What are you listening 2 now?

[kyjo]

Actually, I won't disagree with you! The other day I heard Langgaard's First under Segerstam and I did feel it a bit long and discursive, mostly in the 2nd and 5th movements. Is it an ambitious work? Yes, it is. Is it the best first symphony by anyone? No, it isn't, but I do appreciate his talent at writing this colossus. Having said that, my favorite symphonies by him are 4-6, 10 and 13. I realize our tastes change over the time, and it's perfectly fine to disagree when one feels it so, but it's not a healthy behaviour when one does it just for being a trouble maker.

As for Schmidt, it's the 2nd mov. the part that makes it for me. It's gorgeous, mostly the fragment that begins around 7:30 min. mark or so.

Glad you can sympathize with my impressions, Cesar. The Langgaard is certainly an impressive work for a 16-year-old, but the fact remains that it's just too long to sustain its material. In particular, I thought that the 3rd movement was just unnecessary. I'll have to revisit his 10th and 13th symphonies. I do like his 5th and 6th, just perhaps not as much as yourself.

As for the Schmidt, perhaps I just wasn't in the mood for it that day. It definitely contains some impressive and lush music - Schmidt at his most Straussian.

[Traverso]

This is a fine one 

[classicalgeek]

Tchaikovsky
Symphony no. 6
Philharmonia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti
(on CD)



Certainly a well-played and solid Tchaik 6, but I found it was missing that last bit of febrile intensity that I heard most recently in Mravinsky's classic Leningrad account.

[Karl Henning]

Arthur Bliss's Meditations on a Theme by John Blow 
    David Lloyd-Jones, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

A piece I mean to investigate.

[Karl Henning]

Actually, I won't disagree with you! The other day I heard Langgaard's First under Segerstam and I did feel it a bit long and discursive, mostly in the 2nd and 5th movements. Is it an ambitious work? Yes, it is. Is it the best first symphony by anyone? No, it isn't, but I do appreciate his talent at writing this colossus. Having said that, my favorite symphonies by him are 4-6, 10 and 13. I realize our tastes change over the time, and it's perfectly fine to disagree when one feels it so, but it's not a healthy behaviour when one does it just for being a trouble maker.

As for Schmidt, it's the 2nd mov. the part that makes it for me. It's gorgeous, mostly the fragment that begins around 7:30 min. mark or so.

You remind me that I should revisit the Langgaard First, Cesar.

[Linz]

Braunfels Te Deum, Op. 32, Leonie Rysanek (soprano), Helmut Melchert (tenor), Hermann Werner (organ) West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cologne Gurzenich Choir, Hindemith Konzertmusik, Op. 50 for strings & brass

[VonStupp]

Carl Nielsen
Symphony 6 'Sinfonia Semplice, FS 116
San Francisco SO - Herbert Blomstedt

Wrapping up the late symphonies.

VS

[foxandpeng]

Philip Glass
String Quartets 1 - 4
Carducci Quartet
Naxos

[JBS]

Bruno Maderna Mahler Symphony No. 9 BBC Symphony Orchestra

I consider that one to be one of the best M9s ever recorded.

TD

Schubert Sonata in E Flat D568
Schumann Waldszenen Op 82

[Cato]

Bruno Maderna Mahler Symphony No. 9 BBC Symphony Orchestra

I consider that one to be one of the best M9s ever recorded.

I have a rare recording of Bruno Maderna conducting Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter, and it is magical!

[classicalgeek]

Cherubini
Requiem in C minor
Ambrosian Singers
Philharmonia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti
(on CD)



A really gripping and intense work that calls to mind Verdi's Requiem, even Dvorak's in spots. There are no vocal soloists in this work, but I didn't miss them at all.

[Mapman]

Bax: Four Songs For Tenor And Orchestra (Glamour, Slumber Song, Eternity, A Lyke-Wake)
Hill; Thomson: London Philharmonic

[DavidW]

[Karl Henning]

Brilliant disc!

[Todd]

Overwrought, but in a good way.

[Karl Henning]

Karl Henning Considering My Bliss Options Op 137 № 2b

https://youtu.be/YtUsw5eE2Sw

Really mellow, melodic music.  If you watch the video you'll see a sign that says "people are eating children in this area"

Hah!!

[SimonNZ]

[classicalgeek]

Wrapping up the workday with this:

Bruckner
Symphony no. 7
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden
Michael Gielen
(on CD)



There were moments I enjoyed, but Gielen's Bruckner 7 was a disappointment overall, particularly in the transcendent slow movement; here, it was just too fast and light. I really enjoyed his Bruckner 6, so perhaps this is an anomaly...

[Karl Henning]

Telemann, GP - will be finishing up my 'selective' listening my my GPT collection today - i.e. the top row (believe I've had those Pinnock CDs since their first release) and the Paris Quartets w/ Jed Wentz and gang - listen to the Kuijkens earlier in the year.  Dave

   

 

The Kuijkens united!  I wonder how many albums feature so many Kuijkens?  I imagine not many.

Goldarnit, Dave & Davey! You guys have sucked me in:

[Mirror Image]

Continuing on with the Bartók Warner Classics set:

Divertimento For Strings, Sz. 113, BB 118
Philharmonia Orchestra
Silvestri

Concerto For Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123
Oslo Philharmonic
Jansons