What are you listening 2 now?

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I was in the mood for something that just goes 'smack' 'pow' and that was infectious beyond belief, so here's what I wound up listening to:

Walton
Portsmouth Point Overture
LSO
Previn

From this smashing set:

Great choice John! 

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Great choice John! 

Indeed. I needed something to pep me up and Walton usually does the trick.

NP:

Henze
Sonata for Strings
Collegium Musicum Zurich
Paul Sacher

[Traverso]

I was in the mood for something that just goes 'smack' 'pow' and that was infectious beyond belief, so here's what I wound up listening to:

Walton
Portsmouth Point Overture
LSO
Previn

From this smashing set:

I have not a single Walton CD,is that something that must be changed in a moment a twinkle of an eye ? 

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I have not a single Walton CD,is that something that must be changed in a moment a twinkle of an eye ? 

Absolutely! I'm surprised you don't any of Walton's music, Jan. Works like the 1st symphony, the Viola Concerto (although I love the Violin Concerto just as much) and Belshazzar's Feast should be in every 20th Century music fan's collection.

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Absolutely! I'm surprised you don't any of Walton's music, Jan. Works like the 1st symphony, the Viola Concerto (although I love the Violin Concerto just as much) and Belshazzar's Feast should be in every 20th Century music fan's collection.

I used to have Belshazzar's Feast, the Solti recording in my LP time,I shall shortly fill the gap with that EMI box in mind.

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NP:

Henze
Carillon, Recitatif, Masque
Franz Halász, Cristina Bianchi & Anna Torge



Absolutely gorgeous.

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I used to have Belshazzar's Feast, the Solti recording in my LP time,I shall shortly fill the gap with that EMI box in mind.

The EMI set would be an excellent choice.

[Karl Henning]

Tchaikovsky
Symphony № 6 in b minor, Op. 74 « Pathétique »

RVW
Symphony № 4 in f minor

NY Phil
Lenny

Both a truly exquisite account of the Pathétique and a nervy, tight reading of the RVW Fourth.

While I had dipped into the Symphony Edition a bit (and previously knew some swaths of the contents—the Haydn & Sibelius, e.g.) here I have at last listened through the entirety of the box, and found it unfailingly rewarding.

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NP:

Henze
Symphony No. 3
Berliners
Henze

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Continuing this work from the other day:

Zemlinsky
Der Zwerg, Op. 17
Juanita Lascarro (soprano), Machiko Obata (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Natalie Karl (soprano), Martina Rüping (mezzo-soprano), Iride Martinez (soprano), Anne Schwanewilms (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Collis (bass), David Kuebler (vocals)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Frankfurter Kantorei
James Conlon

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

NP:

Henze
Carillon, Recitatif, Masque
Franz Halász, Cristina Bianchi & Anna Torge



Absolutely gorgeous.

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Absolutely! I'm surprised you don't any of Walton's music, Jan. Works like the 1st symphony, the Viola Concerto (although I love the Violin Concerto just as much) and Belshazzar's Feast should be in every 20th Century music fan's collection.

+1 + Johannesburg Overture.

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+1 + Johannesburg Overture.

Ah, you like Henze's music, Dry Brett? I'm finding him to be an intriguing composer and the more I listen to him, the more he's getting under my skin. Sometimes when a composer has such a diverse range of compositions that are in all sorts of styles (sometimes the styles are in the same work), it can be difficult, or difficult for me, to assimilate all of these different strands, but it's finally coming together for me.

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NP:

Zemlinsky
Sinfonietta, Op. 23
Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne
Conlon



This might be a first-listen to this work. I don't recall it, but this doesn't mean I haven't heard it before. A wonderfully atmospheric work with some strident rhythms in the meatier sections. It definitely plays to two extremes: Late-Romantic and perhaps that more Expressionistic style we hear in mid-period Schoenberg and Berg. Great stuff.

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NP:

Stravinsky
Orpheus
Philharmonia
Salonen

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NP:

Szymanowski
Mythes, Op. 30
Kaja Danczowska, Krystian Zimerman



One of Szymanowski's masterpieces and a work that should be a part of the mainstream chamber music repertoire.

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One final work for the night:

Schoenberg
Fünf Orchesterstücke, Op. 16
Cleveland Orchestra
Dohnányi



An incredibly fine performance of one of my favorite works of all-time.

[SimonNZ]

earlier:



now:

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Bantock - Hebridean Symphony
Czecho-Slovak State PO, Adrian Leaper:

This (formerly on Marco Polo) might be a less polished performance than Vernon Handley's one but I find it more atmospheric in a way.

[Harry]

Josef Antonin Sehling.
Christmas in Prague Cathedral.

Johann Joseph Fux.

Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova.

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Before work - Kastalsky 'Requiem for Fallen Brothers':