What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Love that disc

Yes sharp music.

[Traverso]

Lovely! I've really enjoyed Poulenc's solo piano music immensely.

I share your appreciation.

[Florestan]

I share your appreciation.

+ 2

[vandermolen]

Gorecki: Symphony 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'.
A long time since I've heard this work and this is a partularly fine recording:

[vandermolen]

 

Symphony no. 3

Great cover art for both CDs!
I like Vanska's Sibelius symphony recordings.

[André]

A truly glorious interpretation of Bruckner's 8th symphony. Jochum doesn't spend all his ammo in the first movement, going from strength to strength as the work progresses. The finale has never sounded so triumphantly exultant as here IMO.

Comments (in Spanish) from a blogger: « Jochum nos deja una maravillosa, bellísima, imponente, monumental y arrebatadora Octava de Bruckner. Sin más. Y la Orquesta de Bamberger acompaña a la magistral dirección y al impulso vital que Jochum imprime, sin desmerecer a orquestas de mayor renombre. Una grabación excepcional (...) un edificio sonoro sin par que concluye en un movimiento final que desde su coral inicial hasta el apoteósico final resolutivo es de una belleza y emotividad únicas« 

The organ works proposed as a filler are interesting too - and rarely heard.

[Linz]

Sanderling 1st cd From this set Borodin Symphony No. 2 with the Steppes of Central Asia and Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet

[Karl Henning]

Gorecki: Symphony 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'.
A long time since I've heard this work and this is a partularly fine recording:

I've got to listen to that piece, one of these days. Not this week, though. Not sure I want sorrowful songs at present.

TD:

CD 3
Jn Browning, Eric Leinsdorf & the BSO

Pf Cto № 1 in D^b Op. 10
Pf Cto № 2 in g minor Op. 16
Pf Cto № 3 in C Op. 26

[Florestan]

Not sure I want sorrowful songs at present.

I don't want them at any time.

[SonicMan46]

Well, arriving on the same day, two packages from 'across the pond' from PrestoMusic and JPC - a mixture of single discs and small box sets - first up:

Beethoven, LV - Six Piano Concertos w/ Gottlieb Wallisch on three original fortepianos (FP), plus Martin Haselböck and the Orchester Wiener Akademie on period instruments; the 6th concerto is the transcription of the violin concerto (so 3 full discs) - the FPs used are: 1) Conrad Graf, ca. 1818 (played by Beethoven); 2) Conrad Graf, ca. 1823-24; and 3) Franz Bayer, Vienna ca. 1825; new recordings, 2017-2020 - my second FP set (also own Lubin w/ Hogwood); review attached for those interested.  Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

I don't want them at any time.

You never listen (by choice) to a Stabat Mater?

[Florestan]

You never listen (by choice) to a Stabat Mater?

Touché! Well done, Karl! 

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Koechlin
Sonate À 7, Op. 221
Stefan Schilli (oboe), Henrik Wiese (flute), Cristina Bianchi (harp), Daniel Giglberger (violin), Heather Cottrell (violin), Anja Kreynacke (viola), Kristin von der Goltz (cello)

[classicalgeek]

Ives' 3rd symphony (aka "The Camp Meeting") could be viewed as his 'pastoral symphony'. It's got this easy atmosphere about it, but it is gorgeous. Also glad to see you listening to the Fulkerson/Shannon recording of the Violin Sonatas. A must-have set, IMHO, for anyone wanting to collect Ives' music. FYI, Ives' Violin Sonata No. 2 is my favorite of the four.

Ives' Third Symphony still hasn't fallen into place for me despite listening again with the score (see below)... but it's getting there. It's definitely his most 'pastoral' in character. And yes, the Violin Sonatas were superbly done by Fulkerson/Shannon! I'd say my early favorite is No. 3, but I came away impressed by No. 2 as well.

I particularly love the poignantly lyrical 3rd Violin Sonata - one of Ives' most approachable and deeply-felt works.

Yes, exactly! A genuinely beautiful work.

TD: Over the weekend:

Charles Ives
Symphony no. 3 'Camp Meeting'
Three Places in New England
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra



Listened to Symphony no. 3 with the score, which definitely increased my grasp of the work. I'm really impressed how Orpheus, in both works but especially Three Places in New England, execute Ives's intricate rhythms without a conductor!

[Linz]

Now Elyakum Shapirra with thhe London Symphony Orchestra with the Overture in G minor available as a flac file download at abruckner.com

[ritter]

Dipping my toes into this set (that landed yesterday).



Starting with the fourth (and last) disc, as it includes some of my favourite of Debussy's  mélodies (Trois Chansons de France, Trois Ballades de François Villon, Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé). Most are sung by the men (tenor Gilles Ragon and baritone François Le Roux), except for the Mallarmé songs, which are performed by soprano Magali Léger. A curious turn is that the CD ends with Noël des enfants que n'ont plus de maison sung by a boy soprano (Antonin Rondepierre). I've never cared for that song (I find it downright nasty), but let's see how it works in this version.

Halfway into the disc, and so far, so very good. Jean-Louis Haguenaur, the spiritus rector of this project, is quite wonderful at the piano (a Blüthner instrument that belonged to the composer).

The set come with a 240-page booklet, with full texts and English translations, artist bios, and essays on the music.

Making my way backwards in this set, now listening to CD3. It includes favourites like La Belle au bois dormant (with its quotation of Nous n'irons plus au bois —a song that seems to have had Debussy obsessed), Fêtes galantes I, and the Trois chansons de Bilitis. Magali Léger has an innocent, childlike sound (which suits her songs wonderfully, but it's also great that we have a variety of voices here, because after a while her tone could become tiresome).

[vandermolen]

Stephen Paulus: Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra.
Can't stop playing this one - such a moving and inspiriting work.

[Karl Henning]

I've got to listen to that piece, one of these days. Not this week, though. Not sure I want sorrowful songs at present.

TD:

CD 3
Jn Browning, Eric Leinsdorf & the BSO

Pf Cto № 1 in D^b Op. 10
Pf Cto № 2 in g minor Op. 16
Pf Cto № 3 in C Op. 26

So good ... and it makes me go back to:

CD 1
Symphony № 2 in d minor Op. 40
Symphony № 6 in e^b minor Op. 111

[Karl Henning]

Touché! Well done, Karl! 

(* chortle *)

[Que]