What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hindemith: Cello Concerto. de Machula/Kondrashin.

[Klavier1]

[Que]

Sibelius

En Saga
Pohjola's daughter
Valse Triste
Finlandia
Tapiola

Great set!

[Papy Oli]

Great set!

So it seems to be, Que.
I am completely engrossed in the VC right now. My first proper listen of this work I think.
Definitely a set I'll stream further.

[foxandpeng]

Bruckner fever has caught on at GMG! The 3rd is, for me, where Bruckner finally finds his compositional footing so to speak.

It's just great. Slowly reacquainting myself with the symphonies over the last few days, so a few more yet to go:)

[kyjo]

Lalo, Namouna, Bakels, Malaysian Philharmonic



Very attractive piece of music, melodic, extroverted orchestration, fun use of brass. Performed here with spirit and beautifully recorded.

I previously listened to Ansermet's recording of this piece, which made a similar impression, and in the 60's Decca engineers used to work miracles in Ansermet's Victoria Hall.

Pounds the table!

[Cato]

WOW!  Today must be Bruckner Third Symphony Day, and nobody told me!   

And my Jochum set is 120 miles away!   

YouTube performances must therefore suffice!

I literally grew up with the Nowak editions as performed by Saint Eugen Jochum on DGG.   0:).    But the earlier versions of the symphonies are a revelation!


https://www.youtube.com/v/v6UePotHz5A

Yes, indeed. Where is your CD collection? In storage?

My retirement is temporarily over: right before Christmas, my successor at my now somewhat former school abruptly quit!

I was begged to return by the administration: no other Latin teachers were available in our metropolitan area of over 1,000,000 people.

So, after trying to retire to a rural/small town area of Ohio, I am temporarily back in the state capital to handle the educational wreckage left behind by my predecessor, who was supposed to be my successor!

On paper - and in person - she seemed fine!

You never know about people!

As a result, the vast Cato Archives are at our house 120 miles to the northwest!  0:)  I return on the weekends, as I have a small one-bedroom apartment here until June.

[Brian]

First listen!

On paper - and in person - she seemed fine!

You never know about people!

I don't know about this specific person or situation but I can't really blame people for leaving classroom jobs right now, with pandemics and political censorship!

[Mirror Image]

First listen!

And? I still have this recording sealed.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Ginastera
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 28
Barbara Nissman, piano
University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Kiesler

[foxandpeng]

WOW!  Today must be Bruckner Third Symphony Day, and nobody told me!   

And my Jochum set is 120 miles away!   

YouTube performances must therefore suffice!

I literally grew up with the Nowak editions as performed by Saint Eugen Jochum on DGG.   0:).    But the earlier versions of the symphonies are a revelation!


https://www.youtube.com/v/v6UePotHz5A

With you all the way with these versions and performances 😁. Great day with Bruckner today.

Thread duty:

Change of pace and welcome contemporary feel with Nordgren #4. I do love this work.

Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Symphony #4
Juha Kangas
Finnish RSO

[Karl Henning]

I'll definitely check out the Concerto gregoriano, John - thanks for the recommendation!

I think most BIS recordings are on Spotify, so I'll definitely listen to Neschling. I thought the cadenza movement was really striking - it gave the piece a really fascinating 'Concerto for Orchestra' vibe.

TD:

It's all-Respighi, all the time!

Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 1
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite no. 3
Three Botticelli Pictures
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra



Of course, the Ancient Airs and Dances are marvelous, real gems of form and orchestration. And the Botticelli Pictures are a collective masterpiece - it's astounding what Respighi does with such small forces! I was particularly taken with the hypnotic dotted rhythms of The Birth of Venus this time around. And of course the performances are excellent!

You remind me that I did not quite finish off that wonderful box.

[Karl Henning]

I think the Ballades are one of the cases where listening to everything in a genre works. But listening to 19 waltzes straight, for example, they can outstay their welcome.

And of course, that is not fair to the music.

[Florestan]

I think the Ballades are one of the cases where listening to everything in a genre works. But listening to 19 waltzes straight, for example, they can outstay their welcome.

If played in chronological order, yes. If arranged in a well-thought order, no. Lipatti immediately comes to mind: he almost turned them into a piano suite.

[aligreto]

Arnold: Overtures [Gamba]





A Grand Festival Overture
Peterloo
The Smoke

[aligreto]

Bruckner fever has caught on at GMG!

A lot of listening time tied up there 

[classicalgeek]

You remind me that I did not quite finish off that wonderful box.

I admit I've only sampled lightly from it (Dvorak wind and string serenades, Mozart chamber music for winds, and this Respighi disc) but everything so far has been top-notch!

Thread Duty, before I take the plunge into Ives:

Respighi
Concerto gregoriano
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Sir Edward Downes
(on Spotify)



A beautiful work, with spots that reminded me of Vaughan Williams, but still wholly Respighi's own. Splendidly orchestrated too (but this goes without saying!) The performance was admirable if not without faults - it's certainly a fiendishly difficult violin part. The late Lydia Mordkovitch was a fine soloist indeed, but I'd love to see Hilary Hahn or James Ehnes add it to their repertoire!

[Karl Henning]

In recent days...revisiting things from the past!
Also..



This was an all-around fave for us classical music fledglings in the 1960's: talk about Heavy Metal!  While the hippies were lollygagging to drugged-out Donovan, we were rawking with Prokofiev's "iron-and-steel" Symphony #2! 

Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony were heroes for recording this work!

But they were even bigger heroes for recording the Prokofiev Symphony #3 with The Scythian Suite!!!



I had a few friends absolutely obsessed with this recording: both works never failed to amaze, no matter how often one heard them.

Wherefore this reissue box was an instant impulse purchase for me 11 years ago:

[Karl Henning]

WOW!  Today must be Bruckner Third Symphony Day, and nobody told me!   

And my Jochum set is 120 miles away!   

YouTube performances must therefore suffice!

I literally grew up with the Nowak editions as performed by Saint Eugen Jochum on DGG.   0:) .    But the earlier versions of the symphonies are a revelation!


https://www.youtube.com/v/v6UePotHz5A

I'm in:

State Symphony Cappella of Russia
Rozhdestvensky

[Karl Henning]

He has a few good works, but I've shared your experience with works like his 3rd Symphony (probably one of the most boring symphonies I've ever heard).

That's not only a sad landmark on the merits, but—there's a worthwhile symphony by a living composer which might have been served by those musical resources. And I'm not necessarily suggesting myself.