What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Martinů
On tourne!, H. 163
Czech PO
Hogwood



I'm so thankful for Hogwood recording this ballet. It's an oddball work to be sure: (from Schott's website): "On tourne [Roll the Cameras!] is actually a ballet for marionettes with an imaginative and bizarre plot about a maritime film shoot involving sailors, divers and all kinds of sea dwellers." I'd imagine it would be difficult to do a live action performance of this ballet with all the choreography and so forth, but I could imagine this work being turned into a short cartoon film. That would something else.

[Brian]

Hmmm...Inkinen recorded the symphonies twice, but I'm assuming you're referring to the New Zealand cycle on Naxos. Anyway, I've got to do some comparative listening of this Inkinen performance and another performance to hear what you mean.

Yeah, New Zealand, I might have listened to the Japan cycle once but I don't remember it. Probably didn't listen, in fact. That had to be a world record for fastest time re-recording stuff.

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Yeah, New Zealand, I might have listened to the Japan cycle once but I don't remember it. Probably didn't listen, in fact. That had to be a world record for fastest time re-recording stuff.

Hah, indeed.

[Karl Henning]

Yesterday I revisited the Toch pf quintet, which is a beauty!

TD:

CD 9

Bartók Contrasts, Sz. 111

Skalkottas, Octet

Skalkottas, Vars on a Greek Theme

Khatchaturian, Trio cl/vn/pf

Prokofiev

Ov on Hebrew Themes, Op.34

Thumb's up on the Khatchaturian which was likely a first listen.

Now:

"Papa"
Symphony №  92 in G « Oxford »
Wiener Philharmoniker
Lenny

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

This is the cover of the LP wich look's nicer than the white background of the CD that I have.

That's the cd I have. Also he plays with Kiani, a Santur player I like.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Khachaturian SY1, "Khachaturian Conducts Khachaturian."

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NP:

Tubin
Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs
Gothenburgers
Järvi

[SonicMan46]

Mancini, Francesco (1672-1737) - Flute Sonatas w/ four members of Tempesta di Mare; Gwyn Roberts on flutes/recorder (right end of group pic), Richard Stone on archlute/theorbo/guitar (middle), Adam Pearl on harpsichord/organ (left end), and Lisa Terry on cello (middle) - 8 of the 12 Mancini works are recorded; there is a 2-CD Brilliant set shown below w/ Ensemble Tripla Concordia also on period instruments w/ the dozen sonatas; only 3 performers on harpsichord, cello, and recorders - will keep both performances w/ the different instruments and also being a big fan of Tempesta di Mare. Attached is a short bio on the composer along w/ reviews of the two recordings shown.  Dave

   

[Harry]

Marin Marais.
Troisieme Livre de Pieces de Viole (1711)
CD II.

Suite II in La majeur, No. III in Fa majeur, & No. I in La mineur.

Francois Joubert Caillet, Bass Viol.
L'Acheron.

An ongoing pleasure.

[Madiel]

Hmmm...Inkinen recorded the symphonies twice, but I'm assuming you're referring to the New Zealand cycle on Naxos. Anyway, I've got to do some comparative listening of this Inkinen performance and another performance to hear what you mean.

I bought this Inkinen disc as it seemed one of the best options for the Scenes.



Recognising that the reviews for the symphonies have been a bit mixed. But some of his other Sibelius albums, like this one, seem to be more highly regarded.

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I bought this Inkinen disc as it seemed one of the best options for the Scenes.



Recognising that the reviews for the symphonies have been a bit mixed. But some of his other Sibelius albums, like this one, seem to be more highly regarded.

Yes, that's true. This one also received some favorable reviews:

[Iota]

String Quartet No. 1

What a lovely opening this work has! It's like to smell the flowers in the morning.

Ha, nice description! I like the interplay of homophonic and contrapuntal music in the last movement of that quartet too.


Here:



Brahms: Op.116

Angelich strikes right of the heart of some of the intimate moments in these works. A thoughtfully executed set.

[Traverso]

Plenty of music I like on there. I'm glad he managed to emigrate to a country that would let him use notes outside of the standard keys.

There are still many people who think that what they cannot comprehend must be bad. 

[Biffo]

Edward Elgar
The Music Makers, op. 69
Froissart Overture, op. 19
Dream Children, op. 43

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia & Fugue in c minor, BWV 537
  orch. Elgar, op. 86

Jane Irwin, soprano
Hallé Orchestra & Choir - Sir Mark Elder

Ha ha! What a gas Elgar's orchestration to BWV 537 is! If you are a Bach purist stay far away, but it is an orchestral riot!

I am unfamiliar with The Music Makers, a sort-of Elgar 'Greatest Hits' morphed into a choral cantata with soloist. Very interesting at its least and the Hallé Choir is excellent.

I also realized I didn't have Froissart anymore (I am unsure what happened to my cherished Sir Alexander Gibson that I was looking for yesterday). Elgar's symphonic voice is so spontaneous, and that is what I love about his orchestral music.

Handel Overture in D minor is also great fun; it is on the same album as Gison's recordings of the overtures.

[Traverso]

That's the cd I have. Also he plays with Kiani, a Santur player I like.

I like to recommend a recording which might be interesting ,it is so far as I know only available as a LP .I found a fragment which gives you only an idea.The piece takes 23 minutes,very beautiful and lyrical.

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

[Traverso]

Gilbert & Sullivan

The Operetta "Patience"

[vandermolen]

Khachaturian SY1, "Khachaturian Conducts Khachaturian."

Great stuff DBK! It's a most underrated symphony. The best recording, however, is Tjeknavorian with the LSO (RCA LP) which has sadly never been reissued on CD. The composer's own version is very good as is the historic Gauk version.

[VonStupp]

Handel Overture in D minor is also great fun; it is on the same album as Gibson's recordings of the overtures.

Hmm...I need to find where I put that recording. I moved not too long ago, and not everything is where it should be.

[steve ridgway]

Nono - La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura. Starting half way through as a whole hour of the violin sounds is too much for me in one go.

[vers la flamme]

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.2 in B minor, op.14, "To October". Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra

I like this symphony and find it underrated among Shostakovich's works, at least the first two movements are interesting.