What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

After I devise a workaround for the fact that Alexa refuses to understand the name Myaskovsky, that is.

As anticipated Ivashkin's performance of the Myaskovsky Op. 66 is a beaut!

NP:

Juon
Violin Sonata № 2 in F, Op. 69
Ala Voronkova, vn
Evelyn Dubourg, pf

The musical language of the vn sonatas is conservative, [but] I find them well written and enjoyable.

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Symphony № 31 in D, Hob. I:31 « Hornsignal »
The Hobbit & al.

[Florestan]

Great music and musicmaking.

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti - Clocks And Clouds.

[SonicMan46]

Ries, Ferdinand (1784-1838) - Cello Works & Flute Quartets w/ Guido Larisch/Robert Hill on period instruments; Hill plays a Keith Hill fortepiano, 1998, after a Vienna original, c. 1810.  On the 2-disc Flute Works, the Belgian group Oxalys.  I decided just to continue w/ my Ries collection - reviews attached. Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Concerto for Horn № 1 in D, Hob. VIId:3
Wilhelm Bruns, hn
Freiburg Barockorchester
The Hobbit

[Brian]

"Spain-Dunk" is a funny name.

Great music and musicmaking.

You like this one? I sampled a little bit and thought the sound quality was very close and made him sound cold.

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Concerto for Horn № 2 in D, Hob. VIId:4
Wilhelm Bruns, hn
Freiburg Barockorchester
The Hobbit

[André]

Symphonies 1 and 2

Super refined performances with some felicitous instrumental details here and there. Overly attentive to every nicety and mostly slowish, they tend to become soporific.

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Concerto for Violin № 1 in D, Hob. VIIa:1
Thos Zehetmair

[Florestan]

You like this one? I sampled a little bit and thought the sound quality was very close and made him sound cold.

I like it simply on the strength of the first track, which is the first time I ever listened to it --- but I concur that the sound quality is not that good.

Please recommend me your favorite Soirées de Vienne, S.427.

[vers la flamme]

William Sterndale Bennett: 4 Pieces, op.28; Allegro grazioso, op.18; etc. Ilona Prunyi

Found this disc at the record store today. So far so good. Bennett was a friend of Robert Schumann, who praised his work highly.

[Brian]

I like it simply on the strength of the first track, which is the first time I ever listened to it --- but I concur that the sound quality is not that good.

Please recommend me your favorite Soirées de Vienne, S.427.

I don't have a favorite  really want a complete recording by a great pianist in great sound, but not sure that there is one. Sad! It's such good repertoire.

[Daverz]

Zemlinsky: Symphony No. 1 - NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Antony Beaumont

[VonStupp]

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

The Song of Hiawatha, op. 30
Helen Field, Arthur Davies, Bryn Terfel
Welsh National Opera Chorus & Orchestra - Kenneth Alwyn

Symphonic Varations on an African Air, op. 63
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Grant Llewellyn




A bit of a dusty Victorian oratorio, Hiawatha is 3 Acts and nearly 2 hours of wall-to-wall, robust symphonic choral singing, following a small portion of Longfellow's epic poem. With orchestras scrambling to push diversity into their programming, I wonder if we will see any of this music appear again.

'Hiawatha's Wedding Feast' is the more popular section; all of his countless modulations are exciting, but the tenor solo sounds like an orchestrated parlour song to me. It is too bad no one records the other sections - 'Death of Minnehaha' and 'Hiawatha's Departure'. Coleridge-Taylor carries some pretty decent melodic themes throughout the runtime. The Act II tale is more tragic opposite the opening's celebrations, and the final Act is a decent feature for Helen Field and Bryn Terfel.

I was unfamiliar with Coleridge-Taylor's Symphonic Variations on an African Air, and this is where I can hear the similarities made with Dvořák. His small output of orchestral music seems assured for such a short life, not to mention what I assume was a tough station to hold in his life.

It's good that the one truly complete recording of this oratorio is such a good one from these Welsh ensembles. I don't know how much I will return to it, but I enjoyed my time listening.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Raining hard outside. Nikolay Roslavets: Works for Piano, Irina Emeliantseva

[vers la flamme]

Raining hard outside. Nikolay Roslavets: Works for Piano, Irina Emeliantseva

Raining here in Georgia, too. I have a Roslavets disc that I have yet to listen to, with Marc-André Hamelin on Hyperion. Thanks for the reminder.

[foxandpeng]

Aulis Sallinen
Symphonies 3 & 5
CPO

Atmospheric and strangely compelling, as ever.

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Concerto for Organ № 1 in C, Hob. XVIII:1
Ton Koopman

[Karl Henning]

"Papa"
Concerto for Organ № 2 in D, Hob. XVIII:2
Ton Koopman