What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Saint-Saens Mass Requiem

[SonicMan46]

I'm quite fond of those recordings!

- yep, I pull out those Danzi Quintets every 3-4 months - love the period instrument performances; but also have the Berlin Wind Quintet on MIs which I also enjoy (plus, they get all of the same works on 3 discs) - Dave

 

[JBS]

There's some Bax I'll try out!

TD ... not that I have any quarrel at all with Collard/Previn (I don't)

When you're not near the CD you love you love the CD you're near*

*with apologies to Lane and Harburg

[bhodges]

Salvatore Sciarrino: Infinito nero (1998) - Live performance from January 2019 (just before the pandemic struck) with soprano Alice Teyssier and Cantata Profana, filmed at Saint Peter's Church Chelsea in NYC. The piece remains a wonder. The excellent short notes below are from Theater Bonn, for a production directed by Mark Daniel Hirsch. (Some cool photos at the link below.)

https://www.theater-bonn.de/en/programm/infinito-nero/168158

Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566 – 1607), a Carmelite mystic from a noble family, has been worshipped as a saint by the Catholic Church since 1669. This worship is based on her visions, which were written down in five volumes by her fellow sisters. The "infinite black" in the title of Salvatore Sciarrino's INFINITO NERO refers to a preconscious state that precedes the creation of the world. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi's utterances can be understood from such a state – without, however, rendering them immediately intelligible. In his work, Sciarrino explores this state as well as the fact that the sisters who noted down the visions captured the saint's gestures and ways of speaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2wKbGYMO9g

--Bruce

[San Antone]

Hindemith: Complete Sonatas For Wind Instruments and Piano

Sonata for English Horn and Piano
Filippo Farinelli, Maria Chiara Braccalenti

[Harry]

I don't think that you'll regret it Karl. there's a certain amount of antipathy towards Bax on the forum but I consider him to be one of my favourite symphonists and like VW, Rubbra and Arnold I enjoy all of his symphonies.

Not by me, he is one of my favourite composers, and I admire and love his music very much.

[foxandpeng]

Arnold Bax
Symphony #3
Dance of Wild Irravel
Pæan
Bryden Thomson
London PO

[Traverso]

Re: Jan --- Messien box sets

Just to let you know, Jan, I have decided to rip both the Complete DG set and the Messiaen Edition Warner set. This seems like a good way to get many great performances from two major record companies. I'm still not weighing out the option of adding Cambreling's orchestral set on Hanssler.

II wonder how you will experience Messiaen's opera, I have listening to it two times..

[Mirror Image]

II wonder how you will experience Messiaen's opera, I have listening to it two times..

I've heard it once and I recall it being quite good --- long, but good.

[Mirror Image]

NP: Koechlin Poems D'Edmond Haraucourt, Op. 7 (Juliane Banse/Holliger)

[foxandpeng]

Brenton Broadstock
Good Angel's Tears, Journeys through Light and Dark: The Symphonies of Brenton Broadstock
Symphony #1 'Toward the Shining Light'
Symphony #2 'Stars in a Dark Night'
Andrew Wheeler
Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony Orchestra

[lordlance]

Mahler's Ninth Symphony:



For the life of me I shall never understand this idea of 'world class orchestras.' Oslo sounds as good as any that I have heard. Ditto for the host of Japanese orchestras that I have heard. Jansons is a significantly better Mahlerian than Brucknerian and it shows...

[Mirror Image]

NP: Act I from Strauss Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59 (Ludwig/Jones/Popp/etc./Bernstein)



This is the Japanese hybrid SACD version and it sounds absolutely fantastic. My favorite Strauss opera and this performance is the one that I continue to come back to.

[Symphonic Addict]

Bax: Symphony No. 1 (Vernon Handley / BBC Philharmonic) - First time listen. So far, gorgeous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X63jKCcJ_4s&t=771s

--Bruce

A turbulent, atmospheric piece. I confess I'm not as familiar with this set as with Chandos or Naxos.

[Symphonic Addict]

    Richard Strauss's Vier letze Lieder 
    Kurt Masur, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Jessye Norman

I adore this recording. I have several others, but Norman's power just blows them all out of the water, I always feel.

I have to agree with you here. Norman's voice is a hurricane in itself. A comfortable and potent voice.

The orchestral and conductor accompaning her are up to the expectations, and the sonics is powerful and noble.

[André]

Rubbra's 4th is very fine. I enjoy all of the recordings, my favourite being Rubbra's own premiere recording. On the Lyrita disc I enjoy the shorter works as well, especially 'Resurgam'.

Thanks Jeffrey. I've listened twice to the disc containing nos 5 and 6 today. Both show Rubbra tapping from his melodic vein with a vengeance - compared to the more cerebral first four symphonies. Both works are wonderfully tuneful and sound more optimistic than the previous ones. The first mov of no 6 in particular is a peach.

[bhodges]

Stumbled across this version of Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire with Markus Stenz, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dmitri Levkovich (piano), and two choirs, Frankfurter Kantorei and Konzertchor Darmstadt.

PLUS, special lighting design by Frank Kraus, which I suspect the composer would have loved. Recorded Sep. 26, 2014 at Alte Oper Frankfurt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ESN_t7txI

--Bruce

[bhodges]

A turbulent, atmospheric piece. I confess I'm not as familiar with this set as with Chandos or Naxos.

I liked No. 1 enough to give it a go with other versions, we'll see.

I have to agree with you here. Norman's voice is a hurricane in itself. A comfortable and potent voice.

The orchestral and conductor accompanying her are up to the expectations, and the sonics is powerful and noble.

Norman made everything look so luxuriously easy. I love versions of the Four Last Songs with Janowitz, Fleming, and others, but few are as majestic as Jessye.

--Bruce

[Symphonic Addict]

Very much agree. It's the only symphony, apart from Weinberg's 5th Symphony, IMO which bears comparison with Shostakovich's 4th Symphony.

But the Weingerg is not as neurotic as the others two, it is less "bombastic" and oddly soulful. An intriguing composition.

[Madiel]

Sibelius

King Christian II Suite at the moment. Probably Scenes Historiques II later on.



Because then I will have got around to completing another one of the CDs I purchased a year ago...