What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Still one of my favorite pieces of music. If you're familiar with Preisner's film scores then you know what to expect as it can seem like an extended version of some of that music, however it is definitely more of a complete work rather than fragments of a score pieced together.

+1
I find that work very moving.
NP
Alan Rawsthorne 'Symphonic Studies' (1938)
His masterpiece I think and this is my favourite recording and my favourite Rawsthorne disc:

[Tsaraslondon]

A fabulous disc! Great cover image too.

I'm so pleased I have it. It's quite difficult to come by now.

I used to have most of it on this LP



but they replaced the short Introit with Dies natalis for the CD release. Given the excellence of this version, I'm not complaining.

[Tsaraslondon]

Disc 1 is more or less the same as the previous disc I posted, except for a different version of In terra pax conducted by David Hill. I prefer the Hickox version.

Disc 2 is mostly taken up by song, with fine performances of Earth and Air and Rain  by Benjamin Luxon and David Willinson and Let us Garlands Bring by Bryn Terfel and Malcolm Martineau.

[Harry]

Joan Cabanilles.
1644-1712.
Batalles, Tientos, Passacalles.

Hesperion XX, Jordi Savall.

This disc is a fav of mine.

[vandermolen]

I'm so pleased I have it. It's quite difficult to come by now.

I used to have most of it on this LP



but they replaced the short Introit with Dies natalis for the CD release. Given the excellence of this version, I'm not complaining.

I discovered the wonderful 'In terra pax' one Christmas (appropriately!) on that LP. I have the same CD that you have featuring Finzi with his pipe on the front cover as well as the London British Composers CD release. I hadn't realised that the double CD release featured a different and not so good recording of In terra pax. I'd always assumed that it was the same version as on the Decca LP.

[Tsaraslondon]

I discovered the wonderful 'In terra pax' one Christmas (appropriately!) on that LP. I have the same CD that you have featuring Finzi with his pipe on the front cover. I hadn't realised that it featured a different and not so good recording of In terra pax. I'd always assumed that it was the same version as on the Decca LP.

Me too, as it happens. I too assumed that the Decca 2 disc set woud have the Hickox version of In terra pax on it and was terribly disappointed to find that it was a different version, which I didn't like nearly as much. It took me ages to track down a second hand copy of the Hickox version. So pleased I did though.

[vandermolen]

Me too, as it happens. I too assumed that the Decca 2 disc set woud have the Hickox version of In terra pax on it and was terribly disappointed to find that it was a different version, which I didn't like nearly as much. It took me ages to track down a second hand copy of the Hickox version. So pleased I did though.

I managed to get my copy a couple of years ago (actually in 2013 - I just checked). Now that CD is prohibitively expensive. Glad that you found a copy of it as well.
PS I think that the good version was reissued here as well:

[vandermolen]

Glazunov, Symphony No.7 - one of his best I think - I especially love the charming and inspiriting scherzo;

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hiroshi Oguri. Osaka Folk.

[Traverso]

Max Reger

Choral Phantasien Vol.1

Wouter van den Broek
The Organ of the Grote Kerk Breda

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

JS Bach - Cantatas BWV 50, 130, 19, 140 (Gardiner SDG Vol.7)

[mahler10th]

I'm listening to this the right way round...

[Harry]

Musica Nova.
Harmonie des Nations, (1500-1700)
Music from Europe.

Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall.

[Traverso]

Muffat

[Harry]

Marin Marais.

Troisieme livre de pieces the viole.
CD III.

Francois Joubert Caillet, Bass Viol.
L'Acheron.

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony - Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Berg
Lulu-Suite
Juliane Banse, soprano
Wiener Philharmoniker
Abbado

[Harry]

Jean Baptiste Lully.

L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil.
Symphonies Ouvertures, Airs de Jouer.

Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall

[Mirror Image]

I'm listening to this the right way round...

Pounds the table!

[Tsaraslondon]

There is something quintessentially English about Finzi's coral and vocal music, and so it is with Intimations of Mortality. The Grand Fantasia and Toccata seem less characteristic and I'm not sure I'd recognise the music as being by Finzi in a blind test. Very enjoyable, none the less.