What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Franck Sonate our violon & piano
Faure Sonate pour violon & piano No.1 Op.13
Lalo Symphoie espagnole

[listener]

another 2-day project, probably
DVOŘÁK  Saint Ludmilla    - oratorio op. 71
Prague Symphony Orch., Smetáček, cond.
Music for the Court of Louis XIII
Le Concert des Nations    Jordi Savall
SCHNITTKE" Kanon in memoriam I. Stravinsky, LIGETI String Quartet 1 (Metamorphoses nocturnes), LUTOSLAWSKI: String Quartet
Hagen Quartet
SCRIABIN: The 5 (or 3) Symphonies including Poème de l'extase and Poème du feu (Promethée)
Frankfurt Radio S.O.    Inbal, cond.

[steve ridgway]

SCHNITTKE" Kanon in memoriam I. Stravinsky, LIGETI String Quartet 1 (Metamorphoses nocturnes), LUTOSLAWSKI: String Quartet
Hagen Quartet

Which one makes them jump?

[vandermolen]

Thank you, Jeffrey. Personally, while I do like the Levitan painting, I think a painting from a Finnish artist would have been more appropriate --- I mean we all know that Finland was a grand duchy under Russia, but still, there's many great Finnish paintings to choose from.

Like this one from Järnefelt for example:

I like that painting as well. Gallen Kallela is popular with Sibelius cover designers:

Thread duty:
Symphony No.2 (again)

[steve ridgway]

I think I'll go and have a listen to some of Schnittke's cello music now.

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[vandermolen]

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.6 (Davis / BBC SO)

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Generally considered the best in the Andrew Davis cycle.

TD:
Thomas Griffes: 'The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan'.
My favourite recording of this extraordinary work. I had the RCA LP, which also featured a fine recording of Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony.
Charles Gerhardt, RCA Symphony Orchestra or 'National Philharmonic Orchestra' as it says on the LP sleeve.

[steve ridgway]

I think I'll go and have a listen to some of Schnittke's cello music now.

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These classical titles don't give much away do they? "Cello Concerto No. 1" sounds pretty harmless .

[aligreto]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 [Previn]





Previn portrays and maintains a very good sense of menace, drama and tension throughout the work. His approach, for me, is steadily driven and unrelenting which, in itself, facilitates and perpetuates the atmosphere of the work.

[Karl Henning]

Schnittke - Piano Quintet. The non-classical rule of playing CDs all the way through in order really isn't a good idea, it's nice to hear a piece in isolation with some space around it.

Verily.

[Daverz]

VW Symphony No. 6

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Listened to Berglund in this the other day.  Manze's interpretation does not get a very good rating from Victor Carr at Classicstoday.  He also describes the recording as "dim", which I find somewhat perplexing.

On to Andrew Davis on Teldec...

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And finishing up for today with Previn

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The oldest recording in the set I've listened to recently, but the best sonics.  I also think he has the most sensible tempos and is the most coherent.  I still haven't gotten to the recording that was my previous favorite for 6, Boult in stereo on EMI.

[aligreto]

Sibelius: Violin Concerto [Oistrakh/Rozhdestvensky]





Oistrakh is always great in the Sibelius Violin Concerto, magnificent even. This version is powerful, emotional and lyrical.

[André]

A truly great performance, but dimly recorded (1951 vintage, sounding more like 1940). Amateurs of Knappertsbusch, Furtwängler, von Hausegger or Kabasta in this work will find that Abendroth is fully their equal. Its interpretive standpoint is close to Kabasta's and von Hausegger's.


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Symphonies 2 and 8. Good, solid performances.

[San Antone]

Bach : Sonatas & Partitas For Solo Violin
Richard Tognetti

[vers la flamme]

Alban Berg: Altenberglieder, op.4. Alessandra Marc, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Staatskapelle Dresden.

[staxomega]

Earlier- Saint-Saens Organ Symphony and Murray Perahia playing Schubert's Wanderer Fantasie

[San Antone]

Belgian Romantic Works for Cello & Piano

Composers:
    Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881)
    Guillaume] Lekeu (1870-189)
    Ysaÿe Eugène (1858-1931)
    César Franck (1822-1890)
    Peter Benoit (1834-1901

Artists:
    Paul Heyman
    Isil Bengi

[Irons]

Franck Sonate our violon & piano
Faure Sonate pour violon & piano No.1 Op.13
Lalo Symphoie espagnole

I assume the Franck and Faure are with Pierre Barbizet - great set!

[Traverso]

I assume the Franck and Faure are with Pierre Barbizet - great set!

That's right,Ferras is such a fine violist

[HIPster]

A recent mp purchase:

Frescobaldi: Arie musicali & pieces instrumentales

Ensemble HOC OPUS

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Long oop: an early 1980's recording, on the Lyrinx label.

Very nice!  Notable for the contribution of vocalist Claudine Ansermet, who delights throughout.

Sound is very live, being a two microphone recording.  Really wonderful acoustic!

Only real negative is the 40 minute playing time (not too unusual for recordings from that era).  But what 40 minutes!  Very enjoyable. 

[vers la flamme]

Earlier- Saint-Saens Organ Symphony and Murray Perahia playing Schubert's Wanderer Fantasie

That Paray/Saint-Saëns is a great recording! I would love to hear that Perahia Schubert.