What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

My girlfriend plays the piano version of the Dansas Fantasticas constantly. Never heard the orchestrations.

Wonderful! I like Turina's piano works too, and I like the recordings by Larrocha, Esteban Sanchez, and Jordi Maso. Orchestral works by Turina are very unique and gorgeous. You may want to check the recordings by Almeida, Enrique Batiz or Max Darmon.

[Symphonic Addict]

Totally agree Cesar. Symphony No.4 is equally impressive as is the VW-like Viola Concerto. As Chandos have done it for Ruth Gipps, Lyatoshinsky and Wiren, they could also do it for Stanley Bate.

The Viola Concerto also impressed me a lot. A work recently I heard by him was his Piano Concerto No. 2, and it's good fun. I guess you know it as well, Jeffrey.

[Symphonic Addict]

Carefree and easygoing music. L'heure du berger is the best work here. Just hilarious.

[Mirror Image]

Revisiting this work:

Gubaidulina
Alleluja
Danish National Radio Choir
Copenhagen Boys' Choir
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kitayenko



Man...such an impressive work. Cesar, what are you waiting for?!?!?

[JBS]

[Mirror Image]

Last work for the night:

Feldman
Rothko Chapel
UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, David Abel et. al.

[Madiel]

Oups ! I have this disc (the Dacapo one). That makes the Danacord less of an essential purchase then. Why are two danish companies recording the same Koppel concerto ?  .

Why are 55 different record companies recording the same Beethoven concerto?

[Que]

Morning listening (Jacobus Handl-Gallus)

   


https://open.spotify.com/album/6xd0PqzhhRYGLx65xJsvas

[Irons]

Stanley Bate: Symphony No.3 - one of the most unjustly neglected 20th Century British Symphonies. This is possibly my all time favourite Dutton release as it also includes the wonderfully oppressive and doom-laden 'Pictures from Dante' by Erik Chisholm.

I think it is mine too. Closely followed by Arthur Butterworth 5th Symphony and Holbrooke/Davies/Rootham/Benjamin sonata disc. Mind you, your pool of Dutton discs will be much larger then mine, Jeffrey.

[Irons]

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5 in D major. André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra

Seemed like fitting rainy evening music. I'm not sure why this symphony never connected with me like the phenomenal Pastoral 3rd, but I'll continue giving it a chance every once in a while.

My first and most loved RVW recording.

[Irons]

Listened to this disc of viola music.  Rereading the liner notes, it amazed me how Tibor Szerly managed to complete Bartok's viola concerto (with the aid of William Primrose who had commissioned the work and been in constant contact with Bartok about it before the composer's death in 1945).

The recordings are with Vladimir Bukac (a former member of the Talich Quartet as well as a distinguished teacher and who also has recorded a number of works by Czech composers for the first time).  With him, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Valek on Calliope.  http://www.vladimirbukac.com/#about



PD

William Primrose recorded the Viola Concerto with Tibor Serly conducting The New Symphony Orchestra of London (sic) in 1953.

[vandermolen]

Stanley Bate: Symphony No.4
I'm in need of a bit of hopeless defiance.

[vandermolen]

I think it is mine too. Closely followed by Arthur Butterworth 5th Symphony and Holbrooke/Davies/Rootham/Benjamin sonata disc. Mind you, your pool of Dutton discs will be much larger then mine, Jeffrey.

That's interesting Lol. I love Arthur Butterworth's 4th Symphony (especially the Dutton recording) but am less familiar with the 5th Symphony, so will definitely listen to it again soon along with the Holbrooke/Rootham/Benjamin disc. The Arnell symphonies are other Dutton favourites (especially the epic Third Symphony and moving 5th Symphony). I can't recall if you know those recordings.

[Tsaraslondon]

I much prefer these performances to the 1960s Boulez performances I was listening to yesterday. The analogue sound is absolutely gorgeous and they have a lot more atmosphere than the rather arid Boulez performances. Haitink's Nocturnes is surely one of the greatest ever to be made.

These performances won accolades and awards when they were first issued and this two disc set (if it's still available) is an absolute bargain.

[Harry]

Georg Philipp Telemann.

The Grand Concertos for Mixed Instruments, Volume I.
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider.

Let me make one thing clear, Que made me do this, and now I have two big boxes with in toto 15 CD's with music from this composer on authentic instruments, and what's more I love it. It is performed in such a galant way, and bubbles with enthusiasm as if these were new discoveries made yesterday. Well recorded too.

[Traverso]

Adriaan Willaert

CD 1

Just arrived and  listening to the clear sound of Singer Pur.I like the timbres of their voices ,the harmony is great, transparent ,close and intimate . The recording also leaves nothing to be desired.

[Mandryka]

Sweelinck, JP - well, after purchasing the 6-disc Glossa set of the composer's 'complete KB works,' many other recordings had been recommended, esp. by Mandryka - SO, about finishing up a nearly 5 hr. Spotify playlist w/ the offerings below; Richard Egarr on harpsichord, Peter Ella on clavichord, Sweelinck in the 'Art of Variation' (have to hear that one and read the attached review), and Gavin Black on an interesting instrument explained before.  I could find reviews on only Egarr and the 'Variation...' discs?  Dave

     

There's a lot of Sweelinck by Bob Van Asperen, all interesting IMO, some of it very interesting, most of it tucked away in recordings which aren't streamable and may even be hard to find as CDs. One exception is on the NM set - he plays some complex music on NM and for me discovering it was a revelatory moment - it was through those toccatas etc that somehow I acquired the knack of listening to 16th century keyboard counterpoint.

[Que]

Adriaan Willaert

CD 1

Just arrived and  listening to the clear sound of Singer Pur.I like the timbres of their voices ,the harmony is great, transparent ,close and intimate . The recording also leaves nothing to be desired.

We're in total agreement! 

[Traverso]

There's a lot of Sweelinck by Bob Van Asperen, all interesting IMO, some of it very interesting, most of it tucked away in recordings which aren't streamable and may even be hard to find as CDs. One exception is on the NM set - he plays some complex music on NM and for me discovering it was a revelatory moment - it was through those toccatas etc that somehow I acquired the knack of listening to 16th century keyboard counterpoint.

Some additional information about Sweelinck:

Sweelinck has been the organist of the Oude Kerk for more than four decades. He must have been improvising a lot all this time. As with Paumann, Mozart and Bruckner, much has been lost for eternity. Sweelinck probably only wrote down keyboard work during the last 15 years of his life, when he was already a middle-aged man. What we now have in keyboard work is solely due to copies of others, including the German students. None of this has survived in the Netherlands.

[vers la flamme]

I much prefer these performances to the 1960s Boulez performances I was listening to yesterday. The analogue sound is absolutely gorgeous and they have a lot more atmosphere than the rather arid Boulez performances. Haitink's Nocturnes is surely one of the greatest ever to be made.

These performances won accolades and awards when they were first issued and this two disc set (if it's still available) is an absolute bargain.

Still available; I bought it last month (used). Very good stuff