What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

New release, first listen.


William Wordsworth.
Orchestral Music.
Volume IV.

A Spring Festival Overture.
Symphony No. 7 "Cosmos".
Jubilation, A festivity for Orchestra.
Confluence: Symphonic Variations.

Liepaja SO, John Gibson.
Liga Baltabola, Violin.

[The new erato]

Relatively easy listening in a light romantic, slightly classical and tuneful style. Nice music in a very fine recording:



Perfect on an easy morning.

[vandermolen]

Alexander Glazunov.

Complete Symphonies and concertos.
CD I.

Symphony No. 3 in D major.
Symphony No. 9 in D major, "Unfinished". (Orch. Gavriil Yudin)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jose Serebrier.

Really fine performances. On Par with the Orfeo recordings with Neeme Järvi at the helm.

I agree. I really like the fragment of the 9th Symphony and wish that Glazunov had been able to complete it.

[vandermolen]

Aarre Merikanto's Ekho 
    Petri Sakari, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Anu Komsi (soprano)

My first time with Finland's other composer! Good stuff 

As The New Grove puts it, "His mature style may be seen as a fusion of chromatic polyphony, Russian 'mystical' colour and Finnish folkdance rhythms; he was one of the pioneers of highly chromatic, and highly coloured, writing in Finland, and for years, even decades, his endeavours were not understood." I can vouch for the chromaticism!

That's a fine CD. I must listen to it again.

TD
Nikolai Tcherepnin 'Destiny - Three Symphonic Fragments on a Ballad by Edgar Allan Poe'. Characteristically atmospheric music and most enjoyable:

[Harry]

New Release, first listen.

Moritz Moszkowski.
Orchestral Works, Volume III.

Overture in D major.
Premiere suite d' Orchestre in F major.
Prelude et Fugue pour Orchestre a Cordes.

Sinfonia Varsovia, Ian Hobson.

[Traverso]

Bachianas

CD2


Maria Zedelius–   Es Erhub Sich Ein Streit Kantate Zum Michaelissonntag   
David Cordier–   Ach, Dass Ich Wassers G'nug Hätte Lamento   
David Cordier–   Herr, Wende Dich Und Sei Mir Gnädig Dialogue   
Michael Schopper–   Wie Bist Du Denn, O Gott, In Zorn Auf Mich Entbrannt Lamento   
Maria Zedelius–   Die Furcht Des Herren Kantate Zu Einem Ratswechsel   
Maria Zedelius–   Ich Danke Dir, Gott Kantate Zum 17. Sonntag Nach Trinitatis   

[Harry]

Hugo Alfven.
Symphony No. 1 in F minor, opus 7.
CD I.
Royal Stockholm SO, Neeme Järvi.

[bhodges]

Hindemith: Five Pieces for String Orchestra, Op. 44 - Musici Pragenses. Never heard this version on Supraphon (from 1964), and it's quite spirited, with some good attention to detail and transparency. If the group isn't in the top flight of ensembles, that's OK. (Though I dream of the day when a really, really great ensemble performs this piece.)



--Bruce

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No.1
Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm  (1951)

15 Piano variations and Fugue   (Eroica)
6 Bagatelles

[Harry]

Arnold Bax.

Complete Symphonies.
CD I.

Symphony No.I in E flat major. Dedicated to John Ireland.
Symphony No.3. Dedicated to Henry Wood.

[Iota]

[Re Ives syms 3 & 4] ... it's all wonderfully chaotic and exactingly precise at the same time. There's nothing else in music quite like it.

As good a nutshell summary of Ives as I've seen.


In action here:



Schumann: Piano Sonata No.3

Eric Le Sage (piano)

Music that positively brims with Schumannesque effervescence, charm and great music (and Le Sage responds accordingly), even if I feel that Schumann rarely quite plumbs the depths of intimacy in the more formal setting of sonatas/symphonies that he does in his more free form pieces. They seem to impose some kind of constraint on him, rather than as with Beethoven/Mahler etc who seem propelled to even greater depths by the setting.

[Papy Oli]

[The new erato]

First disc finished. What an absolutely exquisite disc this is!



I feel this is in the same league as Vikingur Olafssons Bach disc.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Martin
Cantate pour le temps de Noël
Severin Lohri, Karola Hausburg, Simone Stock
Luzerner Kantorei



Such an exquisite work. Martin is an under-appreciated master, IMHO.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Arthur Bliss: Melee Fantasque.  David Lloyd-Jones.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

"Waldstein"


Schubert

6 Moments Musicaux

[Maestro267]

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 15
Brodsky Quartet

[Karl Henning]

CD 4
"Wolferl"
Pf Cto in E^b, K.449
Pf Cto in B^b, K.450

[André]

Relatively easy listening in a light romantic, slightly classical and tuneful style. Nice music in a very fine recording:



Perfect on an easy morning.

I love that disc ! The violin concerto's big first movement is a gem.