What are you listening 2 now?

[Brian]

Rheinberger's organ concertos are basically cheery, innocent works - like Mendelssohn's teenage concertos or Schumann's inferior concertante works - but with an organ instead of a piano or cello or violin. The organ is a fun novelty, at least. Good background music while working that doesn't tax the mind. You can tell the orchestra is semi-professional/student and the recordings are live. Skevington, not exactly famous, is very good as far as I can tell (as someone who likes organs but knows almost nothing about them).

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Elgar
Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82
The Nash Ensemble

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis - Sinfonia of London conducted by Sir John Barbirolli. Happy Birthday RVW - possibly his most magical work

[SonicMan46]

MacDowell, Edward (1860-1908) - Piano Music w/ Alan Mandel & James Barbagallo (1952-1996) - Mandel performs MacDowell's most famous suites (Woodland Sketches & Sea Pieces) and all four Piano Sonatas on 2 discs; Barbagallo was up to 4 volumes shown below (w/ only 2 sonatas recorded) when he died suddenly (cardiac) at the age of 43 years; reviews attached for those interested.  Dave

   

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis - Sinfonia of London conducted by Sir John Barbirolli. Happy Birthday RVW - possibly his most magical work

Yes, that's a wonderful work and recording!

PD

p.s.  Have you ever listened to the work that RVW was quoting?  It's "Why Fum'th in Fight The Gentiles Spite".  For those who may not have heard it before you can listen to it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxDt2KIwpk  I find it fascinating to see/hear where Vaughan Williams went with it. 

[Karl Henning]

Yes, that's a wonderful work and recording!

PD

p.s.  Have you ever listened to the work that RVW was quoting?  It's "Why Fum'th in Fight The Gentiles Spite".  For those who may not have heard it before you can listen to it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxDt2KIwpk  I find it fascinating to see/hear where Vaughan Williams went with it. 

Have sung it in the prior English Hymnal, with the text "I heard the voice of jesus say"

[Traverso]

Mozart

Symphony No.29

[classicalgeek]

No.3 is my favourite and No.4 (In Memory of his Father) is both moving and memorable.

I've listened to the 5th recently, and it struck me as a more individualistic piece than the first two symphonies. Same with the Elegy in Memory of Koussevitsky. I'm looking forward to listening to the Third and Fourth!

Good to know. Do you know the other Lyrita Williamson disc which is even finer IMO?

I'll give it a listen for sure - as well as the Piano Concerto that was on the disc with the Organ Concerto.

[bhodges]

Watching an excellent concert from the Seattle Symphony, with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting, and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Available free at the link below, through October 14. The orchestra sounds sensational.

Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
Arturo Márquez: Fandango
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

https://live.seattlesymphony.org/

--Bruce

[vandermolen]

Max Richter
Exiles

[Carlo Gesualdo]

I recieved by the post Sigismondo D'India Lamento D'Orfeo on virgin records wow and what a CD this is, magnificant and glorious, well sung, warm energic voice grandiose results buy the darn thing 

[Mandryka]

Bohm's freu dich sehr on the organ it was designed for I guess. The album looks promising but too too much of the music (eg everything by Johann Steffens) is a bit unmemorable for me. Rost is a safe pair of hands and feet, more than that, he's a great set of limbs.

[TheGSMoeller]

Watching an excellent concert from the Seattle Symphony, with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting, and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Available free at the link below, through October 14. The orchestra sounds sensational.

Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
Arturo Márquez: Fandango
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

https://live.seattlesymphony.org/

--Bruce

thanks for sharing, Bruce. Nashville SO's Guerrero has been busy lately, Chicago SO, Seattle, and is now Van Zweden's replacement for a NYP concert this month. Good for him, I think he's excellent, and this probably means he'll get a new, and bigger, gig soon.

[Mirror Image]

NP: The 11th

From this superb set -

[classicalgeek]

Watching an excellent concert from the Seattle Symphony, with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting, and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Available free at the link below, through October 14. The orchestra sounds sensational.

Rossini: Overture to Semiramide
Arturo Márquez: Fandango
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

https://live.seattlesymphony.org/

--Bruce

Thank you for sharing! Just listened to my hometown band in the Symphonic Dances - they indeed sounded spectacular!

[Klavier]

[bhodges]

thanks for sharing, Bruce. Nashville SO's Guerrero has been busy lately, Chicago SO, Seattle, and is now Van Zweden's replacement for a NYP concert this month. Good for him, I think he's excellent, and this probably means he'll get a new, and bigger, gig soon.

Yes! I've heard him just once, with the National Youth Orchestra of the USA (at Carnegie) and thought he was terrific.

Thank you for sharing! Just listened to my hometown band in the Symphonic Dances - they indeed sounded spectacular!

   

--Bruce

[SonicMan46]

Paine, John Knowles (1839-1906) - Symphonies & Piano Music (extent of my collection) - a pioneer in American classical music, especially in larger forms such as his two symphonies - JoAnn Falletta has recorded these more recently (the Mehta discs date from 1986/89 but sound excellent); reviews are attached (including ones for the Falletta performances, for those interested).  The piano music w/ Denver Oldham is on two short CDs, the first being more enjoyable (see reviewer's notes).  Dave

John Knowles Paine was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of the Boston Six, the other five being Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Edward MacDowell, George Chadwick, and Horatio Parker. Paine studied in Europe and after returning, he settled in Boston in 1861, he was appointed Harvard's first University organist and choirmaster. In this role, he also offered free courses in music appreciation and theory that would become the core curriculum for Harvard's newly formed academic music department (the first in the United States) and his appointment as America's first music professor. Paine is noted for beginning American's symphonic tradition. (edited, Source)

     

[André]

Admirers of the symphonies will welcome this. The title and some of the choral writing remind me of A Mass of Life by Delius (Eine Messe des Lebens in the original German), but it shouldn't: van Gilse finished his Messe in 1904, Delius in 1905. In any case, it's a fine late-romantic work in three parts lasting some 55 minutes (half the length of Delius' cantata). Excellent singing and playing, very fine sonics (live recording).

[Florestan]

Currently CD 3


Is it heresy to say Telemann was better at writing concertos than Bach?

No, it's common sense.