What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphomy No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Bernard Haitink, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

[Brahmsian]

Finally nearing the end of my traversal of the Brahms chamber music

Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1
Joseph Kalichstein (piano), Jaime Laredo (violin), Sharon Robinson (cello)

Interested in knowing what are some of the standout works on your first run through this magical world. 

[Traverso]

Bruckner
String Quintet

Schmidt
Piano Quintet

[Mandryka]

Huettenbrenner Variations, Schubert. Dalberto joins Richter on the top t.

[vandermolen]

Magnard: Symphony No.3

PS I now like this one as much as the fabulous Symphony No.4. The 'liturgical' sounding opening movement is especially fine and rather moving.

[vandermolen]

Composer : Jean Sibelius
Recording : Symphony No. 4 (Gibson - 1982)
Performers : Alexander Gibson, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

A great set of Sibelius symphonies!

[Linz]

Mozart Serenade No. 10 in B flat major "Gran Partita" K361, Handel Concerto for Organ in F major op. 4 no. 4 HWV 292, Michel Schneider organ, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

[aligreto]

Delibes: Coppélia Act I [Bonynge]

[aligreto]

Magnard: Symphony No.3

PS I now like this one as much as the fabulous Symphony No.4. The 'liturgical' sounding opening movement is especially fine and rather moving.

A great set!

[aligreto]

Barry: Barry Meets Beethoven [Hillier]





The opening section, Beethoven.

[Lisztianwagner]

Claude Debussy
La Mer

Hans Rosbaud & Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden

[Karl Henning]

JSB
BWV 48, Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen

[ritter]

A rare outing of Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin chez ritter tonight (Pierre Boulez conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus),



I was inspired to listen to this piece by the interesting chapter The Futurist Mandarin in Vitoria Crespi Morbio's book on Enrico Prampolini, who designed the sets and costumes for a 1942 staging of the ballet at La Scala, choreographed by Aurel Miloss (who had worked closely with the composer on the work).

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7

Hans Rosbaud & Sudwestfunk-Orchester Baden-Baden

[Lisztianwagner]

A rare outing of Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin chez ritter tonight (Pierre Boulez conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus),

A great choice, it's a goosebumping recording!

[Todd]

Revisiting this supremely fine sounding 24/192 download.  As audiophiles well know, it's the sampling between 96 and 192 kHz that makes it sound more gooder.  Pity it's not available as a 256 download.

I bought this before the full Berg disc was released, so now I kind of want that since it has the VC with Shaham.

[Symphonic Addict]

Crikey. How has that flown under my radar all these years?
Serious hat-tip for pointing this out to me.
I obviously have the work (i.e., La Sensitiva, on Marco Polo), but I had no idea Janet Baker ever recorded it. I do now, however: and my wallet is lighter for it! So, sincere thanks.

My pleasure! I hope you enjoy it!

[Karl Henning]

CD 41
Wallingford Riegger
Symphony № 3 in G, Op. 42 (1946–1947, revised 1960)
Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra
Howard Hanson, conductor
Recorded in the Eastman Theater, Rochester 30 Apr 1952

Peter Mennin
Symphony № 3 (completed May 17, 1946, his doctoral dissertation at the Eastman School of Music)
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York (New York Philharmonic)
Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor
Recorded at the Columbia 30th Street Studio 1 Feb 1954

Native to Albany, Georgia, Wallingford Riegger (Wallingford was his mother's maiden name) seems not half so well known as Walter Piston, William Schuman, Roy Harris or Peter Mennin ... I was tempted to suggest that Riegger is 'practically unknown,' only I do know better than to take my own degree of ignorance as to someone as normative. I first heard of Riegger when a professor who had attended my performance of my own piece for clarinet and organ complimented me, saying the piece reminded him of the music of Wallingford Riegger. I was insufficiently enterprising to seek out Riegger's music at the time, so not only does the present recording satisfy at last a long-dormant curiosity, but I now understand what a compliment I received 40 years ago. The Third Symphony, which received the New York Music Critics' Circle Award and a Naumburg Foundation Recording Award, robustly demonstrates the composer's deserving his place among the more celebrated native-born symphonists mentioned above.
Mennin is altogether better known, and I'm a big fan, but I confine myself to reporting that he completed his Third Symphony on 17 May 1946 for his doctoral dissertation at the Eastman School of Music. Under the direction of Walter Hendl, the New York Philharmonic played the symphony's première in February 1947. Make sure you're seated, and try to imagine, in our day, a graduate's doctoral dissertation going to a public performance by a major US orchestra in nine months.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jacques Ibert: Diane de Poitiers & La Licorne.
Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Adriano.

[Todd]

Disc 2.