What are you listening 2 now?

[VonStupp]

I don't understand the term 'holding onto from', but I like the Munch very much while I have a mixed feeling about the Jarvi.

I will check the latter again since I assume you like it.

I used to have either a compilation or a couple of Ibert recordings from Louis Fremaux, but I don't see them around. Munch is what I have left so far.

As to the Jarvi recording, because most of the chosen music is uptempo, some which tend toward manic circus impressions, a little goes a long ways. But I think I like the exotic colors and airy atmospheres from Ibert.

VS

[Florestan]

Delightful music and performances.

[Harry]

Joseph Haydn.
The Complete Symphonies.
CD 21.
No. 52 in C minor.
No. 64 in A major, "Tempora Mutantur".
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood.

Two fine works.

[Spotted Horses]

Bacewicz second cello concerto



This piece is much less traditional in it's construction, compared with the first concerto. I am finding music to enjoy in it, but it really requires a consistent effort of attention to "get" it.

[DavidW]

At 4600 pages, does anyone else think we may be ready for "What are you listening 3 now?"

I'll bring it up with the team.  I thought we would wait until we have as many pages as Harry has cds.

[Papy Oli]

Bruckner 3 / Chailly

[DavidW]

Once more with this awesome recording of the 6th this morning before work.

The 6th has always been the one I've struggled the most to appreciate—or to put it more harshly, my least favorite, an opinion that would have earned me the ire of any Mahlerian were I to admit it freely—but more recently I think I'm coming around on it.

You must be the type that admires the hidden beauties of the 4th and 8th then I'm guessing.

[Harry]

I'll bring it up with the team.  I thought we would wait until we have as many pages as Harry has cds.

O, boy, I would not advice that, for that will take another 10 years before you reach that figure, if at all    

[Florestan]

Delightful music and performances.

This is actually my very first encounter with Lully's music. I most certainly need more.

[JBS]

A @Florestan special.

The "improvised fortepiano part" is in reality a rather restrained continuo.

[Florestan]

A @Florestan special.

The "improvised fortepiano part" is in reality a rather restrained continuo.

Thanks a lot but I need a continuo, restrained or not, in my Mozart VCs like I need a hole in the head. 

[Irons]

Lajtha: 8th Symphony.

A composer who can switch from traditional symphonic writing to modern in a heartbeat and back again. More importantly it works.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Vítězslava Kaprálová: Piano Concerto in D Minor.

[Brian]

At 4600 pages, does anyone else think we may be ready for "What are you listening 3 now?"

Previous listening threads reached 7122 and 6286 pages! I'd be happy to stop at 5000...or 6000...or 5555 

[classicalgeek]

Alexandre Tansman
Symphonie de Chambre
Sinfonietta no. 1
Sinfonietta no. 2
Sinfonia Piccola
Ochestrea della Svizzera Italiana
Oleg Caetani
(on Spotify)



Really good stuff - sort of like Poulenc on acid! 

[Spotted Horses]

Alexandre Tansman
Symphonie de Chambre
Sinfonietta no. 1
Sinfonietta no. 2
Sinfonia Piccola
Ochestrea della Svizzera Italiana
Oleg Caetani
(on Spotify)



Really good stuff - sort of like Poulenc on acid! 

I think that is best of the Tansman series on Chandos. When there is a choice, I generally prefer the recordings by Israel Yinon.

[Karl Henning]

[Karl Henning]

After some Shostakovich chat elsewhere, this Tenth Symphony showed up, with Gábor Hontvári conducting the Junges Philharmonisches Orchester Niedersachsen, recorded last summer in Hannover.

As in some other current youth orchestra performances, the outstanding level of musicianship is worth noting. It's astonishing how well they play this piece.

-Bruce

Nice. Listening now.

[Linz]

Miaskovsky Vol.13 Symphony No.6 in E flat minor Op.23 and Pathetic Overture in C minor Op.76, Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian State Symphony Orchestra

[Brian]

New Sebastian Fagerlund is always worth checking out. "Strings to the Bone" is exactly what it sounds like: a white-knuckle string orchestra ride, 14 minutes long, with no real "melodies" but lots of emotional charge, in a post-Bartok, thriller movie type way.

The Chamber Symphony frames a fast central movement with two slower ones. The musical language here is like a more Americanized/globalized version of Rautavaara or Sallinen. The beginning and ending include some really slick, shiny, chilly Nordic landscapes, while the center builds to a repetitive, percussive climax that is a little bit Adamsy.

Flute Concerto in another listening session.