What are you listening 2 now?

[Brahmsian]

Composer : Franz Schubert
Recording : Symphony No. 3 (Kertész - 1971)
Performers : István Kertész, Wiener Philharmoniker

Love that set to bits! Kertész is one of my favourite overall conductors.

[Florestan]

D850

[Harry]

John Foulds.
Orchestral Works.
Volume 4.
Carnival,
The Vision of Dante Prelude
Lento e Scherzetto for Cello & Orchester op. 12.
Saint Joan-Suite op. 82.
Hippolytus Prelude op. 84 Nr. 1.
Puppet Ballet Suite.
Badinage.
Grand Durbar March.
Recorded, 2013-2014, Watford Colosseum & Abbey Road Studio No.1, London.
TT= 72:00.
BBC Concert Orchestra, Ronald Corp. Benjamin Hughes, Cello.

Always been a admirer of Foulds music, and this CD is not an exception. Perfectly couched in his well known idiom, I bask in his fine orchestrations, and to hear that he makes out of a few notes a perfectly conceived piece of music. Sound is good, and the performance is as it should be.

[Todd]

The first sort of miss.  The Piano Quintet is very good, vibrant, passionate, and well worth hearing.  Better options exist.  The First Quartet is the bigger miss.  It's well-played, there's no doubt, but it lacks the passion and engagement of every other Prazak recording I've heard to this point.  This point was hammered home when I spun part of my reference recording from Quatour Hermes, which runs circles around this. 

[Brahmsian]

Composer : Jean Sibelius
Recording : Symphony No. 3 (Maazel - 1968)
Performers : Lorin Maazel, Wiener Philharmoniker

Boy, another one of my favourites!  Maazel/Wiener/Sibelius

[Spotted Horses]

Now playing: the man has only recorded 16 albums, I can probably manage to try them all.



Because I like a great deal of the few bits I've already heard (all Chopin).

EDIT: And I am liking this. A lot. Somehow Pogorelich is exceptionally good and communicating the rhetoric of a piece. He believes in how Chopin was influenced by singers.

This was his debut album and I was floored by it when I first heard it (on vinyl). As time went by the recordings became more and more bizarre.

[Karl Henning]

JSB
BWV 66 « Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen »

Myaskovsky
Symphony № 23 in a minor, Op. 56 (1943)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Max Reger: Blätter Und Blüten. Jean Martin.

[Spotted Horses]

Brahms, String Quartet No 1, Amadeus



Listening to this recording I have the odd sensation of hearing music from another world, as if through some sort of wormhole. There is the archaic sound (which is not displeasing) and the aesthetic sensibility which is alien from the typical contemporary string quartet style.

The composition itself is marvelous. There are moments of almost orchestral richness in the first movement. I remember that it took longer for this music to sink in than a lot of Brahms' other chamber music (I had a set of recordings from the Melos quartet that did not resonate with me, but maybe I should revisit).

[Brian]

Violin Concerto Op. 25 "1001 Nights in the Harem"

Love it.

Love seeing this!

Max Reger: Blätter Und Blüten. Jean Martin.

What is this music like?

[DavidW]

Penderecki's 3rd:


Haydn's 49th-51st.  The adagio in the 49th is SUBLIME!

[Brian]

Another day of binge-listening through the Naxos back catalogue to see what to buy in the Chandos $2.50 per disc download sale.

[Karl Henning]

Brahms, String Quartet No 1, Amadeus



Listening to this recording I have the odd sensation of hearing music from another world, as if through some sort of wormhole. There is the archaic sound (which is not displeasing) and the aesthetic sensibility which is alien from the typical contemporary string quartet style.

The composition itself is marvelous. There are moments of almost orchestral richness in the first movement. I remember that it took longer for this music to sink in than a lot of Brahms' other chamber music (I had a set of recordings from the Melos quartet that did not resonate with me, but maybe I should revisit).

I've fallen in love with the c minor quartet all over again.

[Harry]

Lionel Sainsbury.
Violin concerto.
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth.

Haydn Wood.
Violin concerto, in A minor
Adagio from Violin concerto in B minor.
BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland.
Both concertos, Lorraine McAslan, violin.
 
World premiere recordings.
Recorded in 2009, The Colosseum Town Hall, Watford.
TT= 73:12.

Superb Music, well recorded and performed. McAslan is a colossal violinist. Sainsbury is an amazing composer, whom I very much like. His music is tonal and neo romantic, and might I add very melodious. Exceptional for its time, not many of them around. He is getting a firm place in my admiration. Haydn Wood was also a very gifted composer, both his works are tonally refined to such an extent, that I get caught in his music full trottle.  Unbelievable, that he is neglected to a shameful extent. Lucky for us that Dutton took mercy on him and us, and recorded his Violin Concerto.

[Harry]

Another day of binge-listening through the Naxos back catalogue to see what to buy in the Chandos $2.50 per disc download sale.

Have them all, they are reasonable to good to very good, sound and performance wise.

[Brahmsian]

Brahms, String Quartet No 1, Amadeus



Listening to this recording I have the odd sensation of hearing music from another world, as if through some sort of wormhole. There is the archaic sound (which is not displeasing) and the aesthetic sensibility which is alien from the typical contemporary string quartet style.

The composition itself is marvelous. There are moments of almost orchestral richness in the first movement. I remember that it took longer for this music to sink in than a lot of Brahms' other chamber music (I had a set of recordings from the Melos quartet that did not resonate with me, but maybe I should revisit).

I've fallen in love with c minor quartet all over again.

Right from the very beginning, it has always been my favourite of the three.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Love seeing this!
What is this music like?

Somewhere between Faure and Ravel. Minus Frenchness plus a hint of decadence.

[Harry]

The Film Music.

Doreen Carwithen.

Men of Sherwood Forest-Ouverture.
Prelude & Apotheosis from "To the Public Danger.
Boys in Brown Suite.
East Anglian Holiday.
Mantrap Suite.
Three Cases of Murder Suite.
Travel Royal Suite.

BBC Concert Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland.
Recorded in 2010, Abbey Road, Studio 1, London.
TT= 61:00.

Quite exceptional really. I did not realize how beautiful her film music is. She has a very imaginative mind, getting so much creativity out of it, and producing glorious scores, filled with countless pivotal melodies. My mind never wanders off with all what she has on offer. Fine performances and sound.

[foxandpeng]

Anton Bruckner
Symphony 2
Georg Tintner
NSO of Ireland
Naxos

This Tintner Bruckner cycle was my doorway to these symphonies, and for a long time, the only versions I heard or owned. As a result, it's hard not to feel that these are 'right' when I hear them.

[Florestan]

Love seeing this!

I really enjoyed it. Listened to the 2nd violin sonata as well, liked it too. I didn't know Say was such a good composer.