What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

R. Strauss
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
(Fritz Reiner, Chicago SO)

[Mirror Image]

R. Strauss
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
(Fritz Reiner, Chicago SO)

Nice! Strauss in Neoclassical mode.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

NP:

Debussy
Préludes, Livre I
Planès

From this set -



Loving all the Debussy you've guys been listening to tonight. I figured why not join the party?

We should do that often!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Lalo Schifrin: Concierto Caribeno.

[Mirror Image]

We should do that often!

Absolutely!

Thread duty:

First-Listen Wednesday

Milhaud
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov
SWR-Rundfunk-Orchester Kaiserslautern
Alun Francis

[aligreto]

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 [Haitink]





This is an absolutely terrific presentation. It is powerful and stark, razor sharp and expansive. It runs the gamut of emotions and tones from menacing to serene throughout the course of the presentation.

[Papy Oli]

Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen (Barbirolli)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jacques Ibert's Les Amours de Jupiter 
    Jacques Mercier, Orchestre national de Lorraine

Great music, annoying cover art.

[Papy Oli]

R. Strauss - Burleske (Kempe)

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Ravel
Miroirs, M. 43
Pierre-Laurent Aimard

From this set -

[classicalgeek]

Next up:

Casella
Sinfonia (Symphony No. 3), Op. 63
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda

Add Casella to the (long) list of composers I'd like to know better! What I've heard of his really intrigues me.

It's a good one for sure!

From the splendid Naxos Japanese series, the ones dedicated to Matsumura, Moroi, Hayasaka, Bekku, Ifukube, Hashimoto, Yoshimatsu (it is to be found on Chandos, though), Yamada, etc. contain fine music. There is no waste with these composers IMO.

Thank you for the recommendations! I'll start with Bekku (the one you compared to Prokofiev) and go from there.

EDIT: It appears the Bekku Symphony disc isn't available on Spotify. I think that's the first Naxos CD I've tried to find where I've come up empty. But you've given plenty of options!

I like these works in the disc, including Rapsodia. The below are the Batiz discs. It's on YT and streaming services.

Batiz should be available on Spotify - that's good to know. And the CD is also available on Regis - that should make it a little easier to track down if I go that route on disc. As far as the Rapsodia, maybe it was the performance? Though I've heard Roscoe in other things and he's a pretty solid pianist. I'll keep listening; I see there's a performance on the Batiz disc. Thank you so much for your recommendations!

[kyjo]

Indeed. Have you compared this recording with Nátola-Ginastera/Nissman and the one on Naxos? I own both, but I don't believe I've ever listened to the Naxos recording.

To be honest, I've only heard this incredible performance on YT by Santiago Cañón-Valencia and Naoko Sonoda: https://youtu.be/EeR-7vTWc9A

[kyjo]

Personally, I make no time for YouTube-based critics.

What about non-YT-based critics?

[JBS]

Great music, annoying cover art.

It does fit the other work on the CD, a ballet about Don Quixote, rather well.

[Papy Oli]

R. Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (Kempe)

[kyjo]

Apropos of Turina, the recordings by Batiz and de Almeida are probably better. The Naxos disc is good as well.

To the bolded text:

[listener]

Rolf LIEBERMANN:  Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra
Furioso for Orchestra      Geigy Festival Concerto (Percussion)     Medea-Monolog Cantata
Darmstadt Concert Choir   Bremen Philharmonic Orch.,  Günter Neuhold, cond.
It looks like the Sauter-Finnegan/Reiner - Chicago S.O. LP has not been released as a CD
LUTOSLAWSKI Dance-Preludes, DEBUSSY: Petite Pièce   PENDERECKI: 3 Minuatures
BERNSTEIN: Sonata    WEBER: Grand Duo Concertante    MORAWETZ: Sonata
             for clarinet and piano
Joaquin Valdepeñas, clarinet     Patricia Parr, piano

[Karl Henning]

R. Strauss
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
(Fritz Reiner, Chicago SO)

Oli, I was really taken with this 'un.

[Karl Henning]

What about non-YT-based critics?

I neither make time for them nor shun them.

[Karl Henning]

CD 7

Suk
Ripening, Op. 34

Foerster
Symphony № 4 in c minor, Op. 54 « Easter Eve »

The latter is an inaugural listen

Suk always grabs me as Dvořák's peer, and perhaps more. The Foerster, ne.

And now:

CD 11

Fauré Nocturnes
№ 9 in b minor, Op. 97
№ 10 in e minor, Op. 99
№ 11 in f# minor, Op. 104 № 1
№ 12 in e minor, Op. 107
№ 13 in b minor, Op. 119
Thème et Variations in c# minor, Op. 73
Éric Heidsieck