What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Anthoni Van Noordt.

Complete Organ Music CD II.

Psalm 6,15,7,119,50.
Fantasia, 1 a 4, 5 a 4, 5 a 4.

Heinrich Scheidemann.
Erbarm dich mein, O herre Gott.

Manuel Tomadin, plays on a F. Stellwagen organ 1636/37, Jacobikirche of Lubeck, Germany.
Pitch A = 471 Hz. Temperament, Werckmeister I.


This set is much better as I expected. In fact I rate it as high as the Naxos set, and better in sound. Tomadin puts the stress in different parts of the music. Tastefully done on a sublime organ.

[Roasted Swan]

It goes to show, how different we react to a performance. His approach to Tchaikovsky tends to be analytical and focusing on detail. Sentimental he is not, and I applaud that, but I think his engagement is of a different character as we normally expect. In this he was taught in the best environment  one could wish. On the soil of  Russia, the birthplace of Tchaikovsky, his basis for this approach was born. I have listened several times to the performances of his symphonies, (Gothenburg SO) and the ballets from the Bergen SO, and in my experience I find plenty of commitment, engagement, and a non conformist attitude towards all the music recorded by Jarvi in regard to Tchaikovsky. But if you would like more commitment, try the Gergiev recording on the Mariinsky label, a riveting 4th symphony, it blew my socks off, I can tell you that!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, they are most interesting to me.

I had a friend who was a member of the Scottish National Orchestra (before it became Royal!) and I remember him recalling their very first recording session for Chandos with Jarvi which was (I'm pretty sure)



and the orchestra being blown away by the sheer dynamism and brilliance of Jarvi..... and the rest is history!

My favourites for the symphonies are also Russians but with very different approach; the red in tooth and claw Svetlanov or the brooding weighty Rostropovitch.  For the ballets I do enjoy a properly theatrically informed approach.  For all three as a set I think Ermler with Covent Garden is hard to beat

[Mirror Image]

Arguably the greatest performance on disc of Korngold's Symphony. Fine cover art as well.

Kempe's is my favorite. The best one I've heard. Even better than Previn, IMHO.

[The new erato]

Very fine. Need to see if I can dig up Porpora's version.

[kyjo]

Now playing from this new arrival:

Tansman
Bric à brac
Polish RSO
Wojciech Michniewski



This is like Gershwin on acid! Great fun!

Like you and Cesar, I'm a huge fan of this disc. Tremendous fun!

[Mirror Image]

Like you and Cesar, I'm a huge fan of this disc. Tremendous fun!

Absolutely!

[kyjo]

Now no 1 from this:

The first two movements of this symphony are wonderful, but I find the scherzo and finale to be rather uninspired and academic by comparison.

[Traverso]

Schubert

I don't see these much attention for recordings wich is a pity,wonderful Schubert .

[Sergeant Rock]

Arnold Symphony No. 1, Handley conducting




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

The first two movements of this symphony are wonderful, but I find the scherzo and finale to be rather uninspired and academic by comparison.

In many ways, this 1st symphony from Schmidt is like a 'study symphony' of sorts. He really hadn't found his own voice yet. The 2nd symphony is where I fell in love with his music.

[vandermolen]

Arnold Symphony No. 1, Handley conducting




Sarge

One of my favourites of the cycle. Arnold conducts it much slower than anyone else. BBC Music Magazine featured the symphony on their freebie CD attached to the magazine (2011 recording with Keith Lockhart conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra). The Handley set is excellent but so are the Penny and Hickox/Gamba ones.

[Roasted Swan]

Now playing from this new arrival:

Tansman
Bric à brac
Polish RSO
Wojciech Michniewski



This is like Gershwin on acid! Great fun!

That is the BEST three word description of a composer/work I have read in ages and certainly enough to make me want to hear the disc - excellent!

My other favourites include - "like Brahms without the jokes" (but I can't remember which composer that was(!!) and
Ethel Smyth is Elgar in drag

[Carlo Gesualdo]

I justt received this morning Lassus Lagrime Di San Pietro in 2 set of LP's Raphael Passaquet is it good, was to merveous, only listen to one side of  cid a  1 of 2 First LP, it's prodigieux. Roland DE Lassus  Les Larmes de Saint- Pierre, is prodigious work especially in clear analogue , follow by the mighty Prophetiea Sybillarum.

Very nice album, but for now I'm sipping a Guinnes It's Diner, whit Irish Harps and medieval  harps, tremendously good  stuff, for me at least, very nice, these were my listenings of this morning trought diner time. Anice plate of analogues.

[Papy Oli]

Bach
Cantatas BWV 109 & 38
(Gardiner SDG Vol.11)

[VonStupp]

I had a friend who was a member of the Scottish National Orchestra (before it became Royal!) and I remember him recalling their very first recording session for Chandos with Jarvi which was (I'm pretty sure)



and the orchestra being blown away by the sheer dynamism and brilliance of Jarvi..... and the rest is history!

That must have been awesome!

I know I had never heard any other R-K, outside of Scheherazade and some smaller ditties, before hearing Järvi's album of orchestral Suites, maybe even on LP at that time. I think I also first heard Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonies from Järvi as well (below). 

There have been so many first introductions of music from Neeme Järvi through the years, and I generally have been continuously happy revisiting them too. VS

[Sergeant Rock]

One of my favourites of the cycle. Arnold conducts it much slower than anyone else. BBC Music Magazine featured the symphony on their freebie CD attached to the magazine (2011 recording with Keith Lockhart conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra). The Handley set is excellent but so are the Penny and Hickox/Gamba ones.

I have Penny, Handley (of course), Arnold 1, 2, 4 and 5 and Gamba's 7, 8 and 9. I too think they are all superb. Listening to Gamba's Seventh now:




Sarge

[Mandryka]

The problem is that the interpretation needs the singers Julia von Landsberg and Zsuszi Toth to keep a song going for in one case more than 15 minutes, and in another more than 11. This afternoon at least I don't feel that they're quite good enough with the poetry to really pull that off. I don't get the feeling that they're really inhabiting the music. So I don't think this is a recommendable CD.

[Traverso]

Locatelli

The leaves are falling, the days are shortening suitable conditions for listening to these concerts.

L'Arte del Violino  CD 1  Concertos 1-2-3 & 4

[Sergeant Rock]

Arnold Symphony No. 8, Gamba conducting




Sarge

[Tsaraslondon]

Arguably the greatest performance on disc of Korngold's Symphony. Fine cover art as well.

Love the cover art _ Tamara Lempicka.