What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Richard Strauss

Sometimes it's like coming home when you listen to Richard Strauss,for me anyway

Don Quixote
Till Eulenspiegel
Salome - Dance of the Seven Veils

Quite true! I feel the same. Listening to Strauss is to be in safe field, more so when the performers are the appropriate, like in this case.

[Symphonic Addict]

Making my way through these works.

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Stravinsky
The Star-Spangled Banner
Circus Polka
Ode
Scherzo à la russe
Scènes de ballet
Concertino for twelve instruments
Agon
Greeting Prelude
Canon on a Popular Russian Tune
Variations 'Aldous Huxley in memoriam'
MTT
LSO

[Karl Henning]

Nice! Jeux is my favorite purely orchestral work from Debussy. I believe there are an array of tempo changes in this work and yet Debussy found a way to make it completely seamless and not jarring to the listener.

Jeux is marvellous, and I can listen to it anytime;  some days, the Images are my favorite orchestral Debussy.

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Jeux is marvellous, and I can listen to it anytime;  some days, the Images are my favorite orchestral Debussy.

Both are certainly fine works without a doubt.

[SimonNZ]

[San Antone]

Boulez : Eclat



This is a very good performance of these works, IMO.

[Que]

Really like that recording. 

Q

[Karl Henning]

Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger Organ Sonata no. 8 in e minor, Op.132: Introduktion und Passacaglia

Jens Korndörfer playing the Sanctuary Organ of First Presbyterian, Atlanta

[vandermolen]

In the car earlier. Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917'. I enjoy this work more than many here I think:

[San Antone]

Lajtha : String Quartets
Auer String Quartet




Lajtha is a somewhat new composer for me, but I am very interested.  These string quartets are right up there with Weinberg and Shostakovich, IMO.

[Karl Henning]

In the car earlier. Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917'. I enjoy this work more than many here I think:

The first I heard it was the Haitink/London Phil disc with the same programming. I'll break it out again later.

[Karl Henning]

Lajtha : String Quartets
Auer String Quartet




Lajtha is a somewhat new composer for me, but I am very interested.  These string quartets are right up there with Weinberg and Shostakovich, IMO.

I think that's fair, the Lajtha quartets I've heard are excellent.

[André]

The contents and musical presentation belie the cover portrait's pensive, ruminating mien. Ensemble leader Benoit Haller has chosen psalm settings expressing joy, energy and jubilation and their realization is dynamic and colourful - including percussion, a rare occurence in that kind of music. A musical shot in the arm.

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Boulez
Piano Sonata No. 2
Pollini



Its as if Boulez is giving the finger to the music's past by completely deconstructing all notions of what we normally associate with piano sonatas. This music must be fiendishly difficult to perform, but Pollini seems to have the full measure of it. I quite like this work for its' courage and wildness, but it's not something I would listen to all of the time.

[Daverz]

Richard Strauss

Sometimes it's like coming home when you listen to Richard Strauss,for me anyway

Don Quixote

I really like Karajan's Don Quixote (if that's the one with Founier).  Very colorful.

Now playing:  Dvorak Symphony No. 2

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Enescu: Impressions From Childhood



This seems to be a violin concerto in all but name.

[Karl Henning]

Sorabji
Opus Clavicembalisticum

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Enescu: Impressions From Childhood



This seems to be a violin concerto in all but name.

Of course, this is an orchestration of the chamber work for volin/piano (that wasn't done by the composer) and I feel that the orchestration doesn't do the work justice and like many works that were arranged from a chamber work, should simply be left alone, IMHO. Check out the original arrangement whenever you get a chance. It has a more gypsy feel to it that I find more enthralling.

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Last work for the night:

Enescu
Impressions d'enfance, Op. 28
Remus Azoitei (violin), Eduard Stan (piano)

[Ratliff]

I've only just spotted this posting. This thread is probably the most active on the forum and if you blink you can miss several pages (maybe a slight exaggeration but basically true). Anyway, that is a fabulous disc which has given me great pleasure. The PC is one of those works which, through over-familiarity, has lost its magic for me but the Legend is very poetic. Mai-Dun, The Forgotten Rite and These Things Shall Be are works that I still greatly admire - also some of the piano music like 'April'. The CD features my favourite work by Delius as well, in its original version.

Thanks for your comments. I listened to the Piano Concerto and found it not as striking as the Legend. It will take me some more time to really form my opinion of the Piano Concerto, but on first listen the lyrical central movement had the most direct appeal. Amazing to me that audiences could be expected to absorb music of this level of sophistication and subtlety at first encounter, when recordings of new pieces were rarely available and audiences were unlikely to ever hear the piece again.