What are you listening 2 now?

[Operafreak]

Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos- Johan Dalene (violin)

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds

[Madiel]

Cras: String Trio

Exotic flavour aplenty. How not to adore this!

I'll have to try the actual music, but I love the cover! 

[foxandpeng]

Interesting good? Or interesting bad?
Only asking because I love this work.

Interesting 'good', I believe. I have only listened once, but both symphonies 1 and 2 were enjoyable. I think I enjoyed 2 more. Now listening to 3, which is probably 3rd in my initial preferences.

John Corigliano
Symphony 3 'Circus Maximus'
Jerry Junkin
University of Texas Wind Ensemble
Naxos

[Harry]

The Leiden Choir Books.

Volume I-CD 2.

Nicolas Gombert.
Missa Beati Omnes.

Anonymus.
Missa Sancta Maria.

Egidius Kwartet & College.

This performance and recording need no praise, it is praise in itself.

[vandermolen]

I'll have to try the actual music, but I love the cover! 

I really like the music.

[vandermolen]

Rawsthorne: 'Symphonic Studies' Rawsthorne's masterpiece I think in a fine, urgent, historic performance with Constant Lambert conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra:

[Operafreak]

Strauss, Debussy and Ligeti/ Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Jonathan Nott

[foxandpeng]

Vagn Holmboe
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 1
Owain Arwel Hughes
Aarhus SO
BIS

COVID *check*
Bed *check*
Hot drink *check*
Intermittent cat *check*
Window to watch the rain *check*
Sonos to keep the music coming *check*

[aligreto]

Janacek:





On An Overgrown Path played by Paul Crossley

[aligreto]

Vagn Holmboe
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 1
Owain Arwel Hughes
Aarhus SO
BIS

COVID *check*
Bed *check*
Hot drink *check*
Intermittent cat *check*
Window to watch the rain *check*
Sonos to keep the music coming *check*

Get well soon and I hope that you only get "mild" symptoms.

[Florestan]

Yesterday night I thought It'd be nice to have a gentle, genial and relaxed Schubertiade as a stress-reliever. So I started with this:



My German is extremely rudimentary, beside the title and a few words or combination of words here and there I understand nothing without the help of a translation --- yet it's rarely that I listen to German Lieder booklet in hand. I just wallow in the sound and treat the voice(s) as just another instrument. In this case it worked wonderfully. A great beginning.

And then...

...then I spinned this for the first time:



Eight punches in my stomach on a row! I have never ever heard them played like that. These muscular, powerful, heavy, dark, uncompromisingly soulful, un-poetic, un-lyrical, dirge-like through and through (feellings enhanced by Leonskaja's observing all the repeats all the time) performances would not be out of place amidst the ruins of Mariupol or besides a mass grave in Bucha or Berdyanka...

My evening was ruined, my mood darkened considerably and it took me quite a while before getting asleep.

No, really, Schubert's Impromptus might not be the happiest music in the world but until yesterday I had no idea they can be among the darkest pieces of music in the world.

I think tonight I'm gping to get me some Chopin waltzes.

[Harry]

Zygmunt Stojowiski.

Symphony in D minor.
Suite for Orchestra in E flat major.
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Antoni Wit.

Is already a favorite in my collection.

[foxandpeng]

Get well soon and I hope that you only get "mild" symptoms.

Thank you 🙂. It seems far less potent than the last bout I had in 2020, but still enough flu-like symptoms to need a couple of days rest.

[DavidW]

Bruckner's 4th Jochum

[vandermolen]

Vagn Holmboe
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 1
Owain Arwel Hughes
Aarhus SO
BIS

COVID *check*
Bed *check*
Hot drink *check*
Intermittent cat *check*
Window to watch the rain *check*
Sonos to keep the music coming *check*

Sorry to hear this Danny - trust that you will feel better soon.

TD Wiren: Symphony No.4 (my favourite of his symphonies)

[Florestan]

Patriarch Kirill is a member of the Putin clan, and gets his funds from him. On his foreign bank account is enough money to count him 5 times miljardair. One guess where this money comes from.
His is not a Christian but a puppet from Putin, one of many.

He is a former KGB agent, just like Putin himself, and incidentally just like his (Kyrill's) predecessor, Alexei.

[Florestan]

Get well soon and I hope that you only get "mild" symptoms.

+ 1.

[Traverso]

Get well soon and I hope that you only get "mild" symptoms.

+1

[aligreto]

Bax: Northern Ballad No. 2 [Handley]

[aligreto]

Thank you 🙂. It seems far less potent than the last bout I had in 2020, but still enough flu-like symptoms to need a couple of days rest.

OK, a good excuse then to lie there and listen to lots of music to aid the recovery process