What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yes, I do - except it's not in this particular release. I also very much like Nilsson's live gala performance of the final scene from the Met 1977 with Böhm conducting. Thrilling beyond words.

I'll have to see if I can find that on yt.  I don't recall ever seeing it before.

PD

p.s.  I also have it in this [gruesome-looking] incarnation.  The elegant one that I posted earlier was a gift from a very sweet and generous friend across the pond. 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yes, I've just added Boult's performance to my message above.

Here are the Chandos CD releases:
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Thanks for that link; I enjoyed the Stanford piece!

PD

[Traverso]

The Art of Courtly Love

CD2

[Traverso]

Good find

I thought that you didn't like Rameau   

[Papy Oli]

Taking a break from Pierné with a first proper listen to Madetoja. Sampling it briefly a few weeks back, that seemed quite interesting

Symphony No.1.

[Florestan]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yes, I do - except it's not in this particular release. I also very much like Nilsson's live gala performance of the final scene from the Met 1977 with Böhm conducting. Thrilling beyond words.

Ah!  The 1977 date threw me.  I think that you were referring to the gala honoring Sir Rudolf Bing?  If so, I have it:


PD

p.s.  And, yes, she's excellent in it! 

[Mandryka]

I thought that you didn't like Rameau   

I don't. He's too baroque for me.  I was trying not to listen to the music and just watch the dancing.

[springrite]

I don't. He's too baroque for me.  I was trying not to listen to the music and just watch the dancing.

Hope you like mime.

[Traverso]

Hope you like mime.

[André]

Ah!  The 1977 date threw me.  I think that you were referring to the gala honoring Sir Rudolf Bing?  If so, I have it:


PD

p.s.  And, yes, she's excellent in it! 

Yes, that's the one ! You're right about the date, of course: 1972, not 1977 !

[vandermolen]

Taking a break from Pierné with a first proper listen to Madetoja. Sampling it briefly a few weeks back, that seemed quite interesting

Symphony No.1.

Great, although Symphony No.2 is my favourite.
TD
Vaughan Williams: the craggy 'Fantasia on the Old 104th'
This work was coupled with Boult's recording of Symphony No.9 in the VW symphonies boxed set acquired when I was 17 and thus has a special appeal to me. I'm not sure that it has been recorded since.

[vandermolen]

Bax: Nympholept
A work that I like very much.
This is a fine performance but the opening is taken rather faster than in Thomson's recording, which has a more dreamy atmosphere, and it remains my preferred version:

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yes, that's the one ! You're right about the date, of course: 1972, not 1977 !

André,

Have you read either of the two books that he wrote?  They're fun and interesting reading.

PD

[listener]

Organ music by Zoltan KODÁLY
Prelude on Pange lingua, Organ Mass, 9 Epigrams )arr. Gabor Trajtler from pieces for solo voice or instrument and piano=
Hans Fagius, 1964 Grönlund Organ of Engelbrekt Church, Stockholm
Cristóbal HALFFTER   
works for instrumental ensemble including a saxophone quartet   

[Symphonic Addict]

An impressive work for soloists, chorus, children chorus, organ and orchestra. Moments of ecstasy, meditation and anger are felt through this splendid piece.




Two delicious works full of charm. These Toccata releases of Moszkowski have been quite rewarding till now.

[André]

André,

Have you read either of the two books that he wrote?  They're fun and interesting reading.

PD

No, I don't, although I know them from reviews. About Nilsson he is said to have remarked «Nilsson is not difficult. You put enough money in, and a glorious voice comes out ». I've read Nilsson's autobiography though and that, too is fun and interesting. One of her quips: « Isolde made me famous. Turandot made me rich ».

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Organ music by Zoltan KODÁLY
Prelude on Pange lingua, Organ Mass, 9 Epigrams )arr. Gabor Trajtler from pieces for solo voice or instrument and piano=
Hans Fagius, 1964 Grönlund Organ of Engelbrekt Church, Stockholm
Cristóbal HALFFTER   
works for instrumental ensemble including a saxophone quartet

I hadn't realized that Kodaly had written organ music before.  How did you like it?

No, I don't, although I know them from reviews. About Nilsson he is said to have remarked «Nilsson is not difficult. You put enough money in, and a glorious voice comes out ». I've read Nilsson's autobiography though and that, too is fun and interesting. One of her quips: « Isolde made me famous. Turandot made me rich ».

Yes, I've heard that quote before.  Hadn't heard the Nilsson one though.

I found both of them used for modest amounts.  His autobiography/memoirs was quite interesting:  his interests and talents, surviving through wars, how he found work, etc. (It's been quite a while since I've read them)....oh, my!  I just looked at Wiki and read about his final years.  Quite shocking and sad....truly.

PD

[JBS]

Second listen


Myaskovsky String Quartets performed by the Taneyev Quartet.

Second listen to this set, but not in chronological order. At the moment SQs 1-3.

Perhaps the composer was responding to pressure from ideologues and censors, but his quartets are a sort of backwards journey through the genre's history.  The earlier quartets sound 20th century and in line with the era in which they were written; the middle quartets are 19th century Brahms/Schumann/middle period Beethoven, and the final quartets have a Haydnesque atmosphere (but neo-classical would not be a good label).

I do like everything I've heard.

[Symphonic Addict]

String Sextet in A major

So long since my last listen. What a display of beauty and gorgeous tunes. A really lovely work.