What are you listening 2 now?

[classicalgeek]

Concluding the work day with more Delius... including another performance of In a Summer Garden:

Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
In a Summer Garden
Brigg Fair
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy
(on Spotify)



Colorful, evocative music and sumptuously orchestrated. There's nothing quite like it. And I'd forgotten how much I enjoy Brigg Fair!

[JBS]

Repeat listen.

[Bachtoven]

[Mirror Image]

I listened to the album via streaming service. I liked it! 

I'm glad you liked it, but be sure to check out some of his other music. His symphonies are excellent. I also enjoy Seven Pastorales immensely.

[Mirror Image]

I love that, haven't listened for a while.

What do you think about Studer? Does she sound a bit off-key to you?

[Mirror Image]

I really like that CD (both works)

The Harrison Elegiac Symphony took me by great surprise and I believe this is how I discovered this composer.

[Mirror Image]

CD 105 of the Barbirolli box is a Janet Baker hat trick: Nuits d'Ete, Sheherazade, Sea Pictures




To simplify matters, here's a table for MI (John) to pound on.

Yes to both of those recordings!

[Mirror Image]

TD:
This sent me in search of Persichetti... another of the many composers with whose work I'm not as familiar as I'd like to be.

Persichetti
Symphony no. 3
Symphony no. 4
Symphony no. 7
Albany Symphony Orchestra
David Alan Miller




Persichetti
Symphony no. 5
*Piano concerto
*Robert Taub, piano
Riccardo Muti and *Charles Dutoit conducting
(both on Spotify)



Thoroughly enjoyable music, rhythmically driven in the faster movements, gently lyrical the slower bits. I didn't find them particularly memorable (thematically in particular), but I'd definitely listen to them again. I have a feeling these pieces would reward repeated listening.

We're in agreement about Persichetti. He's certainly not in the same echelon of mid-20th Century American composers like Copland, Barber, Schuman, Piston, Diamond et. al., but he wrote some good music nevertheless.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Copland
Appalachian Spring (original version)
St Luke's Chamber Ensemble
Davies



The original version of Appalachian Spring is truly special for me. While I do like the full orchestra version, there's something about the more intimate nature of the chamber ensemble that suits the music a bit more or, at least, it does for me.

[Operafreak]

[Mirror Image]

Last work for the night:

Tubin
Symphony No. 1
Swedish Radio Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

[Traverso]

Utopia Triumphans


   
Thomas Tallis  Spem In Alium
Costanzo Porta  Sanctus • Agnus Dei (From The "Missa Ducalis")
Qui Habitat (Psalm 90)  Josquin Desprez*
Johannes Ockeghem  Deo Gratias    
Pierre De Manchicourt  Laudate Dominum   
Giovanni Gabrieli  Exaudi Me Domine    
Alessandro Striggio  Ecce Beatam Lucem

[vandermolen]

Last work for the night:

Tubin
Symphony No. 1
Swedish Radio Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

Pounds the table - the First is one of my favourites of the cycle.

[Harry]

Pounds the table - the First is one of my favourites of the cycle.

+1

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 5

Toccatas BWV 540-565-564 & 538
Praeludium BWV 566 & 532

Ton Koopman  organ

[Operafreak]

[aligreto]

Richafort: Requiem [Cinquecento]





The music washes over one like a soft, warm summer breeze. The harmonies significantly enhance the gentle music. The singing is superlative and it presents the music in a great light. Unfortunately the recording suffers from a lot of sibilance which I find to be very distracting. It is very pronounced and it definitely distracts from an otherwise sumptuous performance.

[Que]

Morning listening - one of three recordings by Marco Longhini with "parody masses" by Palestrina:



The masses on this volume are based on madrigals by Cipriano de Rore, and are sung OVPP.
It doesn't get any better than this...

[Madiel]

What do you think about Studer? Does she sound a bit off-key to you?

No, I rather like her in the Hermit Songs.

[Madiel]

Mozart, Symphonies 26 and 27



No.26 is one of the relatively few that doesn't seem to do much for me, perhaps with the way the movements just run together. Whereas I find no.27 delightful.