What are you listening 2 now?

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A glorious work, in a wonderful performance (but you knew I'd say that  ).

Good evening, John.

Good evening to you as well, Rafael. Yes, Enescu is one of my favorite composers and I have to say that seeing your posts on this composer through the years made me rethink my own opinion of him. He's sensational.

[TheGSMoeller]

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By the way, Rafael, this is some priceless footage of Enescu that you may/may not have seen before:

https://www.youtube.com/v/zGJr2UermOU

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Dvorak Slavonic Dances Nikolaus Harnocourt

[Florestan]

By the way, Rafael, this is some priceless footage of Enescu that you may/may not have seen before:

https://www.youtube.com/v/zGJr2UermOU

Wow! What a find! Priceless indeed. Thanks you, John!

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Wow! What a find! Priceless indeed. Thanks you, John!

You're welcome, Andrei. He seemed like a nice man.

[Que]

[vers la flamme]

Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No.1. Leif Segerstam, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Haven't listened to this beast since shortly after I got the disc, two years ago. Damn, what a massive, intense work.

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NP:

Bartók
Out of Doors, BB 89
Stephen Kovacevich, piano

From this set -



Outstanding performance!

[vers la flamme]

The first movement of Schnittke's 1st is quite enough for now. But I'm not done with Schnittke just yet, so moving onto this much later, very different work...:



Alfred Schnittke: Cello Concerto No.1. Eckart Runge, Frank Strobel, Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin

This is a relatively recent release from 2020, and it's absolutely killer. Excellent performance of both works, the first cello concertos of Schnittke and Kapustin. I think this has become my favorite performance of the Schnittke, though I would love to hear others (as well as his second concerto, which I've never heard. ).

[Karl Henning]

CD 8

La cetra, Op. 9 N^os. 1—6

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Dvorak's 7th Symphony Harnoncoiurt again

[Karl Henning]

And now, for something easily anticipated:

CD 9

La cetra, Op. 9 N^os. 7—12

[JBS]

And now, for something easily anticipated:

CD 9

La cetra, Op. 9 N^os. 7—12

La Cetra et cetera?

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NP:

Enescu
Vox maris, Op. 31
Florian Diaconescu (tenor)
George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Bucharest
Cristian Mandeal

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Such an exuberant, otherworldly work. This would sit nicely in a program with Scriabin's Le Poème de l'extase and Bartók's Cantata Profana.

[Karl Henning]

La Cetra et cetera?

(* chortle *)

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NP:

Martinů
String Sextet, H. 224
Kocian Quartet



An out-and-out masterpiece! Marvelously performed, too.

[classicalgeek]

Forget Aho, I think you need some Enescu in your life, classicalgeek. His small oeuvre has given me an endless amount of joy.

Thanks, John, for the recommendation! Enescu is a hard composer to pigeonhole - he seems equally at home writing in a voluptuous, decadent, late Romantic style (Symphony no. 1), taking his inspiration from Romanian folk music (the Romanian Rhapsodies) or writing in a spiky, dissonant, almost Neoclassical vein (as he does in the Orchestral Suite no. 3 and the String Quartet in G.) He definitely has a gift for melody, and he's a dazzling orchestrator on top of that!

Symphony no. 1
Orchestral Suite no. 3 'Villageoise'
BBC Philharmonic
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(on Spotify)



String quartet in G major, op. 22 no. 2
Quatuor Ad Libitum
(also on Spotify)

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Thanks, John, for the recommendation! Enescu is a hard composer to pigeonhole - he seems equally at home writing in a voluptuous, decadent, late Romantic style (Symphony no. 1), taking his inspiration from Romanian folk music (the Romanian Rhapsodies) or writing in a spiky, dissonant, almost Neoclassical vein (as he does in the Orchestral Suite no. 3 and the String Quartet in G.) He definitely has a gift for melody, and he's a dazzling orchestrator on top of that!

Symphony no. 1
Orchestral Suite no. 3 'Villageoise'
BBC Philharmonic
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(on Spotify)



String quartet in G major, op. 22 no. 2
Quatuor Ad Libitum
(also on Spotify)

Indeed! An outstanding composer. I've come to really love so much of his music --- it really gets under my skin.

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Speaking of remarkable orchestrators...

NP:

Schoenberg
Gurre-Lieder
Hermann Becht (bass), Peter Haage (tenor), Hans Hotter (speaker), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Siegfried Jerusalem (tenor), Susan Dunn (soprano)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chor der St. Hedwig's-Kathedrale, Berlin, Stadtischer Musikverein, Dusseldorf
Riccardo Chailly