What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bruckner

Symphony No.8

[Traverso]

Chopin

préludes

[Karl Henning]

Weinberg
Chamber Symphony # 1, Op.145 (1986)
Kremerata Baltica

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

I watched "Die purpurnen Flüsse" yesterday, mediocre stuff for me, but then this happened, I did not know this song:

"Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90my2oQ4xD0

This is so beautiful.

Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten
und hoffet auf ihn allezeit,
den wird er wunderbar erhalten
in aller Not und Traurigkeit.
Wer Gott, dem Allerhöchsten, traut,
der hat auf keinen Sand gebaut.
[...]

Therefore currently on repeat on my Spotify:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTpVFx2hsmo

2020 and still it's not possible to embed YT without extensive research here? Guys?

[Papy Oli]

Tapio,

Take the full youtube address

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90my2oQ4xD0

remove watch?
replace = with /


>> https://www.youtube.com/v/DTpVFx2hsmo

Copy this new modified address in the Flash link

https://www.youtube.com/v/DTpVFx2hsmo

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor - BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins - fine performance, this disc is probably the best yet in Brabbins' ongoing cycle

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Poulenc
Aubade
François-René Duchâble (piano)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
James Conlon

[Papy Oli]

Earlier on, a first listen to Peter Warlock with Capriol Suite & Serenade

now, The Curlew

https://www.youtube.com/v/2JqOm9dnwdU

[Papy Oli]

Robert Simpson - Symphony No.3 (Horenstein)

https://www.youtube.com/v/M850kxWD-rg

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Debussy
Pour le piano
Ciccolini

[San Antone]

On Met Opera on Demand



VERDI : Nabucco

Verdi's thrilling early opera is ideally served by the masterful conducting of Music Director James Levine and Elijah Moshinsky's powerful production. Juan Pons in the title role of the Babylonian King leads the cast of this biblical drama, opposite Maria Guleghina as the ambitious Abigaille and Samuel Ramey as the noble high priest of Jerusalem, Zaccaria. Gwyn Hughes Jones and Wendy White are the young lovers, Ismaele and Fenena.

[Papy Oli]

First listen
Daniel Jones - Symphony No.13 « In Memory of John Fussell »

https://www.youtube.com/v/tXyBBgQZQgU

[Harry]

I wanted to know what the fuss was about Cyril Scott, for there were quite a few members who professed a dislike for his music. the term "boring" comes to mind, melodies going nowhere. well guess what, I like what I heard in the samples. Especially his Symphonies.
So anyone that has a regret buying them, and want to dispose the CD'S, send them kindly to me, and I try to find things in my collection that I would like to trade.
What do you say to that? 

[staxomega]

Starting Schumann's Kreisleriana (Claudio Arrau) from the Complete box from Sony box. One of the finest performances of Kreisleriana.

[Mirror Image]

I wanted to know what the fuss was about Cyril Scott, for there were quite a few members who professed a dislike for his music. the term "boring" comes to mind, melodies going nowhere. well guess what, I like what I heard in the samples. Especially his Symphonies.
So anyone that has a regret buying them, and want to dispose the CD'S, send them kindly to me, and I try to find things in my collection that I would like to trade.
What do you say to that? 

Fixed the italics for you.

[Irons]

Earlier on, a first listen to Peter Warlock with Capriol Suite & Serenade

now, The Curlew

https://www.youtube.com/v/2JqOm9dnwdU

I like the atmospheric "The Curlew" very much. If it appeals there is a similar work by Arnold Cooke "The Seamew" (seabird) which may be worth investigating.

[Papy Oli]

I like the atmospheric "The Curlew" very much. If it appeals there is a similar work by Arnold Cooke "The Seamew" (seabird) which may be worth investigating.

Hi Lol,
I think I appreciated "the curlew" more than I liked it, thanks to the context discussed in the ( very short) composer thread.

I like Arnold Cooke, I have saved the Seamew links on YT, will try it in the coming days. Thank you.

[Roasted Swan]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor - BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins - fine performance, this disc is probably the best yet in Brabbins' ongoing cycle

Interesting - I was distinctly underwhelmed.  Well played and good recording but essentially a fairly light-weight fluent and controlled performance that for me lacked the essential ferocity this work requires.  You don't want to think "how well this orchestra is playing" you want to hear them straining at the leash.  By NO means bad but simply not good enough in a crowded field - I must admit I was expecting better....

[Papy Oli]

Daniel Jones - Symphony No.1

https://www.youtube.com/v/tevq1SFjzL8

If the first movement is anything to go by, that sounds like a future purchase.... the start of the second isn't too shabby either... 

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Bernstein
On the Town
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