What are you listening 2 now?

[Iota]

Ives: New England Holidays (Symphony)

Bernstein, NYPO


A truly marvel-filled score. Bernstein seems like a fish in water in this music.

[André]

Despite star billing, Guernica (a tone poem) represents less than 1/6 of the disc's playing time:



Like many composers, Balada has gone through different phases, so one cannot assess his style all that easily. This program gives a nice overview of his work. The ballet scenes from Zapata are the most easily accessible pieces here, using many popular mexican tunes. They are also the least challenging musically, therefore less interesting. The 5 other works that precede it are more meaty and memorable, packing power and drama in short time spans. The symphony is in a single movement, making it a sizeable piece despite its relatively short overall timing.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Arrau can be of varying interest IMHO ... which ones do you like better then (as of now)?

I really love this set...of William Kempff 



PD

[André]

The three Divertimentos are scored for strings only and are fascinating studies on string sonorities. The Prague Sinfonietta is a work composed with Mozart's Prague symphony as its initial impulse. Very fine. The 5th symphony is in 3 rather unrelated movements. I can't say it hangs together well, but each movement is impressively evocative.

[vandermolen]

Stanley Bate: Symphony No.3


Now, Erik Chisholm's 'Pictures from Dante' - his masterpiece I think.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello first of all...

I was about to tell you of a latest purchased but were deceive a bit - The calling of Rome_ I wish there were more Josquin than Victoria But I guess that me.

Next please a blast   a suprise purchased currently listening tonight -The new york polyphony and there cue on Tudor music album is called Tudor City and it is splendid so far after this  i will listen to a guitar rendition of renaissance trough Noel Akchoté , a composer that a great favorite.

goog night




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[Karl Henning]

First listen to this new arrival: Abravanel conducts Satie.


Sounds good so far, but I don't think I'll listen to the whole set in one single sitting (two hours worth of circus music in one go seems excessive  ).

A little of the Satie orchestral music goes quite a long way, I find.

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky
Les noces
Mass
Lenny & al. on DG

[Karl Henning]

A new piece by my friend & colleague David Bohn:

https://www.youtube.com/v/DPHDirCqQ9o

[Karl Henning]

Also, the MIDI demo of a lovely set of vn/pf pieces by my friend & colleague Pamela Marshall

[Symphonic Addict]

Vittorio Giannini: Symphonies 3 & 4

Two very nice works, being the No. 3 an amiable piece for concert band with fresh music running throughout. The No. 4 is Neo-romantic in idiom with certain hints of Hindemith, mostly in the outer movements and a sort of Rachmaninovian/Marxian feel to it in the 2nd. That symphony gave me a better impression, absolutely fantastic. The Piano Concerto on that CD is terrific too, rather in the vein of the symphony.

[Todd]

Outstanding in every way.

[Symphonic Addict]

The Dies Irae had just started when news of the Beirut explosions flashed on my ipad  .

Very uncanny.

[JBS]

Just finished an excellent performance of DSCH Fourth Symphony from this set

Recorded live in May 1987 with the USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra.  Only demerit was some determined coughing in the audience.

[vandermolen]

First listen to this new arrival: Abravanel conducts Satie.

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Sounds good so far, but I don't think I'll listen to the whole set in one single sitting (two hours worth of circus music in one go seems excessive    ).

That was one of the discs highly praised by David Hurwitz in his Abravanel appreciation video.

[Florestan]

This is an outstanding performance. Mrs Rev makes a convincing case for these works being not mere salon trifles but deeply felt utterances on a par with Chopin's or Schumann's.

[Daverz]

Lighter music tonight...

Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No. 1

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Delightful.

Korngold: The Cello Concerto written for Deception and a bit from Die Tote Stadt arranged for cello

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Wallfisch plays these confections beautifully.

[Traverso]

Mozart

CD 5

piano sonatas 3-13 & 16

[aligreto]

Dufay: Chansons [Landauer/Posch]

[aligreto]

Oh, how rapturously beautiful these songs are! Some of my favorite vocal music ever written.

I wholeheartedly agree.