What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Caprice Peruvien, Lord Berners. Cond. David Lloyd-Jones.

[vers la flamme]

Charles Wuorinen: Piano Sonata No.2. Jeffrey Swann

Skipped a few letters... Wanted to hear this work by the late, great Wuorinen. A challenging work, but very intriguing. Very spacious music.

[listener]

working my way through unfinished boxes before opening another one
from Brilliant's Russian Concertos box:  BORTKIEWICZ Piano Concerto 2 for the left hand op 28, Piano Concerto 3  in c, op. 32
Stefan Dominga, piano   Janáček Philharmonic Orch.     Daniel Porcelijn, cond.
Either High Fidelity or Stereo review pronounced his Concerto no.1 as the worst ever written, I haven't yet heard these so I won't comment.
FROBERGER   15 pieces from his Libro secondo  from Brilliant's 500 Years of Organ Music - 1st box
Simone Stella, Onofrio Zeffirini organ (1558), Chiurch of Badia Fiorentina, Florence
and PIERNÉ  Impressions de Music-hall, Izeÿl Suite, Fantasie basque and Divertimento sur un thème pastorale
Philippe Koch, violin      Luxembourg Orchestre Philharmonique       Bramwell Tovey, cond.

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev 6
Kitayenko

Enjoying this cycle very much [....]

Sweet!

[Karl Henning]

Charles Wuorinen: Piano Sonata No.2. Jeffrey Swann

Skipped a few letters... Wanted to hear this work by the late, great Wuorinen. A challenging work, but very intriguing. Very spacious music.

Nice! I should check to see if I have that 'un.

[Karl Henning]

Myaskovsky Madness!

Symphony № 4 in e minor, Op. 17
Svetlanov & al.

[Madiel]

Next stop in the op.87 discography.

[vers la flamme]

Think I'm done with the American composers thing for the time being, though I didn't get to listen to all of them in my collection by any means.



Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.94 in G major, the "Surprise". Colin Davis, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

The slow movement has just started, and I must say Davis is a bit tame with the "surprise", but that minor gripe aside, it's an excellent performance from a great orchestra under a great conductor.

[SimonNZ]

[Daverz]

working my way through unfinished boxes before opening another one
from Brilliant's Russian Concertos box:  BORTKIEWICZ Piano Concerto 2 for the left hand op 28, Piano Concerto 3  in c, op. 32

Speaking of Russian concertos, I was listening to the Rubinstein PC#4 in the Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto series the other day and enjoyed it even more than the Scharwenka PC#1 it was coupled with.  A particularly delightful finale.  It is not a very Russian sounding work, but that's Rubinstein.

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/19OyBEwefQQ

[Symphonic Addict]

Rota: Harp Concerto
Yoshimatsu: Saxophone Concerto Cyber-Bird

[Karl Henning]

Myaskovsky Madness!

Symphony № 27 in c minor, Op. 85
Russian State Symphony
Polyansky

[Mandryka]

Philip Glass: Company. Takuo Yuasa, Ulster Orchestra

I'm in the G's in my American composer's sampling for today... I'm not the biggest fan of Glass's music, but I do admire his work and enjoy some of it from time to time. Definitely need to hear more of it.

Edit: Now the Violin Concerto No.1, with Adele Anthony. A much better work, I think. Of the three movements I think the second is most successful.

By coincidence I've been listening to a lot of Glass recently, I have a theory - the early 1990s were a high point.  I already know La belle et la bête, so I've been giving some attention to these instead:

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[Mirror Image]

NP:

Martinů
Échec Au Roi, H. 186
Prague SO
Bělohlávek



Absolutely delectable. A jazz-influenced ballet, which has probably never actually been staged outside of the Czech Republic.

[vandermolen]

Rota: Harp Concerto
Yoshimatsu: Saxophone Concerto Cyber-Bird

Don't know the Rota Cesar but that Yoshimatsu disc is one of my three favourites, the others featuring symphonies 1 and 2.

[vandermolen]

Myaskovsky Madness!

Symphony № 27 in c minor, Op. 85
Russian State Symphony
Polyansky

What did you think Karl? Symphony No.27 is one of NYM's best I think and I like the coupling with the lyrical Cello Concerto, which was the first work of NYM's that I heard when, by chance, I heard it on the radio in my youth and then rushed out to buy the LP (Sargent/Rostropovich).

[Que]

Morning listening:

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Bach - Die Kunst der Fuge (Organ, Walcha)

[Traverso]

François Couperin

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