What are you listening 2 now?

[Biffo]

Sibelius: Symphony No 7 in C major - Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

[Que]

Sigiswald said that a study at the conservatory did not cost money, how times have changed. 

Indeed. Education should be free.
Now we have a whole generation in debt and govt. ministers who take personal pride in not caring about the arts or anything cultural...

Heathens & barbarians who are only interested in money!

Thread duty:



Sonatas in IV Parts

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Haven't listened to this in a month of Sundays :

[Mirror Image]

Stravinsky

CD 3

Petrouchka  The Philadelphia Orchestra Ricardo Muti
Le Sacre du Printemps  Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Maris Janssons

Nice!

[DavidW]

Yesterday I listened to lots of music!

Simpson's 6th-- another great recording, this time from Charles Grove.  The performance is as warm as you can manage with Simpson.  Much of the sixth symphony is quiet and introspective.  The live recording captures loads of detail and has a very nice open soundstage.  Played on speakers it really feels like you're there.  So yes this whole recording is dynamite, easily the best orchestral Simpson cd I've heard.  Not going to knock Handley since he is the only to take the effort to get Robert Simpson's symphonies into our homes and our hearts.

Pettersson's 12th-- decided to go darker, a bit more passionate.  This symphony is both more lyrical and surprisingly melodic than the usual Pettersson work.  I'm pleasantly surprised.  But I needed to go even darker...

Shostakovich's 14th-- some of the tunes in this hand came back into my head recently and so I wanted to give it a listen, it had been a few years.  Still a great work, and this is a great recording.

Bach's Triple Concerto and VCs-- needed to go lighter!  Another thread reminded me of the triple concerto which I had not listened to it in a long time.  Maybe a decade.  Yup still charming.

[Traverso]

Haydn

Symphonies 96-100 & 104

[Brahmsian]

Shostakovich's 14th-- some of the tunes in this hand came back into my head recently and so I wanted to give it a listen, it had been a few years.  Still a great work, and this is a great recording.

What a marvelous work, and I would consider the 14th symphony in my top 5 favourite Shostakovich symphonies and I do love the Petrenko performance.

[Traverso]

I had recently been thinking that I had been too long apart from the music of Mozart. I should rectify that soon, particularly the Chamber Music.

Too long is splendid to avoid routine listening,you have to be "hungry" 

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Martinů
Concerto In D For Two Violins & Orchestra, H 329
Bohuslav Matoušek, Jennifer Koh (violins)
Czech Philharmonic
Hogwood

[DavidW]

What a marvelous work, and I would consider the 14th symphony in my top 5 favourite Shostakovich symphonies and I do love the Petrenko performance.

Even though it is one of his major works it doesn't seem to be discussed and listened to as much as you would think.  I myself had just become hyperfocused on his string quartets and preludes and fugues.

[Harry]

From "Neeme Järvi, A lifetime on Chandos"
CD III from 25.

Symphony No 9.
My Home, Overture.

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi.

Järvi was never a natural if it comes to Dvorak. He delivers workmanlike performances of the Symphonies, but never lets emotion into the interpretations. The shorter pieces like the Overture gets a better beating, and sound positively much more committed. You will miss nothing in technical finesse, nor in his interpretations, if you like the rationale, but there are far better recordings of the Ninth Symphony. This said I nevertheless enjoyed Järvi's take. It also must be said that the recordings are over bright, fuzzy in detail, and a bit unsettling in the balance. Its not Ralph Couzens finest hour, and since I know the whole set of Symphonies, I can say that goes for all of them. SNO Centre in Glasgow have clearly unsurmountable acoustic issues.

[springrite]

What a marvelous work, and I would consider the 14th symphony in my top 5 favourite Shostakovich symphonies and I do love the Petrenko performance.

I just listened to this work in the car as well. I think I have not listened to it in about 20 years! It is wonderful isn't it?

[Iota]

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.1


A work that always grabs me right from the start with an alluring melody that seems to transform itself into some magical creature of flight. The same melody closes the work, sandwiching much typically Prokofievian mayhem in between, including what sounds like brief steals from Bernard Herrmann's Psycho shower music in the middle movement (I had no idea Prok had invented time travel  ). Mordkovitch and Jarvi firmly in their element.


Next up I listened to Stravinsky conducting his own Octet with the Columbia Chamber Ensemble, from this set:




I chose this because supposedly Prokofiev's VC No.1 above was a failure at its premiere with the Paris audience, because next to Stravinsky's Octet which premiered on the same bill, it seemed rather old hat. Which in a certain frame of mind seems a relatively fair assessment, though happily with the lens of time both were accommodated as the great works they are. Anyway, just wanted to simulate the experience a bit.

(Some of the recordings in this set can sound a bit boxy/airless, but this one is fine.)

[Mirror Image]

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.1


A work that always grabs me right from the start with an alluring melody that seems to transform itself into some magical creature of flight. The same melody closes the work, sandwiching much typically Prokofievian mayhem in between, including what sounds like brief steals from Bernard Herrmann's Psycho shower music in the middle movement (I had no idea Prok had invented time travel  ). Mordkovitch and Jarvi firmly in their element.


Next up I listened to Stravinsky conducting his own Octet with the Columbia Chamber Ensemble, from this set:




I chose this because supposedly Prokofiev's VC No.1 above was a failure at its premiere with the Paris audience, because next to Stravinsky's Octet which premiered on the same bill, it seemed rather old hat. Which in a certain frame of mind seems a relatively fair assessment, though happily with the lens of time both were accommodated as the great works they are. Anyway, just wanted to simulate the experience a bit.

(Some of the recordings in this set can sound a bit boxy/airless, but this one is fine.)

Great stuff, Iota! I love both of those works. I should revisit the Octet, though as it's been awhile.

[aukhawk]

What a marvelous work, and I would consider the 14th symphony in my top 5 favourite Shostakovich symphonies and I do love the Petrenko performance.

Strange choice of photo for the sleeve though don't you think?

[Karl Henning]

I enjoyed it too, I shall listen to the rest. Thanks for making it available.

Thank you.

[Karl Henning]

Not finished yet with Nielsen :

One never is. How is it, under Stoki?

[Karl Henning]

Thread Duty:

Roussel
Symphony № 3 in g minor, Op. 42
A BSO 50th anniversary commission
NY Phil
Lenny

[ritter]

Delving further into this set of Pierre Boulez's complete(ish) piano music, after having listened to the Troisième sonate some weeks ago.



Now listening to CD1, which includes the Douze notations, the First Sonata (plus an earlier, unpublished—and longer—version of its first movement), the Second Sonata, and the first book of the Structures for two pianos. 

Sounds excellent so far (just finished the Notations).

[SonicMan46]

Raff, Joachim - Solo Piano Works w/ Tra Nguyen - now listening to Vols. 1, 2, & 5 from Spotify; have ordered V. 3, 4, & 6 from BRO ($5 USD per disc) - stimulated by several of Harry's posts on the box set from Grand Piano, as shown below; reviews of all six recordings can be found on the Raff Society Website and also on MusicWeb (first 4 CDs).  Dave