What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

I know,,enjoy. 

Almost think I could listen to the Hornsignal all day!

Now:

CD 12
Händel Keyboard Suites
№ 4 in e minor, HWV 429
№ 14 in G, HWV 441
№ 10 in d minor, HWV 436
№ 12 in e minor, HWV 438

[Todd]

Revisiting one of my purchases of the century.  As great as ever.

[VonStupp]

Franz Schubert
Mass in G, D167

Lucia Popp - soprano, Adolf Dallapozza - tenor,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - baritone
Bavarian Radio SO & Chorus - Wolfgang Sawallisch

The Missa Brevis in G is perhaps Schubert's most beautiful choral masterpiece, IMO.

VS

[Symphonic Addict]

Franz Schubert
Mass in G, D167

Lucia Popp - soprano, Adolf Dallapozza - tenor,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - baritone
Bavarian Radio SO & Chorus - Wolfgang Sawallisch

The Missa Brevis in G is perhaps Schubert's most beautiful choral masterpiece, IMO.

VS

Even more than the Mass in E-flat? Interesting.

[Symphonic Addict]

Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher: 'Inner Symphonies'
Greatly enjoying this album:

How is this CD's content, Jeffrey? I'm curious about it.

[Symphonic Addict]

Bantock: Pagan Symphony [Handley]





This work is very atmospheric and quite dramatic and exciting in places. It is a musical story well presented. I like Bantock's scoring throughout the work with the exception of the solo violin voice in the second movement which comes across to me as being too weak. Otherwise wonderful scoring throughout. The conclusion is big, bold and dramatic.

I have to admit that I've come to love this work less and less. I consider that it lacks something, perhaps something like truly memorable tunes?

I do enjoy his orchestral colour and sense of drama in this work, though.

[Symphonic Addict]

This is arguably the second best of those Hyperion Bantock recordings.

Fixed. 

For me, and more for personal reasons, it is:

[SonicMan46]

Revisiting one of my purchases of the century.  As great as ever.

Todd - which century?    I've never heard of that Hinrichs recording but found a description quoted below on PrestoMusic (offering the CD there for about $16) - I do own the 8-CD Sequentia box added above but never thought of transcriptions of the music - cannot find the recording on Spotify otherwise I'd take a listen - for you, what's so special about the recording?  Would love to hear it - have always been a fan of Hildegard - one of those 12th century 'SuperStars' in my mind!  Dave

Marie-Luise Hinrichs has transcribed the songs of Hildegard von Bingen for piano. She writes: "I encountered Hildegard von Bingen for the first time in June 2005. I read the book Vision and was captivated by it. I immediately bought the songs, and a new dimension of music opened up to me". The CD also includes George Gurdjieff's Oriental piano music. (Source)

[Todd]

for you, what's so special about the recording?

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,26195.msg1049294.html#msg1049294

[Karl Henning]

CD 4

Symphony № 43 in E^b, « Mercury » Hob I:43
Symphony № 59 in A, « Fire » Hob I:59

[Todd]

[SonicMan46]

https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,26195.msg1049294.html#msg1049294

Thanks Todd for the link - missed it back then, sorry (too much to keep track of in this forum -  ) - looks like a nice complement to my Sequentia box.  Dave

[Todd]

Thanks Todd for the link - missed it back then, sorry (too much to keep track of in this forum -  ) - looks like a nice complement to my Sequentia box.  Dave

It is definitely a fantastic complement. 

[Symphonic Addict]

Ahmed Adnan Saygun's Symphony No. 3 
    Ari Rasilainen, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Another fascinating symphony from a very imaginative composer!

Indeed. CPO has made a huge contribution at recording this series.

[VonStupp]

Even more than the Mass in E-flat? Interesting.

Yes, I think so, although the E-flat is on such a grand scale compared to the simple beauty of this one in G. I liken it to Haydn's St. Nicholas Mass vs his late masses, or Mozart's Ave verum corpus vs. his Requiem or large scale Masses.

I guess I love both for different reasons. 

VS

[Karl Henning]

CD 18

All RVW
Symphony № 7, « Sinfonia antartica »
The Wasps—Overture
Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus," for Harp and String Orchestra
Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (arr, R, Greaves)

[JBS]

Yes, I'm afraid they have the whiff of the computer geek or librarian about them! They are fundamentally 'unnatural', whereas chronological catalogues feel much more 'natural'. Unfortunately, when you're dealing with the 1700s and your chronology depends on the watermarks of the paper he was using at the time, chronological catalogues are just begging to be periodically updated, making all your favourite catalogue numbers change

You can get bad thematic catalogues as well, of course. Bach's BWVs are pretty nasty: if you're going to do it thematically, at least have the sense not to let one thematic section butt-up against the next. One new cantata discovered at some point in the future, and your thematic-ness goes to pieces, or you have to kludge it into submission (with the use of alphabetic or numeric suffixes, so you end up with things like BWV 50b and so on)!

But anyway: there's no perfectly right way to do it. I just think thematic catalogues make more sense for pre-20th century composers than anything else. Life would be dull if we all agreed

Perhaps we need both kinds?
I think the chronological sort is useful as a guide to what else the composer was writing at that point in time (want to know what Mozart was doing around the time he did K. 415? Look at the works numbered 400-430) and at the development over time in a genre (Between the first four of Mozart's piano concertos and concerto number 5 there's a gap of over 200 Kochel numbers, so you know there are important differences to expect between concerto 4 and 5 even though they are consecutively numbered concertos, for example.)

TD
The 32 and last (for me) CD of the Saint Saens Warner Edition; 1950s era recordings of the Organ Symphony (Maurice Durufle as organist),  Suite Algerienne, Danse Macabre, and Phaeton.

I've decided to skip the actual last two CDs: historical recordings from the operas, and the 1946 recording of Samson et Dalilah. My taste for opera in mono has limits.

[vers la flamme]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K 527. Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus

Such a killer recording of a classic opera. Trying to start spending more time with Mozart's operas, because it's such damn fine music, but I revisit it so infrequently on account of their length.

[Todd]

[Symphonic Addict]

Kudos Naxos for continuing this splendid and so welcome series.





Scott: Piano Trio No. 2

As a first listen it was a pleasant and nice piece. Debussy instantly came to my mind, but it's not necessarily derivative.





Juon: Sinfonietta capricciosa

What an incredible piece, inventively, rhythmically, melodically and harmonicly curious. A delightful, witty and cheerful piece.