What are you listening 2 now?

[SonicMan46]

Small package from BRO arrived today w/ a half dozen CDs - some guitar up first:

Rodrigo, Joaquin - Guitar Music - 1 w/ Jeremy Jouve (and Judicael Perroy as a duo on one work).

Scarlatti, Domenico - Guitar Transcriptions w/ Alberto Mesirca - own one other of Scarlatti, but with w/ Stephen Marchionda on guitar (MDG) - checked and no duplications, totaling over two dozen sonatas - all shown below and a review of each attached.  Dave

   

[aligreto]

Moeran:





Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra

[vers la flamme]

I once poo-pooed the Mass, but those days are done. I love it, whatever the occasional "inconsistency."

I'm glad you've seen the light. I think I was pretty much hooked right away, though I thought it was goofy at first. (Still do, for that matter.) Listening to some more of it now.

[Linz]

Sanderling set CD 9 is Shostakovich Symphony no. 5

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

A fun side-by-side listening project I'm going to be doing with Albéniz's Iberia: the original piano and the orchestrated versions of Books I, II & III -

Now playing:

Iberia, Book I
Miguel Baselga, piano

Iberia, Book I (orch. Enrique Fernández Arbós)
Cincinnati SO
López-Cobos

From these recordings -

Have you checked the arrangement by Francisco Guerrero?. It's very good. Unfortunately he just made arrangement of 6 pieces and passed away before completing all the 12 pieces.
Maurice Ravel told Albeniz that he wanted to make an arrangement of Ibernia. But Albeniz declined since he had already given a permission for orchestration to his friend, Arbos.  If Ravel asked a little earlier, or Arbos asked a little later, we would have been listening to a very different, perhaps more colorful, arrangement by Ravel today.

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Have you checked the arrangement by Francisco Guerrero?. It's very good. Unfortunately he just made arrangement of 6 pieces and passed away before completing all the 12 pieces.
Maurice Ravel told Albeniz that he wanted to make an arrangement of Ibernia. But Albeniz declined since he had already given a permission for orchestration to his friend, Arbos.  If Ravel asked a little earlier, or Arbos asked a little later, we would have been listening to a very different, perhaps more colorful, arrangement by Ravel today.

Iberia orchestrated by Ravel. Now that would be something, indeed. We must also acknowledge Carlos Suriñach's involvement in the orchestration of this work. Anyway, as it is, the orchestrations, unless done by the himself, must be taken with a grain of salt as to what the composer actually wanted or even intended. I enjoyed what I've heard so far.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Iberia orchestrated by Ravel. Now that would be something, indeed. We must also acknowledge Carlos Suriñach's involvement in the orchestration of this work. Anyway, as it is, the orchestrations, unless done by the himself, must be taken with a grain of salt as to what the composer actually wanted or even intended. I enjoyed what I've heard so far.

P.s. The Baselga set is excellent.

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P.s. The Baselga set is excellent.

It sure is as is this one:

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Monday!

Honegger
La Danse des Morts
Gilles Cachemaille, Naoko Okada, Brigitte Balleys, Oers Kisfaludy
The Gulbenkian Choir, Gulbenkian Orchestra
Michel Corboz

I'm in!

Honegger
La Danse des Morts, H. 131

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I'm in!

Honegger
La Danse des Morts, H. 131

[Karl Henning]

I'm glad you've seen the light. I think I was pretty much hooked right away, though I thought it was goofy at first. (Still do, for that matter.) Listening to some more of it now.

I've learnt to embrace the goofiness!

[foxandpeng]

Arnold Bax
Symphonic Poems
Tintagel
The Garden of Fand
The Happy Forest
The Tale the Pine Trees Knew
November Woods
David Lloyd Jones
RSNO

Even Mondays can be improved by Bax.

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Arnold Bax
Symphonic Poems
Tintagel
The Garden of Fand
The Happy Forest
The Tale the Pine Trees Knew
November Woods
David Lloyd Jones
RSNO
That's a nice compilation from the fill-ups to Lloyd Jones's Bax symphony cycle.
Even Mondays can be improved by Bax.

[foxandpeng]

That's a nice compilation from the fill-ups to Lloyd Jones's Bax symphony cycle.

It is! Strangely, I always feel a little unsatisfied with the recording of November Woods compared to the Chandos Handley version. Sharper sound from Handley.

Thread:

Peter Maxwell Davies
Eight Songs for a Mad King
Kelvin Davies
Psappha

PMD delivers yet again. Whatever he was on while composing this, I'm actually not sure I want some.
At the same time, completely compelling.

[Klavier1]

[LKB]

Earlier today l viewed the RCO's memorial event for Bernard Haitink, which was held in Amsterdam yesterday and livestreamed on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/uSa70dURJwA

I thought the proceedings were wholly successful, highlighted by Mahler's First under the baton of Ivan Fischer. Well worth watching.

This is now privatized, no longer accessible on vanilla YouTube. Hopefully they'll make it available again at some point, it was quite moving in places.

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NP:

Gerhard
Don Quixote
Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife
Víctor Pablo Pérez



Absolutely lovely. It seems that everything I've been listening to lately comes from OOP recordings. Oh well, I'm sure these are still available somewhere in the used market for those that want them.

[Karl Henning]

There is always the unexpected, which is part of why I indulge in the occasional unlikely box:

CD 6

RVW
Symphony № 5 in D
Fantasia on a Theme by Thos Tallis

Frederick Delius
Walk to the Paradise Garden (Intermezzo from A Village Romeo & Juliet) arr. Beecham

Michael Heming 1920-1942
Threnody for a Soldier killed in action (completed and orch. Anthony Collins)
Hallé Orchestra
rec. 1944/45/46 Houldsworth Hall, Manchester

Many will recall (I certainly made no secret about it erewhile) how Delius-averse I have been, historically. For that very reason, I am honor-bound to report that I listened to Walk to the Paradise Garden three times in succession.
Separately, the Heming is deeply touching.

Now:

CD 2

"Wolferl"
Adagio in E, K. 261 (Jos. Suk, vn)
Vn Cto in A, K. 219 (Alexander Plocek, vn)
Cto for Flute & Harp, K. 299 (Géza Novák, fl, Karel Patras, hp)

Dvořák
Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66

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Many will recall (I certainly made no secret about it erewhile) how Delius-averse I have been, historically. For that very reason, I am honor-bound to report that I listened to Walk to the Paradise Garden three times in succession

Holy crap! Well, it is a lovely piece. There's no denying its beauty.

[Karl Henning]

Holy crap! Well, it is a lovely piece. There's no denying its beauty.

Such denial is now anathema to me