What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

That's the one, yes. The Mozart concertos is this:

Look at the price !
https://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Concertos-HAEBLER-HOFFMANN-BADURA-SKODA/dp/B000024M7X

[Roasted Swan]

Well maybe I somehow missed the essence of those Mantras? But all the other works on this CD I found to be highly satisfying, so that was the best part of this recording. Crash Bank Wallop is actually a good definition for the three mantras, maybe my ears are not used to so much bangs I will buy more stuff from him, vocal pieces apart, some chamber music certainly, and maybe some of those Celtic compositions, I'll see.

Harry - much as I love light music and Foulds wrote some very fine music within the genre - most of the works with the "Keltic" tag by him are out and out light music - a world removed from the quarter tones and different use of modes of the Mantras or the Dynamic Triptych.  If you can find a reasonably priced copy - the String Quartets played by the Endellion quartet are superb.  He was a remarkably talented all-round musician.

[Mirror Image]

Britten
Six Hölderlin Fragments, Op. 61
Bostridge, Pappano



Simply exquisite.

[Harry]

Harry - much as I love light music and Foulds wrote some very fine music within the genre - most of the works with the "Keltic" tag by him are out and out light music - a world removed from the quarter tones and different use of modes of the Mantras or the Dynamic Triptych.  If you can find a reasonably priced copy - the String Quartets played by the Endellion quartet are superb.  He was a remarkably talented all-round musician.

Right, I will be on the outlook for those SQ. Thanks for the tip

[Florestan]

Look at the price !
https://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Concertos-HAEBLER-HOFFMANN-BADURA-SKODA/dp/B000024M7X

That's insane. 

[Traverso]

That's insane. 

I could have it for 20 and in very good condition

[Florestan]

I could have it for 20 and in very good condition

What made you not to take the offer?

[Traverso]

What made you not to take the offer?

It must be stupidity or to put it more mildly,"my mind was engaged elsewhere"

[Florestan]

It must be stupidity or to put it more mildly,"my mind was engaged elsewhere"

[Traverso]

Mozart

Divertimento K131
Serenade K286
Ein Musikalischer Spass K522

[Mirror Image]

Britten
A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28
Willcocks
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Osian Ellis, harp

[SonicMan46]

Debussy - continuing the orchestral works w/ Jean Martinon - excellent; now, on a delightful disc of Orchestral Transcriptions of his piano works; next up two versions of the Debussy-Ravel-Faure Piano Trios, an oft combination - reviews attached of the first two recordings for those interested.  Dave

   

[Symphonic Addict]

You're welcome. I own a good bit of his music (all three symphony cycles). One area I'm not familiar with would be his chamber music. I read his string quartets are good --- any thoughts on these works? I might explore those whenever I get back into the composer.

I'm not familiar with his chamber works to be honest. Once I listened to one of his string quartets but I didn't feel it strong enough, at least I didn't on a first listen.

[Symphonic Addict]

I'm very fond of this stormy work as well Cesar, composed in hiding in occupied Belgium.

Now I recalled you had posted it before and I had followed that recommendation. Thank you!

Prompted by your post I dug out my ENTIRE Sternefeld collection which amounts to this....!



Much to my shame I have NO memory at all of what I thought this was like but this morning I REALLY enjoyed this disc both in terms of the music and the performance.  I cannot make comparisons to the version above but on its own terms this Marco Polo/Naxos disc is very good.  Sometimes in this kind of repertoire I think the Moscow SO can sound raw and under-rehearsed.  Here they sound as though the music is fully engaging them - and why wouldn't it!  Your description above; "Spicy, violent, turbulent but tonal. Impressive work, the use of the orchestra is remarkable" is perfect and extends to the Mater Dolorosa Interludes too.  Thanks for the tip/reminder!

Oh the joy of YouTube - now listening to Sternefeld's 2nd Symphony here;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS7i39JfePs

much later work - early 1980's but very similar musical vocabulary.  Sub-titled "Breughel" - here is the note usefully attached to the YouTube file..... "Symphony No. 2 "Brueghel" (1981-83)

I. Dance of the Peasants and Bride in the Open Air (Allegro) [0:00]
II. Winter Landscape: Skaters and a Bird-Trap (Scherzo: Perpetuo mobile) [7:26]
III. The Parable of the Blind (Andante: Passacaglia) [10:25]
IV. The Triumph of Death "My venial dear's a venereal deer" (Allegro feroce - Lento) [21:36]

The second symphony by Belgian composer and conductor Daniel Sternefeld (1905-1986). Each of the four movements takes as its subject a painting by the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569). The first movement evokes the "Dance of the Peasants" (1566; Detroit Institute of Arts), the second movement scherzo treats "Winter Landscape: Skaters and a Bird-Trap" (1566; Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium), the slow third movement depicts "The Parable of the Blind" (1568; Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Napoli), and the finale deals with "The Triumph of Death" (1562-63; Museo del Prado, Madrid). In the third movement, Sternefeld borrows a cantus firmus from the "Pallestina Song" (1228) by the German Minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide, and in the finale, the composer quotes from the bawdy song "Een Venus-dierken heb ic uitvercoren" ("My venial dear's a venereal deer") from the Antwerp Songbook (1544).

Conductor: Meir Minsky
BRTN-Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels
(1985 recording)"

Check it out if you enjoyed Symphony 1

Good to know you also enjoyed it! It's a thoroughly compelling work. I did listen to his 2nd Symphony on YouTube yesterday, and it's quite satisfying, albeit with more modern ideas. His depiction in music of those Brueghel's paintings is intriguing, even in a surrealistic way. Really interesting.

[Symphonic Addict]

Some Nordic symphonies today: Atterberg's 4th and Holmboe's 3rd



The Atterberg on this recording didn't convince me enough to change my mind about the cpo one. I prefer the latter.

Holmboe's 3rd Sinfonia rustica is always a pleasure to revisit. The rustic feel to it is vividly perceivable indeed. Works with that appeal are a guaranteed hit for me. The 2nd movement Skammelsen-Variationer is one of the finest movements by this man. From the very beginning I feel hooked by that old and solemn theme. One of my favorites.

[SimonNZ]

on the radio: Neruda's trumpet concerto

[vandermolen]

Kabalevsky: String Quartet No.1 - reminded me a bit of a cross between Miaskovsky and Borodin.
He is a composer I increasingly admire:

[Brian]

And Rachmaninov.  And Janacek.

Is this any good?? Gardiner's Planets are fun, but I had no idea that this recording existed and never would have expected it.

[André]

The Left Hand Concerto with Casadesus and Ormandy:


Midway through this:

[vandermolen]

Some Nordic symphonies today: Atterberg's 4th and Holmboe's 3rd



The Atterberg on this recording didn't convince me enough to change my mind about the cpo one. I prefer the latter.

Holmboe's 3rd Sinfonia rustica is always a pleasure to revisit. The rustic feel to it is vividly perceivable indeed. Works with that appeal are a guaranteed hit for me. The 2nd movement Skammelsen-Variationer is one of the finest movements by this man. From the very beginning I feel hooked by that old and solemn theme. One of my favorites.

The 10th Symphony of Vagn Holmboe is the highlight of those discs for me.