What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Bax

Symphony 5 & 4

[Karl Henning]

Backtracking to the first Chamber symphony, this time in the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin recording. A very engaging and interesting piece. In this case both this recording and the Naxos recording were pleasing.




Anyone heard the Kremer recordings of this music on ECM?

Yes, and I for one love 'em.

[Karl Henning]

"Wolferl"
Symphony № 33 in B^b, K. 319
Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Jaap ter Linden

as well as, again:

CD 32:

"Wolferl"

Sinfonia concertante in E^b, K. 364 (320d)
Sinfonia concertante in E^b, K. Anh. 14.01 (297b)

Not at all surprisingly, the key to finding Mozart's music fresh (as it deserves) is simply to listen to it less frequently than WCRB offers.

[Traverso]

"Wolferl"
Symphony № 33 in B^b, K. 319
Mozart Akademie Amsterdam
Jaap ter Linden

as well as, again:





Not at all surprisingly, the key to finding Mozart's music fresh (as it deserves) is simply to listen to it less frequently than WCRB offers.

fine recordings 

[Bachtoven]

Wonderful transcriptions, playing, and sound.

[Karl Henning]

CD 27:

L'oiseau de feu (1910)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Wonderful transcriptions, playing, and sound.

Interesting. I will check it out!

[André]

Nos 1 and 5.

[VonStupp]

Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E-flat, III. Scherzo, op. 20

Boston SO - Charles Munch (rec. 1960)

[VonStupp]

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony 4 in A Major 'Italian' (1834 revised version)

Vienna Philharmonic - John Eliot Gardiner (rec. 1998)

I don't think this revised version is essential, but interesting nonetheless. Gardiner is Gardiner here, although I thought his time with Vienna was decent.

[SonicMan46]

This afternoon, continuing w/ my early music compilations - the three below will take us into dinner time - Dave

   

[André]

No 4. To be followed by no 5 (original and revised versions) after dinner.

[Mandryka]

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! 

I'll raise the stakes with this

[classicalgeek]

More Poulenc! The Piano Concerto and Concerto for Two Pianos again on Spotify, plus some of the other music for two pianos. The Naxos disc I heard a couple of days ago was fine, but I much prefer Lortie and Mercier (in the two-piano works):



I'm so delighted to be re-acquainting myself with Poulenc's music! Charming and witty and fresh and melodic... and the slow movement to the Piano Concerto, with its melody in the strings over pulsating horns (the piano later takes it up) is achingly lovely.

[prémont]

I'll raise the stakes with this

Have you heard it?

[classicalgeek]

Just heard, for the first time:

Koechlin
Seven Stars Symphony
Deustches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin
James Judd

From this collection on Spotify:



What a neat piece! I've never heard anything quite like it. There are hints of Ravel and Roussel; sometimes it looks ahead to Messiaen; sometimes it sounds, appropriately enough, like a film score. But it isn't derivative, of course - Koechlin is a very unique composer. I think I'll be exploring more of his music!

[Symphonic Addict]

Bax

Symphony 5 & 4

The 5th has terrific music. The 4th is also good, but it's not as cohesive as the others.

[Symphonic Addict]

No 4. To be followed by no 5 (original and revised versions) after dinner.

Two pretty good works there, André. The original version of the 5th has the best music IMO, especially because of those "peculiar" last minutes.

[Mandryka]

Have you heard it?

Yes. That and the Discantus CD must be the only recordings of a mass by Binchois. I appreciate it because it is so vigorous and iconoclastic by today's standards - the percussion in the Sanctus for example. Not the slightest hint of solemnity or reverence anywhere.

Listening to this - beautiful Kyrie, maybe the most beautiful performance of a Dufay Kyrie I can remember

[classicalgeek]

Bax

Symphony 5 & 4

I love the Bax orchestral music! No. 4 is probably my favorite symphony, especially the first movement. I really like how he uses the organ!