What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Do you gents have a favorite work from that disc?  Or like both?  I don't know his works well.

PD

The Hiller Variations is my favorite because of the wittiness and superb craftsmanship of the music culminating in an apotheosic fugue. The Tone Poems after Böcklin are not bad either. I think you would enjoy both works!

[Symphonic Addict]

Violin Concerto



This is my first time listening to this Little/Litton performance of the VC. Sounds promising so far. I've always appreciated Little's musicianship, especially in British music. Again, I don't understand Jeffrey's opinion of this concerto. I think it's bloody marvelous!

I think I'll be listening to some Walton later. I remember being enthralled by this concerto as well. In fact, I love all of his concertante works (including the Sinfonia concertante).

[Undersea]

NP:

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Rorem: Symphony #1

[Daverz]

Bruckner 7



https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005HVNC

Sounds wonderful so far.  Ormandy brings the Symphony in at just under 56 minutes!

Note that what Amazon is selling is an Archiv CD (CDR), with the full reproduction of the CD and booklet, but the notes are in Japanese only.

[Symphonic Addict]

Sinfonietta Giocosa for piano and small orchestra

I think it's a first listen. Simply delightful and witty. I'm amazed by how consistent Martinu was. I hardly ever am disappointed by his works.

[Sergeant Rock]

Do you gents have a favorite work from that disc?  Or like both?  I don't know his works well.

PD

The Hiller Variations is my favorite because of the wittiness and superb craftsmanship of the music culminating in an apotheosic fugue. The Tone Poems after Böcklin are not bad either. I think you would enjoy both works!

I love both but the Böcklin tone poems, especially Isle of the Dead, win by a neck. Do you know the other Reger work I listened to yesterday?...Variations and fugue on a theme by Mozart (the main theme of his Piano Sonata No 11 A major K 331)? Stunningly beautiful.

Sarge

[Todd]

8.

[Mirror Image]

+1 A superb concerto.

Yes, indeed.

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Sinfonietta Giocosa for piano and small orchestra

I think it's a first listen. Simply delightful and witty. I'm amazed by how consistent Martinu was. I hardly ever am disappointed by his works.

Me either, which why he's in my own personal 'Top 10'.

[Mirror Image]

I think I'll be listening to some Walton later. I remember being enthralled by this concerto as well. In fact, I love all of his concertante works (including the Sinfonia concertante).

Oh yes, I rather like his Sinfonia concertante. Listeners don't talk about this work very much for whatever reasons. I love it.

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Second-Listen to the Soprano Saxophone Concerto



Honestly, I don't know how Aho does it, but he does. He's written all of these concerti and each of them (or, at least, of the ones I've heard) have their individual profile, but you're never unaware of who composed the music. Check this work out Cesar --- my Aho buddy. This might be a stretch, but I consider Aho the greatest Finnish composer since Sibelius. Sorry Rautavaara, Saariaho, Lindberg, etc.

[André]

Ashkenazy is a sure guide to these sets of works, admittedly his most often played along with the preludes, the etudes and the waltzes. I find Rubinstein and François find deeper layers of meaning in these torrents of notes. Maybe Ashkenazy is merely a great pianist. Still, a superb achievement.

[Symphonic Addict]

Second-Listen to the Soprano Saxophone Concerto



Honestly, I don't know how Aho does it, but he does. He's written all of these concerti and each of them (or, at least, of the ones I've heard) have their individual profile, but you're never unaware of who composed the music. Check this work out Cesar --- my Aho buddy. This might be a stretch, but I consider Aho the greatest Finnish composer since Sibelius. Sorry Rautavaara, Saariaho, Lindberg, etc.

I had listened to that concerto when I was exploring them those days, John. A very cool work indeed. Aho exploits the instrument to great effect. I'm also impressed by how Aho succeeds to stamp a 'personality' to each of his many concertos.

[Symphonic Addict]

Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht (arr. for piano trio by E. Steuermann)

The lushness and sensuousness of the work feel diminished on this arrangement. However, it's a fine alternative to those who love this work as I do.




Glazunov - Suite for String Quartet in C major

A riveting work! Each of its five movements contains really lovely and tuneful passages that wil surely delight the listeners' ears. This is a must-hear for Glazunov fans IMO (are you there, Jeffrey, John, Kyle?    )

[listener]

Henry Kimball HADLEY  (1871-1937)
The Ocean  op. 96   The Culprit Fay op. 62
Symphony no. 4 in d  op. 64  (North - South - East - West)
National S.O. of Ukraine    John McLaughlin Williams, cond.
Nice turn-of-the-century music, surprising when I liked it more on hearing it a second time. 
"The Ocean" starts as if it wants to be the César Franck d-minor Symphony but the resemblance does not last.

[TheGSMoeller]

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I had listened to that concerto when I was exploring them those days, John. A very cool work indeed. Aho exploits the instrument to great effect. I'm also impressed by how Aho succeeds to stamp a 'personality' to each of his many concertos.

Yes, indeed. A very enjoyable work and I haven't even heard half of the Aho recordings I bought. So much to listen to.

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Glazunov - Suite for String Quartet in C major

A riveting work! Each of its five movements contains really lovely and tuneful passages that wil surely delight the listeners' ears. This is a must-hear for Glazunov fans IMO (are you there, Jeffrey, John, Kyle?    )

Glazunov's works for string quartet are definitely my next stop, Cesar.

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Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 73

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Trio in A minor, Op. 24



An important feature of Weinberg's music, especially in his chamber music, is to listen to the silences between the notes. So many times, to my ears, they're like some kind of secret code that only the composer himself knows the combination to and we, the listener, have to figure it all out. Weinberg writes some of the most eerily slow movements I've heard. I think it is these quiet moments that give the listener a good bit of information and they seem to reflect more of the era he lived in and could be seen (or heard rather) as autobiographical. Each work is like some kind of journal entry.