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[Symphonic Addict]

Symphony No. 1 In Quattro tempi, come le quattro stagioni

Intensely lovely. I love Malipiero's style in this period of his musical career: fresh, light, a bit mellifluous but that is not a major issue to me.

[Symphonic Addict]

I needed something light & happy:

A winning disc.

[MusicTurner]

Mahler - Symphony 5 / Tennstedt, studio recording

I know Tennstedt's live recording has a very good reputation, but this one isn't bad either.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"

You might be interested in a rebroadcast of a special concert (with Bernstein); look at April 2nd.  I also put a link to it on the Corona Virus Concerts thread.

Best wishes,

PD

[SonicMan46]

Lebrun, Ludwig (1752-1790) - Oboe Concertos w/ Heinz Holliger and Camerata Bern - Holliger in peak form and a wonderful recording - see review attached.  Short bio quoted below - seems mainly famous for these concertos and did not compose much else (according to the Wiki link); short-lived w/ dates similar to Mozart.

Lebrun was born in Mannheim. He was a celebrated oboe virtuoso in the orchestra at the court in Mannheim. He started playing with the orchestra at the age of 12 and became a full member at the age of 15. His father, also an oboist, worked from 1747 at the Mannheim court. He was a contemporary of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, and belonged to the Mannheim school. (edited - Source)

P.S. see 2nd image below - the 2-CD set is listed for nearly $900 on Amazon USA!  Also, as I've gone through my classical collection and have seen a number of OOP recordings w/ similar pricing into the hundreds of dollars - WHY the ridiculous amounts?  Who is going to pay a thousand bucks for an old CD? 

 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Lebrun, Ludwig (1752-1790) - Oboe Concertos w/ Heinz Holliger and Camerata Bern - Holliger in peak form and a wonderful recording - see review attached.  Short bio quoted below - seems mainly famous for these concertos and did not compose much else (according to the Wiki link); short-lived w/ dates similar to Mozart.

P.S. see 2nd image below - the 2-CD set is listed for nearly $900 on Amazon USA!  Also, as I've gone through my classical collection and have seen a number of OOP recordings w/ similar pricing into the hundreds of dollars - WHY the ridiculous amounts?  Who is going to pay a thousand bucks for an old CD? 

 

I love Heinz Holliger and the Camerata Bern!  Don't have the Lebrun recordings (double-checked in a Brilliant boxset collection that I have).  Will keep an eye out for it (or the LPs).  Pretty crazy prices!  It's available here for a (still-expensive) but much more reasonable price.

[SimonNZ]

[vers la flamme]

Richard Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder. Gundula Janowitz, Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic.

This CD has been getting lots of love from me since I got it a couple of months back. Janowitz is great here, though I've heard others criticize her performance for lacking in depth. Personally I like it better than the other recording I have, Jessye Norman w/ Kurt Mazur & the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

[Symphonic Addict]

Sounds resplendent as the last time I listened to it. A great work in my view.

[vers la flamme]

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, op.30. Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

This is a great piece. Easy to love. Plus it's reminding me that I need to rewatch 2001 A Space Odyssey. It's been too many years since I've seen it last.

[listener]

TCHAIKOWSKY:  The Nutcracker  GLAZUNOV: Le Sylphides (  Chopiniana)
Czecho-Slovak Radio S.O. (Bratislava)    Ondrej Lenárd, cond.
DUPRÉ Symphony in g for organ and orch. op. 25
RHEINBERGER: Organ Concerto no.1 in F   op.137
Michael Murray, organ of the Royal Festival Hall, London  Royal Philharmonic Orch.,  Jahja Ling, cond
+ an interview with Michael Murray about the organ

[Karl Henning]

Cool! WCRB is rebroadcasting the BSO concert with the Ledi Makbet Passacaglia, the Beethoven Vn Cto, and the Shostakovich Tenth

https://www.classicalwcrb.org/#stream/0

[Karl Henning]

Astor Piazzolla and the New Tango Quintet.

A complete change of mood from the MacMillan I was listening to earlier. Piazzolla reckoned this was the best record he ever made. I've no doubt he was right.

That record was the first Piazzolla I heard, at a time when I knew nothing him. I was won over immediately!

[San Antone]

[Karl Henning]

Karl Henning White Nights Op75 no18 Scene 12b Nastenka! Nastenka! It's you!

Sarge

Thanks for listening!

[Karl Henning]

Karl Henning White Nights Scene 11 and Intermezzo III. Karl's ballet, and fabulous music.

Sarge

Warm thanks, indeed!

[André]

Coincidentally:

Right now, listening to Karl Henning's instrumental music. One of the pieces is for percussion, all the others feature the clarinet, either solo or in combination with other instruments - lots of variety!

- Square Dance op 71 is for clarinet quartet.
- Murmur of Many Waters op 57 is for percussion ensemble.
- Canzona ... & Gigue op 77 are for clarinet and organ.
- Fragments of « Morning Has Broken » op 55 is scored for violin, clarinet and piano.
- I Sang to the Sky, & Day Broke op 55 and Out in the Sun op 88 are for winds (the excellent New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble).
- Three Things That Begin with 'C' op 65a - Cats, Clouds, Canaries are scored for viola and clarinet.
- Irreplaceable Doodles op 89 is for solo clarinet.

The composer plays in 5 of these pieces. This is a fun disc. I like the way the music makes place for different feelings, different layers of musical communication. The music is 'on the move', not staying very long in one place, ready to advance to the next statement. It reminds me of Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes in its epigrammatic demeanor. When it's said, it's said. No lingering. I found the same quality in the choral works I listened to last week.

[Karl Henning]

Coincidentally:

Right now, listening to Karl Henning's instrumental music. One of the pieces is for percussion, all the others feature the clarinet, either solo or in combination with other instruments - lots of variety!

- Square Dance op 71 is for clarinet quartet.
- Murmur of Many Waters op 57 is for percussion ensemble.
- Canzona ... & Gigue op 77 are for clarinet and organ.
- Fragments of « Morning Has Broken » op 55 is scored for violin, clarinet and piano.
- I Sang to the Sky, & Day Broke op 55 and Out in the Sun op 88 are for winds (the excellent New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble).
- Three Things That Begin with 'C' op 65a - Cats, Clouds, Canaries are scored for viola and clarinet.
- Irreplaceable Doodles op 89 is for solo clarinet.

The composer plays in 5 of these pieces. This is a fun disc. I like the way the music makes place for different feelings, different layers of musical communication. The music is 'on the move', not staying very long in one place, ready to advance to the next statement. It reminds me of Stravinsky's Jeu de cartes in its epigrammatic demeanor. When it's said, it's said. No lingering. I found the same quality in the choral works I listened to last week.

Many thanks!

[Symphonic Addict]

https://www.youtube.com/v/CgLRS_sw5oA

Melartin - Symphony No. 3 in F major (a different version from the Ondine disc)

Taken from the video:

The Melartin Society's new performing edition of the Third Symphony differs remarkably from the version adopted by Leonid Grin for his well-known and much loved 1990's recording with the Tampere Philharmonic. It's around ten minutes longer, much of the new material seemingly in the first movement. Throughout the work instrumentation is more detailed, complex, sophisticated, ambitious, original. There are points in the "Grin Version" that seemed curiously weak or disjointed ~ now they are complete as originally intended, they make perfect sense, raising the symphony to an even higher level. Apparently the Third Symphony needed rather less reconstruction work than the others, suggesting other symphonies are going to sound very different indeed!
This is a live performance 27th April 2012, recorded from a radio broadcast.  The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra were conducted by Sakari Oramo. As with most live performances there is a certain amount of coughing from the audience, there are also some blips & distortions in the recording, but the sound is generally very good.

Simply astonishing music!! One of my very favorite Scandinavian/Nordic symphonies.

[Kontrapunctus]

Superb all around.