What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Arnold Schoenberg: 5 Pieces for Orchestra, op.16; Cello Concerto after G.M. Monn. Robert Craft, London Symphony (5 Pieces) and Philharmonia Orchestra (Cello Concerto), w/ cellist Fred Sherry. I love this disc...

Yes!

[Karl Henning]

Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, op.21. Yvonne Minton, Daniel Barenboim, Michel Debost, Anthony Pay, Pinchas Zukerman, and Lynn Harrell. Directed by Pierre Boulez, I guess. (Not sure to what extent a Pierrot ensemble needs a conductor, but it's his name that's big on the cover). Anyway, this is my favorite recording by far. Most in the Sprechstimme role on other recordings are just too silly for me to take seriously in any way, spoiling the music for me. The instrumental soloists are all fantastic here, they paint a rich and vivid portrait, a dark, explosive expressionistic canvas. I like it so much that I'm tempted to check out the later Boulez recording with Christine Schäfer.

Nice! I must have that in a reissue. I should root about for it.

[SimonNZ]

[Karl Henning]

Britten Passacaglia from "Peter Grimes" and Sinfonia da Requiem, Previn conducting the LSO




Sarge

Sweet!

[Karl Henning]

Britten
Death in Venice
From the Operas II box

Damn! This is good!

[Tsaraslondon]

One tenor too many in that War Requiem  . I believe Martyn Hill doesn't appear in the Requiem, but rather in one of the fillers....

Yep. Martyn Hill is the soloist on Our Hunting Fathers.

[Iota]

Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, op.21. Yvonne Minton, Daniel Barenboim, Michel Debost, Anthony Pay, Pinchas Zukerman, and Lynn Harrell. Directed by Pierre Boulez, I guess. (Not sure to what extent a Pierrot ensemble needs a conductor, but it's his name that's big on the cover). Anyway, this is my favorite recording by far. Most in the Sprechstimme role on other recordings are just too silly for me to take seriously in any way, spoiling the music for me. The instrumental soloists are all fantastic here, they paint a rich and vivid portrait, a dark, explosive expressionistic canvas. I like it so much that I'm tempted to check out the later Boulez recording with Christine Schäfer.

Fwiw I would check out the Schafer/Boulez, I think it's a great recording (and I too am sensitive to Sprechtstimme performances that to me sound unconvincing, it's quite an art I think). I'll give the Minton/Boulez recording a listen. I feel pretty much like Mowgli staring into Kaa's kaleidoscopic eyes listening to Pierrot, such a smorgasbord of sensation, colour and poetry.



TD:



I know Diabolus in Musica are not everybody's cup of tea here, but this is a recording that keeps turning up trumps for me.

[Que]

I know Diabolus in Musica are not everybody's cup of tea here, but this is a recording that keeps turning up trumps for me.

+1 

[SimonNZ]

[Christo]

Especially 'A Pastoral Symphony', my favourite RVW symphony since I was fifteen:

[Kontrapunctus]

[André]

Powerful opera, powerful (if flawed) performance.

[Symphonic Addict]

In this Fricker's centenary year.

You're right, Irons. I hadn't realized. More reasons to hear his music.

[Symphonic Addict]

John Foulds: Sonata for Cello and Piano - one of my very favourite pieces of chamber music:

An incredible piece. It's certainly one of the best cello sonatas I know.

[André]

Disc 1, Concerto gregoriano, for violin and orchestra; Toccata, for piano and orchestra; Adagio con variazioni, for cello and orchestra. All of these works are new to me. The violin work is very impressive.

[Symphonic Addict]

Piano Trio

So beautiful piece, sharing soundworld with that by Ropartz. Supremely enchanting.

[Symphonic Addict]

Disc 1, Concerto gregoriano, for violin and orchestra; Toccata, for piano and orchestra; Adagio con variazioni, for cello and orchestra. All of these works are new to me. The violin work is very impressive.

The Concerto gregoriano is top-notch Respighi.

[San Antone]

[T. D.]

[JBS]

The Concerto gregoriano is top-notch Respighi.

I tend to think most Respighi is top notch Respighi.
I have the Naxos recordings  of his concertos, but not these.

TD
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(Arkivmusic apparerntly got its copies before Amazon).
The Beethoven Year gets its recognition in the form of a waltz by Johann II that references the Ninth Symphony, and the inclusion of six of the 12 Contradances, WoO 14.