What are you listening 2 now?

[T. D.]

Xenakis on Hyperion? My interest is piqued.

I owned this and sold it years ago. It's pretty good, but I gradually lost my appetite for Xenakis's music (just personal taste).
In the same vein (vocal/choral), Hyperion has a release of Stockhausen's Stimmung, with a different ensemble (Singcircle).

[vers la flamme]

I owned this and sold it years ago. It's pretty good, but I gradually lost my appetite for Xenakis's music (just personal taste).
In the same vein (vocal/choral), Hyperion has a release of Stockhausen's Stimmung, with a different ensemble (Singcircle).

That's pretty cool. I have the Paul Hillier/Theatre of Voices Stimmung, on Harmonia Mundi, another label I might not normally associate with postwar avant-garde music, and I really like it.

[Karl Henning]

CD 7:

Satie
Parade

Milhaud
Le bœuf sur le toit

Auric
Ouverture

Françaix
Concertino for pf & orch
Claude Françaix, pf


Paul Fetler (1920-2018)
Contrasts for Orchestra

Minneapolis Symphony* (Renamed the Minnesota Orchestra)
Doráti

When I first learnt of Parade, while a student at Wooster, I thought I'd love it (goofy and irreverent as it was reputed. Although I have heard it more than once over the years, I have personally never felt that it earned a second listening. The Felter is, of course, a first listen, and it is excellent, a Sinfonia breve in effect, a fine, lively counterpart to the warm, lyrical Bloch

[Papy Oli]

Carl Czerny - piano trios.

Extremely pleasant.

[Todd]

After my initial Naxos splurge at Qobuz, I went back for seconds the next day before the sale ended.  One of the items I picked up, or rather downloaded, was the last volume of Sonia Rubinsky's survey of Villa-Lobos' piano music that I did not own.  Of course it's as good as the rest of her cycle.  I'd very much like to hear her take on Debussy's Preludes as well as Granados and Albeniz.

[Que]

Very nice - and on clavichord.... 

Q

[Mahlerian]

Berg: Lyric Suite
LaSalle Quartet

[Karl Henning]

Berg: Lyric Suite
LaSalle Quartet

Great box!

[Mirror Image]

Sounds great John. Perhaps the finest version of all. Oddly enough it's one of the few that I don't have on CD. I was recently impressed by the Noseda recording on Alto.

Rather surprised you don't own Britten's recording of this work, Jeffrey. I'd say it is the finest version, indeed, with Hickox coming in a distant second-place. I own the Noseda (on the LSO Live label) and I wasn't too impressed with the audio quality I must say, but this is true of almost all of the LSO Live recordings I own. The Barbican Hall has some of the worst acoustics I've heard on record.

[Mirror Image]

Great box!

+ 1

[vandermolen]

Rather surprised you don't own Britten's recording of this work, Jeffrey. I'd say it is the finest version, indeed, with Hickox coming in a distant second-place. I own the Noseda (on the LSO Live label) and I wasn't too impressed with the audio quality I must say, but this is true of almost all of the LSO Live recordings I own. The Barbican Hall has some of the worst acoustics I've heard on record.

I have the double LP set John. Maybe I'll get the CD although I do have a recording of the first performance with Britten conducting.

[Mahlerian]

Great box!

Full of treasures, and this LaSalle performance of the Lyric Suite stands up to the Alban Berg Quartet's, which I listened to last week.

[Traverso]

Stravinsky

Le Rosignol / Le Chant du Rossignol

The Cleveland Orchestre    Pierre Boulez

The Mahler live recording is more penetrating and matured, but when I listened to it, I noticed that I repeatedly thought of the Giulini recording, which I may prefer because of the more lyrical view.

[vandermolen]

Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946)
'King of the Winds'

[vers la flamme]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.5 in B-flat major. Daniel Barenboim, Berlin Philharmonic

[ritter]

Some Bach this afternoon: Rudolf Baumgartner conducts the Festival Strings Lucerne in the Orchestral Suites No. 2, 3 & 4.

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[MusicTurner]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.5 in B-flat major. Daniel Barenboim, Berlin Philharmonic

Like the 4th, among the best in that box, IMO.

[Mirror Image]

I have the double LP set John. Maybe I'll get the CD although I do have a recording of the first performance with Britten conducting.

The first Britten recording on the Testament label actually only has Britten conducting the Melos Ensemble while the heavy conducting duties are carried out by Meredith Davies. I'm afraid this recording doesn't measure up to what Britten achieved years later on Decca. The composer himself, if I'm remembering correctly, mentioned how unhappy he was with that premiere recording. The various remasters have improved the Decca sonics even further.

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - Pléïades. From archive.org so I'm not sure which performance this is .

[Sergeant Rock]

Onto the 9th. This is one of the best Schubert 9ths I've heard. Very fast, precise, but not at all thin or lacking in warmth. The brisk tempi (including in the slow movement) might rub some the wrong way, but I think it works to the work's advantage.

I agree. My favorite version for the reasons you mention. A thrilling performance.

Sarge