What are you listening 2 now?

[listener]

Conducted by the composer,  mainly ballet music  with assorted orchestras::
:RAWSTHORNE Madame Chrysthanthème
ADDISON: Carte Blanche
ARNELL: The Great Detective
ARNOLD: A Grand Grand Overture
BLISS: Checkmate

Victorian Concert Overtures:
MACFERREN: Chevy Chase
PEARSON: Romeo and Juliet
SULLIVAN: Macbeth
CORDER: Prospero
ELGAR: Froissart
PARRY: An Overture to an Unwritten Comedy
MACKENZIE: Brittania, a Nautical Overture
English Northern Philharmonia    David Lloyd-Jones, cond.

Showpieces  done right:   Dallas S.O.     Eduardo Mata, cond.
TCHAIKOWSKY:  Capriccio Italien    MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain
DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice      ENESCU: Roumanian Rhapsody no.1
Pops concert potboilers done well enough to hear again

BANTOCK: Hebridean Symphony, Old English Suite, Russian Scenes
Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic O.,(Košice)     Adrian Leaper, cond.

[SimonNZ]

[San Antone]

[vers la flamme]

Wonderful post, 2dogs. It's great to see Pli selon pli's rarified, intense beauty having such a strong effect on a listener. One of my favourite compositions by anyone ever! I'll have to revisit it soon...

I wanted to echo this thought, and also say thanks to @Traverso for putting me onto this work and Boulez's music in the first place. I have not cracked all of Boulez's works, not even close, but I have come to really enjoy Pli selon pli, Répons, Le marteau sans maître, and the Deuxième sonate pour piano over the past 6 months or so. The latter among these has been particularly enrapturing lately. What a composer.

[André]

Symphony no 4 and Francesca da Rimini.

Bychkov's elegant and lovingly detailed performances are not what I personally enjoy in these works. I want more sulfurous drama, more emotional hysteria, more fanatically incisive playing than what is offered here (however gorgeous). In the symphony, Karajan/Berlin (1964 DG or 1971 EMI) is just as suave and elegant but more eloquent and dramatic. Better still, two LSO versions (Szell and Böhm) as well as two Boston versions (Monteux and Munch) offer clear-headed but heatedly intense accounts. In Francesca, Munch again (BSO but even better: RPO), Stokowski and a couple of old soviet performances raise hell like few other. Haitink in Amsterdam offers even more gorgeous playing in both works and the almost 40 year old recorded sound is just as ample and vibrant. Not a disappointment then, but not a home run either. A solid double in center field.

[SimonNZ]

Turning off the Legrenzi - well played, but the music itself is uninteresting.

now:

[San Antone]

This is a new composer to me - but I found him on Spotify and am listening to his music.  Very nice.

[SonicMan46]

Beethoven, LV - String Trios w/ the two groups shown below - enjoying both of these performances.  Dave

   

[SimonNZ]

[vers la flamme]

Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet No.1 in E minor, "From My Life". Stamitz Quartet. A most excellent quartet...

[vers la flamme]

Moving on now...



Henri Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain... for cello and orchestra. Mstislav Rostropovich, Serge Baudo, Orchestre de Paris. As excellent as the soloist is (Rostropovich was dedicatee of this great concerto after all), right now I'm quite mesmerized by how great the Orchestre de Paris sounds here under Baudo (they sound equally great under Lutoslawski on the companion piece of this classic disc). Beyond that, the music itself is simply amazing. What an excellent composer Dutilleux was... I think that when his birthday rolls around next month, I will have to pick up a copy of the Centenary Collection box set on Erato and explore the remainder of his works. Until then I have this Rostropovich disc in addition to the great Tortelier/BBC Philharmonic Chandos series with other orchestral and concertante works of Dutilleux to explore.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Yep I did not wont to post hear due to rudeness It made me angry, on the holiday, this i resented.

But I would like to point out Istambul from Jordi Savall is very great indeed, this is what I'm listening right now after this Weelkes: Anthem Gary Cooper and Jeremy Summerly.

Than that about it Oh yeah almost forgot Georgia:Secular and vocal polyphony album by ensemble basiani is quite something.

Happy new year folks I'm starting the year quitting smoking smoke and weed, alcohol could also be over for me for a while, I'm tired of partying or getting stone or drunk, what the purpose, I see none. Yep

[JBS]

Moving on now...



Henri Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain... for cello and orchestra. Mstislav Rostropovich, Serge Baudo, Orchestre de Paris. As excellent as the soloist is (Rostropovich was dedicatee of this great concerto after all), right now I'm quite mesmerized by how great the Orchestre de Paris sounds here under Baudo (they sound equally great under Lutoslawski on the companion piece of this classic disc). Beyond that, the music itself is simply amazing. What an excellent composer Dutilleux was... I think that when his birthday rolls around next month, I will have to pick up a copy of the Centenary Collection box set on Erato and explore the remainder of his works. Until then I have this Rostropovich disc in addition to the great Tortelier/BBC Philharmonic Chandos series with other orchestral and concertante works of Dutilleux to explore.

Guess which recording of Tout un monde lontain is in that Centenary Collection? 

TD
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CD 7
Featuring Carnival of the Animals narrated (en Francais) by Anne Dutoit, piano music  by Lecuona, Albeniz,  and Villoldo, and tangos by Rovira, Piazzolla, and Mozart (actually a short, barely recognizable arrangement of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.  Argerich herself appears on this CD only in the Saint Saens.

[staxomega]

Both of Faure's Violin Sonatas made up my Friday night listening. Robert Casadesus and Zino Francescatti from the Casadesus 60 CD box set.

Also about half of Angela Hewitt's Art of Fugue recording, it's very beautiful with lovely singing lines, I'm not sure if it's entirely to my taste yet. I'd be interested in hearing what others thought of this.

[staxomega]

Yep I did not wont to post hear due to rudeness It made me angry, on the holiday, this i resented.

But I would like to point out Istambul from Jordi Savall is very great indeed, this is what I'm listening right now after this Weelkes: Anthem Gary Cooper and Jeremy Summerly.

Than that about it Oh yeah almost forgot Georgia:Secular and vocal polyphony album by ensemble basiani is quite something.

Happy new year folks I'm starting the year quitting smoking smoke and weed, alcohol could also be over for me for a while, I'm tired of partying or getting stone or drunk, what the purpose, I see none. Yep

Happy new year, please continue to post here, I've enjoyed reading your posts on baroque music.

[Mirror Image]

Janáček
String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
Panocha Quartet

[Mandryka]

This is interesting.

[Mirror Image]

One more work before bed:

Takemitsu
Toward the Sea III
Patrick Gallois (flute), Fabrice Pierre (harp)

[SimonNZ]

[david johnson]

Right now it's Tchaikovsky/Swan Lake(complete)/Dorati/Minneapolis Symphony