What are you listening 2 now?

[Brian]

Disc 3: the original, smaller-ensemble versions of El Amor Brujo and El Corregidor y La Molinera (later to be titled El Sombrero de Tres Picos), performed by an English ensemble named Aquarius under Nicholas Cleobury.

The differences in the latter are more significant than in the former, as you'd expect from the name change; big chunks of the most famous stuff are missing.

Oh wow, the original version of El Sombrero contains parody snippets of two Beethoven symphonies, not one like the final version. (Check the end of track 23 for a quote of the First Symphony.)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ruutsu (The Girls in the Magnesium Dress) - Anna Astesano and Valentina Ciardelli.

[JBS]

Eric Coates.
Orchestral Works.
Volume I.

The Merry Makers.
The Jester At The Wedding-Suite.
Dancing Nights.
Ballade op. 2.
2 Symphonic Rhapsodies.
By the Sleepy Lagoon.
London.
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson.

Sound engineer Stephen Rinker.
Recording venue MediaCityUK, Salford, Manchester; 9 and 10 January 2019
TT= 70:39.

I hurled so much praise around me, with what I have been listening today, that I am almost embarrassed to put even more coal on the fire with the CD I am now playing, but I am going to do it anyway.
Always have been a admirer of Coates music, or so you will by the British Light Music department, of which he was a leading figure. A tunesmith he was, or better even a wizard in melodies galore. It is as if he was shaking them out of his jacket sleeves as if they were born there John Wilson makes it a feast to listen, and Chandos signed for the pristine recording. As far as I can see he recorded only two volumes for this label, is that true?

@Harry I don't remember if you have this set (or the 4 CDs that were its original issue)


If you don't have it, I'm pretty sure you would like it.

[JBS]

TD
This landed yesterday, so another first listen



I have to admit the Naxos recording of Negro Folk Symphony didn't impress me that much, so I'm curioys to see if the PNW can make a better case for it.

Update:
Liked it much better. Only question is, was the performance the reason or was it merely subjective factors?

[Harry]

@Harry I don't remember if you have this set (or the 4 CDs that were its original issue)


If you don't have it, I'm pretty sure you would like it.

I have the set with four CD'S, and love every one of them. Thank you for reminding me.

[Todd]

The Prazak Schoenberg cycle seems poised to dethrone the Diotima.  The playing in the Third is just astonishing, making as strong a case for the music as I have heard.  The Diotima are no slouch, but this is something.  The Prazak also include a couple early stand alone pieces and Webern's arrangement of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony Op 9 for piano quintet.  I believe this marks my first listen, and boy does it work.

[foxandpeng]

Alexander Scriabin
Symphonies 3 and 4
Valery Gergiev
LSO


More First Listen Friday with Scriabin. These symphonies are really good so far.

[Roasted Swan]

TD
This landed yesterday, so another first listen



I have to admit the Naxos recording of Negro Folk Symphony didn't impress me that much, so I'm curioys to see if the PNW can make a better case for it.

Update:
Liked it much better. Only question is, was the performance the reason or was it merely subjective factors?

The Naxos disc was pretty dull......

[Florestan]

A first listen ever to the music of Zygmunt Stojowski and I have to say I'm impressed.  Not breaking any conventions or storming any musical battlements but this is well written, appealing late Romantic music (1898 Symphony) extremely well-played by Antoni Wit and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz on Capriccio. 

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I enjoyed this so much I followed it up with the highly melodrammatic "Prayer for Poland" from this disc;

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You should try these as well.

[Linz]

Brahms Piano concerto No. 2 in Bflat Major, Op. 83, Emil Gilels  piano, Berliner Philharmoniker And Violin Concerto Nathan Milstein violin, Wiener Philharmoniker, Eugen Jochum

[Traverso]

I have the set with four CD'S, and love every one of them. Thank you for reminding me.

And this one is a must too....

[Harry]

And this one is a must too....

On my to listen list. Sometime ago you posted this box,  I made note of it, and found the music on Qobuz. So thank you again for reminding me

[Bachtoven]

Absolutely stunning in every aspect.

[Karl Henning]

And this one is a must too....

Thanks for the reminder! Since my objection was only to the packaging, the Chandos download sale is the perfect solution!

[Karl Henning]

TD:

JSB
BWV 67 « Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ »

[Linz]

Mozart Piano Conceros, Alfred Brendel Concerto No.9 in E flat, K271 ''Jeunehomme', Concerto No.12 in A, K414, and Concert Rondo in A, K386, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Pelleas und Melisande

Sir John Barbirolli & New Philharmonia Orchestra

[Lisztianwagner]

Thread duty for Papa Haydn:

Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.45 'Farewell'

Hans Rosbaud & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Karl Henning]

No surprise:

JSB
BWV 68 « Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt »

[Todd]