What are you listening 2 now?

[Biffo]

That was written for the Music Dept of my old university - Lancaster.

A fine piece, a bit more substantial and tough than I would expect from a piece called Sinfonietta

[Biffo]

Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel

[VonStupp]

There aren't nearly enough recordings of Nielsen's works for choir and orchestra. But then works for choir and orchestra seem to be neglected in general.

I agree. I swore I had another recording of Nielsen's symphonic choral works with Leif Segerstam on Chandos, but I can't seem to locate it. I do remember liking them very much.

VS

[VonStupp]

FJ Haydn
The Creation, Hob. XXI:2

Emma Kirkby, soprano
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor
Michael George, bass

Choir of New College Oxford (Higginbottom)
Academy of Ancient Music & Chorus - Christopher Hogwood

For today:

I am not much into HIP recordings, but in Haydn's oratorios, some period ensembles have upped their choral numbers (60 here I think) and doubled, tripled, and quadrupled the orchestral sections (another 60?). It makes for a bracing experience.

Never been much for Hogwood either, but I like this one for the soloists and chorus in English, and those weightier performing numbers are here across the board (I think McCreesh (in English) and Hengelbrock follow this trend too).

VS

[Todd]

A splendidly played, nicely varied program.

[kyjo]

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.

I agree with you about Milhaud's SQ no. 1 - a totally lovely piece, as fresh as a sunny spring morning in the south of France. I enjoy it just as much as Debussy's and Ravel's SQs. Another earlier work of his in a similar vein is his Piano Sonata no. 1 - great stuff!

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Adams
The Wound-Dresser
Georg Nigl, baritone
Berliners
Kirill Petrenko

From this outstanding set -



Perhaps not ideal Sunday morning music, this is one of my favorite works from Adams. One of the most hauntingly gorgeous Walt Whitman settings I've ever heard.

[Mirror Image]

Ligeti: Concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra

I'm in the mood for this kind of works currently.

A great work, Cesar. I like that DG box set a lot, but the Teldec (Warner) and Sony ones are also essential. I also really like all of the Wergo recordings.

[Operafreak]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'

Emil Gilels (piano)-    Cleveland Orchestra-    George Szell

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

[Traverso]

Beethoven


"Eroica"  Symphony No.3  (1963)

[SonicMan46]

Some BRO bargains - the Strauss and Stravinsky are new to my collection; the Boccherini Flute Quintets are 3 each from his Op. 17 & 19 sets of six works - these are duplications for me, so a possible culling issue?    Dave

   

[JBS]

FJ Haydn
The Creation, Hob. XXI:2

Emma Kirkby, soprano
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor
Michael George, bass

Choir of New College Oxford (Higginbottom)
Academy of Ancient Music & Chorus - Christopher Hogwood

For today:

I am not much into HIP recordings, but in Haydn's oratorios, some period ensembles have upped their choral numbers (60 here I think) and doubled, tripled, and quadrupled the orchestral sections (another 60?). It makes for a bracing experience.

Never been much for Hogwood either, but I like this one for the soloists and chorus in English, and those weightier performing numbers are here across the board (I think McCreesh (in English) and Hengelbrock follow this trend too).

VS

The very first performances of Die Schöpfung used forces that were at that time larger than usual.
McCreesh's recording (which uses an English text) is the one I like best.
TD
First listen

Wilms wrote 7 piano concertos, of which 5 have survived. He was called the "Dutch Beethoven", but the music reminds me more of Haydn--perhaps the Beethoven of PCs 1 and 2, but not PCs 3-5.

[San Antone]

Just poking around in his treasure.

Mahler: The Complete Works - 150th Anniversary Box
Simon Rattle, John Barbirolli, Otto Klemperer, Klaus Tennstedt, George Szell, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra



Right now: Das klaglende Lied

[VonStupp]

The very first performances of Die Schöpfung used forces that were at that time larger than usual.
McCreesh's recording (which uses an English text) is the one I like best.

And McCreesh is probably the better performance. I kept Hogwood because McCreesh's personal updating of the English upset my balances too much. Odd too, since rarely does that affect me with old, stylized sources.

VS

[Karl Henning]

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[SonicMan46]

Vanhal, Johann (1739-1813) - continuing today into my collection of this prolific composer and friend of Haydn and Mozart, among others:

Flute Quartets - Uwe Grodd on a modern flute w/ the Janaki Trio doing Op. 7 (Nos. 2,3,6) - there are 6 works for flute or oboe in this opus; interestingly, I also have Sarah Francis doing all 6 on oboe on one disc - looking at the timings, Grodd and colleagues add 7-8 minutes per quartet (assume repeats?).   Looking on Amazon, cannot find any 'period instrument' recordings of these works?

Clarinet Chamber Works - well, I ended up w/ 3 discs of these works; Arenas & Domonte are on modern instruments; Schlader & Brunner on period reproduction clarinets and fortepiano; and Duo Chiró on period clarinet and harpsichord performing 3 sonatas and 5 sonatinas - SO, all a bit different.  Dave

     

[SimonNZ]

Had a long tedious drive to do yesterday, but just as I started this came on the radio in its entirety, which made the time much better spent.

I'd only heard Hotter's recording with Gerald Moore previously, and looking now see there's aslo another Hotter DG with Michael Raucheisen to be heard.

[Johnnie Burgess]

George Antheil Symphony 4

Theodore Kuchar, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine