What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Of the operas by Malipiero I Know (he apparently composed 35 of them ....

Holy Toledo!

[Lisztianwagner]

Luigi Dallapiccola
Variazioni per Orchestra

Gianandrea Noseda & BBC Philharmonic

[Karl Henning]

Such an excellent disc!

[Bachtoven]

[Traverso]

Debussy


Preludes book 1

[pjme]

Holy Toledo!

Operas by Malipiero:

L'Orfeide (1919–1922, Düsseldorf 1925), in tre parti:
I "La morte delle maschere",
II "Sette canzoni",
III "Orfeo"
Tre commedie goldoniane (1920–1922, Darmstadt 1926) :
I "La bottega da caffè",
II "Sior Todero Brontolon",
III "Le baruffe Chiozotte"
Filomela e l'infatuato (1925, Prague 1928)
Torneo notturno (1929)
La favola del figlio cambiato (libretto di Luigi Pirandello, 1933)
Giulio Cesare (da Shakespeare (1935, Genoa 1936)
Antonio e Cleopatra (da Shakespeare, 1937, Florence 1938)
I capricci di Callot (da E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1942, Rome 1942)
L'allegra brigata (1943, Milan 1950)
Mondi celesti ed infernali (1949, Venice 1961)
Il figliuol prodigo (1952, Florence 1957)
Donna Urraca, atto unico (1954)
Venere prigioniera (1955, Florence 1957)
Il marescalco (1960, Treviso 1969)
Don Giovanni (1963, Naples)
Rappresentazione e festa di Carnasciale e della Quaresima (Opera balletto, 1961, Venice 1970)
Le metamorfosi di Bonaventura (Venice 1966)
Don Tartufo bacchettone (1966, Venice 1970)
Iscariota (1971)

These are the (23) operas quoted by italian Wiki.  Could there be more?

[VonStupp]

Antonín Dvořák
Písen Cecha (Song of a Czech), B. 73
Choral Songs for Male Voices, B. 66
Three Male Choruses with Piano, Op. 43, B. 76
Five Male Choruses, Op. 27, B. 87

Leoš Janáček
Ave Maria, JW 4/16
Veni, Sancte Spiritus, JW 11/13
Four Male Partsongs, JW 4/17
Three Male Choruses, JW 4/19

Timothy Cheek & Sonja Kaye Thompson, 4-hand piano (op. 43)
Cantus (Minnesota, US)

I expected Dvořák to sound more traditional in comparison to Janáček, but that was not necessarily the case here. Some of these morality tales put to song are rather dark too.

The cover oil painting is Vesnice v podhůří (A Village in the Foothills) by Stanislav Lolek (1930)

VS

 

This whole recording is also found on Youtube: Song of a Czech

[Lisztianwagner]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, K447
Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, K417

Dennis Brain (horn), Domenico Ceccarossi (horn)
Hans Rosbaud & Südwestfunk-Orchester Baden-Baden

[Karl Henning]

CD 50

RVW
Symphony № 4 in f minor (1931–34)
Fantasia on a Theme of Thos Tallis (1910, rev. 1913 and 1919) [ I had no idea he tinkered with it]
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York (New York Philharmonic)
Dmitri Mitropoulos
Recorded 9 Jan 1956 (Symphony) 3 Mar 1958 (Fantasia)

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.4 NYPO, Mitropolous
What a performance! VW liked it as well.

Superb! Nor do I find fault at all in the Tallis Fantasia

[Bachtoven]

[ritter]

Bought (secondhand, dirt cheap) in downtown Madrid. All these songs with orchestra by Szymanowski are new to me...

[aligreto]

Delibes: Coppélia Act III [Bonynge]

[Karl Henning]

CD 52

Schuman
Credendum (1955)
Phila. Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy
Recorded 11 Mar 1956

Leon Kirchner
Cto for Pf and orchestra
The composer at the piano
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York (New York Philharmonic)
Dmitri Mitropoulos
Recorded 24 Feb 1956

[Karl Henning]

CD 52

Schuman
Credendum (1955)
Phila. Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy
Recorded 11 Mar 1956

Leon Kirchner
Cto for Pf and orchestra
The composer at the piano
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York (New York Philharmonic)
Dmitri Mitropoulos
Recorded 24 Feb 1956

Enjoyed this entirely. I'm always ready for a "new" Schuman score, and the Kirchner is mighty fine, as well.

[aligreto]

Marius Constant: Psyché [Constant]





Exciting, atmospheric, profound, intense, challenging, dramatic and compelling; I could go on trying to extol the virtues of this work which I have just heard for the first time. It is a captivating sound world.

A big hat tip to Jan [Traverso].

[Todd]

Superb in every way.

[Brian]

I must be in a mood for enigmatic piano music this afternoon:

Beethoven - Bagatelles Op. 126
Sergio Fiorentino (live in Rhode Island from the 1990s)

Faure - Nocturnes 9 through 13 and Theme and Variations
Eric Heidsieck (from his big box)

[Todd]

The Clarinet and Bassoon concerti.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Prokofiev: Symphonies 1 & 5. Munich Philharmonic/Sergio Celibidache.

[Bachtoven]

Lauro's music is pleasant enough, but in small doses for me...not 2:15's worth! (I listened to about 25 minutes and took a break.)