What are you listening 2 now?

[classicalgeek]

That would certainly make sense. Kind of like Bernstein and Nielsen's 1st and 6th symphonies --- just to throw another random example out there.

Or Martha Argerich and the absence of the Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto from her discography. I don't know if she didn't like the piece, or she just preferred to perform other concertos - but that one has always puzzled me. I guess she was highly selective of what pieces she performed and recorded in general.

[classicalgeek]

Brahms

Symphony No.1

Concergebouw Orchestra

Eduard van Beinum

VERY nice. Enjoy!! 

[Traverso]

VERY nice. Enjoy!! 

Tomorrow the second symphony with the thrilling apotheosis   

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Or Martha Argerich and the absence of the Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto from her discography. I don't know if she didn't like the piece, or she just preferred to perform other concertos - but that one has always puzzled me. I guess she was highly selective of what pieces she performed and recorded in general.

Interesting, I didn't know that re her and that concerto.

PD

[vandermolen]

Miaskovsky: Symphony No.17 (1936-37)
USSR Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Gauk.
One of NYM's greatest symphonies I think and this is a fine performance. This symphony was written at the height of the Stalinist Purges (1936-37) and yet NYM, whilst, to some extent, conforming to socialist-realist musical expectations, maintains his artistic integrity. The slow movement is one of his finest. I find the ostensibly triumphant ending to be oddly defiant and very moving:

[Spotted Horses]

Finished listening to Weinberg's Piano Quintet in a transcript for piano and string orchestra by Gidon Kremer



Brilliant, engaging piece in a spirited performance. I will have to listen to the original version for chamber ensemble as well.

[classicalgeek]

Tomorrow the second symphony with the thrilling apotheosis   

Ahhh... my favorite Brahms symphony of them all! That beautifully autumnal first movement with the gently rocking second theme and the meltingly gorgeous horn solo just before the end. The vigorous finale with its own lovely second theme and its wonderfully inevitable headlong conclusion, like you say. And of course the inner two movements are no less stunning. I think it's the most packed with great melodies of any Brahms symphony. One of my top five symphonies all-time, and some days it's my very favorite!

[Traverso]

Ahhh... my favorite Brahms symphony of them all! That beautifully autumnal first movement with the gently rocking second theme and the meltingly gorgeous horn solo just before the end. The vigorous finale with its own lovely second theme and its wonderfully inevitable headlong conclusion, like you say. And of course the inner two movements are no less stunning. I think it's the most packed with great melodies of any Brahms symphony. One of my top five symphonies all-time, and some days it's my very favorite!

It is my favorite Brahms symphony too,the finale is so full of expanding lyrical warm blooded life force that it brings tears to my eyes. Great melodies indeed, Brahms was a great song composer . 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Janacek's Sinfonietta with Previn and the Los Angeles Phil. Orchestra on Telarc.

PD

[classicalgeek]

Colin Davis's superb Sibelius from his Symphonies box:

Sibelius
Symphony no. 1
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis

[Spotted Horses]

Brahms

Symphony No.1

Concergebouw Orchestra

Eduard van Beinum

Frustrating that this collection has had limited distribution and is hard to find. I am hoping that Universal will finally get around to a complete van Beinum edition.

[Bachtoven]

Sonatas No.4-6 from this brilliant recording.

[Tsaraslondon]

Rattle's CBSO Mahler 2 earned him a Gramophone award when it was released in 1987 and it was well-deserved. If memory serves me right, the set won both the Orchestral and Sound Awards and the sound really is terrific.

Dame Janet Baker is superb in Urlicht and Arleen Auger is hardly less so when she joins her in the final movement. A considerable achievement that has stood the test of time.

[Traverso]

Frustrating that this collection has had limited distribution and is hard to find. I am hoping that Universal will finally get around to a complete van Beinum edition.

Van Beinum certainly deserves such a collection .

[Mirror Image]

Or Martha Argerich and the absence of the Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto from her discography. I don't know if she didn't like the piece, or she just preferred to perform other concertos - but that one has always puzzled me. I guess she was highly selective of what pieces she performed and recorded in general.

Another puzzler for me was the fact that Hilary Hahn doesn't like Berg's Violinkonzert, but yet recorded the Schoenberg VC to great acclaim.

[classicalgeek]

Another puzzler for me was the fact that Hilary Hahn doesn't like Berg's Violinkonzert, but yet recorded the Schoenberg VC to great acclaim.

Really? That's too bad - she would be amazing in the Berg Concerto! I really think she could have made one of the great recordings of the piece, especially since she championed the Schoenberg.

[Mirror Image]

Really? That's too bad - she would be amazing in the Berg Concerto! I really think she could have made one of the great recordings of the piece, especially since she championed the Schoenberg.

Indeed. I imagine she would've done something truly special with it. Oh well, at least, we have Anne-Sophie Mutter's fabulous account!

[Linz]

I am Listening to Wand's Bruckner 4 with the NDR

[Linz]

Sorry for the multiple Wand covers

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Langgaard
Symphony No. 6 "Det Himmelrivende"
Danish NRSO
Järvi