What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Berlioz
Nuits d'été, Op. 7
Brigitte Balleys, mezzo-soprano
Orchestre des Champs Elysées
Philippe Herreweghe

[Brian]

Glad to join the Haydn party this morning.

[Traverso]

Of course we both do!

[foxandpeng]

Søren Nils Eichberg
Symphony 3
Morpheus
Robert Spano
Joshua Wellerstein
Danish NSO
Danish NCC

Brilliant. Frankly, excellent alongside Eichberg's Symphonies 1 & 2. Powerful and probably appealing to lovers of Tabakov, Nørgård, Penderecki etc, in the sense that it shares some of the emotion and turbulence found in them.

Love it.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, Op. 28
NYPO
Bernstein



Aside from some of the tone poems and Der Rosenkavalier (Bernstein is still my reference recording for this opera), I wish Bernstein recorded more Strauss. He does quite well in this music I must say.

[Spotted Horses]

Lalo

Namouna

Divertissement Andantino
Rhapsodie Norvérgienne
Scherzo pour orchestre
La Roi d'ys

I forgot that was in there. I've been listening to some Lalo orchestral music, Symphony in g minor and Divertimenti

[Brian]

Horses - the little Scherzo is my favorite orchestral Lalo.

Søren Nils Eichberg
Symphony 3
Morpheus
Robert Spano
Joshua Wellerstein
Danish NSO
Danish NCC

Brilliant. Frankly, excellent alongside Eichberg's Symphonies 1 & 2. Powerful and probably appealing to lovers of Tabakov, Nørgård, Penderecki etc, in the sense that it shares some of the emotion and turbulence found in them.

Love it.

This name rang a bell, so I did a search and found a post I wrote about Eichberg's Symphony No 2 way back in 2013:

"Eichberg's Second Symphony answers the question I'd (of course) always been asking: "What if Martinu and Lutoslawski had a love-child who wrote the score to The Lord of the Rings?" By which I mean, a little flashy, a little chintzy, a little dark and stormy, dazzlingly orchestrated, lush dark colors, great evocation of chaos, and although it might not hold up to repeated listening, it was a hell of a lot of fun."

Hmmm. Sounds fun. Might be time to give him another try and listen to that new disc as well!

[JBS]

Finally starting on this set

Symphony in A Major R 159
Symphony No 1 in E Flat Major Op 2
Symphony No 2 in a minor Op 55

Orchestre National de l'ORTF/Martinon

ETA

R 159 is a much better symphony than the Organ Symphony.

[foxandpeng]

Horses - the little Scherzo is my favorite orchestral Lalo.
This name rang a bell, so I did a search and found a post I wrote about Eichberg's Symphony No 2 way back in 2013:

"Eichberg's Second Symphony answers the question I'd (of course) always been asking: "What if Martinu and Lutoslawski had a love-child who wrote the score to The Lord of the Rings?" By which I mean, a little flashy, a little chintzy, a little dark and stormy, dazzlingly orchestrated, lush dark colors, great evocation of chaos, and although it might not hold up to repeated listening, it was a hell of a lot of fun."

Hmmm. Sounds fun. Might be time to give him another try and listen to that new disc as well!

Ah, what a great summary 🙂. Dark, stormy, chaos... definitely. I wouldn't want to make it my whole diet, but I can see him becoming a regular returner. Same vein as the Michael Hersch symphonies that I've been enjoying, really. All very suited to the zeitgeist and somewhat emotive.

[Karl Henning]

Listening to this frequently of late

[Que]

Saint-Saens: Caprice sur des airs danois et russes [Nash Ensemble]





I regret coming to the end of this album. It was really very good.

It indeed is really good!   

The subtitle could be "the very best of Saint-Saëns", because that would be pretty accurate.

[Linz]

I am listening to Bach's  French Suites with Gustav Leonhardt

[Brian]

Listening to this frequently of late

Can't blame you. A favorite here too, great combination of music and players.

Now auditioning:

[Artem]

Orchestral KlangWerk11 and String Quartet No. 2. One of my favourite composers on Neos music label.

[Linz]

 Karajan's  Bruckner Symphony No. 6 from this set

[listener]

PROKOFIEV   The Gambler    (on DVD)
Mariinsky Orchestra        Gergierv cond.
Prokofiev libretto based on a novelletta by Dostoyevsky almost comes close to a comic opera,  Music is very reminiscent of The Fiery Angel at times.   Good subtitles and only 126 minutes.  A number for a chorus resembles the ballet interpolations of Verdi et al., it's their only appearance.  A minor work but passed the time agreeably.

[Spotted Horses]

Karajan's  Bruckner Symphony No. 6 from this set

One of Karajan's finest.

[Spotted Horses]

Horses - the little Scherzo is my favorite orchestral Lalo.

Next on my list...

[ritter]

Clemens Krauss conducts Richard Strauss: Divertimento after Couperin, Rosenkavalier waltz sequence  (Bamberg Symphony) and the "Moonlight Music" from Capriccio (Bavarian Radio SO, extracted from the complete broadcast recording of the opera —which is also in my collection— ).

[Karl Henning]

Again:

Weinberg
String Quartet № 9 in f# minor, Op. 80 (1963)
String Quartet № 10 in a minor, Op. 85 (1964)
Quatuor Danel