What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Alexander Brincken.
Orchestral Works, volume I.

Symphony No. 4 in G minor. (2014-15)
Capriccio for Piano and Chamber Orchestra. (1985)

Alexander Brincken, Piano.
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Rainer Held.

Gets better with every hearing. Not many composers can write such romantic works these days, and put some deeper meaning in it.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Prokofiev 1&5. Thomas Søndergård. Nice performance, mediocre recording quality.

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Alexander Brincken.
Orchestral Works, volume I.

Symphony No. 4 in G minor. (2014-15)
Capriccio for Piano and Chamber Orchestra. (1985)

Alexander Brincken, Piano.
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Rainer Held.

Gets better with every hearing. Not many composers can write such romantic works these days, and put some deeper meaning in it.

Yes, a fine symphony.

NP
'A Canterbury Celebration'
A most enjoyable selection of church music. Highlights for me are Tallis's 'Salvator Mundi', Alan Ridout's Organ Solo 'Jacob and the Angel' and Vaughan Williams's 'Te Deum in G' which is the only work that I already knew.

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Herman Galynin.

Complete Works for Strings.

Academy of Russian Music,  Ivan Nikiforchin.


Without any doubt a Best Buy 2021. This is a amazing composer. Not that I have seen anyone on Fu acquiring it.

This looks most interesting Harry.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Henri Dutilleux: Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher. Truls Mørk

Great short piece for solo cello.

I always liked this pic!

[Harry]

This looks most interesting Harry.

Sample it Jeffrey, I am sure you will connect with this music.

[Irons]

thankyou for that posting - I've not listened to that disc in ages and I'm going to dig it out asap!

Good. I would be interested in your thoughts.

That's a fine CD. I love Diamond's first four symphonies and those are fine recordings and performances. Delos are, indeed, a great loss. I discovered Diamond through those recordings.

Yes, not a composer on my radar until reading positive comments on this forum, Jeffrey. 

[Irons]

Having a different go at Britten (SQ No.1)

I have that set, Olivier. Faultless performances if the music appeals.

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Sample it Jeffrey, I am sure you will connect with this music.

I've sampled the music on You Tube Harry and it sounds right up my street!

[Tsaraslondon]

I am not in the least bit religious, but I do find MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross both extremely beautiful and very moving.

This is the only MacMillan disc I have. I should really investigate more of his music.

[Harry]

I've sampled the music on You Tube Harry and it sounds right up my street!

Excellent, makes me happy too.

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Excellent, makes me happy too.

I've now ordered it 

[SonicMan46]

Wranitzky, Paul (1756-1808) - Symphonies w/ Marek Štilec & Czeck CPOP; the 1756 triumvirate, i.e. WA Mozart, JM Kraus, & P Wranitzky - except for Wolfie, certainly not as impressive as the three in 1685!  Extremely prolific composer - check out the Wranitzky Project - about two dozen published symphonies (and more unpublished), plus much more; reviews attached.  Dave

 

[VonStupp]

Benjamin Britten
Advance Democracy
Finzi Singers - Paul Spicer

Beginning the third and final volume of Spicer's Britten series:

Advance Democracy is crazy (video below). The men goosestep while the women wail like sirens. I don't know Britten's politics, but this is an odd entry in Britten's choral music.

VS

https://www.youtube.com/v/5Ew1DCwppmc&ab_channel=FinziSingers-Topic

Across the darkened city
The frosty searchlights creep

Alert for the first marauder

To steal upon our sleep.
We see the sudden headlines
Float on the muttering tide,
We hear them warn and threaten

And wonder what they hide.
There are whispers across tables,
Talks in a shutter'd room.

The price on which they bargain

Will be a people's doom.
There's a roar of war in the factories,
And idle hands on the street,

And Europe held in nightmare

By the thud of marching feet.
Now sinks the sun of surety,
The shadows growing tall
Of the big bosses plotting
Their biggest coup of all.
Is there no strength to save us?

No power we can trust,

Before our lives and liberties

Are powder'd into dust.
Time to arise Democracy
Time to rise up and cry
That what our fathers fought for

We'll not allow to die.
Time to resolve divisions,
Time to renew our pride,

Time to decide,

Time to burst our house of glass.
Rise as a single being
In one resolve arrayed:

Life shall be for the people

That's by the people made.
Randall Swingler (1909-67)

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I'm quite haunted by Nicolai Tcherepnin's ballet score 'Echo and Narcissus' (thank you Leo/Cato for alerting me to it). One especially memorable section 'Dance of Narcissus' with its ominous ostinato, accompanied by a wordless choir, reminded me of one of the darker passages from the soundtrack to the original Walt Disney film 'Bambi' (itself, a rather dark film in places):

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Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
L'OSR, Kertesz:

Arguably underpowered and lacking in menace, however, this more reflective, 'classical' interpretation is not without virtue.

[Mirror Image]

NP:



A remarkable account. I've thoroughly enjoyed all of the Mahler Jurowski recordings I've heard so far.

[Linz]

Listening to Neeme Järvi conducting some Rimsky Korsikov

[Mirror Image]

Listening to Neeme Järvi conducting some Rimsky Korsikov

What do you think about the Bruckner Venzago cycle on CPO?

[André]

The voice is dark and sultry. As a result diction suffers a little and her top notes are a bit short. Still, those violet and amber tones are sumptuous.