What are you listening 2 now?

[Daverz]

Alan Rawsthorne is not a composer with whom I have too much affinity, and this disc kind of confirms that, except for the SQ in D major which has engaging and "warmer" music, and possibly the 3rd SQ. IOW, these works do justice to his last name by making a word game: raw and thorny.

My favorite Rawsthorne is the Cello Concerto:



Probably one of his most approachable works.  Still not a composer I would go to for melodic interest or lyrical charm.

[Mookalafalas]

Listened to Wispelwey and Kuijken yesterday, and now this.



  Each is remarkably different. Yang is...amazing.

[Que]

Morning listening (rerun):

[Florestan]

Com'e gentil di quarantena uscir
E azzuro il ciel
Il sol'e senza vel!

[Biffo]

Hello guys, listening to Tomas Luis De Victoria -Officium Defunctorum
on Lauda Label Spain

-La grande Chapelle & Albert Recasens/Schola Antiqua JuanCarlos Asensio
The CD media sleeve looks good and the CD sound so good, THIS IS A 2020 album , I suspect this is a super audio CD.

Had five CD's of Victoria, one of Nordic voice The motets which was super but lost it, two on Accent label that were drab to me, one on Dorian that did not impressed me, last a Naxos  that was lifeless for my expectancy toward the composer. So I had a love and hate  syndrome of this composer, felt at first he was a bid boring, too orthodox, but whit this awesome by Lauda & Nordic Voices my idea on the persona and skill of De Victoria change.

Did the same genre of experience happen to , you were not sold to a composer until you would listen to the right albums. Rarely find composer of renaissance not captivating, all you need is buy the right albums this exploration demand cash, to find the right one.

Goodnight : friend , music lovers, musicologist, fan of my post if there is any, take care.

P.s I order The forgotten Kingdom an old 2010 album of Jordi Savall 3 CD, look and sound surreal, had it in download but sometime you loose download and it's lame, and the sound is better you have a media actually iit's brand new and I feel the CD was becoming out of print at Presto Classical everywhere, only on music market it was available witch is: Ebay and I don't make affair whit Amazon, got trouble once, so I purchase it and it's coming my way in the mail.

I hope you enjoy The Forgotten Kingdom - the CD album has substantial essays and illustrations.

[vandermolen]

My favorite Rawsthorne is the Cello Concerto:



Probably one of his most approachable works.  Still not a composer I would go to for melodic interest or lyrical charm.

And mine is the 'Symphonic Studies'.
Now playing - Hilding Rosenberg's Symphony No.6 'Semplice'.

[vandermolen]

Up next, Hanson's Organ Concerto, along with a bite to eat ("if music be the food of love..."):

Thumbs up for Hanson's Organ Concerto.

[vers la flamme]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.8 in C minor, WAB 108. Jesús López-Cobos, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

So far, so good. I think this is my first time hearing an American orchestra play Bruckner, and I'm pleased with the results. I should hear more Cincinnati Symphony recordings, they're clearly a talented, virtuosic orchestra. Moreover I'm impressed with maestro López-Cobos' interpretive acumen.

[Mookalafalas]

[Biffo]

Wonderful works, and my favourite recording of them, by a fair margin.

Delightful, Hacker/Music Party is the only recording I have. Listening to Nos 1 & 2 today.

[Traverso]

Alban Berg

Lulu

[ritter]

This CD just arrived in my office. IIRC, this will be my first encounter with the music of Charles Tournemire (I never got around to explore his orchestral symphonies when they were being released on several labels in the early 90s, and I've never been much into organ music), and I'm approaching him via his melódie output


The opening Sagesse, op. 34 is really serious religious stuff, "a dialogue between an unworthy soul and his Saviour" as the booklet puts it. The first impression is that the piano part is rather more interesting than the vocal line. Let's see how the rest of the CD is.

[Florestan]

The first impression is that the piano part is rather more interesting than the vocal line.

That certainly rings a bell for me (Vierne). 

[ritter]

That certainly rings a bell for me (Vierne). 

Indeed...

In any case, I found these Tournemire mélodies excruciatingly tedious. Have stopped the CD halfway through. Will have to revisit in another moment (when I'm in another mood?  ).

Good day to you, Andrei.

[vandermolen]

Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3 LSO/Previn - what a marvellous performance! Urgent, exciting, reflective, moving - best known to me:

[Todd]

Disc 27, Mendelssohn and Liszt.

[Traverso]

Stravinsky


Le Sacre du Printemps
Wiener Philharmoniker   Lorin Maazel

This recording has only recently come to my attention, I have had it as an LP but now finally as a CD.This twofer is an absolute must because the other works are also superbly performed and recorded,so in short .......don't wait till it is OOP.

[Papy Oli]

Not really into opera but John/MI recommended that work in the French thread, so i am having a go:

[Biffo]

Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major - Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli - recorded 1957

[Harry]

Hat tip to Traverso who enabled me to buy this complete set of Bach's organ music.

J.S. Bach.
Complete Organ Works.
Volume I.

The Toccatas
Toccata con Fuga in D minor, BWV 565
Toccata in C major, BWV 566
Toccata and Fuga in F major, BWV 540
Toccata, Adagio and Fuge, in C major, BWV 564
Toccata and Fuga in D minor (Dorian), BWV 538

Ewald Kooiman, plays on a Christian Müller organ, 1735-38.
Grote of St. Bavokerk, Haarlem, Netherlands.



The organ of the St-Bavo church is one of the world's great organs. It was built by Christian Müller and Jan van Logteren, from Amsterdam, between 1735 and 1738.  Upon completion it was the largest organ in the world with 60 voices and 32-feet pedal-towers. It possesses 3 keyboards, 64 stops, and 5000 pipes, the largest of which is l5 inches in diameter and 32 ft. long. Many famous people played this organ, including Mendelssohn, Handel and the 10-year old Mozart. The organ was modified a number of times in the 19th and 20th century. These changes were undone in the restorations between 1959 and 2000. A local story goes to say that the bass of the organ was so low, the mortar in between the brimstones started to brittle to nothing.


The Christian Müller organ is a marvel in sound, no doubt about it, and having Ewald Kooiman to play it is a marvel in itself. I was looking for a long time, to get this set, but I was not very successful, and out of the blue came Traverso, telling me he found a complete set, and now I have it!
I will have to immerse myself, and enjoy, before I have an opinion. Suffice to say, that I recognize Kooiman's style, and a recording that captures this organ well.