What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

+1 - also own Fröst in the other two recordings added above.  Dave

Frost has a new CD of music by Vivaldi transcribed/arranged for clarinet.

TD
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Been going through this set, now up to CD 11, which leads off with an "improvisation " on Strauss's Blue Danube waltz, continues with two sets of "klavierstucke" and ends with "Maria Weigenlied".

[SonicMan46]

Strauss, Richard - Horn & Chamber Works from the discs below - been listening to his more notable orchestral music last night and this morning - now onto some of his other compositions - Dave
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[Maestro267]

Glazunov: Symphony No. 5
Russian State SO/Polyansky

Arnold: Symphony No. 7
NSO Ireland/Penny

[71 dB]

Corigliano: Music for Violin & Piano-  Ida Bieler / Nina Tichman - Naxos 8.559306

This one arrived today. I am new to Corigliano and this is my first disc of his music. I like this a lot. Americans really show their intellectual side when it comes to small scale chamber music like this. I like the inner peace and calm nature, but the music is also edgy enough to keep up the interest. Great balance in that sense. 

I also have a Naxos disc of Piano Trios by Schifrin, Schuller and Shapiro and I love it!  0:)

[Todd]

Disc two.

[Mirror Image]

This fabulous disc:

[JBS]

Decided to go through Egarr's series of Handel on Harmonia Mundi by opus number order
So this afternoon

[Traverso]

Handel

I just wanted to liten to this beautiful sonata in F for recorder HWV 369

[Traverso]

Decided to go through Egarr's series of Handel on Harmonia Mundi by opus number order
So this afternoon

That's a coincidence my friend 

[Karl Henning]

A fine combination given that Holmboe loved Haydn.

Although, of course, it cannot literally be true, part of me wants to say that any composer worth his salt would love Haydn.

[Karl Henning]

Would not recommend, unless you are a fan of watered-down Chopin/Debussy:

Thanks for taking one for the team!

[vers la flamme]

Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, op.25. Emil Gilels, Amadeus Quartet (minus one violin)

As much as I have grown to love Brahms over the past year, the piano quartets are kind of a blind spot for me, so this is essentially unfamiliar territory for me. Very much enjoying it so far; I'm in a strongly receptive phase for Brahms's chamber music. The Amadeus Quartet sound is really growing on me, it's very bright, kind of shrill, but with a very fluid, "creamy" ensemble sound. As for Gilels, he is definitely one of the greatest Brahmsian pianists and his presence here is much appreciated.

[MusicTurner]

Would not recommend, unless you are a fan of watered-down Chopin/Debussy:

I found the Scherbakov recording on Naxos better in some of that repertoire.

[vandermolen]

This fabulous disc:

I agree - a great disc.

Playing now.
Erik Chisholm: Symphony No.2 'Ossian' (1939)
A fine, atmospheric and memorable  symphony IMO.
Not unlike Bantock in places:

[Daverz]

CPE Bach



https://open.qobuz.com/album/thkh537tikmca

The strings are very aggressively HIP in the opening of the Wq. 183 symphony, but otherwise I like everything else about the playing.

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Albert Wolff

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Wonderful vintage stereo recording with this great French orchestra.

[Karl Henning]

Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
Constantin Silvestri

[Mirror Image]

I agree - a great disc.

It sure is, Jeffrey.

Now playing:



One of the more underrated Soviet composers. He could be seen as a direct descendant of Shostakovich or Prokofiev, but, quite honestly, he developed his own unique language. I remember the first-time I heard this composer I thought "There's another Tchaikovsky?" and I heard the work Sebastopol Symphony and feel in love with the work. I've been a pretty big fan ever since.

[vandermolen]

It sure is, Jeffrey.

Now playing:



One of the more underrated Soviet composers. He could be seen as a direct descendant of Shostakovich or Prokofiev, but, quite honestly, he developed his own unique language. I remember the first-time I heard this composer I thought "There's another Tchaikovsky?" and I heard the work Sebastopol Symphony and feel in love with the work. I've been a pretty big fan ever since.

Interesting looking CD John. What's 'Signs of the Zodiac' like?

[Todd]

The Eroica.  Meticulously well executed, but lacks a spark. 

[Symphonic Addict]

It sure is, Jeffrey.

Now playing:



One of the more underrated Soviet composers. He could be seen as a direct descendant of Shostakovich or Prokofiev, but, quite honestly, he developed his own unique language. I remember the first-time I heard this composer I thought "There's another Tchaikovsky?" and I heard the work Sebastopol Symphony and feel in love with the work. I've been a pretty big fan ever since.

Thoroughly agree with this. The Chamber Symphony has some piquant writing. IIRC a harpsichord appears there and it gives a great effect to the music. The Clarinet Concerto is good fun. The other works are unknown to me.