What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Béla Bartók
The Miraculous Mandarin

Pierre Boulez & New York Philharmonic

[Traverso]

Mozart


Serenade K100 Cassation

Divertimenti K113-136-137 & 138

[Traverso]

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

Try this one Andrei,fun  guaranteed....

[Florestan]

Try this one Andrei,fun  guaranteed....

Thanks, Jan, my radar was already set on that.

How about operas and ballets, any recommendations?

[classicalgeek]

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

Thanks for the recommendation - I'll see if I can Yinon's recordings for streaming anywhere. I don't think they're on Spotify - but maybe another streaming service?

TD - thought I'd do a deep dive on 20th-century viola concertos:
Walton
Viola Concerto
Nobuko Imai, viola
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jan Latham-Koenig
(on Spotify)



I somehow went my first (nearly) 48 years without listening to this work, but now that I have? What a masterpiece! The viola is an underrated instrument in general, and Walton takes full advantage of its expressive capabilities. I'll definitely listen again soon!

[vandermolen]

Thanks for the recommendation - I'll see if I can Yinon's recordings for streaming anywhere. I don't think they're on Spotify - but maybe another streaming service?

TD - thought I'd do a deep dive on 20th-century viola concertos:
Walton
Viola Concerto
Nobuko Imai, viola
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jan Latham-Koenig
(on Spotify)



I somehow went my first (nearly) 48 years without listening to this work, but now that I have? What a masterpiece! The viola is an underrated instrument in general, and Walton takes full advantage of its expressive capabilities. I'll definitely listen again soon!

I much prefer it to the more famous Violin Concerto and think that it is a deeper work.

[vandermolen]

Franz Waxman: 'Rebecca' - one of my favourites of the Naxos/Marco Polo film music series (along with Sainton's 'Moby Dick, Auric's 'Beauty and the Beast' and Herrmann's 'Jane Eyre':

[Traverso]

Thanks, Jan, my radar was already set on that.

How about operas and ballets, any recommendations?

Lully:Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

[Iota]

I started listening to M. L'homme armé svm with a view to understanding some points about rhythm etc which Fallows makes. But honestly, the music's so impressive - both obviously wonderfully made and beautiful sounding - that it's impossible for me to listen in anything but a wallowing way, lying back, letting it wash over me and wondering why I ever do anything with my life other than listen to renaissance sacred music.

Oh one point Fallows does make. This was the first mass in a big collection of Josquin masses published in the first decade of the 16th century (Petrucci's Messe Josquin ), and Fallows asks why it was the first. His answer is simple: he says Petrucci put it first because it's such impressive music. He may be right!

An excellent recommendation. About the third or fourth Tetsuro Hanai recording I've heard and this one absolutely came up trumps. Strange kind of 'swell' on many of the articulations, but it really works. The music is just wonderful.

[vers la flamme]

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

You just named my two favorite Mahler symphonies (along with the 9th, a three way tie.)

[Spotted Horses]

Thanks for the recommendation - I'll see if I can Yinon's recordings for streaming anywhere. I don't think they're on Spotify - but maybe another streaming service?

They're on the now defunct (I think) Koch label.

[Iota]

Ives: Violin Sonata No.1

Spinning for the second time today. A work that draws me right in, it feels as if Ives is simply transcribing the restless to-and-fro's of his mind in realtime as it were. The music exudes an honesty which I think few can match.

[ritter]

...
Walton
Viola Concerto
Nobuko Imai, viola
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jan Latham-Koenig
(on Spotify)



I somehow went my first (nearly) 48 years without listening to this work, but now that I have? What a masterpiece! The viola is an underrated instrument in general, and Walton takes full advantage of its expressive capabilities. I'll definitely listen again soon!

I much prefer it to the more famous Violin Concerto and think that it is a deeper work.

+1. A superb concerto. I had the rare opportunity of seeing it live here in Madrid last year.

TD:

Pierre-Alain Volondat plays the Fauré Préludes op. 103 (plus the piano transcription by the composer himself of the beautiful prelude to his opera Pénélope) and the Impromptus.

[Todd]

[Roasted Swan]

I much prefer it to the more famous Violin Concerto and think that it is a deeper work.

My sense is that the Viola Concerto has always been considered the greatest of Walton's concertante works

[Luke]

For me, the greatest of Walton's works full stop.

[Lisztianwagner]

Alexander Zemlinsky
Die Seejungfrau

Riccardo Chailly & Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand"
Magna Peccatrix: Erna Spoorenberg, soprano
Una Poenitentium: Gwyneth Jones, soprano
Mater Gloriosa: Gwyneth Annear, mezzo-soprano
Mulier Samaritanna: Anna Reynolds, mezzo-soprano
Maria Aegyptiaca: Norma Prcter, mezzo-soprano
Doctor Marianus:John Mitchinson, tenor
Pater Ecstaticus: Vladimir Ruzdjak, baritone
Pater Profundus: Donald McIntyre, bass
Hans Vollenweider, organ
Leeds Festival Chorus
London Symphony Orcestra Chorus
Finchley Children's Music Group
Highgate School Boys Choir
Orpington Junior singers
London Symphony Orchestra
 

[Peter Power Pop]

Bizet: Symphony in C etc. (Orchestre National de France / Seiji Ozawa)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Franz Waxman: 'Rebecca' - one of my favourites of the Naxos/Marco Polo film music series (along with Sainton's 'Moby Dick, Auric's 'Beauty and the Beast' and Herrmann's 'Jane Eyre':

Jeffrey, the cover looks better than that of Marco Polo album.
I wonder if you know the review article below.


http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/2000/may00/rebecca.htm