What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

TD
Frankel: 'Curse of the Werewolf' - that doomed processional at the end is marvellous!
I'm sorry that Frankel remained so resolutely atonal in his symphonic scores. He could write great tunes. I'm sure that others will disagree with my point but that's how I feel about Frankel's music. This is my favourite disc of his music and I have several of his symphonies and the Violin Concerto in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

Great music!

[prémont]

Having my 65 birthday today I expect all kind of freebees in the form of music played today which I like. At my home there stands a big box from JPC which my wife and friends ordered, really huge, so I will report later whats in it.

Excuse me being a bit late, but happy birthday also from me.
Enjoy your personal Boxing day .

[classicalgeek]

More late Stravinsky, this time Agon, on four different recordings (all on Spotify):









I really enjoyed both Leinsdorf and Tilson Thomas, with a slight edge to Leinsdorf - though I liked the prominent mandolin in Tilson Thomas's recording. Stravinsky's own recording was fine but not the best - and the piano sounded out of tune (almost like a prepared piano.) Ashkenazy was disappointing, especially after I enjoyed his performance of the Symphony in C. Something was off texturally - the wiry, spiky sonorities Stravinsky uses here (and in much of his later work) were underplayed. Oh well... no one's good at everything!

[André]

Excuse me being a bit late, but happy birthday also from me.
Enjoy your personal Boxing day .

+1 

[André]

Both symphonies. It's not just the performances that are spellbinding, but the recording quality too (live from Avery Fisher Hall, a notoriously difficult venue): outstanding clarity and perfect balances.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Thank you my friend, and yes all is well. As to regards to my eye surgery in repairing the macular pucker together with inserting a new lens, the surgeon said is was a success. Measuring confirmed this. My vision has improved rather spectacular.

Great! Happy Birthday to you!

[classicalgeek]

Both symphonies. It's not just the performances that are spellbinding, but the recording quality too (live from Avery Fisher Hall, a notoriously difficult venue): outstanding clarity and perfect balances.

I've heard good things about this cycle. My favorite Nielsen cycle as of now is Schonwandt, but I think I need to check out Gilbert!

[classicalgeek]

Thread duty:

Been meaning to check out these arrangements of music from Wagner's operas by Henk de Vlieger, especially the recordings by Neeme Järvi. Started with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: An Orchestral Tribute on Spotify:



Great music and a great performance!

[JBS]

I've heard good things about this cycle. My favorite Nielsen cycle as of now is Schonwandt, but I think I need to check out Gilbert!

The concerto CD from that series is outstanding.

TD

[SonicMan46]

Excuse me being a bit late, but happy birthday also from me.
Enjoy your personal Boxing day .

Ditto Harry!  Dave 

[Harry]

Thanks gents for all the Birthday wishes, I posted already what was in the big box.

[Tsaraslondon]

Davis's 2001 LSO performance of Elgar's 1st Symphony runs to about the same timings as Barbirolli's, but it just seems a lot slower, right from the rather opening theme, which sounds lugubrious rather than nobilmente. Not a patch on the Barbirolli I listened to yesterday and the symphony failed to make anywhere near the same effect.

[Harry]

Pyotr ll'yich Tchaikovsky.

The Sleeping Beauty, opus 66, (Complete) on two SACD's.


Bergen PO, Neeme Järvi.
Johannes Wik, Harp.
James Ehnes, Violin.
Robert de Maine, Cello.

Fast and furious, as is the custom in non balletic performances. The sound is stunning, such a lot of detail is emerging, and Järvi does not forget one of them.

[ritter]

Continuing my exploration of the symphonies of Carlos Chávez, witch CD 2 (Symphony No. 2 "Sínfonía India", Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 6) of this set:

[Harry]

Sieur de Saint-Colombe.

Concerts a Deux Violes Esgales.

CD II.

Concert VIII, La Conference.
Concert XLII, Le Raporte.
Concert III, Le Tendre.
Concert LI, La Rougeville.
Concert LXII, Le Figure.

Wieland Kuijken, & Jordi Savall, Bass Viols.
Alla Vox Heritage, Volume 13.
Recorded in 1979. SACD.

Music to balance the mind. One of the two Viols players thinks that he has to add vocal contributions, a little disturbing that!

[Que]

Binchois by high pitched female voices, with bells in the background.

I guess after listening to this for a while I might start to  levitate! 

[Tsaraslondon]

Staying with Barbirolli for Elgar's 2nd.

With this issue I also get to listen again to Barbirolli's sublime performances of Sospiri and Elegy.

[Harry]

Binchois by high pitched female voices, with bells in the background.

I guess after listening to this for a while I might start to  levitate! 

Quelle horreur

[Traverso]

Krieg und Frieden

Sweelinck-Philps-Gibbons-Byrd-Louis Couperin-Froberger and others

Bob van Asperen

[Harry]

Ladies Night.

Works for Violin and Piano.

Amy Beach.
Luise Adolpha le Beau.
Pauline Viardot-Garcia.
Amanda Rontgen Maier.
Maria-Theresia Paradies.
Dora Pejacevic.

Thomas Irnberger, Violin.
Barbara Moser, Piano.

I have a whole bunch of CD"s from this series, and I love every one to bits. The quality of the music by these female composers is so high, that it keeps amazing me, why they were so long buried under the vigilant eyes of men, which did not think it worthwhile to publish them. If you start with the first item on this disc, a piece by Amy Beach, first movement of a Sonata in A major, opus 34, it hits you right away, sublimely composed, and that goes on in every piece as long as the disc is. Add to that the committed performances and wonderful sound, and it stands to reason that this disc should be in every collection. I already played every disc in this series more than 5 times, and still its not enough. I think I am hooked stock and barrel.