What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

James MacMillan
Tuireadh
Emperor String Quartet
BIS

Simply brilliant, despite my wife's assessment of this as 'a Concerto for Nails and Chalkboard'.

Macmillan is superb.

[Brahmsian]

Ahem!... Is this SFW or NSFW, I wonder... 

It has the name of a composer, composition, conductor and performers, thus it is safe! 

[vers la flamme]

Vasily Kalinnikov: Symphony No.1 in G minor. Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

First listen to this work, it sounds good so far. Very melodic.

[Brahmsian]

Vasily Kalinnikov: Symphony No.1 in G minor. Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

First listen to this work, it sounds good so far. Very melodic.

Excellent!      While I immediately took to the 1st symphony, which I first heard on radio a couple of years ago, it took me a bit of time to "warm" up to the 2nd.  That isn't the case any longer.  I now think the 2nd is as equally compelling as the 1st.

[Harry]

James MacMillan
Tuireadh
Emperor String Quartet
BIS

Simply brilliant, despite my wife's assessment of this as 'a Concerto for Nails and Chalkboard'.

Macmillan is superb.

This assessment is BRILLIANT     Tell her I agree!    

[VonStupp]

Karol Szymanowski
Symphony 3 'Song of the Night', op. 27

Jon Garrison, tenor
City of Birmingham SO & Chorus - Simon Rattle

I once had an opportunity to sing in Scriabin's Prometheus, complete with clavier à lumières at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and in South Bend, Indiana. Parts of this symphony definitely remind me of that work.

VS


From this set:

[Spotted Horses]

Ahem!... Is this SFW or NSFW, I wonder... 

Depends on where you work, I suppose.

Any fans of Ansermet's Le Sacre du Printemps here? (I won't post it, but you can find it yourself.)

[brewski]

Tremendous quasi-erotic showmanship from these pianists as always, I'm really thinking of how they move their hands and head and body. They are the GenZ Liberace.  The conductor joins in the party too.

Hehe, you are obviously familiar with them, but I was not. Chuckling at "GenZ Liberace."

-Bruce

[Florestan]

Depends on where you work, I suppose.

I work from home. 

[vers la flamme]

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.11. Kurt Masur, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Talked about by no one, this symphony, I listened to it a few times when I bought the box four years ago, but little if ever since. Sounds good so far.

[Traverso]

Bach

[pjme]

It has the name of a composer, composition, conductor and performers, thus it is safe! 

And as usual the name of the dancer isn't mentioned at all. 

Now:

[Harry]

A Bach Album.
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornets, His Majestys Consort of Voices, Timothy Roberts.
Recorded in 2000, in the Church of St Jude's on the Hill, Hampstead, London.
TT=68:08.

A delightful album. In the best of British tradition, the music is executed to perfection. Splendid instrumentalists and voices, with only one irritating exception, and that is the awful hooty counter Ashley Stafford. If it were not for the excellence of the instrumental parts and the singing without the counter, I would have culled it altogether.

[Karl Henning]

JSB
BWV 74 « Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten »

[North Star]

Karel Husa
Symphony No. 2 'Reflections' (1983)
Trois fresques (1946-57)
Music for Prague 1968 (1969)

Prague Symphony
Tomáš Brauner



Ravel
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor 'Sonate posthume'
Tzigane

Enescu
Impressions d'Enfance in D major, Op. 28
Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor 'dans le caractère populaire roumain', Op. 25

Leonidas Kavakos & Peter Nagy

[DavidW]

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.11. Kurt Masur, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Talked about by no one, this symphony, I listened to it a few times when I bought the box four years ago, but little if ever since. Sounds good so far.

When I got into listening to classical music it seemed like Kurt Masur was all the rage.  Now seeing someone post about a Masur recording is so rare that it feels odd.  He is a strangely unpopular conductor.

[Traverso]

Ahem!... Is this SFW or NSFW, I wonder... 

Nope it is not.

yesterday, after a while, the photo I posted could only be seen by clicking  NSFW. I had no part in that.

[vers la flamme]

When I got into listening to classical music it seemed like Kurt Masur was all the rage.  Now seeing someone post about a Masur recording is so rare that it feels odd.  He is a strangely unpopular conductor.

I think this is the only thing of his that I've heard. It's a very fine cycle, and he seems a capable conductor, but I do hear him accused of being "Kapellmeisterisch".

[Traverso]

Depends on where you work, I suppose.

Any fans of Ansermet's Le Sacre du Printemps here? (I won't post it, but you can find it yourself.)

The first time I heard Ansermet and Le Sacre du Printemps (as a very young man) was the recording of a rehearsal. I was immediately drawn to it 

[Florestan]

Ahem!... Is this SFW or NSFW, I wonder... 

Nope it is not.

Actually, my original post contained the first line only. The second one has been added later and not by me.
I wonder who, and on what authority, has the power to edit my posts at will without explicitly mentioning that they did.

This place is like a reversed Glazunov: going worse by the hour, not by the day...