What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Concerto for Oboe d'amore BWV 1055 [Hommel/Muller-Bruhl]

[Madiel]

Back on the Faure vocal bandwagon, but this time going back to the albums I actually own. With an ear to re-hearing the strengths (from memory, mostly the earlier songs) and the weaknesses (mostly the later ones and anything that Jennifer Smith is singing...)

[Harry]

Richard Ellenberg.

Petersburger Schlittenfahrt.
Waltzes & Polkas.

WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Christian Simonis.

[vandermolen]

Rubbra symphony no 4. Haven't heard this one for a long time but I remember it so well. It was one of my favourites of Rubbra's output which I like very much on the whole.

Mine too Thom although I also like 5 and 7 very much. The best recorded performance I have heard of Symphony No.4 is the premiere performance, conducted by Rubbra himself (in military uniform), and recently released on CD:

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 [von Karajan - 1984]





This is an absolutely terrific version and still a very strong favourite of mine.

[Harry]

Tor Aulin.
Violin Concertos 1-3.

Ulf Wallin Violin.
Helsingborg SO, Andrew Manze.

[Papy Oli]

I only know Frank Martin for his Mass for double choir. Exploring other works of his :

[Biffo]

Svendsen: Symphony No 1 in D major - Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard. Johan Svensen (1840 - 1911) was a Norwegian composer/conductor who spent most of his career in Denmark. Enjoyable work.

[Todd]

[aligreto]

Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 1 [Biret]

[Papy Oli]

Robert Schumann - String Quartets No.1 & 2 (Op.41)

[vandermolen]

Karayev: Seven Beauties Suite

[vandermolen]

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

So good...

Interesting looking disc.

[Mirror Image]

That is a wonderful work. When I first heard it on the radio I thought that it must be by Finzi!

It sure is, Jeffrey. Yes, there is an Englishness to this work, indeed.

[Mirror Image]

Karayev: Seven Beauties Suite

Very nice. Love that work.

Thread duty -

Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows)

[Harry]

Gustav Holst.

Orchestral Works. London PO & SO, Adrian Boult.

[Mirror Image]

Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows)



Both the Simon and Neschling performances are exemplary.

[Maestro267]

Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 11; Symphony No. 4
RFASO/Svetlanov

[André]

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A 2CD set with reissued recordings from the late '80s.
Amazing performances, everything in idiomatic style and done to perfection.
This reissue comes with a beautiful cover and at an attractive price, which unfortunately also means a "billfold" presentation with the discs squeezed in and a tiny booklet with brief liner notes and NO texts...

Q

I have Ricercar 252, same front cover but a different back cover, same billfold layout, with each disc tucked on a transparent plastic thingy (with prongs in the middle). The booklet is in the central pane and it contains all the texts. I also have an earlier incarnation of the first 5 cantatas, but with Das neugeborne kindelein added - it is omitted from the 2 disc reissues. I keep that earlier disc just for that 7 minute cantata. It could obviously have been added to the 2 disc sets. Why do they do things like that? 

In any case, wonderful stuff, superb interpretations.

[Irons]

And that's a very nice performance of 'Job' Lol and a great VW disc altogether.

Early morning listening: Frank Bridge 'The Sea'.
I remember how much I enjoyed this LP when it first came out, especially for The Sea and the magnificent 'Enter Spring' which, together with 'Oration', I think is Bridge's greatest orchestral work. 'The Sea' obviously had a great influence on Britten's 'Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes' as Bridge was the teacher of Britten. 'The lovely 'Moonlight' is my favourite movement from 'The Sea' although I greatly admire the work as a whole.

As the penny has finally dropped I am looking forward to give Sir Adrian a spin, Jeffrey.

I listened to the EMI Bridge LP with Groves a couple of weeks ago and thought at the time as seascapes go Bridge is one of the best. The cover art is great, but I must say the CD is good too.