What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

What complete set would you recommend for Schubert SQ's? The other ones I have are Diogenes and Kodalyi but I've never listened to them in their entirety.

The Melos Quartet set is really good.  I like the Auryn Q set, but I guess I should have mentioned that they were an acquired taste!  Oh well I think you already ordered it when I initially commented.

[Symphonic Addict]

Promoting the work of Zara Levina, which I am going to have to investigate :

Two fabulous concertos there. Rachmaninov and Prokofiev seem clear influences.

[JBS]

Another item from the package that landed yesterday

[Todd]

The great news first.  Nils Mönkemeyer continues to bat 1.000.  This mostly (true) baroque disc is just a delight start to finish.  Mönkemeyer makes as strong a case for Vivaldi as I have ever heard, with RV416, in particular, a scorcher.  I can take or leave Vivaldi most of the time - here it's just freakin' sweet.  A couple world premiere recordings of viola works by one Alessandro Rolla flank Tartini's L'arte del arco, which of course works.  (And Mönkemeyer's solo playing in the Rolla is just amazing.)  The disc closes with an augmented Sonata for Viola and Orchestra by Paganini.  Mönkemeyer offers his own cadenza in the opening movement, and Sciarrino penned the second cadenza, but the rest is Paganini, and the violist shows himself the technically dazzling equal of any fiddler. 

Now to the not so great news.  The recorded sound offers timbral accuracy and detail aplenty, but it is too close and too compressed.  It sounds like it was mastered for streaming and listening via headphones.  I will have to live with that.  The playing makes it easy.

[Symphonic Addict]

Symphonie marine. I'm pretty sure I had listened to this work much before, but my memories didn't help that much, so I decided to give it a listen. Seriously superb piece, somewhat in the vein of his Ouverture de fête. The rhythm and the imaginative orchestration stand out.




Shakespeare Suite. Music inspired by female characters from Shakespeare's plays. This was rather lovely. Foerster wrote some interesting pieces, and this one must be included there.

[SimonNZ]

[Daverz]

Symphonie marine. I'm pretty sure I had listened to this work much before, but my memories didn't help that much, so I decided to give it a listen. Seriously superb piece, somewhat in the vein of his Ouverture de fête. The rhythm and the imaginative orchestration stand out.




Shakespeare Suite. Music inspired by female characters from Shakespeare's plays. This was rather lovely. Foerster wrote some interesting pieces, and this one must be included there.

If you are interested in symphonic music based on Shakespeare, check out the 2 discs of works inspired by the plays by Castelnuovo-Tedesco on Naxos.

[North Star]

Morales
Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae
Utopia

These Belgian hands sound mighty fine.

[André]

A very good version of the Pathétique. It won me over by virtue of its directness, unvarnished honesty and the orchestra's wholesome commitment. It reminded me most of Munch's BSO version. Both share a taut, dense, trumpet-dominated orchestral texture wholly appropriate to the score. Timings are practically identical, too. This is no-nonsense, genuine, raw Tchaikovsky.

[SimonNZ]

[Symphonic Addict]

If you are interested in symphonic music based on Shakespeare, check out the 2 discs of works inspired by the plays by Castelnuovo-Tedesco on Naxos.

Oh yes, I do have those discs. It's been some years since I heard those overtures, and I thought they were quite entertaining. BTW, C-T is one of my favorite Italian composers.

[Symphonic Addict]

Speaking of the aforementioned composer

The Concertino for harp and orchestra is a real stunner. It has some exotic tinges in the 2nd movement with its oriental echoes (like something from China or Japan). Why did I wait so long to hear this?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

oriental echoes (like something from China or Japan). Why did I wait so long to hear this?

Chinese minor is often pentatonic minor (natural minor minus 2nd and 6th) while the Japanese minor is the natural minor minus 4th and 7th.
They sound pretty different. They both could be relative minor for their major scales.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Tonight don't feel sleepy at all so this mean listening to not just one but three albums, of Toshio Hosokawa, orchestral works 1-3 naxos, this is my own challenge for now , since modernism,  I sip it in small dose, more challenging for me than renaissance or whatever.

So in rational order, it seem proper:
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Ever try this so far folks cycles listening , like all Gesualdo madrigal in one long night, radio host, musicologist, Music lovers.

goodnight, sayonara , after these symphony I wonder what kind of dreams it will give me, oh well will see after this long  more than 3 hours exercise.

[Mirror Image]

Interesting timing!
I'm very much enjoying Lenny's Beethoven (upon which I don't think I really attended earlier) but a change-up is indicated:

Mahler
Symphony № 4 in G
Reri Grist, sop
NY Phil

(This is certainly my first go at Lenny's Mahler, with the exception of a Ninth he led in, I think, Berlin.
Lenny

Nice, Karl. Many people prefer Bernstein's earlier Mahler cycle to his later one DG, but, for me, they both have their merits and are equally enjoyable. I will say that Bernstein's later remake of the 4th on DG, however, is an odd one employing a boy soprano (Helmut Wittek). In this instance, I prefer his earlier 4th (w/ Grist).

[Madiel]

Haydn, op.50/6 nicknamed "The Frog". I haven't got to that bit yet.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des airs danois et russes, Op. 79 (The Nash Ensemble)

[Symphonic Addict]

Chinese minor is often pentatonic minor (natural minor minus 2nd and 6th) while the Japanese minor is the natural minor minus 4th and 7th.
They sound pretty different. They both could be relative minor for their major scales.

Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately I'm not a musician, so those are the terms I use to express what I hear. 

I'm pretty sure the work has either Chinese or Japanese influences.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Liszt La lugubre gondola, S 200 (Howard)



An utterly fascinating work. Late Liszt is rather beguiling.

[Mirror Image]

Last work for the night:

NP: Ligeti Kammerkonzert (Boulez)

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