What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

And, "en hommage" to Andrei:

RVW Hymn tunes / Eventide: https://youtu.be/beVWo5kvv1w
                            Rhosymedre: https://youtu.be/kymJPJTUftY
                            On Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons: https://youtu.be/hFXSW9wM7_M


                     Thomas Canning - Fantasy on a Hymn by Justin Morgan: https://youtu.be/HL0AALDObOY
                     Guillaume Lekeu: Adagio pour quatuor d'orchestre: https://youtu.be/gdOMn468FN8
                     Frank Martin: Pavane couleur du temps: https://youtu.be/GfNz8iufO14
                     Arthur Honegger: J'avais un fidèle amant : https://youtu.be/Tpyu3AltVcM

I had Rhosymedre at my wedding 

TD

Miaskovsky
'Silence' Symphonic Poem after Poe:

[Mandryka]

Hadn't seen that one before, thanks for posting! 

Q

I think it's rather good, including the expressive and nimble keyboard music at the end. He had some top singers, who all worked well together, Pérès was clearly an inspiring person to work with.

[pi2000]

Beethoven: Quatuors Razoumovski 1&2 Quatuor Ebene(amazon.fr)
from here
[asin]B07VGTYZLG[/asin]

and waiting for the rest

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[vandermolen]

Richard Arnell
Symphony No.3 (1944-45)
His masterpiece I think. I find it very moving in places. Arnell's mother was killed in the Blitz on London.

[Harry]

Richard Arnell
Symphony No.3 (1944-45)
His masterpiece I think. I find it very moving in places. Arnell's mother was killed in the Blitz on London.

Aren't they all masterpieces, Jeffrey?

(By the way I have listen to the first Holst CD on Lyrita, and found it to be a spiritual experience.)

[vers la flamme]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.6 in A minor, the "Tragic". Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic.

[Tsaraslondon]

A decent, if not exactly top rank performance of La mer. It is the couplings here which are more interesting; Ducasse's orchestration of two pieces from Debussy's aborted King Lear, Caplet's orchestration of Chidren's Corner and Ansermet's orchestration of Six épigraphes antiques.

[Tsaraslondon]

+1.
Well said.
That one is still my favourite after many long years listening to those songs.

+2

Mine as well. I've known it now for almost 50 years and it's still my go to version, though I've acquired and listened to many others over the years. Other favourites include Popp with Tennstedt, Fleming with Thielemann, Janowitz with Karajan, Norman with Masur and two others with Schwarzkopf herself (with Ackermann and Karajan) but this Schwarzkopf/Szell for me captures like no other their autumnal glow and a valedictory sense of serene resignation. One of the great records.

[San Antone]

Richard Strauss

What expresses better the change of an era than these songs,full of nostalgia but without cheap sentiment.
A beautiful last glimpse of a disappearing culture.
Listening to these songs make it futile to ask if Richard Strauss was a great conductor or not,for me he is very special.

Did you mean to write "conductor"?

TD

[Traverso]

Did you mean to write "conductor"?

TD

Yes,of course It must be old age or so full of admiration that I lost my mind. 

[Traverso]

Tchaikovsky

piano concerto no.1

Franck

Variations pour orchestre et piano op.25

d'Indy

Symphonie pour orchestre  et piano  op.25

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
André Cluytens

Prokofiev

March,op.12 no.1
Conte de la vieille grand-mère,op.31 no.1

[Mandryka]

Listening today to another disc of Uchida's Schubert.

Torn between the opposing camps, as it were: frequently thinking it's great and highly enjoyable, but then sometimes being distracted by just how much Uchida is prepared to bring the tempo to a halt in the name of expression.

All of her slowing downs make some kind of musical sense, but some of them just seem very overdone.

I'm yet to identify a perfect Schubert box set for me. Because the ones with the best repertoire selection might not quite have the performances. Uchida is pretty nigh well ideal in terms of repertoire, but can I live with these massive decelerations? I'm not sure.

I heard Uchida play a whole bunch of Schubert sonatas in a series of concerts many years ago now, I've never explored her recordings. But if you know of a track which shows really clearly this trait of slowing down, let me know, 'cause I wouldn't mind experiencing it.

[Mandryka]

Did you mean to write "conductor"?

TD

Ah but Strauss was at least an interesting conductor in Beethoven symphonies -- it's like a glimpse of a pre-Furtwangler pre-Mengelberg tradition.

[Madiel]

I heard Uchida play a whole bunch of Schubert sonatas in a series of concerts many years ago now, I've never explored her recordings. But if you know of a track which shows really clearly this trait of slowing down, let me know, 'cause I wouldn't mind experiencing it.

I can name a couple because I've been taking notes.

D.568, 3rd movement
D.537, 1st movement - this is one of the ones where it's definitely musical, but also quite extreme

[Madiel]

Currently listening to a concert from a few years ago of ars nova music, via classical podcast.

I thought this might be interesting. Unfortunately I'm finding it rather monotonous.

[Mandryka]

I can name a couple because I've been taking notes.

D.568, 3rd movement
D.537, 1st movement - this is one of the ones where it's definitely musical, but also quite extreme

Thanks, much appreciated.

In 568/iii there's a sort of nostalgic quality, like bits of tunes blowing in on the breeze, ghost tunes,  valse minuet oublié. I don't think I've ever heard it before. I'm more familiar with 537 because Michelangeli recorded it.

[Traverso]

Ah but Strauss was at least an interesting conductor in Beethoven symphonies -- it's like a glimpse of a pre-Furtwangler pre-Mengelberg tradition.

Ahh.....it was a lucid moment after all.

[Traverso]

Prokofiev

Piano sonatas 8-9-10

A great pianist but I can't forget the Richter (eight) recording

[Mirror Image]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.6 in A minor, the "Tragic". Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic.

Very nice, but I don't think the audio quality of these recordings is too good. I prefer Abbado's earlier cycle, which contains one of the most incredible performances of the 3rd I've heard. Also, his earlier 6th with the Chicago SO is much better than any of his remakes with other orchestras, IMHO.

[San Antone]

In order.