What are you listening 2 now?

[vers la flamme]

Karajan only came to Mahler after everyone else was doing it, and was more "selective" about which works he performed. I can't say whether he did or didn't love Mahler's music, but he didn't love even the works he did touch enough to perform the scores accurately.

To my ears, Karajan's Mahler performances drain the music of emotion, of drama, and of color. It's pretty much all of the things that some others accuse Boulez's Mahler performances of doing, and I don't know why I hear things so differently, but I will say that Boulez's performances are accurate to Mahler's instructions and Karajan's are not.

Some of the greatest Mahler conductors were selective with the works they performed. Karajan recorded as many different Mahler symphonies as did Klemperer.

I still want you to listen to Karajan's recording of the 9th sometime. I would be really curious to see if your comments about the music being drained of emotion, drama & color would apply to that performance. (I'm familiar with the live recording but the studio is also worthwhile from what I've heard).

[Todd]

Whilst driving back from the coffee shop this morning (coffee shops are essential businesses!), I heard an excerpt from this recording, so I decided to revisit the whole thing.  It's every bit as wonderful as the last time I listened to it.

Messrs Yang and Pace were slated to perform Beethoven's compete cello sonatas in concert, but the performances were cancelled.  I don't know if the intention was to record the performances and release them, or if the duo already has, but this is one duo that must perform and record the works.

[Papy Oli]

Fitzwilliam Virginal book (Vol.1 CD1) - Belder.

[André]

Nice! Distler is a composer whose life was an illustration of total dedication to music. I have a couple of discs of his choral music. It is not easy stuff, not because of dissonance, chromaticism and the like, but because it is so deeply spiritual, it makes one feel almost like eavesdropping on a private exchange.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Papy Oli]

Reynaldo Hahn - Complete songs (CD1)

[Traverso]

Karajan only came to Mahler after everyone else was doing it, and was more "selective" about which works he performed. I can't say whether he did or didn't love Mahler's music, but he didn't love even the works he did touch enough to perform the scores accurately.

To my ears, Karajan's Mahler performances drain the music of emotion, of drama, and of color. It's pretty much all of the things that some others accuse Boulez's Mahler performances of doing, and I don't know why I hear things so differently,.

That's unavoidable in a world of" alternative facts" I'm afraid.

[Mirror Image]

Three fine works and a great portrait of Walton on the cover. I much prefer the Viola Concerto to the more famous Violin Concerto and the Hindemith tribute is one of my favourites by Walton. Of course Hindemith first performed the Viola Concerto.

Yes, indeed. A fine Walton disc all-around. All of the Walton series on Chandos recordings have been top-notch.

[pjme]

The last movement of Distlers concerto is a dizzying tour de force:

https://www.youtube.com/v/WSj8EfV0Tw0

[Mirror Image]

Mahler
Rückert-Lieder
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Bernstein
Wierner Philharmoniker

[JBS]

Landed yesterday, first listen now
[asin]B081KQ4PV3[/asin]


The Strasnoy appeals more to me than the other two, but that's not saying much. Probably all three works need several listens to adequately judge.

All three are about the same length but only the Abrahamsen is in more than one movement. He wrote it for "the left hand alone" as a reflection of his own disability: he was born with what the liner notes call "a right hand that is not fully functional", and plays the horn because that is the only instrument which can be played with only the left hand.

[listener]

GRAINGER:  Works for Large Chorus and Orchestra
Melbourne S.O. & Chorus      Sir Andrew Davis, cond.

Music from the Court of August the Strong
trio sonatas by BACH, HASSE, LOTTI, HEINICHEN, VIVALDI, QUANTZ, BUFFARDINI
Elisabeth Weinzierl & Edmund Wachtel, flutes   Eva Schieferstein, harpsichord   Ulrich Fuchs, cello

[Judith]

Listening to Beethoven Piano Concerto no 2 from the new box set performed by
Stephen Hough
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Hannu Lintu

Lovely fresh performances🎹🎹🎼🎼

[vandermolen]

Frank Martin: Polyptyque (for violin and two string orchestras).



Probably coincidental but could not help but notice that the two Martin works ("Jedermann") I'm currently playing are both in six parts, religious and end in redemption.

That was a great LP. I remember it well!

[vandermolen]

Not yet, but I'm hoping to ... also, Ischia seems worth a stay, plus it is less crowded than Capri.
However, travelling to Italy is probably out of the question for me, for at least 1-2 years, though the Gulf of Naples is generally easily reachable.
Hopefully, things will settle down not within too long ... some of the lesser known sights nearby include Munthe's villa on Capri, and the gardens of Ninfa on the mainland, haven't been to them either.

Well, I hope that you get there one day.

[Karl Henning]

CD 4:

Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances
three suites

Philharmonia Hungarica
Doráti

Arrangements to which my response remains meh, I fear,

[T. D.]

New arrival, after an absurd 21-day postal tour (US Postal Service "media mail" has gone completely off the rails).

[steve ridgway]

First listen to Xenakis - Jonchaies. Crikey this is good stuff .

[SonicMan46]

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908) - Chamber Works at the moment from the first 3 discs below - not his forte but much of the music is enjoyable; also own his Piano Trio in a Russian Trio collection - BUT, for me, the orchestral music is my attraction over the decades - I've culled out a bunch of recordings and settled on the 4-CD box w/ Kees Bakels and the Malaysian PO (what?) - will likely start on the box later today and tomorrow.  For those interested, reviews attached of all but the 'String Quartets' which I feel are the weakest part of this bunch (although the cover art is beautiful - ) - Dave
.
     

[Mirror Image]

First listen to Xenakis - Jonchaies. Crikey this is good stuff .

Indeed! It's like Xenakis' Le sacre du printemps. I'm glad I bought that box set as it's pretty impossible to find now and if one does find it, it's incredibly expensive.

Thread duty -

Martinů
String Trio No. 2
Jacques Thibaud Strio Trio