What are you listening 2 now?

[Daverz]

I only have Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 with Gibson and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Gibson's 3rd is the Hurwitzer's choice for his "ideal Sibelius symphony cycle":

https://www.youtube.com/v/kGyujfmIW5w

Gibson's Decca 5th is also wonderful, certainly would make it into my top ten somewhere after Bernstein and Karajan.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Piano Trio in D minor, Hob.XV:23

My first meeting ever with any of his piano trios. I couldn't guess it is a Haydn's work without looking at the CD. Positively impressed, this is good and enjoyable music.

Those are lovely recordings!  Glad that you are enjoying them. 

PD

[Carlo Gesualdo]

First I want to tell you my Joy of purchasing Mare Balticum vol 1, I promess myself I would not purchase download again but this  was available only in download, anyway it's excellent glorious series this is I have vol 3 and volume 2 is coming in mail.

That the good stuff, life bring, the bad side is living in Quebec under the leadership of Francois Legault and is surprise confinement and closure of essential service dentist i.e
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[Todd]

2.  The music moves from gooey romanticism to gloppy romanticism, but it's lighter, more colorful, and more tuneful.  A marked improvement over the First.  The short Notre Dame Intermezzo closer for the second disc equivalent sounds lovely. 

[JBS]

CD 2 Quartets 4-6
in f minor Op 33 no 4 (1909/1937)
in e minor Op 47 (1938-39)
in g minor Op 49 (1939-40)
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The parallels with Shostakovich's chamber music are less overt than they were in the first 3 quartets (and obviously Shostakovich would be the influenced one if there was an influence of one on the other) but there still seems to be a common tradition behind both.

[T. D.]

CD 2 Quartets 4-6
in f minor Op 33 no 4 (1909/1937)
in e minor Op 47 (1938-39)
in g minor Op 49 (1939-40)
[asin]B07S98JPZW[/asin]

The parallels with Shostakovich's chamber music are less overt than they were in the first 3 quartets (and obviously Shostakovich would be the influenced one if there was an influence of one on the other) but there still seems to be a common tradition behind both.

How do you find the performances [Myaskovsky complete SQ perf. Taneyev Q on Northern Flowers - image didn't show]?
I was considering the Taneyev chamber music box featuring the same ensemble on the same label, but blistering forum comments about poor intonation (on the Taneyev composer thread) dissuaded me.

[JBS]

How do you find the performances [Myaskovsky complete SQ perf. Taneyev Q on Northern Flowers - image didn't show]?
I was considering the Taneyev chamber music box featuring the same ensemble on the same label, but blistering forum comments about poor intonation (on the Taneyev composer thread) dissuaded me.

I've never heard these works before, so I can't really compare.  If there were intonation problems I missed them. (But I have not listened to the other 3 CDs yet, with Quartets 7-13).  All I can really say is that the music seems very much worth hearing, and this is one of several 20th century SQ cycles that should be better known.

ETA
Don't know why the image is not showing on your end. Let me try this one

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Charles Tournemire - symphony no.3 "Moscou"

[Que]

Morning listening:



Q

[Christo]

Good morning all,

Charles Tournemire - symphony no.3 "Moscou"

Great that you're exploring this prodigious compatriot!

[Irons]

Glazunov: 8th Symphony.

An impressive swansong. Great second movement which is the heart of the work. I do not know either the recordings or the symphonies themselves to make worthwhile comment, but comparing Rozhdestvensky with Svetlanov?

[Papy Oli]

Great that you're exploring this prodigious compatriot!

Not very successfully though, Johan  Nothing much hit the mark for me.

TD: Next French composer : Pierné

[Christo]

Not very successfully though, Johan  Nothing much hit the mark for me.

TD: Next French composer : Pierné

Try Tournemire's Sixth: that one did the trick for me (five years ago). Pierné is always fun, underrated composer.

[Christo]

[Traverso]

Beethoven

Symphony No.3 "Eroica"
Leonore Overture No.2

[pjme]

Rather unlikely neighbours:

Marcel Dupré: Symphonie pour orgue et orchestre (dedicated to sir Henry Wood).
One of many cds found sleeping in my collection.
Very enjoyable - cfr. Joseph Jongens Symphonie concertante: a combination of virtuosity and romantic outpourings.  Also a bit anonymous. But I probably lack knowledge about Dupré's style and language.


The Cambridge Singers conducted by John Rutter "Hail Queen of heaven". Music in the honour of the Virgin Mary: from de Victoria and Richard Dering, to Verdi, Stravinsky and Giles Swayne.
Recorded in 1992, in Ely cathedral. An old favorite. Very beautiful.

[Biffo]

Purcell: Overture & The Masque for Timon of Athens - Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists etc directed by John Eliot Gardiner

[vandermolen]

Thought I'd jump on the GMG Baxathon:

Marvellous performances of both works:

[vandermolen]

Glazunov: 8th Symphony.

An impressive swansong. Great second movement which is the heart of the work. I do not know either the recordings or the symphonies themselves to make worthwhile comment, but comparing Rozhdestvensky with Svetlanov?

That's as good a performance as any IMO.

[vandermolen]

Good morning all,

Charles Tournemire - symphony no.3 "Moscou"

A great symphony IMO.