What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Tubin - symphony no.1
(Jarvi)

[TheGSMoeller]

Franz Liszt
Dante Symphony, S. 109
Dante Sonata, Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata

Berlin PO - Daniel Barenboim (piano)

I have never really taken to Liszt's Dante Symphony, having really only heard Jesús López-Cobos from the 70's with the Suisse Romande (below), but it struck me rather well this time around with Barenboim.

The Dante Sonata is a bit of slow-going spectacle, found on YouTube in Bayreuth with Barenboim.

VS

I'm a big fan of this piece, certainly my favorite work by Liszt. And it was the Barenboim account that first caught my attention as well. Fortunately Dante Symphony is very well represented on disc as there are several other really good performances available.


Thread duty: First time listening to the music of Yoshimatsu...

[Todd]

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Job A Masque for Dancing - Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder

[VonStupp]

I'm a big fan of this piece, certainly my favorite work by Liszt. And it was the Barenboim account that first caught my attention as well. Fortunately Dante Symphony is very well represented on disc as there are several other really good performances available.

TheGSMoeller, I think I have Masur and the Gewandhaus' Dante skulking around (unlistened to at the moment); are there some you prefer over others?

VS

[André]

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Weinberg
Symphony No. 3 in B minor, Op. 45
Gothenburg SO
Svedlund

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
LSO
Markevitch

From these recordings -

[Karl Henning]

The US Music Festival continues!
William Schuman, Song of Orpheus

[Mirror Image]

The US Music Festival continues!
William Schuman, Song of Orpheus

Oh, I haven't heard this piece in ages. If I recall it's essentially a cello concerto, right? Also, what performance?

NP:

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103, "The Year 1905"
National SO
Rostropovich



From this set -

[Karl Henning]

The US Music Festival continues!
Milton Babbitt
Composition for 12 Instruments
All Set

[Tsaraslondon]

I originally bought this CD for the haunting Flos campi but the other pieces are all wonderful too, and all beautifully performed. I much prefer this sixteen solo voice version of the Serenade to Music than the one for full chorus too.

[Mirror Image]

I originally bought this CD for the haunting Flos campi but the other pieces are all wonderful too, and all beautifully performed. I much prefer this sixteen solo voice version of the Serenade to Music than the one for full chorus too.

I never could quite appreciate Serenade to Music. Flos campi and Five Mystical Songs, however, are firm RVW favorites.

[foxandpeng]

DSCH
Complete String Quartets
SQ #10
Borodin Quartet
Decca

[SonicMan46]

Tchaikovsky, Peter - Piano Concertos w/ Jerome Lowenthal from the late '80s - he performs the original version of No. 1; also own the old Argerich recording below - do I need another set?  Eyeing the Peter Donohoe 2-disc offering but also dated - any new sets available?  Dave

   

[ritter]

First listen to this new arrival:


This is volume 1 of a series of three CDs of Milhaud's "Early String Quartets and Vocal Works". In the series, we get SQs 1 through 8 (making it a nice complement to the Quatuor Parisii's traversal of all 18 plus the Octet on Naïve—long OOP—), plus sing cycles spanning from 1914 to 1921. I think this is rather cleverly programmed.

I'm listening to SQ1, op. 5 (from 1912) now. This is Milhaud still firmly in the sound world of Debussy, and it's ravishingly beautiful (actually, I didn't remember how lovely this piece is). The hitherto unknown to me Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet plays superbly.

If the rest of this CD, and the remaining two discs, are at the same level, this will have been a great acquisition.

[Karl Henning]

The US Music Festival continues!
Ives: Two Contemplations
The Fourth of July and Thanksgiving and Forefathers Day from the Holidays Symphony

[Mirror Image]

The US Music Festival continues!
Ives: Two Contemplations
The Fourth of July and Thanksgiving and Forefathers Day from the Holidays Symphony

What performance?

[Linz]

Arnold Bax Symphony No. 5 and The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew

[Todd]

[Lisztianwagner]

Joseph Haydn
Symphonies 101 & 104