What are you listening 2 now?

[Klavier]

Concerto No.1.

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It sure is disappointing seeing Olivier has stopped exploring French music...anyway...

NP:

Schoenberg
Erwartung, Op. 17
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Staatskapelle Dresden
Sinopoli

From this set -

[Papy Oli]

It sure is disappointing seeing Olivier has stopped exploring French music...anyway...

8 months nearly non-stop not enough ? 

You should try some Bach. It will help soothe any disappointment 

[MusicTurner]

Ludwig van Beethoven
Missa Solemnis, op. 123
Gundula Janowitz, Fritz Wunderlich,
Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry
Vienna Singverein & Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (1966)

If you like Karajan's brand of Beethoven, as I do, this audio-only blu-ray upgrade is well worth it. The draw here is the team of soloists, perhaps my favourite collaboration in this work. Re-listening right now, even at 86 minutes (which seems a bit long), I enjoy Karajan's easy-going, pastoral Kyrie against Berlin's muscular Gloria & Credo.

I enjoy that recording too.

[Karl Henning]

I've always liked the way "Pittsburgh is a grand old city" kinda sneaks in, ultimately giving the work a real sense of Americana, almost Ivesian. But I can see it feeling corny on first listen.

I like Rozhdestvensky, too, playing it live before a Soviet audience during the height of the Cold War 

Listening to it now:




Sarge

Nice!

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8 months nearly non-stop not enough ? 

You should try some Bach. It will help soothe any disappointment 

Ah, I didn't realize it has been eight months. Time flies. As for the Bach, nah, I'll pass. Not that I don't respect his music, but I don't like earlier classical eras that much with the bold exception of Haydn who I need to spend more time with.

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi - Konx-Om-Pax.

[MusicTurner]

Hello dearest folks, listening to Lettrera Amoroso an album on APEX , it's very good, beside this, I was listening to: Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah on Brilliant Classics, and Le monde de sainte-colombe ensemble les voix humaines whitch is awesome a baroque French composer, have a nice day everyone, I'm so tired  had not slept in a month due to back pain, anyway this is my problem, bye Fellas.

Hope you will soon feel better. Best regards from here!

[MusicTurner]

Scelsi - Konx-Om-Pax.

Excellent.

[VonStupp]

The Bergen PO is absolutely one of my favorite orchestras - they sound fabulous no matter who is conducting them and there is a not a weak section in the orchestra. They have amassed a really impressive discography over the past few years especially!

Do you have any stand-out recommendations of them?

[steve ridgway]

Excellent.

So excellent in fact that I let my music player run on to another performance.

[VonStupp]

Yeah, Zemlinsky's Lyrische Symphonie is a bit difficult to get into as it doesn't quite hit you over the head with grand themes or majestic brass crescendos --- it's more subtle, but I will agree that it doesn't match the brilliance of Mahler's Das Lied. I mean how could it? But, this isn't to say that I think any less of the Lyrische Symphonie. I would encourage anyone to do a deeper dive into Zemlinsky's oeuvre. I think there are many gems to be found here and he's certainly worth the time to get to know.

I think everything else I have heard I have loved instantly: The early symphonies, The Mermaid, and some of his orchestrated vocal and choral music. I may need to live with Lyrische a bit longer and the pairing on that Chailly recording is another tough nut, but worth the struggle.

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) - Divertimenti. Op. 16 w/ Piccolo Concerto Wien, a period instrument group; Marcello Gatti uses a flute copy by Rudolf Tutz, 1997 after a Carl Grenser, Dresden, ca. 1770.  These works are listed as Sextets, G. 461-466 composed in 1773 w/ flute, 2 violins, viola, and 2 cellos (pic at bottom - Source); however, Roberto Sensi adds double bass which is explained in the notes.  Dave

   

[aligreto]

Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) - Divertimenti. Op. 16 w/ Piccolo Concerto Wien, a period instrument group; Marcello Gatti uses a flute copy by Rudolf Tutz, 1997 after a Carl Grenser, Dresden, ca. 1770.  These works are listed as Sextets, G. 461-466 composed in 1773 w/ flute, 2 violins, viola, and 2 cellos (pic at bottom - Source); however, Roberto Sensi adds double bass which is explained in the notes.  Dave

   

Interesting. Cheers, Dave 

[Karl Henning]

Tchaikovsky
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy-Overture
Capriccio italien, Op.45
Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
Marche slave, Op. 31
NY Phil
Lenny

[foxandpeng]

I really enjoyed this new recording.  Both works are fabulous contemporaries and beautifully performed and recorded.


https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8890898--prokofiev-symphony-no-6-myaskovsky-symphony-no-27

Cross-posting from the Miaskovsky thread... this recommendation from relm1 is outstanding - particularly for the Prokofiev #6.

[Klavier]

[Undersea]

Do definitely check out his Sacred Music. There is much to be enjoyed there. We have a dedicated thread to it somewhere here. 

Thanks - I'll be sure to check out that Sacred Music at some stage.


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