What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Schubert, D959 in A major, Dalberto



I'm beginning to feel like pianists proposing to play Schubert should be sent a questionnaire, with basically one question on it: when Schubert writes Allegro, do you believe him or is the moderato silent?

[Karl Henning]

45 down, 15 to go in the Lenny Symphony Edition!

Saint-Saëns
Symphony № 3 in c minor, Op. 78 « Organ »
Schubert Symphony № 5 in B^b, D. 485
Mahler
Symphony № 3 in d minor
Thompson
Symphony № 2 in e minor
Leonard Raver, organ
Martha Lipton, mezzo
Women's Chorus of the Schola Cantorum
Boys' Choir of the Church of the Transfiguration

NY Phil
Lenny

The Mahler was a first listen, and I love it! Already one of my favorite Mahler symphonies!

[Karl Henning]

I agree Fergus. There is some interesting correspondence between NYM and his friend Prokofiev at the time when he was writing 'Silence'. Miaskovsky was quite despondent about completing the work ('...it [Silence] will eventually kill me!')

Gents, Silence is sounding to me like Essential Myaskovsky, and I am curious about the Sinfonietta, since a Sinfonietta is also an early Prokofiev piece.

[Mirror Image]

I'm only familiar with Karajan on this work. The performance/recording I listened to is slower and the lyrical passages are more accentuated.

Very nice. Well...I ended up buying the recording.

Thread duty -

Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Hahn
Swedish RSO
Salonen



This is still my favorite performance of the Sibelius --- the Schoenberg is quite fine as well.

[Mirror Image]

45 down, 15 to go in the Lenny Symphony Edition!

Saint-Saëns
Symphony № 3 in c minor, Op. 78 « Organ »
Schubert Symphony № 5 in B^b, D. 485
Mahler
Symphony № 3 in d minor
Thompson
Symphony № 2 in e minor
Leonard Raver, organ
Martha Lipton, mezzo
Women's Chorus of the Schola Cantorum
Boys' Choir of the Church of the Transfiguration

NY Phil
Lenny

The Mahler was a first listen, and I love it! Already one of my favorite Mahler symphonies!

Wow, really?!? Good to read you enjoyed this symphony. It's certainly one of my favorites.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat, Op. 118
Borodin Quartet

From this set -

[vandermolen]

Danzi: Symphony in B flat major



A delightful work.  Being by Danzi, it of course has wonderful parts for the winds.

Bax: Symphonic Variations



I like this much more than the Chandos version, which was not one of their better recordings sonically.  Ashley Wass is really fine in the piano part.

+1 for Bax

[vandermolen]

Gents, Silence is sounding to me like Essential Myaskovsky, and I am curious about the Sinfonietta, since a Sinfonietta is also an early Prokofiev piece.

I agree Karl that 'Silence' an early high point for Miaskovsky/Myaskovsky. Because of Fergus's (Aligreto's) enthusiasm for the work I've been listening to it again. Miaskovsky wrote two Sinfoniettas (Op.32 No.2 and Op. 68). I like them both but the early one in particular. Miaskovsky told the conductor Nikolai Malko that he wrote all 27 themes for the three works which make up his Op.32 (Sernenade, Sinfonietta, Lyric Concertino) as he lay in the grass in a forest!

[Que]

I'm glad you feel that way.

It's quite bulky, taking up a lot of space. But knowing someone wants $400 for it, makes me feel better, kind of... 

Anyway, I also have "The Early Years" with Rabin's recordings as a Wunderkind on Sony Masterworks.
But the EMI set has a lot going for it: of the concertos notably Wieniawski nos 1 & 2, Bruch Scottish Fantasie, the Glazunov concerto. And then a lot of solo virtuosic, stuff including the Paganini Caprices, Saint-Saëns, Ysaye, Ravel, De Sarasate and the usual bunch of Kreisler arrangements.

I really should revist it... Now you guys have brough it up, I probably will! 

[Traverso]

It's quite bulky, taking up a lot of space. But knowing someone wants $400 for it, makes me feel better, kind of... 

Anyway, I also have "The Early Years" with Rabin's recordings as a Wunderkind on Sony Masterworks.
But the EMI set has a lot going for it: of the concertos notably Wieniawski nos 1 & 2, Bruch Scottish Fantasie, the Glazunov concerto. And then a lot of solo virtuosic, stuff including the Paganini Caprices, Saint-Saëns, Ysaye, Ravel, De Sarasate and the usual bunch of Kreisler arrangements.

I really should revist it... Now you guys have brough it up, I probably will! 

To cheer you up even more


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[Harry]

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Crickey, that's absolutely absurd!

[Traverso]

Bach

[Que]

On Spotify:



Hat-tip Mandryka

PS That's  pretty good!
It is a pitty they offer a few songs in an instrumental version, for variety, I guess...
I really don't need that... I want songs to be sung!   

[Traverso]

The Castle of Fair Welcome

[vandermolen]

Miaskovsky 'Serenade' Op.32 No.1

[aligreto]

Miaskovsky: Sinfonietta Op. 32/2 [Svetlanov] 





This is a very fine work both viscerally and intellectually.
I really like the way that the writing throughout, particularly in the slow and final movements, is very reminiscent of string quartet writing. This was a very strong first impression on me. This is a very fine work and is particularly noteworthy. 

[Harry]

Miaskovsky: Sinfonietta Op. 32/2 [Svetlanov] 





This is a very fine work both viscerally and intellectually.
I really like the way that the writing throughout, particularly in the slow and final movements, is very reminiscent of string quartet writing. This was a very strong first impression on me. This is a very fine work and is particularly noteworthy.

Good that you have so much time to listen to Miaskovsky. I always struggle with the time available, due to my workload, and the piles of CD'S still to listen too. I started culling my collection too, to prepare for the last listening round throughout the entire amount of CD'S I have. If I would listen to them all, I need at least a hundred years extra, which will not happen, so hence the culling. So I will have a few thousand of discs to give away, but I am afraid I have to throw them away, for almost no one wants them.
I am fortunate indeed that I have listen to Miaskovsky symphonies 4 times, and on my fifth round now. I am happy you like them, and that several people picked it up, and bought the box.

[aligreto]

Good that you have so much time to listen to Miaskovsky. I always struggle with the time available, due to my workload, and the piles of CD'S still to listen too. I started culling my collection too, to prepare for the last listening round throughout the entire amount of CD'S I have. If I would listen to them all, I need at least a hundred years extra, which will not happen, so hence the culling. So I will have a few thousand of discs to give away, but I am afraid I have to throw them away, for almost no one wants them.
I am fortunate indeed that I have listen to Miaskovsky symphonies 4 times, and on my fifth round now. I am happy you like them, and that several people picked it up, and bought the box.

The time has been made available because I stopped buying new discs at the rate that I had been buying at. I then caught up with all of my "unlistened to" piles and then, like you I have begun another culling exercise myself as a result.

And yes, I find Miaskovsky's music really wonderful which is why I am so enthusiastic about it.

[Biffo]

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody - Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Otto Klemperer with Christa Ludwig RIP.

[vandermolen]

Miaskovsky: Sinfonietta Op. 32/2 [Svetlanov] 





This is a very fine work both viscerally and intellectually.
I really like the way that the writing throughout, particularly in the slow and final movements, is very reminiscent of string quartet writing. This was a very strong first impression on me. This is a very fine work and is particularly noteworthy.

Excellent Fergus! 
I've just listened to the recording with the USSR Academic SO conducted by Vladimir Verbitzky (old Olympia series - see above). He takes the Andante movement much more slowly than does Svetlanov, it gives us a more 'romantic' treatment to the theme but, paradoxically, I find the Svetlanov version more affecting (and better recorded).

Now playing (or just finished actually!):
Alan Hovhaness:
Symphony No.22 'City of Light' - one of the best of the Hovhaness symphonies I think, especially the memorably affirmative finale: