What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Nielsen Symphonies 1 and 3 with Sakari Oramo

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NP:

Villa-Lobos
String Quartets Nos. 2, 12 & 16
Cuarteto Latinoamericano

[Cato]

Greetings!

Life has become more complicated in the last months, and so I have not been able to do much here!  (Perhaps someone noticed?    )

Anyway, I have a few spare minutes now!  And so, in recent weeks, some things of interest:



Two works which death prevented Scriabin from composing, so Szymanowski took up the task with marvelous results!      Hooray for Pierre Boulez for promoting these works!


Classic Penderecki:




I had not heard this perhaps since high school:





Sergei Taneyev!  More of a tone-poem perhaps than an overture,but...a marvelous work!


https://www.youtube.com/v/7yKmt03X5ZQ


Based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death: Nicolai Tcherepnin's Le Destin!


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


Bruckner's Symphony #2 Originalfassung: WOW!


https://www.youtube.com/v/vlnzNsueyX4&t=1237s

[Symphonic Addict]

Klami: Karelian Rhapsody
Scott: Neptune



Both great works, but the Klami is a corker!

[Symphonic Addict]

Greetings!

Life has become more complicated in the last months, and so I have not been able to do much here!  (Perhaps someone noticed?    )

Anyway, I have a few spare minutes now!  And so, in recent weeks, some things of interest:



Two works which death prevented Scriabin from composing, so Szymanowski took up the task with marvelous results!      Hooray for Pierre Boulez for promoting these works!


Classic Penderecki:




I had not heard this perhaps since high school:





Sergei Taneyev!  More of a tone-poem perhaps than an overture,but...a marvelous work!


https://www.youtube.com/v/7yKmt03X5ZQ


Based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death: Nicolai Tcherepnin's Le Destin!


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


Bruckner's Symphony #2 Originalfassung: WOW!


https://www.youtube.com/v/vlnzNsueyX4&t=1237s

Great selection of works! I don't know the Tcherepnin yet.

[foxandpeng]

Avet Terterian
Symphonies 7 & 8
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra

These are really interesting words with ominous and tense written all over them. My only criticism is the ridiculous difference in volume between quiet and loud passages, which makes it difficult to set a sensible listening level. A bit like some of the recordings of the Kancheli symphonies.

[Mirror Image]

Greetings!

Life has become more complicated in the last months, and so I have not been able to do much here!  (Perhaps someone noticed?    )

Anyway, I have a few spare minutes now!  And so, in recent weeks, some things of interest:



Two works which death prevented Scriabin from composing, so Szymanowski took up the task with marvelous results!      Hooray for Pierre Boulez for promoting these works!


Classic Penderecki:




I had not heard this perhaps since high school:





Sergei Taneyev!  More of a tone-poem perhaps than an overture,but...a marvelous work!


https://www.youtube.com/v/7yKmt03X5ZQ


Based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death: Nicolai Tcherepnin's Le Destin!


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


Bruckner's Symphony #2 Originalfassung: WOW!


https://www.youtube.com/v/vlnzNsueyX4&t=1237s

Hey, Cato! Good to see you and I do hope that everything gets better for you. Szymanowski is long-standing favorite of mine and, while I applaud Boulez for taking up the mantle, there are better performances of these works to be found elsewhere. Do check out the Rattle, Wit and Kord recordings. Kaspszyk also has some wonderful recordings on various labels (EMI, Warner Classics). Also, since you seemed to have responded rather positively to this composer's music, I also highly suggest the solo piano works, chamber music and Król Roger, which is one of my favorite operas of all-time.

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NP:

Saint-Saëns
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75
Ayako Tanaka - violin, Laurent Wagschal - piano

Violin Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 102
Pierre Fouchenneret - violin, Laurent Wagschal - piano

From this new acquisition -

[Todd]

[Klavier1]

[Symphonic Addict]

A real stunner!

[Symphonic Addict]

NP:

Saint-Saëns
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75
Ayako Tanaka - violin, Laurent Wagschal - piano

Violin Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 102
Pierre Fouchenneret - violin, Laurent Wagschal - piano

From this new acquisition -

A solid set IMO. I remember being quite delighted by what I've heard there so far.

[Klavier1]

[Symphonic Addict]

Pfitzner: Piano Trio, Op. 8
Braunfels: Sinfonia brevis



Magnificent pieces.

[Operafreak]

Walton: Cello Concerto & Strauss: Don Quixote

Zuill Bailey (cello), North Carolina Symphony, Grant Llewellyn

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A solid set IMO. I remember being quite delighted by what I've heard there so far.

Yes, I'm rather enjoying it I must say.

Now playing this entire recording: Saint-Saëns' Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 from Bertrand Chamayou with Emmanuel Krivine conducting the Orchestre National de France plus solo piano pieces -



I only ask why hasn't Chamayou recorded the rest of the PCs? This is damn good.

[Madiel]

Pejacevic, Piano Quartet



There was room on this 2-disc set for another work, and I seem to remember there's one chamber work that doesn't appear on any of the CPO series. But what we do get is highly enjoyable.

[steve ridgway]

Webern's Richard Dehmel songs are very good I think.

Oh yes, I've culled his earlier songs and find this style from 1908 onwards much more enjoyable.

[vandermolen]

Klami: Karelian Rhapsody
Scott: Neptune



Both great works, but the Klami is a corker!

Scott's 'Neptune', along with PC No.1, is my favourite of his compositions.

[Que]

Morning listening:



A few drawbacks here. Unlike with their more recent recordings, you can tell it is a live recording.
Half of the musical content overlaps with the earlier (studio) recording Utopia triumphans.