What are you listening 2 now?

[Cato]

Yes, it's that very piece and is indeed bombastic, hence it didn't strike me like a great work.

Khachaturian's Symphony #3, putting the bomb in bombastic!

[Keemun]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Boulze/Vienna Philharmonic)



This is one of my favorite recordings of Bruckner's 8th. A live performance at the church where Bruckner is buried. 

[JBS]

Time for another journey through this set

[Symphonic Addict]

Franck: Trio concertant in B-flat major, op. 1 No. 2 (Frank Braley, Anna Agafia Egholm, Ari Evan)

[Symphonic Addict]

Bruch: String Quintet in E-flat major

I'm aware of claiming that X or Y composer/work is underrated tends to sound hackneyed, but in the case of Bruch I'm sure it doesn't apply. This is an incredible and meaty work that has nothing to envy from similar works by notable composers. For those who consider Bruch a second or third-tier composer, give this work a listen!

[Symphonic Addict]

Grieg: Cello Sonata

Thoroughly masterful! The level of passion this work conveys is breathtaking, and the String Quartet No. 1 is not far behind.

[classicalgeek]

Winding down the weekend with some Mozart:

Piano sonata in A major, K 331
Piano sonata in A minor, K 310
Piano sonata in D major, K 576
Andras Schiff, piano
(on CD)

[vandermolen]

Rootham: Symphony No.2
Completed ten days before his death in 1938, by which time the composer (suffering from muscular atrophy) couldn't write and had largely lost the power of speech this symphony was dictated to a group of loyal friends and students (including Patrick Hadley) to whom the work is dedicated. This is a much more reflective work than the bracing First Symphony (1932); personally I find it deeply moving and, at the end, when the choir sings from The Revelation of St. John the Divine 'Behold, there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying,'  heartbreakingly so. It is whilst listening to recordings like this (and to Rootham's 1st Symphony) that I feel most grateful to Vernon Handley for championing these largely forgotten composers (Clifford, Bainton and Bantock also come to mind).
PS Rootham's grandson Dan is a member of this forum.

[vandermolen]

Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor, op.99. David Oistrakh, Dimitri Mitropoulos, New York Philharmonic

Absolutely amazing performance—the premiere recording of the work, I think.

Edit: The ending, last 10 minutes or so, of Pettersson's 6th was just incredible.

Ah yes, 'the long struggle towards the sunrise' 

[vandermolen]

Is that the Socialist-Realism-agitprop piece with a dozen trumpets and an organ with some of his most mawkish music? 

I remember Stokowski did a premiere recording of it: in one sense it is a fun, over-the-top piece. 

Recently: the incredible Jeanne Demessieaux:

and...

Re AK Yes, that's the one Leo.

[pjme]

Inspired by Jeanne Demessieux (and my love of the combination organ and orchestra):

Peeters concerto was available as KLARA cd

[Florestan]

Gioachino Rossini - La Scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
Operatic farsa comica in one act
Libretto: Giuseppe Foppa

CAST
Luciana Serra - Giulia
David Griffith - Dormont, Giulia's tutor
Jane Bunnell - Lucilla, Giulia's cousin
David Kuebler - Dorvil, Giulia's lover
Alberto Rinaldi - Blansac
Alessandro Corbelli - Germano, Giulia's servant

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gianluigi Gelmetti - conductor

Costumes: Chiara Donato
Stage design: Hartmut Warnecke
Musical director: Gianluigi Gelmetti
TV director: Claus Viller
Recorded live at the Schwetzingen Festival in 1990

Another peach from Schwetzingen

[Traverso]

Gioachino Rossini - La Scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
Operatic farsa comica in one act
Libretto: Giuseppe Foppa

CAST
Luciana Serra - Giulia
David Griffith - Dormont, Giulia's tutor
Jane Bunnell - Lucilla, Giulia's cousin
David Kuebler - Dorvil, Giulia's lover
Alberto Rinaldi - Blansac
Alessandro Corbelli - Germano, Giulia's servant

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gianluigi Gelmetti - conductor

Costumes: Chiara Donato
Stage design: Hartmut Warnecke
Musical director: Gianluigi Gelmetti
TV director: Claus Viller
Recorded live at the Schwetzingen Festival in 1990

Another peach from Schwetzingen

Can't see the video 

[ritter]

Can't see the video 

I get a message telling me that the provider of the contents will not allow the video to be watched on other websites (e.g. GMG). But if you click on "Watch on YouTube ", you can watch it.

[Traverso]

Bach

These performances may speak for themselves.

[Todd]

Romeo & Juliet, from:

[vandermolen]

Bliss: Meditations on a Theme by John Blow
RLPO, Groves

[Cato]

Inspired by Jeanne Demessieux (and my love of the combination organ and orchestra):

Jeanne Demessieux is an all-around fave!

For those who do not know, she was a rising star as both a soloist and performer.  But at 47, she died of throat cancer.  (Victim of The Devil's Dandelion?)

Here is another performance:

[Florestan]

Can't see the video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyohBsPKWV0

[Wanderer]

Very nice. And as coincidence would have it, I'm listening at the moment to Daniel Roth performing Widor's Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (on the sublime Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Sulpice, Paris).

What is this, people, Grand Orgue Monday? 🥂😎

(In Greece, today it's actually Pentecost Monday, του Αγίου Πνεύματος.)