What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Pietro Antonio Locataelli 6 Introduttioni Teatrali op.4 Freibuger Barockorchester Thomas Hengelbrock CD1 of this set

[vandermolen]

Bliss: A Colour Symphony
BBC Welsh SO/Barry Wordsworth
I hadn't realised how good this performance is - arguably my favourite now.
Wordsworth's recording of VW's 'Job' was equally exceptional:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Nice! Don't think I know it!

It's wonderful. https://youtu.be/_3m4dyZVORc

Have a great weekend Karl!

[Todd]

The first disc from:



This disc relies on one singer, Rosa Lamoreaux, and two instrumentalists to deliver the goods.  Deliver they do.  While the Sequentia and Jeremy Summerly recordings obviously have more vocal complexity, the simplicity of the approach here befits the music, which sound serious, beautiful, and transcendental.  Bingen has perhaps the highest hit rate of all composers in my collection, with this supremely fine recording, the great Summerly recording, the mammothly great Sequentia complete set, and the even greater transcription disc by Marie Luise Hinrichs. 

The MP3s sound good enough, though one senses something may be missing up top.  Perhaps not; I've not heard the 16/44.1 recording.

[aligreto]

John Kinsella: Symphony No.6

You certainly seem to like that one, Jeffrey.

[vandermolen]

You certainly seem to like that one, Jeffrey.

I do Fergus, along with the fabulous Marco Polo CD featuring Symphonies 3 'Joie de Vivre' and 4 'The Four Provinces'. I'm mow inclined to agree with my friend Johan ('Christo') that Symphony No.7 is one of the best.

[aligreto]

I do Fergus, along with the fabulous Marco Polo CD featuring Symphonies 3 'Joie de Vivre' and 4 'The Four Provinces'. I'm mow inclined to agree with my friend Johan ('Christo') that Symphony No.7 is one of the best.

I have to admit to being somewhat disappointed that RTE here have not issued a recording of Kinsella's final symphony, particularly due to their association with Kinsella in the past. I remember it as being a particularly fine work. Perhaps I am being a tad nostalgic.

[Linz]

Gustav Mahler Symphony No.3 Ladies of the Netherland Radio Choir, City Boys Choir Elburg, Larissa Diadkova, Contralto Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Edo de Waart

[Lisztianwagner]

Now:
William Walton
Symphony No.2

Vladimir Ashkenazy & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

I enjoyed the 2nd Symphony very much too, really a wonderful work! It's not as fiery and powerfully overwhelming as the 1st Symphony, though it definitely has its explosive, intense moments too; it expresses a more mysterious, elusive atmosphere and sounds more modern with the use of irregular paces and an ambitious instrumentation; also, the third movement reminded me Schönberg at some points in the development of the thematic variations from a twelve tone row, even if the series wasn't dodecaphonic at all.


Now:
William Walton
Violin Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/v/3YJKpDq6Q4U

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Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No.2. Ida Haendel, Herbert Blomstedt, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Unrelenting, rich, dark textures. Like every instrument in the orchestra, plus soloist, is screaming at you. (I feel the same way listening to Schoenberg's Violin Concerto.)

[Mapman]

Respighi: Sinfonia Drammatica
Downes: BBC

I think I liked the first movement best (including important, somewhat melodic, tympani parts). There are nice ideas, but the symphony feels a bit too long.

[Todd]

I have never listened to all of Liszt's Symphonic Poems, so I plan to rectify that.  So far, so mixed.

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Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No.2. Ida Haendel, Herbert Blomstedt, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Unrelenting, rich, dark textures. Like every instrument in the orchestra, plus soloist, is screaming at you. (I feel the same way listening to Schoenberg's Violin Concerto.)

There is some respite at about 40 minutes in, and the last 15 minutes or so of the concerto are quite lyrical and beautiful. This is a really great solo part, albeit probably a beast to play.

[Karl Henning]

It's wonderful. https://youtu.be/_3m4dyZVORc

Have a great weekend Karl!

You, too, Manabu!

[vers la flamme]

Arnold Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, op.36. Hilary Hahn, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

So dark, & yet simultaneously brilliant and luminous. Someone once referred to this work as "Art Deco" and I'm inclined to agree. This is my first time listening to it in over two years. The performance is amazing; the whole CD is a stunner with a great Sibelius VC too.

[JBS]

Repeat listen

[Keemun]

Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem.  Been listening to this work a lot lately.  Currently this recording.

[Operafreak]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A major/    Staatskapelle Berlin/    Daniel Barenboim

[Symphonic Addict]

Verdi: La Traviata

I wasn't wrong when claimed that from Rigoletto on his operas will be guaranteed hits to me. Music of intense lyricism and poignancy. It's the closest one to Puccini's style.




Messiaen: Sept Haïkaï

This work was mentioned lately here methinks, so I wanted to give it a try. This lies on the opposite spectre of beauty to the Verdi. Incredibly unsettling and weird music I'd say. No doubts why Messiaen never will be a favorite of mine.

[Irons]

Arnold: Symphony No. 9 [Penny]





Notes will be posted in the Malcolm Arnold thread for those interested.

I am! My hand hovered over this recording last week at a charity store. Picked up other CDs instead which turned out to be not very good.