What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Crikey, it looks like it took her some time to complete recording that!

You mean the two different covers, I do understand, it took too long and in the meanwhile she made a new recording for Erato. 

[Mandryka]

Morning listening (on Spotify):



PS I kind of expected to be blown away by this recording, but I'm not....

Is it because of the largish ensemble with four tenors? The "pretty" smoothness, sometimes glossing over accents & details? I'm not sure .... this deserves another (comparative) listen some other time.
This mass has also been recorded by Cut Circle/ Rodin, Cantica Symphonia/Boeke, Maletto and an older recording by Dominique Vellard.

It certainly does owe something to the English tradition. Unlike you, I think it's a jolly good thing - I'd much rather have Guerber in this mode than in the style of his Ockeghem requiem mass, for example.

[Karl Henning]

This marks the first time in my life that a Mahler symphony is my first listening of the day:

Mahler
Symphony № 1 in D
NY Phil
Lenny

[Mirror Image]

This marks the first time in my life that a Mahler symphony is my first listening of the day:

Mahler
Symphony № 1 in D
NY Phil
Lenny

Nothing wrong with that, Karl. Mahler is an incredible composer.

[Traverso]

Mozart

I really like the way she plays Mozart 

Piano Concerto No. 3 & 4

Orchestre du Domaine musical: Pierre Boulez

Piano Sonata No.11 K331

Liszt

Piano Sonata in B minor

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

A larger but more economical investment would be this box set with all notes & texts in pdf:

[asin]B01L32LU7K[/asin]

And you get nine jaw dropping Italian madrigal recordings. 

Grazie, Que, ma cosa è?

[SonicMan46]

Franck, Eduard (1817-1893) - Chamber Works shown below the last few days; E. Franck was a German composer, pianist and music pedagogue, and the father of Richard Franck of similar credentials.  His Opus numbered chamber works are shown below and appears that I have virtually all in my collection; love the Renoir cover art.  Dave

List of chamber music works with opus number - bolded works are in my collection; also have 2 orchestral CDs - Source)
Op.6: Sonata for Violoncello & Piano in D Major, by Pfefferkorn Music Publishers (Leipzig)
Op.11: Piano Trio No.1 in E minor
Op.15: String Quintet in E minor (2 Vln, 2 Vla & Vc)
Op.19: No.1: Sonata for Violin & Piano in C minor, by Pfefferkorn Music Publishers (Leipzig)
Op.22: Piano Trio No.2 in E Flat Major
Op.23: No.2: Sonata for Violin & Piano in A Major, by Pfefferkorn Music Publishers (Leipzig)
Op.41: String Sextet No.1 in E Flat Major, by Pfefferkorn Music Publishers (Leipzig)
Op.42: Sonata for Violoncello & Piano in F Major
Op.45: Piano Quintet in D Major
Op.49: String Quartet No.1 in F minor (also known as Op.40)
Op.50: String Sextet No.2 in D Major, by Pfefferkorn Music Publishers (Leipzig)
Op.51: String Quintet No.2 in C Major (2 Vln, 2 Vla & Vc)
Op.53: Piano Trio No.3 in E Flat Major [The German National Library and Audite  list this work in D major, while IMSLP says E♭ major.]
Op.54: String Quartet No.2 in E Flat Major
Op.55: String Quartet No.3 in C minor
Op.58: Piano Trio No.4 in D Major
Op.60: Sonata for Violin & Piano in E Major, by Pfefferkorn Music Publishers (Leipzig)
Op. posth. Sonata for Violin & Piano in D Major, by Pfefferkorn Music Publishers (Leipzig)

     

[kyjo]

My 12 year old Kimi and I listened to the York Bowen Viola Concerto twice today. Well, we were just listening to it once, but after I changed to a Hindemith CD, she asked me to put the Bowen back on. "I want to listen to it again, especially the leitmotif in the first movement." She said.

Well, we listened again and I have to admit, maybe I wasn't paying full attention the first time, but the work is absolutely stunning!

How wonderful that your 12-year-old daughter knows what a leitmotif is! And yes, the Bowen viola concerto is a splendid work, especially in the recording by Lawrence Power on Hyperion.

[Que]

It certainly does owe something to the English tradition. Unlike you, I think it's a jolly good thing - I'd much rather have Guerber in this mode than in the style of his Ockeghem requiem mass, for example.

I didn't quite like that recording either! 

[kyjo]

No. 1 (again)

This one of the greatest Late Romantic symphonies.

Oh, absolutely. It's a work that manages to be simultaneously "fiery" and "icy"! In addition to passages of great passion and intensity, there are also some really magical moments.

[steve ridgway]

Nono - Per Bastiana.

[kyjo]

Well, I beg to differ from this widespread opinion. Aside from the recurring big, sweeping, soaring tune in the finale of the 1st, there's not much Tchaikovsky in them. I mean, Tchaikovsky's world is the Russian high society, with all its cultural sophistication and human passions; Sibelius' world is the Finnish nature, with all its elemental simplicity and unspoiled dispassionateness. I really don't see much common ground between the two.

Agreed. I would never mistake Sibelius' first two symphonies for Tchaikovsky. They already sound immediately like Sibelius!

[steve ridgway]

Kagel - Phantasie Für Orgel Mit Obbligati.

[Traverso]

Bach

Toccata und Fuga in D

Grote of st. Michaëlskerk Zwolle

[ritter]

Revisiting Enesco's Third Symphony, in Christian Mandeal's recording with the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra.


I very much enjoyed the work (and this particular recording) this time around. OTOH, I've always found the Concert Overture, op. 32 the odd man out in the composer's late oeuvre; it's from 1948, but has an in-you-face folklorism/nationalism that harks back to his very first published compositions, and appears to lack the refinement of other late works, where folk allusions are "sublimated" to produce some remarkable results.

[aligreto]

Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 9 [Svetlanov]





Simple comments here: I find that this is wonderful music and that it flows wonderfully well throughout this work.

[vandermolen]

Nielsen Symphony No.5 but I consider this a great CD in all respects:

[JBS]

Quite different from Rachmaninov but enough similarities I think those who enjoy R will like this.

[Symphonic Addict]

I have the Antheil disc Cesar but I wonder what the Rota symphony is like. I know that Christo is a fan.

Rota's Symphony No. 3 is an enjoyable, frolicsome work, with a very beautiful slow movement.

[Traverso]

Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 9 [Svetlanov]





Simple comments here: I find that this is wonderful music and that it flows wonderfully well throughout this work.

Hi Fergus,do you have the complete set,sound's very attractive.