge in "Enter Spring" - a sense of unleashing energy over a passacaglia-type walking bass line.  I love it!  Possibly this Lyrita version;



is even more urgent and ecstatic - Gamba is a full minute and a half slower which is a lot in an eight minute or so piece!  Interestingly, the timing of Kathryn Stott's piano version is almost identical to Wordsworth on Lyrita rather than Gamba....

[Judith]

This coming month as my focus, have chosen
Kabalevsky Cello Sonata.   Listened today performed by Steven Isserlis and Olli Mustonen. Wanting to discover more of this composers works because I have already heard the Cello Concerto  no 2 and more than impressed🎼🎼

[Maestro267]

Myaskovsky: Symphonies Nos. 11, 15 & 24
RFASO/Svetlanov

The last three.

[SonicMan46]

Faure, Nocturne no.13

His last piano work, and for me one of the most enigmatic.

+1 - the Stott has been in my collection for quite a while - I've culled others in the meantime but always return to her Faure pianism!   Dave

[SonicMan46]

Raff, Joachim (1822-1882) - Piano Trios 2/3 & Symphony No. 5 w/ the performers listed below; two new additions to my modest Raff collection which is virtually all chamber music except for the symphonic disc.  Although a talented and prolific composer, in the 'middle' of his career, Raff lived in Weimar and served literally as an 'employee' of Franz Liszt (i.e. secretary, copyist, orchestrator, etc.) - much to Raff's relief, he finally left! 

Raff wrote 11 numbered Symphonies (there is a box) but his Fifth is his most popular - those romantics loved programmatic composing, not unexpectedly for Joachim w/ his relationship w/ the presumed inventor of the 'Tone Poem', i.e. Franz Liszt - reviews attached.  Dave

Symphony No. 5 in E major (Lenore), Op. 177, was composed by Joachim Raff between 1870 and 1872. It is generally regarded as his best symphony and the most frequently performed and recorded today.[1] It was inspired by Gottfried August Bürger's ballad Lenore, set during the Seven Years' War. Raff described the symphony's programme: "The happiness of two lovers is interrupted by war. The time has come when he must go forth with his fellow soldiers and she remain behind alone. In this solitude evil forebodings take possession of her; she falls into a fever, in which her hallucinations prepare, in reality, only for her own death". (Source)

 

[Harry]

First listen to Egon Wellesz.

Symphony No.1

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I simply love his music. Bought this when it was released, some time ago, and was mesmerized right away.

[Harry]

Raff, Joachim (1822-1882) - Piano Trios 2/3 & Symphony No. 5 w/ the performers listed below; two new additions to my modest Raff collection which is virtually all chamber music except for the symphonic disc.  Although a talented and prolific composer, in the 'middle' of his career, Raff lived in Weimar and served literally as an 'employee' of Franz Liszt (i.e. secretary, copyist, orchestrator, etc.) - much to Raff's relief, he finally left! 

Raff wrote 11 numbered Symphonies (there is a box) but his Fifth is his most popular - those romantics loved programmatic composing, not unexpectedly for Joachim w/ his relationship w/ the presumed inventor of the 'Tone Poem', i.e. Franz Liszt - reviews attached.  Dave

 

Raff is one of my all time musical heroes, and have most of the stuff that is recorded.

[Harry]

On the last day of April Foulds' lovely "April England" from this (highly and rightly praised) disc;



Foulds explores a very similar sentiment and musical structure to Bridge in "Enter Spring" - a sense of unleashing energy over a passacaglia-type walking bass line.  I love it!  Possibly this Lyrita version;



is even more urgent and ecstatic - Gamba is a full minute and a half slower which is a lot in an eight minute or so piece!  Interestingly, the timing of Kathryn Stott's piano version is almost identical to Wordsworth on Lyrita rather than Gamba....

I bought both recordings some months ago, and they made quite an impression on me.

[listener]

BLISS:  A Colour Symphony
            Adam Zero
English Northern Philharmonia       David Lloyd-Jones
HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in F op. posth.1   Piano Concerto in A S4/W24
Theme and Variations in F, op. 97
Howard Shelley, piano & cond.   London Mozart Players

[Todd]

Another freebie hi-res download.  Nice.

[Symphonic Addict]

I've listened to the Petite Symphonie Concertante from that disc and it's simply excellent. A brilliant piece.

[j winter]

Keeping on with Tchaikovsky, Orchestral Suites 1 & 2, Antal Dorati

[Mirror Image]

Sibelius
Voces Initmae, Op. 56
Gabrieli

[Mirror Image]

I don't have much Szymanowski in my collection but I found this double CD set cheaply on line and am currently greatly enjoying the Violin Concerto No.1. There is a haunting and dreamy quality about the music which I find captivating:

Pounds the table for this, Jeffrey! Szymanowski is a solid favorite of mine.

[vandermolen]

On the last day of April Foulds' lovely "April England" from this (highly and rightly praised) disc;



Foulds explores a very similar sentiment and musical structure to Bridge in "Enter Spring" - a sense of unleashing energy over a passacaglia-type walking bass line.  I love it!  Possibly this Lyrita version;



is even more urgent and ecstatic - Gamba is a full minute and a half slower which is a lot in an eight minute or so piece!  Interestingly, the timing of Kathryn Stott's piano version is almost identical to Wordsworth on Lyrita rather than Gamba....

I hope that you listened to Patrick Hadley's 'Kinder Scout' 

The Lyrita Foulds CD is fabulous, especially for the only recording of 'Hellas'.

[vandermolen]

Pounds the table for this, Jeffrey! Szymanowski is a solid favorite of mine.

Excellent John!
There is something very hypnotic about his music - unlike any other composer, notwithstanding echoes of Debussy.

TD
A symphony that has meant a great deal to me for decades and decades:

[vandermolen]

BLISS:  A Colour Symphony
            Adam Zero
English Northern Philharmonia       David Lloyd-Jones
HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in F op. posth.1   Piano Concerto in A S4/W24
Theme and Variations in F, op. 97
Howard Shelley, piano & cond.   London Mozart Players

Big thumbs up for the Colour Symphony and Adam Zero - that is a very special Bliss CD - one of the best.

[André]