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[Symphonic Addict]

Passacaglia for orchestra

Just fascinating. One feels like a solid structure is building. It could be my favorite passacaglia ever. A masterpiece.




Symphony No. 3

A guilty pleasure. That ocean of sensuous sonorities bewitches me!

[Symphonic Addict]

The Dunhill is good without being impressive, so is the Arnell, yet more episodic.

[vandermolen]

Passacaglia for orchestra

Just fascinating. One feels like a solid structure is building. It could be my favorite passacaglia ever. A masterpiece.




Symphony No. 3

A guilty pleasure. That ocean of sensuous sonorities bewitches me!

The Jensen work is terrific.

TD: Weinberg: Symphony No.6
The opening of this performance, taken very slowly, is incredibly moving, more so than in other recordings and the recording quality itself allows so much more detail to be heard. The Kondrashin recording has a searching quality all of its own but this has been a great find and I have enjoyed all three works:

[Madiel]

Scriabin opuses 38 (Valse), 47 (short 'quasi valse') and 48 (4 very tiny preludes).



It's apparent that this is the period where Scriabin's connection to tonality is beginning to loosen. Certainly, op.38 is a lot more conventionally tonal (albeit in Scriabin's hothouse way) than op.48.

[Madiel]

Nørgård, Entwicklungen (Developments, sung in German)



One of the more palatable things that I've heard from this period of the composer (1986), though I'm still not that sure about it on a first listen. But damn I always admire that album cover...

Followed by Prelude to Breaking. Okay, this I like. Mostly because I can make sense of what's happening.

[Traverso]

Scarlatti

CD 2

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

Braga Santos - Alfama suite

[vandermolen]

Good afternoon all,

Braga Santos - Alfama suite

Afternoon Olivier,
That is an excellent CD!

[Todd]

Disc two equivalent.

[Traverso]

Schubert

CD 1

"The best of Janet Baker"

[Papy Oli]

Afternoon Olivier,
That is an excellent CD!

Enjoyed this composer so far with his 1st and 4th (not so much his 5th). This CD will indeed go into the "stream again" list as well.

TD: Arnold - Film music Vol.2

[vandermolen]

Enjoyed this composer so far with his 1st and 4th (not so much his 5th). This CD will indeed go into the "stream again" list as well.

TD: Arnold - Film music Vol.2

Thumbs up for St Trinians! I like his film score for David Copperfield as well. As for Braga Santos, it's symphonies 1 to 4 which I greatly admire and especially 3 and 4.

TD: HB Symphony No.3
I hadn't realised before quite how Mahlerian the opening is:

[Irons]

CD5 from the Ultimate Brahms.  Earlier today, his violin concerto with Szeryng and just now, his double concerto with Szeryng and Starker/Concertgebouw/Haitink.

Happy listening here! 

PD

My favourite recording of the Double Concerto.

[Biffo]

Rubbra: Symphony No 10 Sinfonia da Camera,Op 145 -  BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted By Richard Hickox

[André]

The Dunhill is good without being impressive, so is the Arnell, yet more episodic.

I really enjoyed the disc. The Dunhill symphony suffers from an ordinary first movement, but the rest is quite imaginative and the slow movement is very moving. As for the Arnell suite, well: it's Arnell  .

[vandermolen]

Shostakovich: Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917', Mravinsky, Leningrad PO

[André]

Music from 2 ballets for which Arnell provided music. The composer considered Angels a symphony (would have been no 5 1/2, à la Don Gillis according to the booklet notes  ). Excellent stuff. What an imagination this composer had !

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Shostakovich: Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917', Mravinsky, Leningrad PO

Nice! 

Cracked open the Voxbox set of Chamber Works by Women Composers with the Macalester Trio (who, frankly, I hadn't heard of before now).  Listened to Clara Schumann's Trio for Piano, violin and cello which I quite enjoyed.  Interesting to read that almost her entire output was during her husband's lifetime (though she outlived by 40 years!).  Think that I'll visit this set more this evening.  Couldn't pass on this set...for a dollar!  A great chance to explore some female composers' music.   

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

My favourite recording of the Double Concerto.

Couldn't say no to it:  $1.00 

PD

[Todd]