What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Long, long time ago I did a post on that set:

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,1729.msg78534.html#msg78534

Q

Thank you for the link.  Nice review too!

I know that I have Alcina and Acis and Galatea and also Castor and Pollux with them.

PD

[Christo]

What's this like, Johan?

It's exactly what one expects it to be; fine choral music, not unlike Arvo Pärt but more middle of the road, nothing strikingly original but sincere and sometimes moving.

[vandermolen]

Thanks for the feedback Jeffrey; I'll see if I can find a recording of it online to listen to.

TD

Laszlo Lajtha's Symphony No. 4, "Le printemps".  Sadly, this one didn't do it for me.  Still to go on same CD, his Symphony No. 9 and his Sinfonietta.

PD

My pleasure PD as for Lajtha his No.2 is my favourite of those I have heard:
TD
Weinberg: Symphony No.6
A searching, visionary and moving work:

[vandermolen]

This is the kind of discoveries I like to come across. A spectacular, epic, moving and memorable tonal modern symphony. It has very positive reviews on Amazon. Another ravishing find this year.

I have this somewhere! Must try to search it out  .

[j winter]

Hard to go wrong with this one...  I am now thinking of listening straight through Katchen's box of Brahms solo piano music over the weekend...

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich

Song of the Forests Op.81

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

I do like the Op. 81!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I have this somewhere! Must try to search it out  .

Isn't it frustrating (and a bit embarrassing) when you're sure that you have something but have to scour the house trying to find it?! 

PD

p.s. And that's quite an enthusiastic response and intriguing comments by SA too!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Strauss: Four Last Songs
Lucia Popp, London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Tennstedt


Popp songs?

Booo Mahlerian! 

[Mahlerian]

Booo Mahlerian! 

I must say, my taste for bad puns has not diminished with maturity...   

Now listening to this concert from the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna from the other day:

Arvo PÄRT Fratres für Violine und Klavier
Franz SCHUBERT Sonate A-Dur D 574 »Grand Duo«
Arnold SCHÖNBERG Sechs kleine Klavierstücke op. 19
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Sonate für Violine und Klavier F-Dur op. 24 »Frühlingssonate«

https://www.youtube.com/v/8-Q25Zcc77s

[vandermolen]

Isn't it frustrating (and a bit embarrassing) when you're sure that you have something but have to scour the house trying to find it?! 

PD

p.s. And that's quite an enthusiastic response and intriguing comments by SA too!

Yes, the worse thing is when I find two copies of the same CD in my collection 

Working my way through this fine CD. I remember that Patrick Hadley's 'Kinder Scout' was a favourite:

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yes, the worse thing is when I find two copies of the same CD in my collection 

Oopsie!  I've done that a few times myself...either with a couple of LPs (truly not a lot, honestly!) and with a few CDs (Dang!  They keep on changing the covers!!  So frustrating!!).

PD

[aligreto]

Dowland: Flow my tears and other Lute Songs [Linell/Rickards]

[aligreto]

Strauss: Four Last Songs
Lucia Popp, London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Tennstedt


Popp songs?

Clever that 

[aligreto]

Hard to go wrong with this one...  I am now thinking of listening straight through Katchen's box of Brahms solo piano music over the weekend...

I do not have that version but the work itself is a very fine one indeed.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Clever that 

Yes, it was. 

PD

[Roasted Swan]

I mentioned this in the Respighi thread - but it bears repeating here;

the new/latest disc from John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London of the Respighi/Roman trilogy is simply the finest version of this work I have heard.  A perfect storm of sensational playing, demonstration quality recording and impressive interpretation.

[Todd]

Disc 9.  The last three sonatas.  109 and 110 are both good, but Beghin delivers an extremely fine 111.  The Maestoso lacks the punch of a modern grand, and the Allegro never achieves the same energy, but it is excellent.  The Arietta is lovely, and the variations are very fine, but it is the "little stars" and some of the trills where the magic happens, with Beghin playing with a delicacy of touch and sound that only a period instrument could achieve.  He probably rates with PBS here.

[SimonNZ]

[Symphonic Addict]

I listened to some suites for orchestra:

Saint-Saëns: Suite Algérienne
Delius: Florida Suite
Martinu: Suite from 'Julietta'
Halvorsen: Suite from 'Gurre'
Ifukube: Japanese Suite

[JBS]

More Mahler conducted by Maurice Abravanel: the Third.

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What a beautiful performance! Again (as in the Seventh I listened to yesterday), not the most virtuosic orchestra in the world, but there's a freshness, a dreamlike quality, which are really engaging, And, fortunately, there's also a lack of angst and of philosophising (but not of drama) which is most welcome to these ears. I had never even heard of alto Christina Krooskos (this seems to be her only recording listed on Discogs) but she's a superb soloist.

I would never have thought even a couple of weeks ago that Abravanel's (appropriately) "summery" Mahler cycle would reconcile me with good old Gustav's music (which I had neglected for the past several years). And I'm glad to say that the much-maligned David Hurwitz is partly to thank for this  .

If you're interested in Abravanel, I think he did a very good Tchaikovsky cycle.
His family claimed descent from Isaac Abravanel, the Sephardic philosopher and finance officer to Ferdinand and Isabella. (Boris Pasternak's family also claimed to be descended from him.)