What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Another all-time favourite. For now a newer edition, still an all-Vaughan Williams Christmas, serves equally well:

I often played 'Hodie' on Christmas Eve but tonight it is Finzi's lovely 'In terra Pax' and VW's 'Winter' from 'Folk Songs for the Four Seasons'.
Now I am playing 'In Memoriam' by Havergal Brian - a moving and powerful work, which arrived today, and maybe appropriate for what we are living through:

[Madiel]

Christmas Eve has arrived....

It's been and gone! 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It's been and gone! 

It's Christmas Day (morning) in Canberra, Australia! 

PD

[Que]

It's Christmas Day (morning) in Canberra, Australia! 

PD

Merry Christmas!   

[Traverso]

You've motivated me to revisit that wonderful box, and I am alternately listening to the Prokofiev Sonatas

https://www.youtube.com/v/hGRWUiO37s4

Prokofiev is great....,as you can see over the last month,I listened to all the 34 CD's.They were nott all great but many many sonatas were very fine to listen to.

Happy days to you Karl.

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Visions de l'Amen

[Florestan]

Merry Christmas!   

Since five minutes it's Christmas in Romania as well! Merry Christmas everyone all around the world!

[Symphonic Addict]

The Oceanides by Sibelius and Piano Concerto in A minor by Respighi




Highly satisfying both works in more than serviceable readings and playing.

[SonicMan46]

Since five minutes it's Christmas in Romania as well! Merry Christmas everyone all around the world!

Merry Christmas, belated Happy Hanukkah, and hoping for a better New Year!    Our menorah fully lit about a week ago - Dave

 

[Traverso]

Bach

Solo Sonata No.3 in C BWV1005

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Merry Christmas, belated Happy Hanukkah, and hoping for a better New Year!    Our menorah fully lit about a week ago - Dave

 

A belated Happy Hanukkah to you and your family Dave!

And, God willing, a much better 2021!

All the best,

PD

[Symphonic Addict]

Suk's unbearably lovely Serenade for strings does have its resemblance with Dvorak's own. Interestingly, the Suk has a more piquant harmony here and there than Dvorak's.

And Arnold's frolicsome Guitar Concerto. The other day I was mentioning Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto like the best to me. Well, the turn is for the guitar, and in this case the prize goes to Malcolm Arnold. A unique work.

[Mirror Image]

Another all-time favourite. For now a newer edition, still an all-Vaughan Williams Christmas, serves equally well:

Very nice! I hope you enjoy it!

[Mirror Image]

The Oceanides by Sibelius

Coincidently, I'm also listening to The Oceanides, but from this recording:

[Mirror Image]

Now playing this new arrival:

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 5 in D
BBC SO
Brabbins



Too early to give a more detailed opinion of this performance, but all is going rather well so far. One small little gripe would be the recording's programming. I thought a better coupling would have made this recording more attractive. Looking at RVW's oeuvre, it seems the Oboe Concerto could have made a good coupling as it was completed one year after his 5th symphony (1944), then they could've recorded Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus (completed in 1939). Anyway, this one grip aside, I'm enjoying this performance and I might give the Scenes Adapted from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress a listen at some point.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Delius
2 Pieces for Small Orchestra: I. Summer Night on the River, II. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
LPO
Handley

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Delius
Piano Concerto
Philip Fowke, piano
Royal PO
Norman Del Mar



For the Delian, this set on Heritage and that 150th Anniversary Edition (originally issued on EMI and then a bit later on Warner Classics) released many years ago offer some indispensable performances. This Heritage set is taken from a series originally issued on Unicorn Records. It's an essential acquisition, IMHO, because of Eric Fenby's involvement and I think he conducted many of these works with much authority, emotion and genuine affection. A special set.

[steve ridgway]

NP:

Delius
2 Pieces for Small Orchestra: I. Summer Night on the River, II. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
LPO
Handley

Good. If you want to hear music for spring and summer go for it.

[steve ridgway]

First listen to Maderna - Ausstrahlung. A Christmas present from archive.org.

[Mirror Image]

Good. If you want to hear music for spring and summer go for it.

I think I'll listen to Sinfonia Antarctica in the spring.