What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

https://www.youtube.com/v/zU4Sc7jlXiI

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https://www.youtube.com/v/zU4Sc7jlXiI

Vaughan Williams: Job.

Rubbra: Sonata for Cello & Piano.



Job is morphing from being my least to most favourite RVW work. Disparate parts making a glorious whole.

Sitting on the fence with Rubbra's Cello Sonata. Not the music itself, but the form is odd. The finale, which is as long as the first two movements, is complex and requires repeated hearings I think.

Beautiful music to both of you.

[Todd]

More Haydn.  The Nelson Mass.

[Symphonic Addict]

The Triple Concerto is a strange and rather difficult work, though not without a certain otherworldly fascination. I'll have to give it another try. I don't know the Concerto for Orchestra. Do you know his Piano Concerto, Cesar? It's quite a beautiful work, dating from near the end of his early period.

Yes, Kyle, I do. A much smoother work than the Triple Concerto.

[Symphonic Addict]

I'm very impressed by the quality of these quartets. Very worth listening.

[Symphonic Addict]

I'd put the emphasis on somewhat. From what I've heard, the Bendix symphonies sound quite promising and deserve better recordings.

Those Bendix symphonies could shine more if a major orchestra took the task of recording them.

[Mirror Image]

Má vlast from this outstanding collection of Smetana orchestral works:



To Vers la flamme, if you haven't heard this performance, then you should rectify this ASAP. You'll love it!

[vers la flamme]

Má vlast from this outstanding collection of Smetana orchestral works:



To Vers la flamme, if you haven't heard this performance, then you should rectify this ASAP. You'll love it!

Nice, I sampled it a bit and it is definitely sounding like one of the better ones—to me, it sounded a little better than the famous Czech PO recording that Kubelík did late in life. I actually didn't know that 2CD set existed so I'll keep my eyes peeled.

[kyjo]

Guitar Concerto

My favorite Arnold concerto (with the delightful Concerto for 2 Pianos 3-Hands in a not-too-distant second place). That lovely 2nd theme of the first movement has to be one of my favorite melodies of all-time, and the extended slow movement is striking for its uneasy, shadowy, bluesy atmosphere. I really enjoy the Chandos recording with Craig Ogden on guitar and Richard Hickox conducting (on an album titled "English Guitar Concertos").

[Symphonic Addict]

String Quartet No. 15

Despite its length, I don't feel tired once it finishes. A stupendous piece, although the 3rd movement is not as good as the others, methinks.

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Nice, I sampled it a bit and it is definitely sounding like one of the better ones—to me, it sounded a little better than the famous Czech PO recording that Kubelík did late in life. I actually didn't know that 2CD set existed so I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Very good to read, vers la flamme.

My favorite Arnold concerto (with the delightful Concerto for 2 Pianos 3-Hands in a not-too-distant second place). That lovely 2nd theme of the first movement has to be one of my favorite melodies of all-time, and the extended slow movement is striking for its uneasy, shadowy, bluesy atmosphere. I really enjoy the Chandos recording with Craig Ogden on guitar and Richard Hickox conducting (on an album titled "English Guitar Concertos").

I should spend more time with the Arnold concerti. I really enjoyed the Guitar Concerto. I should probably revisit that Ogden/Hickox performance as it's been quite some time since I've heard it. I remember liking that Lennox Berkeley Guitar Concerto from that recording as well.

[JBS]

Borrowing

Same here.
TD
Eivind Groven
Symphonies 1 and 2
Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra
Peter Szilay conductor
[Naxos]

[Symphonic Addict]

Magical, subtle, ethereal music. Narcisse et Echo would come being like the Russian response to Daphnis et Chloé (?). Those wordless choruses provide an evocative effect.

[vers la flamme]

Richard Wagner: Orchestral music from Götterdämmerung & Tristan und Isolde. George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra

So good...

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Concerto gregoriano



Such a gorgeous work. Could this be Respighi's greatest concerto? It's a likely candidate for sure.

[Symphonic Addict]

[TheGSMoeller]

[Todd]

My first recording from an Argentinian early music ensemble.  The recorded sound is not what it should be.  The music is.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Don't get me wrong, there is only one way in my head, Alexander Mossolov a genious but, his string quartet start  and terrified me, very spooky stuff, very good stuff, I have the album Bernard van Dieren , & Mossolov which I find genius , were Bernard van Dieren is conforting music Mossolov is unsettling, and bleak, I love it but it's sure is spooky, what do you think hey?

Great string quartets the best I heard so far in modern era, cough my ears solid...while Mossolov seem a bit hellish in a bizare way when it start, perhaps it's me and I'm a chicken wuss, so I confess to thee lord my chickenwussness, and bow down in shame...

[Carlo Gesualdo]

My first recording from an Argentinian early music ensemble.  The recorded sound is not what it should be.  The music is.

I absolutely love Morales works I check that out thank Todd