What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Heinrich Isaac

Ein Fröhlich Wesen

[André]

Quartets 10-12 (1969-1973).

[Daverz]

Continuing with the Hurtwizer's "ideal" Paris Symphonies recordings.

No. 86: Harnoncourt



A big, exciting, joyful noise.

No. 87: Bernstein



Lenny at his best.

[vers la flamme]

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli. Jeremy Summerly, Oxford Camerata

Wow, this is amazing!! I've had this disc for a year but am only just now hearing it, and I'm blown away. I need to get more into Palestrina. Compared to earlier Renaissance composers like Josquin or Ockeghem, Palestrina's style of counterpoint sounds a lot more "close to home", and maybe easier to appreciate.

Before this I listened to Summerly's Fauré Requiem, also great. That one is a new purchase.

[JBS]

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli. Jeremy Summerly, Oxford Camerata

Wow, this is amazing!! I've had this disc for a year but am only just now hearing it, and I'm blown away. I need to get more into Palestrina. Compared to earlier Renaissance composers like Josquin or Ockeghem, Palestrina's style of counterpoint sounds a lot more "close to home", and maybe easier to appreciate.

Before this I listened to Summerly's Fauré Requiem, also great. That one is a new purchase.

Everything I have heard from Summerly has been excellent.

TD
This landed Saturday

[springrite]

The Ireland PC is an enjoyable enough work, though I feel it's "missing" something - can't quite put my finger on what. I prefer his darkly atmospheric Legend for piano and orchestra.

I'm rather surprised to hear your verdict of the Walton Viola Concerto! I've always found it an engaging work filled with lyrical warmth. Maybe that performance you listened to isn't very good?

I have always preferred the viola concerto as well.
In fact, I have been on a tear listening to viola concerti by various composers.

Now:
Rosza Viola Concerto, a great work and should be played more! I have all of his concerti and this is my favorite!

[Symphonic Addict]

Two very nice CDs Cesar. Actually I prefer Waton's Viola Concerto to the more famous Violin Concerto. Ashkenazy's recording of the 1st Symphony, in that set, is another great success IMO.

TD
Again:

Some parts of the Symphonic Variations remind me of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand.

Oddly enough I find his concertante works a bit elusive (except the Sinfonia concertante). I must persevere on them.

[Symphonic Addict]

What a clever idea!   Do you play a wind instrument yourself?  Or just interested in exploring them further? 

PD

Alas, no, but I would like! I mostly listen to concertos for piano and stringed instruments, so I decided to try other repertoire focused on woodwinds instruments, especially from the Classical and Romantic periods.

[Symphonic Addict]

The Ireland PC is an enjoyable enough work, though I feel it's "missing" something - can't quite put my finger on what. I prefer his darkly atmospheric Legend for piano and orchestra.

I'm rather surprised to hear your verdict of the Walton Viola Concerto! I've always found it an engaging work filled with lyrical warmth. Maybe that performance you listened to isn't very good?

Legend is a much superior work indeed, there are some striking effects in that work IIRC. I'm not sure what the Ireland PC lacks, maybe more "struggle" (?).

As for the Walton, the performance was very committed, very focused on the technical part rather than lyric one, I thought. Anyway, his Cello Concerto is my favorite concerto by him.

[vandermolen]

It's always nice when you hear some music on the radio which is very appealing and then realise that it is in your collection. Today, whilst munching my porridge with bananas (context) I switched on BBC Radio 3 to hear some moving and soulful music - it turned out to be a movement from Ina Boyle's First Symphony 'Glencree.
Now playing:
Vlasov: Cello Concerto.
Would appeal to admirers of Khachaturian's or Kabalevsky's Second Concerto I think.
Like Tishchenko's concerto it is not named on the front of the boxed set:

[Madiel]

Quartets 10-12 (1969-1973).

You've got a couple of my favourite moments from the cycle there.

[vandermolen]

Andrew Campling: Symphony No.1
https://andrewcampling.bandcamp.com

[Papy Oli]

[Maestro267]

Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 2
Ukrainian State SO/Kuchar

I've not listened to this one anywhere near as often as No. 3 on the same disc, but some postings in his composer thread have led me to want to give it a whirl.

Update:

Moeran: Symphony in G minor
Bournemouth SO/Lloyd-Jones

[vandermolen]

Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 2
Ukrainian State SO/Kuchar

I've not listened to this one anywhere near as often as No. 3 on the same disc, but some postings in his composer thread have led me to want to give it a whirl.

Yes, me too!

Now playing: Finn Mortensen: Symphony No.1

[vandermolen]

Lyadov: 'From the Apocalypse'

[Traverso]

Vagn Holmboe

CD4

After a recommendation for these quartets.

String Quartets 10-11 & 12

[Roasted Swan]

Listening for me today included watching too.  Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes on Kultur DVD (1981, ROH, Vickers, Harper).  Further comments in the opera section.

Short summery for here:  loved it! 

PD

I'm pretty sure this is the recording that was made by the BBC back in the day that the BBC felt able to show complete operas without being deemed to be elitist or exclusive.  If so, this exact performace was the one I attended - certainly 1981 is the right kind of year.  (Im)famously at this performance they had to stop it and reset a section for the sake of the TV recording.  It is the moment when Grimes' apprentice falls over the cliff.  From memory (I haven't watched it in a  long time!) they had a raised "cliff top cabin" with a rope hanging down the back which 'snapped' causing the apprentice to fall accompanied by a despairing scream.  When they re-set the rope some wag from the audience called out "don't forget to scream....."

[Biffo]

Rubbra: String Quartet No 2 in E flat - Maggini Quartet