What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Excellent.

[Traverso]

Very nice!

Thank you Karl 

[vandermolen]

In the car - Tubin: Symphony No 3 'Heroic'
After the sadness of yesterday's doleful events over here, I needed something inspiriting and uplifting, and Tubin was just right.

[Traverso]

Stravinsky

[foxandpeng]

Allan Pettersson
Symphonies 5 and 7
Christian Lindberg
Norrköping SO
BIS

So much for exploring William Walton. Pettersson is just so darn compelling - far more so than what seems rather pedestrian and ordinary in Walton. No offence intended to the Waltonites amongst us. He is just... well, ridiculously good. Symphony 7 is excellent, obvs, but 5 is a masterpiece of sublime and momentous atmosphere.

[vandermolen]

Walton: Symphony No.2

[foxandpeng]

Walton: Symphony No.2

I am a bad person. Derailed again. I really need to listen to this, but I have been pulled inexorably into Pettersson again. It is like some sort of itch I can't help scratching.

Edit: The covers of the excellent Lindberg recordings remind me of the Nietzsche quote about gazing into the abyss that ends up staring back at you. Burrows hard.

[Linz]

Mozart Complete Works for Piano (disc 3)Ingrid Haebler

[SonicMan46]

Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) - String Quartets w/ the Emerson Quartet (Octet as a bonus) - also own the Pacifica Quartet in these works which I like better.  Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) - String Quartets w/ the Emerson Quartet (Octet as a bonus) - also own the Pacifica Quartet in these works which I like better.  Dave

 

I fetched in tha Pacifica set as an mp3 album.

[Lisztianwagner]

Alban Berg
3 Wozzeck fragments



Giuseppe Sinopoli & Staatskapelle Dresden

[Linz]

 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 Edo de Waart and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic And Choir Charlotte Margiono, Soprano, Birgit Remmert, Contralto

[Todd]

7.  Not a great recording, but a good one.  I freely admit to liking the darker, more distant, less detailed, but weightier sound that this and the Dude's Ives symphonies display. 

[vandermolen]

Howard Hanson: Symphony No.2 'Romantic'
Both performances on this CD are very fine. Mata (who conducts the Copland work) was a great loss:

[Linz]

Jean Sibelius Symphonies 1 and 3 with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra Petri Sakari

[Lisztianwagner]

I've just discovered that Karajan performed Walton's 1st Symphony, so I can't miss the chance to listen to a rare Karajan's recording. That's my first listen to Walton's music anyway.

William Walton
Symphony No.1

https://www.youtube.com/v/uBVXLubqBHg

I'll provably have to listen to another recording to compare too, since I read Karajan cut few bars of the work and added four Wagner tubas.

[Symphonic Addict]

I've just discovered that Karajan performed Walton's 1st Symphony, so I can't miss the chance to listen to a rare Karajan's recording. That's my first listen to Walton's music anyway.

William Walton
Symphony No.1

https://www.youtube.com/v/uBVXLubqBHg

I'll provably have to listen to another recording to compare too, since I read Karajan cut few bars of the work and added four Wagner tubas.

To the bolded text: 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Debussy

Nice box! I like the orchestrations in the set!

[Traverso]

Nice box! I like the orchestrations in the set!

It was the reason to purchase this set 

[Lisztianwagner]

To the bolded text: 

I apologize, I've still been expanding my knowledge of 20th century composers. I enjoyed Walton's Symphony No. 1 very much anyway; I'll look for another recording to compare it with the Karajan, and then I'll try other works.