What are you listening 2 now?

[André]

[SimonNZ]

One of the best listens I've had to anything in a good long while. Playing it through a second time now.

I must have heard this before, being a big Herreweghe fan, but I don't remember having this reaction, certainly not that it may now replace Parrott as my preferred recording.

[Symphonic Addict]

Haydn: Symphony No. 102
Lyatoshinsky: Symphony No. 3

Two highly contrasting works: one gentle and cheerful. The other more stormy and epic. I liked this mix.

[Mirror Image]

Two Czech violin concertos -

Janáček
The Wandering of a Little Soul
Josef Suk, violin
Czech PO
Neumann



Martinů
Violin Concerto No. 1, H. 226
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Bamberger Symphoniker
Hrůša

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Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah

Stunning performance of this exciting and eloquent piece.

A fine work, indeed.

[Mirror Image]

I'm not sure if I've ever heard the Hyperion recording, John, but I'm satisfied with what I heard here.

Very nice. I did some further research into this recording and found it's 3-CDs. I had no idea. On the shopping list it goes.

[JBS]

https://www.youtube.com/v/kczrh_c7ksA

Their full set of Mendelssohn's string quartets includes both the recording of the Octet itself and a DVD film of "the making of..." the octet recording, which involved a lot of preplanning and tape splicing. It wasn't a mere "record four parts and then dub the other four over them".

TD
Tanayev Quartet playing Tanayev
String Quartets 3 in d minor Op 7 & 8 in C major

[Symphonic Addict]

Very nice. I did some further research into this recording and found it's 3-CDs. I had no idea. On the shopping list it goes.

It comprises all the works with piano and a string instrument (i.e. violin or cello). I think it's quite comprehensive in that regard, even it includes a Cello Sonata No. 3 hitherto unknown to me, but I think it's a sort of completion.

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It comprises all the works with piano and a string instrument (i.e. violin or cello). I think it's quite comprehensive in that regard, even it includes a Cello Sonata No. 3 hitherto unknown to me, but I think it's a sort of completion.

Interesting. Looking forward to the Saint-Saëns Edition when it comes out. It looks to be a good to be a fan of the composer.

[Symphonic Addict]

Schubert: Symphony No. 6
Fibich: Symphony No. 3

The Scherzo from the Schubert strikes me like the best movement of the work. BTW, it's a glorious performance and recording.

I had forgot how life-affirming the Fibich is. It has no slow movements, but the Allegro con fuoco (2nd movement) is not a proper Allegro, much less con fuoco, but rather pastoral.

[kyjo]

Saygun - Symphony no. 4



Holy s***!! Cesar was totally right about this piece. Absolutely stunning!! I'd encountered some works by Saygun before and they were quite good, but they weren't as powerful and exciting as this symphony. Saygun is one hell of a magnificent orchestrator, and he knows how to keep a musical argument sustained throughout an entire movement. The music is "modern" without being overly acerbic or harsh. Ari Rasilainen (of Atterberg fame) and the Rheinland-Pfalz orchestra give a magnificent performance. Highly recommended!

[kyjo]

Schubert: Symphony No. 6
Fibich: Symphony No. 3

The Scherzo from the Schubert strikes me like the best movement of the work. BTW, it's a glorious performance and recording.

I had forgot how life-affirming the Fibich is. It has no slow movements, but the Allegro con fuoco (2nd movement) is not a proper Allegro, much less con fuoco, but rather pastoral.

I don't have very positive memories of the Schubert - it's probably my least favorite symphony of his, but I'll have to revisit it. Oddly enough, when I first heard the Fibich a few years ago, I didn't think it was anything special, but upon revisiting it recently I enjoyed it greatly! Indeed, it's interesting how it doesn't have a proper slow movement. I listened to this superb recording:



I didn't realize how complicated it was to spell "Czech" in German!

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One last work for the night:

Rachmaninov
The Bells, Op. 35
Aleksei Maslennikov, Galina Pisarenko, Sergey Yakovenko
Yurlov Russian State Academic Choir
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Svetlanov

[vandermolen]

One last work for the night:

Rachmaninov
The Bells, Op. 35
Aleksei Maslennikov, Galina Pisarenko, Sergey Yakovenko
Yurlov Russian State Academic Choir
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Svetlanov

I love 'The Bells' - my favourite work by Rachmaninov. I think that it may be coming up as the CD accompanying BBC Music Magazine.

Having been enjoying Benjamin Frankel's terrific score to 'Curse of the Werewolf' I thought that I should play some of his more serious/concert music and I guess that it doesn't get more serious than his Violin Concerto In Memory of the Six Million. I noted that André had been listening to this as well. The style reminds me of Berg's VC (which I don't especially like, although I know that it is very highly regarded) and this powerful work, with a particularly poignant slow movement, is certainly holding my attention:

PS the cover rather compliments the Melodiya Rachmaninov posted by John above!

[Madiel]

We've been talking about it, so it's time.

[Que]

Morning listening:



A beautiful recording but also conceptually fascinating:

These days we associate the name Claudio Monteverdi largely with the change in style of the early baroque, with its new theatrical approach to composition. Monteverdi was, however, significantly more versatile, also occupying himself closely with the "prima prattica" - the Franco-Flemish polyphonic composition technique of his predecessors.  One of his key works in this style of composition (proving to his critics that he was also a virtuosic master of the technique) is his Missa da capella, printed by Ricciardo Armandino in 1610. As the model for this mass Monteverdi chose a motet by one of his predecessors, Nicolas Gombert, who is widely regarded as one of the grand masters of imitative polyphony. Monteverdi extracts 10 motifs from the aforementioned motet and reworks them into his own imitative web of polyphony.  As a result he avoids unnecessary and dull repetitions, indeed Monteverdi simply takes up where Gombert left off, developing his own motivic structures and sequences.

This programme sees these boundary-breaking mass movements contrasted with the preceding generation of composers, including works by Cesare Tudino (c.1530-1591/92), Nicola Vincentino (1511-1575), Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) and Luca Marenzio (1554-1599).  What one experiences is the fascinating contrast between a "conservative" Monteverdi and his progressive forerunners."

Recommended! 

[vandermolen]

David Diamond: Symphony No.1 (1941)
One of the great American symphonies IMO:

[Biffo]

Morning listening:



A beautiful recording but also conceptually fascinating:

These days we associate the name Claudio Monteverdi largely with the change in style of the early baroque, with its new theatrical approach to composition. Monteverdi was, however, significantly more versatile, also occupying himself closely with the "prima prattica" - the Franco-Flemish polyphonic composition technique of his predecessors.  One of his key works in this style of composition (proving to his critics that he was also a virtuosic master of the technique) is his Missa da capella, printed by Ricciardo Armandino in 1610. As the model for this mass Monteverdi chose a motet by one of his predecessors, Nicolas Gombert, who is widely regarded as one of the grand masters of imitative polyphony. Monteverdi extracts 10 motifs from the aforementioned motet and reworks them into his own imitative web of polyphony.  As a result he avoids unnecessary and dull repetitions, indeed Monteverdi simply takes up where Gombert left off, developing his own motivic structures and sequences.

This programme sees these boundary-breaking mass movements contrasted with the preceding generation of composers, including works by Cesare Tudino (c.1530-1591/92), Nicola Vincentino (1511-1575), Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) and Luca Marenzio (1554-1599).  What one experiences is the fascinating contrast between a "conservative" Monteverdi and his progressive forerunners."

Recommended! 

I have been listening to this album of Spotify and will probably go ahead and buy it.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Good morning everybody, since it's close to the fourth of July, I'm listening today to American composer I like: Paul Creston & Alan Hovhaness, good choice don't you think?

Two awesome composer in my book, anyone agree whit this happy fourth of July Americans!
From deprofundis. 

[Traverso]

Monteverdi

Not a bad idea to listen to this recording again