What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

[Traverso]

Vaughan Williams

Symphony No.6

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Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, op.42. Emanuel Ax, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra

Have not heard this in ages; it sounds excellent.

[aligreto]

Magnard: Hymne à Vénus, Op. 17





This is lush and opulent scoring, almost sensuous, for those who like their music that way. I particularly like the writing for the lower register strings and the wonderful woodwinds. I find that it is all very lyrical and pleasingly pastoral with a touch of poignancy thrown in. We inevitably get the dark cloud passing across the sunny sky casting its shadow. I find it all to be wonderfully atmospheric.

[aligreto]

What a wonderful painting featured on that cover.

[Todd]

[Spotted Horses]

Magnard: Hymne à Vénus, Op. 17





This is lush and opulent scoring, almost sensuous, for those who like their music that way. I particularly like the writing for the lower register strings and the wonderful woodwinds. I find that it is all very lyrical and pleasingly pastoral with a touch of poignancy thrown in. We inevitably get the dark cloud passing across the sunny sky casting its shadow. I find it all to be wonderfully atmospheric.

I should look into that series. I have the recordings from Plasson on EMI and Sanderling on BIS, but it seems Naxos has recording some music not included in those collections.

[ritter]

Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, op.42. Emanuel Ax, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra

Have not heard this in ages; it sounds excellent.

I actually saw Emmanuel Ax play the Schoenberg Piano Concerto live many years ago here in Madrid (conducted by Boulez). It was a memorable concert.

What a wonderful painting featured on that cover.

...by Schoenberg himself, I think.

[Traverso]

Rossini

An opera for a change 


Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

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What a wonderful painting featured on that cover.

By Schoenberg himself! Edit: Ritter beat me to it.

Now playing:



Ralph Vaughan Williams: Concerto for 2 Pianos in C major. Ralph Markham, Kenneth Broadway, Yehudi Menuhin, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

First listen. Sounds good.

[Irons]

By Schoenberg himself! Edit: Ritter beat me to it.

Now playing:



Ralph Vaughan Williams: Concerto for 2 Pianos in C major. Ralph Markham, Kenneth Broadway, Yehudi Menuhin, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

First listen. Sounds good.

I love this CD with a passion. Really do!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I love this CD with a passion. Really do!

I hadn't realized that Yehudi Menuhin had also conducted!  Did he make many recordings with him as a conductor?

PD

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

More of this:

Mozart's Sonatas for Piano and Violin (Lupu, Goldberg)

[Lisz]

Marianne von Martinez, a Mozart contemporary previously unknown to me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0lxKcBxLHw

[Traverso]

I hadn't realized that Yehudi Menuhin had also conducted!  Did he make many recordings with him as a conductor?

PD

Yes he made many recordings as a conductor. 

Here one example

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One more RVW for now:



Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.3, "A Pastoral Symphony". Adrian Boult, New Philharmonia Orchestra

This has always been far and away my favorite RVW symphony. I really love the Previn/LSO recording, but this one sounds great too. (And now, I really would like to hear the Bryden Thomson recording, too!)

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Arnold: Symphony No. 6 [Penny]





What a wonderful opening passage, and indeed movement, to a symphony! Discursive and menacing, it grabs one's attention. As ever with Arnold I am finding that I really like his musical language and orchestration. I find this first movement to be wonderfully taut, tense and exciting.

The slow movement is a contrast in tempo only, for me. There is that same element here, as in the opening movement, of an underlying disconcerting current that is wonderfully atmospheric. There is wonderful tension in this music also but it is not so tightly coiled, rather loosely sprung. This tension is prolonged and it is not released but rather augmented as the movement progresses. This makes for a wonderfully fraught and portentous atmosphere.

The tone and mood changes immediately with the trumpet fanfare in the opening of the final movement. The atmosphere reverts however, as the movement progresses but in a more upbeat tone on occasion. The tension, this time has an outlet when the work concludes with a satisfactory and definitive resolution.

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One more RVW for now:



Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.3, "A Pastoral Symphony". Adrian Boult, New Philharmonia Orchestra

This has always been far and away my favorite RVW symphony. I really love the Previn/LSO recording, but this one sounds great too. (And now, I really would like to hear the Bryden Thomson recording, too!)

Stopped after the first movement. Not sure, just not quite in the right mood for the Pastoral.



Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra

Excellent recording of RVW by an American orchestra—one of the few I have. (I also have some great stuff with the home team, the Atlanta SO.) But those Philadelphia strings sound stellar in this work.

And now you all are getting me in the mood to hear some Malcolm Arnold. Hmm.

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...by Schoenberg himself, I think.

By Schoenberg himself! Edit: Ritter beat me to it.

Thank you both.
I should have read the cover properly but I was so focused on trying to read the inscription on the painting itself [even enlarged] that my ageing eyes missed the red print to the right.   

[aligreto]

I should look into that series. I have the recordings from Plasson on EMI and Sanderling on BIS, but it seems Naxos has recording some music not included in those collections.

I cannot really offer you any advice on this series in terms of presentation comparisons because I am only new to the music of Magnard. I have also acquired his symphonic cycle in this series which is, as of yet, unlistened to. This is all of Magnard's music that I own so far. All that I can say to you is that I have thoroughly enjoyed what I have heard thus far on this "Orchestral Works" CD under Bollon. It just all feels right to me.