What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven - Symphony No.5 (Giulini / LA PO)

[aligreto]

Prokofiev: Russian Overture [Weller]





This is my first time hearing this work.

This work reminds me of ballet music. It is storytelling, to my ear, and I think that the story is well told. The quality of the orchestration helps greatly with this. There is great energy in the performance.

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven - Symphony No.6 (Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Deutsche Radio Philarmonie)

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony 5 with Gerd Schaller from this set

[Roasted Swan]

Beethoven - Symphony No.6 (Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Deutsche Radio Philarmonie)

That's a GREAT box!

[vandermolen]

Prokofiev: Russian Overture [Weller]





This is my first time hearing this work.

This work reminds me of ballet music. It is storytelling, to my ear, and I think that the story is well told. The quality of the orchestration helps greatly with this. There is great energy in the performance.

Count me in as a fan of the Russian Overture and Weller's performance is very strong.

[Linz]

Disc 3 of the Frémaux Icon set with Massenet and Bizet

[VonStupp]

JS Bach
Brandenburg Concerto 5, BWV 1050

Cornelia Grohmann - flute, Sebastian Breuninger - violin
Michael Schönheit - harpsichord
Gewandhaus - Riccardo Chailly

Schönheit is a standout here!

VS

[Todd]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel with John Shirley-Quirk on a mono Saga LP.

What a voice!  Love it!

As as aside, looking again at the cover, it looks like he was quite young when he sang them--maybe twenties or early thirties (hard for me to tell).

Now on Side Two. 

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5 
    John Barbirolli, The Philharmonia Orchestra

Probably my favourite RVW symphony (though the 8th runs it close!)

Love that symphony!   

PD

[André]

A fine version of the 3rd, excellently played - great trombone solos in the first movement, sweet strings in the last - maybe missing an ounce of rusticity. Favourites are Swarowsky, Rögner, Haitink RCOA, Macal, Bernstein NYPO and Salonen. The latter adopts a sleek, very refined tone like Nagano. Excellent engineering (1999, Berlin Philharmonie).

[kyjo]

The one who must not be mentioned?

[kyjo]

Howard Hanson: Sinfonia Sacra

A wonder of concision, this symphony!

[Iota]

Malcolm Arnold: Cello Concerto
Raphael Wallfisch (cello), NCO, Nicholas Ward (cond.)


Thus far I've never found Arnold less than interesting/intriguing and likeable, and so it remains with this cello concerto. Whether serious or light, his music seems always full of ideas and integrity, and very easy to spend time with.

Dabblings in neoclassical quirkiness in the first movement, elegiac heartstring tugs in the second, and a child running round in a garden exploring its Florestan and Eusebius sides in the third, all offered up with an uncluttered breezy, ease. Very enjoyable.

[aligreto]

Glazunov: Symphony No. 4 [Serebrier]





The poignant opening of the first movement is dreamlike and haunting. It is a marvellous piece of writing. The intensity swells as the strings take up the theme. The music in the movement is lyrical and expansive and I like the scoring throughout. The Scherzo is wonderfully light and breezy. It has a vibrant tone to it. The Trio section is charming. The final movement opens in a meditative mood but soon picks up both in terms of tone and tempo. Once again the scoring is beguiling which augments the charm of the tone of the music. The music in this movement is as lyrical and as expansive as that in the opening movement. The scoring for both the brass and the woodwinds plays a significant part in the texture of the music. The music is always well driven and delivered here.

[aligreto]

Count me in as a fan of the Russian Overture and Weller's performance is very strong.

Yes, I liked that work and performance, Jeffrey.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Bacewicz
Symphony for Strings
Capella Bydgostiensis
Mariusz Smolij

[Linz]

Mozarts Requiem with Roger Norrington

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Penderecki
Sextet
Bruno Pasquier (viola), Michel Lethiec (clarinet), Regis Pasquier (violin)
Arto Noras (cello), Markus Maskuniitty (horn), Juhani Lagerspetz (piano)