What are you listening 2 now?

[steve ridgway]

Ives Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting", 1910.



This is more to my liking than 1 and 2.

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The Age of Anxiety, Bernstein. Kitayenko.

Looks like an interesting collection DBK!

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Ives Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting", 1910.



This is more to my liking than 1 and 2.

It's my favourite Ives symphony.

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NP:

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 6 in E minor
LSO
Thomson



I find this to be an even better performance than Boult's on EMI. The turbulence is handled with aplomb and all of the shifting moods are brilliantly executed. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I do rather like Berglund's on EMI as well. These would probably be my two favorite performances overall.

Tend to agree with you John. Berglund's is terrific as well. The historic Boult on Decca is very special to me however - especially with the composer's recorded vote of thanks to Boult and the orchestra ('including the lady harpist') at the end.

[Que]

Morning listening:

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I've been listening to a bit of Vaughan Williams, outside of the symphonies.

The Partita for two string Orchestras, Boult, LPO



The String Quartet No 2, Maggini



The string Quartet is a marvelous work, especially the luminous second movement. The partita for string orchestra, didn't make a strong an impression. It is the first time I have listened to the work, so it deserves a revisit.

Both fine works IMO.

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A searingly intense work! There's even some rather avant-garde techniques (like string glissandi) incorporated into the overall traditional musical language at some points.

Thanks Kyle. I'd forgotten quite how good it is. I've listened to it several times (Marco Polo version) over the past couple of days. I'm glad that you think highly of it. It has a power and urgency very much reflective of its time (occupied Belgium 1943) and of Sternefeld's personal circumstances (Jewish and in hiding).

[Operafreak]

[Harry]

Hans Leo Hassler.
Complete Organ Music.
CD IV.

Manuel Tomadin plays on a B. Malamini organ, (1580) at the San Procolo Church in Bologna.
Pitch:= 440 Hz at 18 degrees.
Temperament:  Mesotonic 1/5 comma.

I now finally realized that performance and interpretation of this recording is excellent, but what is ailing in all the 11 CD'S is the sound. It is recorded on a much too high level, with some stress on the upper voices. As a whole it makes listening tiring to ears and mind. It is a pity, for the organs used are all historical, apart from the Zanin from 1999, but even that in sound can be considered old. Some of these organs I have heard live when on holiday in Italy aeons ago, but I still have vivid memories of how I enjoyed listening to them. The Malamini instrument was one of them.

[Florestan]

[Harry]

CPE Bach.

Concertos for Organ and Strings.
CD II.

Orchestre Auvergne, Arie van Beek.
Olivier Vernet plays on a Bernard Aubertin organ, 1991.
Pitch: A= 440 Hz.
Temperament: Kirnberger III.


As to the organ, the sound is good, the orchestra added is a ton of echo, and gives a funny sensation to the ears. As to the necessity to have these works on CD, I'd say not really. Pleasant but forgettable.

[Florestan]

[Maestro267]

Slowly resuming my Myaskovsky cycle after stopping a few months ago.

Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 16
RFASO/Svetlanov

[Harry]

Slowly resuming my Myaskovsky cycle after stopping a few months ago.

Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 16
RFASO/Svetlanov

Well its rather a tall order, I managed to play this set 3 times complete but with long intervals I might add. The music is of course superb.

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Slowly resuming my Myaskovsky cycle after stopping a few months ago.

Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 16
RFASO/Svetlanov

No.16 has a wonderful, funereal, slow movement influenced by the 'Maxim Gorky Aircraft Disaster'.

On the subject of disasters - now playing:
Vaughan Williams - Sinfonia Antartica (LPO/Boult)

[Roasted Swan]

Cechova is excellent in this repertoire and as part of the Smetana Trio - I buy most of her recordings when I can!

[Florestan]

Cechova is excellent in this repertoire and as part of the Smetana Trio - I buy most of her recordings when I can!

Yes, excellent performance and the music itself is superb, too. I am familiar with some of it thanks to Garrick Ohlsson's and Andras Schiff's selections, but to have it all on Chechova's seven-CD series is even better.

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VW: Symphony No.8 LPO/Boult. This was the only stereo release from the original Boult cycle on Decca (picture as above).

[Florestan]

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Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3
    Jerzy Swobodo, Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Zofia Kilanowicz (soprano)

A very good performance.