What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

You and I feel similarly. It really wasn't too memorable, but there was some beautiful writing for the piano --- of course, this isn't enough to save it for me.

Re: Novak PC

That was also my feeling about this recording.

TD
The second part of this double album.

The Impromptus and the Second and Third Sonatas
Recorded at various times in 1974-75 and 1977-78.

[vers la flamme]

Hector Berlioz: Te Deum, op.22. Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Really enjoying this. I've heard it before but it's never made as much as an impression as now. Kind of strikes me as proto-Wagnerian in some aspects.

[classicalgeek]

Benjamin Frankel
Mephistopheles Serenade
Symphony no. 4
Symphony no. 6
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Werner Andreas Albert
(on Spotify)

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Hector Berlioz: Te Deum, op.22. Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Really enjoying this. I've heard it before but it's never made as much as an impression as now. Kind of strikes me as proto-Wagnerian in some aspects.

The entire Berlioz Colin Davis cycle on Philips is extraordinary and, for me, some of the best work he's done.

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Now playing an old workhorse, Holst's The Planets with Ormandy and the Philadelphians:



Oh man, this is a smoldering performance. I have an older issue of this, but always thought the audio quality was on the dull side. This newer Japanese remaster really sounds so much better. It really does sound as if a layer of slime has been washed off of it. Love it!

[Mapman]

Novák: The Storm
Košler: Czech Philharmonic

[Symphonic Addict]

Honegger: Hymne pour dixtuor à cordes

An absorbing and haunting mini-drama. I like how Honegger manages to elicit tension.




And:

Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 2

[JBS]

Final CD of the night is the final CD of the Marriner Haydn set

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Now playing Respighi Vetrate di chiesa with Ormandy conducting the Philadelphians from a 2-CD Japanese reissue on Sony:

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Novák: The Storm
Košler: Czech Philharmonic

One of my favorite works from Novák. An excellent recording, too.

[Operafreak]

Concertos for Orchestra

Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins

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Now playing Respighi Gli Uccelli with Ormandy conducting the Philadelphians from a 2-CD Japanese reissue on Sony:

[Operafreak]

Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1, Symphony No. 3 - The Schoenberg Effect- Notos Quartett


   

[Madiel]

Langgaard - quartets 6 & 3.

No.3 being the more interesting IMO.

[vandermolen]

Now playing Respighi Vetrate di chiesa with Ormandy conducting the Philadelphians from a 2-CD Japanese reissue on Sony:

I have that fine set too John. You like the Japanese reissues don't you? 
I like them too but they are pricey and the notes are all in Japanese.
I have some of their Boult EMI VW cycle recordings and Bernstein's CBS/Sony recording of Copland's 3rd Symphony (with the Symphony for Organ and Orchestra) and one ot two of the Previn Shostakovich recordings.
TD
Early morning listening - Atterberg Symphony No.3 - it has the most beautiful opening of any Atterberg symphony. My favourites are symphonies 5,3,2 and 8.

[vandermolen]

One of my favorite works from Novák. An excellent recording, too.

+1  a masterpiece.

[vandermolen]

It wasn't John, but me, Jeffrey. 

Oh right! Thanks Cesar.

[vandermolen]

How many of us Jeffreys are there now?

Still only two I think 

[Lisztianwagner]

And:

Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 2

I'm considering to buy a recording of Zemlinsky's String Quartets, how is this one?

[Madiel]

Haydn: piano trio no.42 in E flat