What are you listening 2 now?

[mahler10th]

Just before bed time I decided to listen to Per Norgard Symphony 4.
Some way into it, and in need of something more...familiar...I decided to listen to something else, and will avoid Norgard until I reach some level of musical maturity which might help me come to terms with his music more fully.  So I have Robert Simpsons Symphony 4 now playing instead.  While Simpsons style is also out of my league, but not nearly so far, there is much more to satisfy my simple musical nut in his musical soundscape.

[Symphonic Addict]

For All Souls' Day, one of the finest Requiem Masses from a (perhaps) unexpected source: Franz Von Suppe'.
https://www.youtube.com/v/AD8vkB4iiG0&list=OLAK5uy_mFNP11wcXs09OB8p5NNWf2Yiz5lQU70oY

Oh yes, I have nice memories of it. Much better than thought at first.

[Symphonic Addict]

The Alyabiev A minor is a real find: a bittersweet first movement, a lyrical, dreamy slow movement and a frolicsome, lilty, fun finale. Excellent music and musicmaking --- the same going for the more turbulent, dramatic and highly-charged emotionally works of Glinka and Rubinstein (No. 2). A superbly judged and executed program and a great start to this 5-disc series.

Thanks for this. The final installment was a hit as far as I know.

[JBS]

Being CD 2 of

[Symphonic Addict]

I mean much better in Schmidt than his dad. Neeme excels in many composers, especially Prokofiev and Shostakovich and Paavo does not. So Neeme wins!

And Tubin, nordic composers, etc. I wonder what he could do with Holmboe, Peterson-Berger, Rosenberg, Nystroem, more Langgaard and Nielsen? Living or more-recent composers: Vasks, Kalnins, Penderecki, Hartmann, Szymanowski, etc.

[Symphonic Addict]

! POTENTIALLY DEFECTIVE NEW RELEASE WARNING !

Just had an amazingly trippy experience:



I've never heard Hindemith's Clarinet Quartet before. But unfortunately, in this performance, the second movement contains two tracks overlaid on top of each other. The second movement is played normally, but with the entire first movement repeated in mono sound in the background of the right channel. The result takes Hindemith's love of counterpoint to, uh, a dangerous new extreme. 

This is true on several streaming sources I've tried: Naxos Music Library, Presto free samples, even Orfeo label's own website. So it is possible Orfeo has coded the insane merger track into everything.

Now I have to seek out another album to hear this piece as it is meant to be played. Because that was...uh...terrifyingly intense. Kind of cool in an Ivesian way. But also hair-raisingly bizarre.

Sounds like something me wants to hear.

Maybe they are creating or making up a new concept? That would be interesting if tried in other ways too with other composers and works.

[Symphonic Addict]

Now playing from this new arrival:

Tansman
Bric à brac
Polish RSO
Wojciech Michniewski



This is like Gershwin on acid! Great fun!

Yes, playful stuff!! There is much inventiveness in here.

[Symphonic Addict]

Just before bed time I decided to listen to Per Norgard Symphony 4.
Some way into it, and in need of something more...familiar...I decided to listen to something else, and will avoid Norgard until I reach some level of musical maturity which might help me come to terms with his music more fully.  So I have Robert Simpsons Symphony 4 now playing instead.  While Simpsons style is also out of my league, but not nearly so far, there is much more to satisfy my simple musical nut in his musical soundscape.

A so arrestingly good composer in my book. The other day I was listening to his 9th. What a stunning work, a quintessential organic conception.

[Symphonic Addict]

I really like A Hand of Bridge. It's the kind of length of opera I can handle!

Oh, fantastic. Maybe a further listen could confirm my thoughts about it.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Schmidt
Symphony No. 3 in A major
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Sinaisky

[vandermolen]

Rubbra: Symphony No.4

Arguably the greatest of the Rubbra symphonies (5 and 7 are other candidates IMO).

[vandermolen]

Just before bed time I decided to listen to Per Norgard Symphony 4.
Some way into it, and in need of something more...familiar...I decided to listen to something else, and will avoid Norgard until I reach some level of musical maturity which might help me come to terms with his music more fully.  So I have Robert Simpsons Symphony 4 now playing instead.  While Simpsons style is also out of my league, but not nearly so far, there is much more to satisfy my simple musical nut in his musical soundscape.

What do you think of Simpson's 2nd Symphony John? I've heard good things about it but don't know it. I've not got on very well with Simpson's symphonies, but think highly of nos.1 and 3 and am gradually learning to appreciate No.9, which others here think very highly of.

[Que]

[Harry]

 

Josquin the Undead.
Laments Deplorations and Dances of Dead.
Graindelavoix.

[Tsaraslondon]

Koechlin's Seven Stars Symphony is more of a suite than a symphony, seven orchestral impressions of movie stars Douglas Fairbanks, Lilian Harvey, Greta Garbo, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings and Charlie Chaplin. Very enjoyable it is too.

Also included here is the lovely Ballade pour piano et orchestre.

Excellent 1982 performances and recording.

[Irons]

Barber: Four Excursions, op.20 for piano.

Barber takes four idioms of American music Boogie Woogie, Blues, Cowboy Song and a Hoe Down and brilliantly incorporates them into a four part classical piece. I sometimes find the results a bit disjointed when popular and classical music are mixed together but not here. It feels natural, not a classical composer trying to be popular or the other way around. Funnily enough, another who comes to mind who was able to do this was also American, Copland. 

[Traverso]

Bruckner
Symphony no. 3
Vienna Philharmonic
Karl Bohm
(on Spotify)

Fine choice,I have to listen to it also, his Mozart feels a bit outdated,not his Bruckner..

[Roasted Swan]

Tchaikovsky
Symphony #6
Rostropovich
London PO

great version, great set!

[vandermolen]

great version, great set!

+1

Walton: Symphony No.1 LPO, Slatkin an excellent version with a great coupling:

[Harry]

Julius Rontgen.

CD II.

Symphonies No. 11 in G minor. "Wirbel"
No. 23 in C minor.
No. 22 In F sharp major.
No. 24 in E major.

Helsingborg SO, David Porcelijn.

Great works.