What are you listening 2 now?

[TheGSMoeller]

Whaddaya say, Greg?

Hey, Karl.
I say this is a great piece, with a typical Solti/CSO-powerhouse of a performance. A little bombastic at times but the dramatic nature of the story calls for it. I've really been enjoying Liszt more these past few years, especially his orchestral music, even though he is a bit uneven in this genre. His Dante and Faust Symphonies have become two of my favorite Romantic-era orchestral works.

[TheGSMoeller]

TD: A little morning music...Corigliano Symphony 1

[Florestan]

Handl-Gallus

I love to listen to Handl-Gallus' "Moralia". However, you are startled when you look at the lyrics, they are of a narrow nature and a textbook example of how the Church has oppressed the people with the promise of pleasing the Supreme Being. I Give here an example which I hope needs no further explanation.

That second one sounds like a quote from Jimmy Savile.

Well, it's actually a quote from Thomas More, one of his Latin epigrams. If the booklet says "Source: unkown" than whoever wrote it has no business writing them anymore, his education is rudimentary to say the least.

[foxandpeng]

Laszlo Lajtha
Symphonies 8 & 9
Nicolas Pasquet
Pecs SO

Positive first canter through these Lajtha symphonies. They are all very new to me, still, but bear further attention, I think.

[Karl Henning]

Hey, Karl.
I say this is a great piece, with a typical Solti/CSO-powerhouse of a performance. A little bombastic at times but the dramatic nature of the story calls for it. I've really been enjoying Liszt more these past few years, especially his orchestral music, even though he is a bit uneven in this genre. His Dante and Faust Symphonies have become two of my favorite Romantic-era orchestral works.

Very good.

TD:

CD 54

Sibelius
Symphony № 5 in in E^b, Op. 82
Symphony № 7 in C, Op. 105

CD 83

"Papa"
String Quartet in E^b, Op. 9 № 2
String Quartet in B^b, Op. 9 № 5
String Quartet in A, Op. 9 № 6

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Turkish Folk Songs Accompanied by Orchestra. Simsek/Budapest SO.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Following interest shown on the forum I thought that I should hear this again.
Vladigerov: Symphony No.1 (1939)
- a fine, heroic crash-bang-wallop symphony. I was reminded of Korngold's Symphony in places:

Nice symphony, Jeffrey!

[aligreto]

Bantock: Cello Sonata in B minor [Fuller/Dussek]:





This is a terrific work and it was a wonderful discovery for me. The opening movement is marked by passion and intensity. It is exciting and dramatic and the two instrumentalists create a sound world greater than their individual contributing parts. This is a tour de force performance! The second, slow movement is intensely atmospheric. Both the music and its performance have a great presence. Its intensity has great appeal. The animated third movement flits about and it is very engaging. The final movement is atmospheric. It is somewhat dark hued but always very engaging. This is my first time hearing this work and the two instrumentalists here present the work very well indeed.

[aligreto]

The Clarinet,a French one with a German mouthpiece.I have also a Traverso that I start playing just for the Bach sonatas and partita.It is a copy of an Italian Palanca.A few months ago I sold my Contreras guitar.
To answer the question of Fergus,I'm afraid too well hidden.....

Impressive looking instruments, Jan. 

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Villa-Lobos
Rudá, "Dio d'amore"
Slovak RSO
Duarte



This Villa-Lobos Duarte series on Marco Polo was remarkable in that the performances maintained a high standard and the audio quality is excellent. I'm seriously surprised that Naxos hasn't reissued this series. There were four volumes in all.

Aside from the album pictured above:

[Que]

Good morning all,

Continuing this Concerto Köln series:

Various symphonies by Anton Eberl



What a joyful boxset.

It is indeed! 


Thread duty - on Spotify:

[71 dB]

I have been listening to Granados' Goyescas.

A work I haven't listened to enough in my life. I have two recordings of it, both very fine in my opinion: Douglas Riva on Naxos and Alicia de Larrocha on Decca.

[Papy Oli]

Dvorak - Mass in D

Streaming from a Brilliant boxset of his choral music.

A first listen.

[Bachtoven]

The title refers to Scriabin's 9th Piano Sonata, which they play in a transcription for string quartet. It also includes works by Arthur Lourié, Christoph Staude, and Ivan Wyschnegradsky. It's all rather dark and sometimes rather abrasive, but I liked it. Great playing and sound.

[Karl Henning]

Dvorak - Mass in D

Streaming from a Brilliant boxset of his choral music.

A first listen.

Nice!

Tangentially, I just HAD to listen again to Haydn's Harmoniemesse in B-flat

[kyjo]

Taneyev: Suite de concert, for violin and orchestra

Extraordinary music! For those who believe that Taneyev was a strictly "academic" composer, this work could turn out to be a great surprise.

+1! Taneyev may have been a bit of an uneven composer (I do find that the "academic" label does at least partly apply to his string quartets, for example), when he really "let his hair down" in works like the Suite de concert, 4th Symphony, Oresteia Overture, Piano Quartet, and Piano Quintet, he could be as exciting and engaging as any other of the Russian Romantics. (I know Andrei will disagree. )

[kyjo]

Bacewicz is a terrific composer in my book. Yes, the 2nd PQ is a darker and more brooding piece, but not for that less engaging.

Also try her SQs when you can. Great, great music.

Regarding Bacewicz, I'm deeply surprised that no one has gotten around to recording her four symphonies, given the recent surge of interest in female composers. I'm holding my breath....

[Harry]

Jean Sibelius.
Symphony No. 1, in E minor.
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä.

A new Sibelius cycle, so I was curious.

[Papy Oli]

Nice!

So it appears to be, Karl 

[Florestan]

+1! Taneyev may have been a bit of an uneven composer (I do find that the "academic" label does at least partly apply to his string quartets, for example), when he really "let his hair down" in works like the Suite de concert, 4th Symphony, Oresteia Overture, Piano Quartet, and Piano Quintet, he could be as exciting and engaging as any other of the Russian Romantics. (I know Andrei will disagree. )

I disagree (only to not let you down, not because I remember much about Taneyev's works I heard).