What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Like nothing else on earth.

So, is he the most original and innovative composer in the whole history of music? Wow, that's a tall order. 

[Luke]

Like nothing else on earth.  I'm not crazy keen on that sonatas cd though.  This is the only sonata of his that I've really liked

https://soundcloud.com/katapataptwsi/horatiu-radulescu-4th-piano-sonata-like-a-wellolder-than-god

Yes, this was what I found on YouTube, but it's the CPO one I have myself. I like it more than their Piano Concerto disc.

[Lisztianwagner]

Igor Stravinsky
THe Rite of Spring

Klaus Mäkelä & Ochestre de Paris

If I'm not wrong this recording should be released these days, if it hasn't been released yet; I've found that on youtube and I'm quite eager to listen to it, Klaus Mäkelä is a very promising conductor and I'm curious to hear how his interpretation of Stravinsky is.

[aligreto]

Vasks: String Quartet No. 3 [Navarra Quartet]





The opening movement is filled with wonderful music. It is lyrical, intense and emotional and it is very well played. The second movement is more animated and it is intense in its agitation. It is almost fractured but never broken. The third movement is a dark hued affair but it is never bleak. There are some wonderful textures in the music and very engaging sonorities in the playing. There are a number of very effective emotional and tension filled climaxes in the movement. Interestingly, the movement concludes in a low key tone. I do not know how to describe the final movement properly. There are two contrasting passages juxtaposed; one is lean-scored and almost fragile while the other is turbulent and almost symphonic in its scoring. The sum of the parts makes for a fine whole.

[Karl Henning]

Myaskovsky
Symphony № 27 in c minor, Op. 85 (1949)
Russian State Symphony
Valery Polyansky

This is beautiful and superb. I especially like the writing for the winds in the Allegro animato of the first movement, and in the Adagio second movement, a movement which overall is surpassing sweet. The third movement becomes something of a pageant. An excellent symphony.

[Symphonic Addict]

d'Indy: Saugefleurie - Legend for orchestra
Bizet: Suite No. 2 from 'L'Arlésienne'

[JBS]

More from the Warner Ballets Russes set
CD 13
Saison 1919
Resphigi after Rossini: La Boutique Fantasque
De Falla: El sombrero de tres picos

CD 14
Saison 1920
Stravinsky: Le Chant du rossignol
Stravinsky: Pulcinella


Stravinsky seems to have been Diaghilev's go-to composer: almost a dozen works by him in this set, certainly more than anyone else.

[not edward]

Occasionally I hear a piece of music that completely upends my expectations. This is one of them. Just as late Stravinsky wrote serial music that was obviously by the same composer as the work of his neoclassical period, Lim here has written slow, meditative music that becomes increasingly rich in triads and open fifths as it progresses, yet it's obviously by the same composer as her work of the previous two decades.



Not sure how I'll feel about it in the long term, but for now I'm highly impressed.

[Symphonic Addict]

Rochberg: Symphony No. 3

[Keemun]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Jochum/Staatskapelle Dresden)

[foxandpeng]

Peter Maxwell Davies
Symphony 6
Time and the Raven
An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
PMD
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Naxos

Daily PMD 🙂

[Symphonic Addict]

Massenet: Fantasy for cello and orchestra (Jascha Silberstein, Richard Bonynge, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande)

Suk: Praga

[Mandryka]

So, is he the most original and innovative composer in the whole history of music? Wow, that's a tall order. 

Well it's quite hard to think of other music which that piano concerto resembles. Things by Scelsi possibly, I'm not sure.

[Que]

Morning listening:



Recording from 1990 with rarely recorded 16th century Italian madrigals.

[vandermolen]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Jochum/Staatskapelle Dresden)

Am rather tempted by this set. I grew up with my older brother playing the earlier (DGG) Jochum set on LP.

[vandermolen]

Music for Strings.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Herbert Howells: Concerto for String Orchestra.
Frederick Delius: Late Swallows.
Edward Elgar: Introduction & Allegro op. 47.

Sinfonia of London, John Wilson.
John Mills violin.
Michael Trainor violin.
Andriy Viytovych viola.
Richard Harwood cello.

Recording venue Church of S. Augustine, Kilburn, London; 5 January 2022 (Late Swallows) & 23 and
24 August 2021 (other works). TT= 66:00 minutes.

This SACD is very loudly recorded, too much so. The Thomas Tallis has no magic in this recording, it is aggressively played, mostly without feeling or understanding this composition of VW. The quiet moments have to much speed, there is no respite, not at all. There are far better interpretations I am afraid, and one should not buy this CD for the Fantasia, but that's only my opinion of course. So I let the rest go......

Interesting Harry. You've confirmed me in my decision to give this recording a miss. There's a lot of hype about John Wilson but I am unconvinced. Furthermore, I have several great recordings of the Tallis Fantasia (Silvestri, Boult, Sargent for example) and the rest of the programme doesn't especially appeal to me.

[vandermolen]

Hilding Rosenberg: Symphony No.6 'Semplice'
I hadn't listened to this recording for a long time but unexpectedly found the symphony running through my head yesterday! There's a searching, visionary quality to the music which I find very appealing as well as a strong sense of nature. These are arguably the two greatest Rosenberg symphonies. There is a fine later recording of both works on BIS but I prefer this earlier one. A pity that BIS never recorded a complete cycle of Rosenberg symphonies - he is just as deserving as Tubin, Holmboe, Blomdahl and Pettersson IMO. This is a great Rosenberg CD:

[Que]

Decided to stick with Italy:



A recording I much like, but truth be told: the choir is simply too large for this.

[vandermolen]

Scenes from the Kalevala
Madetoja: Kullervo
I listen to this CD a lot and enjoy every work on it.

[Mandryka]

Now streaming in the UK, booklet here

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/35/000156253.pdf