What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Eugen Suchon.

Orchestral Works.

Estonian SO, Neeme Järvi.

A prolific composer with an huge output, but little love in the recording department. He is a good composer, and really does not deserve to be cast out of the public mind.
Järvi took up the challenge, and delivered a fine example of what Suchon is capable off. It made quite an impression on me. Searching for more recordings I found them to be OOP. just a measly 3 CD's.
The recording made in 2014-15 is pretty good as is the committed performance. Recommended.

yes, nice disc.

[Irons]

That's interesting Lol. I love Arthur Butterworth's 4th Symphony (especially the Dutton recording) but am less familiar with the 5th Symphony, so will definitely listen to it again soon along with the Holbrooke/Rootham/Benjamin disc. The Arnell symphonies are other Dutton favourites (especially the epic Third Symphony and moving 5th Symphony). I can't recall if you know those recordings.

I am aware of your advocacy of Arnell's 3rd Symphony, Jeffrey. I have had a quick look at the Dutton website and it is still available, the 5th no longer. Dutton is not a label that believes in having their issues available in the long term. I have the 1st and 6th from the same source also Arnell's string quartets again from Dutton.

[Harry]

Franz von Suppe.

Overtures and Marches.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi.

SACD version.

Wowsies, again, that was extra ordinary fun. The SACD has such an amazing definition, and presence! I thought my ears were deceiving me, for I heard so much more detail, and could with my eyes closed almost touch the musicians ( the female ones that is) The total resolution is shattering in its context. The music is well loved by me, and I was definitively doing some serious foot taping.

[Sergeant Rock]

Diamond Symphony No. 2, Schwarz conducting the Seattle




Sarge

[Harry]

Richard Wagner.

The Ring, an Orchestral adventure, arranged in 1991 by Henk de Vlieger.
Siegfried Idyll.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi.

SACD version.

Also a State of the Art recording! To get in an hour such magnificent orchestral music, sublimely woven together by a Dutchman, is a treat. He has done well, unlike what Lorin Maazel did a long time ago.
The Siegfried Idyll, never mind how beautifully it is remastered, is played too fast for my liking, and robs it from the magic within this composition. In this I withdraw in a recording by Herbert von Karajan.

[Brian]

Next up in my Orpheus Odyssey...



First listen to the Rossini piece I think.

[Papy Oli]

Have you tried Geog Muffat's concertos yet?

That will be a new name to me, Howard. I'll see what I can find on Primephonic, thank you.

TD: A first listen to Bach - Trios Sonatas (BWV 1036-1039)
Musica Antiqua Köln

[Harry]

Modest Mussorgsky.

Pictures at an Exhibition.
Orchestrated by Henry Wood.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Francois Xavier Roth.

Jeffrey kindly sent me an BBC review magazine, with an interview with Ruth Gipps in it, and attached to that magazine was an CD, with the above composition that made me sit upright, for it is quite different as compared to the original, and amazingly creatively done. I enjoyed it immensely, and will listen soon again to amongst the rest to The Ballet of the unhatched Chicks
Thank you Jeffrey for this gesture, I appreciate it very much.

[Traverso]

[Karl Henning]

CD 5

Copland
Appalachian Spring (Suite)
Short Symphony (Symphony № 2)
Quiet City
3 Latin American Sketches

[SonicMan46]

Telemann, GP - Grand Concertos for Mixed Instruments w/ Michael Schneider & La Stagione Frankfurt - now on discs 4-6, i.e. finishing up the box this afternoon - all wonderful and a variety of period instruments used in combination.  Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

CD 5

Copland
Appalachian Spring (Suite)
Short Symphony (Symphony № 2)
Quiet City
3 Latin American Sketches

Listening to this disc is a mild nostalgia trip. I was in Buffalo when the CD was released. I bought it up. It was my first experience of the Short Symphony (and I would soon play in the Sextet (an arrangement of the Symphony which Copland prepared in 1937) with the Buffalo New Music Ensemble ... though the Sextet was even then not at all new)

[Traverso]

Sweelinck

[Karl Henning]

Sweelinck

Nice!

[Traverso]

Nice!

Do you know the recording? 

[Karl Henning]

Do you know the recording? 

I do not. But I may wish to.

[Traverso]

I do not. But I may wish to.

It sounds really fine ,



Matthias Havinga

Matthias Havinga is a concert organist and pianist. He obtained his Master of Music degree summa cum laude at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam as a student of Jacques van Oortmerssen, graduating in piano from the same institution as a student of Marcel Baudet. At the Royal Conservatory of The Hague he studied church music under Jos van der Kooy.

Matthias was awarded several prizes at international organ competitions. He enjoys an international concert career, performing solo recitals at prestigious venues across Europe, Russia, the USA, and South America. He worked with renowned choirs and orchestras, such as the Nederlands Kamerkoor and the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest. His CDs, J.S.Bach – Italian Concertos, Passacaglia and Dutch Delight, released on the Brilliant Classics label, have been received with widespread acclaim.

With recorder player Hester Groenleer he formed a duo which aims to perform challenging programmes for this combination of instruments.

Matthias is organist titulaire of the 1830 Bätz-organ at the Koepelkerk in Amsterdam, and organist of the Oude Kerk congregation in Amsterdam, playing the Vater/Müller-organ (1726/1738) and Ahrend-organ (1965). He is teacher of organ as a principal subject at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

[Brian]

CD 5

Copland
Appalachian Spring (Suite)
Short Symphony (Symphony № 2)
Quiet City
3 Latin American Sketches

Tomorrow I'm going to play Quiet City and the Sketches on my commute to/from work.

Today...



Kodaly's Hungarian Rondo is new to me but totally, totally delightful. (A joyful piece for the joy thread and for Florestan.) Summer Night is gorgeous too.

[vandermolen]

Copland: Third Symphony (Original version)
BBC Philharmonic/John Wilson
In view of tragic events at Kabul Airport today I felt that I wanted to play this great score.

[Karl Henning]

CD 6:

Dvořák
Serenade for Strings in E, Op. 22
Serenade for Winds in d minor, Op. 44