What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Johann Ludwig Krebs.
Complete Works for Organ.
Volume II.
Felix Friedrich plays on the Silbermann Organ in Ponitz.

To my ears still the best set on the market, Friedrich has no competition. The sound engineering is State of the Art.

[Harry]

New acquisition, first listen.

Hubert Clifford.
Orchestral music.
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp

A versatile composer, he can set his hands at anything and make a success out of it. And so it is with his music, lightweight by all means, but expertly done. A fine orchestrator, and a magician with melodies and harmonies. Was especially taken with the Cowes Suite, Dargo: A Mountain Rhapsody, A Pageant of Youth, and the gorgeous Voyage at Dusk. Sublime sound and performance.

[Papy Oli]

As our Karl would say: "Nice !" 

[Papy Oli]

Again :

[Traverso]

As our Karl would say: "Nice !" 

+1

[Traverso]

Beethoven

Choral Fantasy

[Maestro267]

Schnittke: Symphony No. 6
BBC NOW/Otaka

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Berlin PO/Karajan

[pjme]

Again :

I joined in with "l'An mil'.
Many moons ago I discovered this work through a Dutch radio performance, led by Jean Fournet. Jacques Mercier is excellent of course.
I enjoy being submerged by this colorful and evocative music- reminiscent perhaps of sentimental "images d'Epinal', the Doré Bible and my own (very pious) childhood memories of church services shrouded in clouds of incense.
Until the 1950s artists could depict heaven and hell with a good dose of pompous splendor...helped by Bach, Haendel, Gounod and Massenet. Pierné ticks all the boxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89pinal_print
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9%27s_illustrations_for_La_Grande_Bible_de_Tours

[Biffo]

Purcell: Dioclesian - Soloists, Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists directed by John Eliot Gardiner

[Todd]

[Madiel]

Pejacevic, piano quartet. Thoroughly enjoyable.

[kyjo]

Earlier today: Mortensen Symphony No.1
I was very pleased to hear this finally.
It reminded me rather of William Wordsworth's fine Second Symphony.
The third movement also had moments seemingly influenced by the music of his teacher Klaus Egge, whose First Symphony remains my favourite Norwegiam symphony. I look forward to hearing the Mortensen again:

I enjoy the Mortensen quite a bit more than the Wordsworth (I do like Wordsworth's 4th symphony though.)

[kyjo]

An underrated symphony. The slow movement is sublime.

+1 and Sanderling's recordings are great. Some have commented that his tempi are too slow but I find they lend Magnard's music an appropriate gravitas without sacrificing forward motion.

[kyjo]

Symphonies 1 & 2

These are pretty decent symphonies by the Spanish composer Andrés Gaos (1874-1959). The 1st is in a Franckian style, whereas the 2nd En las Montañas de Galicia has a folksy nature, mostly in the 1st movement. Enjoyable enough but not great.

The 2nd symphony is quite enjoyable with catchy tunes and some beautiful harmonies in the slow movement, although it lacks symphonic "meatiness" and is therefore more like a suite. The 1st symphony didn't sound too promising from what I sampled.

[vandermolen]

The 6th is still your least favorite? You've gotta give it another chance!

My preferred Bax symphonies at the moment are 1, 3, and 6. The others all have their great moments, but I find these three to be most consistently great.

Actually I like all the Bax symphonies Kyle. I like the Lloyd-Jones recording of No.6. It occurred to me that I need to listen to the Handley Chandos Bax box.

[Que]

Q

[vandermolen]

New acquisition, first listen.

Hubert Clifford.
Orchestral music.
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp

A versatile composer, he can set his hands at anything and make a success out of it. And so it is with his music, lightweight by all means, but expertly done. A fine orchestrator, and a magician with melodies and harmonies. Was especially taken with the Cowes Suite, Dargo: A Mountain Rhapsody, A Pageant of Youth, and the gorgeous Voyage at Dusk. Sublime sound and performance.

On my list! I love 'Symphony 1940' so need to hear this disc as well. Thanks for the review Harry.

[kyjo]

Grieg, Sigurd Jorsalfar

I'll have to listen to the complete work at some point. I've always loved the stirring Homage March.

[vandermolen]

Kenins (not going to try to produce the proper Lativan spelling)



The music is neo-Classical/neo-Romantic, very weil constructed, engaging and distinctive.  Kenins was born in Latvia in 1919, but lived in Canada from 1951 until his death in 2008.

Oh, looks interesting. Does the music remind you of any other composers?

[vandermolen]

That's a cracking disc in vintage Chandos/Ulster Hall sound.  The last great surge of "The Sea" gets me every time - both in this version and the unforgettable Charles Groves recording from Liverpool.  You can understand why the work made such an impression on the young Britten and led him to ask Bridge to teach and mentor him.

Absolutely - it's a great disc and I like all four works from different composers. The Stanford is a generous addition to the original CD release. Bax's 'On the Seashore' was a fine discovery for me and the Britten and Bridge get great performances. I was reading through that book of Letters from British Composers/Musicians up to 1945 and was interested to read how negative Britten was about Vaughan Williams's music.