What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Dvorak: Serenade for Wind Instruments, Cello and Double bass [Schneider]





Wonderful, charming and engaging music, harmonies and textures. This work is a delight.

[Karl Henning]

Boulez leading Schoenberg:

Serenade, Op. 24
Five Pieces, Op. 16
Our to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41

I've loved all these forever, but somehow I was newly besotted with the Op. 16, this go.

[aligreto]

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody [Anderson/Monteux]





It is interesting to listen to this really "old school" interpretation and recording. The second part is infused with passion and intensity.

[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/v/4-t9Pv1Fm5k


This is one of Eliane Radigue's Occam pieces created for Carol Robinson using a reed instrument called a Birbyne, it's very good.

[André]

Magnificent.

[vers la flamme]

Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No.5, op.74. Andrew Penny, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

An interesting looking set. I will check if the contents are incorporated into the big Oistrakh box.
When you get a moment could you please tell me what the reference "Tchaikovsky A.O." refers to.

A.O. = and others

[j winter]

Double shot of Prokofiev...

[Symphonic Addict]

Now playing:

Langgaard
Symphony No. 6, "Det Himmelrivende", BVN 165
Dausgaard
Danish NSO



I'm sure Cesar (SymphonicAddict) will appreciate this.

[Symphonic Addict]

Symphony No. 5 Hydriotaphia

Yet another work whose appeal blossomed in a way that has left me stunned!! A very condensed and succint work full of relentless power. I like the brooding atmosphere here. Along with VW, Arnold and Bax, Alwyn is one of my favorite English symphonists.

[Madiel]

Do you know when this was recorded?

Mid 1970s.

[Symphonic Addict]

Quite fine. Not sure if it is one of the greatest, but the sound is detailed and the orchestra superb. Mars could have more fire, albeit in this articulate reading it works imposing. Mercury is my least favorite overall, and Saturn the greatest IMO.

[Daverz]

Zelenka: Missa Sancti Josephi [Viktora]





This is my first listen to this work and I really like it. The performances from all concerned are also very good.

This group has done a lot of sacred Zelenka that I've missed.  Now listening via Qobuz:

[Karl Henning]

Mid 1970s.

Good: that was the Ozawa sweet spot in Boston.

[j winter]

Rachmaninov PCs 1 & 4, Ashkenazy/Haitink  Beautifully done, gorgeous recording this...




 

[San Antone]

Brahms | Schumann : The String Quartets
Melos Quartett

It is wonderful to have the Brahms and Schumann quartets together in excellent performances by the Melos Quartett.

[Mirror Image]

Britten
Phaedra
The Rape of Lucretia

English opera doesn't get any better than this.

Of course, as you probably know, Phaedra is a cantata. But, yes, The Rape of Lucretia is quite good, indeed.

[Mirror Image]

[Mirror Image]

Symphony No. 5 Hydriotaphia

Yet another work whose appeal blossomed in a way that has left me stunned!! A very condensed and succint work full of relentless power. I like the brooding atmosphere here. Along with VW, Arnold and Bax, Alwyn is one of my favorite English symphonists.

I never cared for Bax, but I need to get back into Alwyn --- he's very good. I particularly like his 2nd and 3rd symphonies. Also, that other work on that recording, Lyra Angelica is especially gorgeous. I remember hearing this work during one of Michelle Kwan's figure skating events many years ago, but, of course, I didn't know what that work was at the time.

Let's see if I can find the video...

https://www.youtube.com/v/XObfIoPbFf8

[SonicMan46]

Debussy, Claude - Orchestral Works directed by Jean Martinon - listening to a lot of Claude's solo piano today (Bavouzet & Ogawa), so tonight starting the bargain 8-CD box (split evenly between the two Frenchmen) w/ Debussy - these recordings date from the early 1970s (when my son was a toddler!), but sound wonderful - not sure that I need to look for multiple alternatives for these works.  Dave

[JBS]

Earlier tonight
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Listened to the whole CD, but I will only comment on Helen, which seems to prefigure the Serenade To Music.