What are you listening 2 now?

[Operafreak]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor- Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

[Que]

That's on my list too.! Good morning Que!

Morning! 



Disc 12 starts off with several pieces by John Bull, but then switches to a bunch of other composers: Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Warrock, Galeazzo, Martin Peerson, Robert Parsons, Robert Johnson, William Tisdale, William Inglott, John Marchant, Jehan Oystermayre, Thomas Oldfield and Wiliam Blitheman.

[Biffo]

Family circumstances have meant that I've had to miss RVW #9 this evening in Manchester  performed by the Halle Orchestra. I am a sad fox.

Playing this now as a compensation.

Who was the conductor of the Halle concert you sadly missed? Sir Mark Elder has been working his way through the symphonies and (eventually) they have been released on the Halle's own label.

[foxandpeng]

Who was the conductor of the Halle concert you sadly missed? Sir Mark Elder has been working his way through the symphonies and (eventually) they have been released on the Halle's own label.

Last night was John Wilson. Saturday 30th April is Mark Elder with #6 and #1, and then again on 12 May for #8. I confess that although RVW is probably my favourite symphonist (certainly my favourite Brit), I will give the Sea Symphony performance a miss because choral works leave me cold in 90% of cases.

[foxandpeng]

Leif Segerstam
Symphonies 81, 162 & 181
Leif Segerstam
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ondine

First listen to this. I can't imagine that such a huge output has any sort of consistency or meaningful quality. I guess you only need to hit a few home runs to be remembered, but better to have a good editor to stop the good from getting lost in the rest?

#81 is ok so far.... I'm trying to keep an open mind and not pre-judge.

[Madiel]

Leif Segerstam
Symphonies 81, 162 & 181
Leif Segerstam
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Ondine

First listen to this. I can't imagine that such a huge output has any sort of consistency or meaningful quality. I guess you only need to hit a few home runs to be remembered, but better to have a good editor to stop the good from getting lost in the rest?

#81 is ok so far.... I'm trying to keep an open mind and not pre-judge.

Haydn called.

[Traverso]

Mahler


Symphony No.4

[Biffo]

Last night was John Wilson. Saturday 30th April is Mark Elder with #6 and #1, and then again on 12 May for #8. I confess that although RVW is probably my favourite symphonist (certainly my favourite Brit), I will give the Sea Symphony performance a miss because choral works leave me cold in 90% of cases.

Many thanks for the information, hopefully a recording of No 9 from Elder will eventually appear. I have to be in a special mood for the Sea Symphony but Elder is my favourite recording when I am.
Just been listening to Haydn: Symphony No 103 in E flat major Drum Roll - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner - my second-favourite Haydn symphony (after the Military )

[Harry]

Antonio Bazzini.

Calabrese, opus 34, No. 6.
Trois Morceaux lyriques, opus 41.
Le Carillon d' Arras, opus 36.
Deux Morceaux de Salon, opus 12.
Deux Grand Etudes, opus 49.
Trois Morceaux en Forme de Sonate, opus 44.
La Ronde des Lutins, opus 25.

Chloe Hanslip, Violin & Caspar Frantz, Piano.

This is really a wonderful CD, with music that charms and make a huge impression. Bazzini was a violin virtuoso, and this you hear. The performance and recording leaves no wish unfulfilled. It brighten up ones day considerably.

[foxandpeng]

Fortunately this concert (VW #9 + Planets) is available to listen/download from BBC Radio 3.

Going to see Vassily Petrenko conduct #2 next week.

Thank you. I wondered whether it might be broadcast. Not quite the same as the concert experience, but worth tuning in, without a doubt.

Ah, now that does make me envious.

Many thanks for the information, hopefully a recording of No 9 from Elder will eventually appear. I have to be in a special mood for the Sea Symphony but Elder is my favourite recording when I am.
Just been listening to Haydn: Symphony No 103 in E flat major Drum Roll - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner - my second-favourite Haydn symphony (after the Military )

Haydn called.

I await an Elder #9 with interest, also.

Haydn. You probably have to be a rare talent to deliver the quantity of well-loved work that he produced, which may or may not be the case with Segerstam. Loved his symphonies when I was first discovering classical music, but kind of lost my way with them after a while. They became a bit, well... wallpaper-y for my tastes. I appreciate that the lack is mine, and that I should revisit.

[Madiel]

During the day, with headphones:



This evening, also with headphones for fairness:

[Traverso]

The Magic of Polyphony


CD 3

[Operafreak]

Mahler 8 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Sir Georg Solti

[Mandryka]

I started listening to Wolf again because, listening to some Göthe songs by Rihm, I said to myself, « This could have been written by Wolf or Webern or Eisler! » Well, obviously that's wrong about the Wolf, because he's a composer from a long long time ago, and it shows, there's a side of his music which has one foot well and truly in the world of functional harmony. But still, there's an intimation of something which transcends that constraint, it feels to me more so than in Wagner or Busoni.

This complete Wolf series is worth a listen in the Mörike settings I'd say. At least, I don't find any of the voices a tremendous problem, sometimes the opposite of that in fact, and it exudes commitment. Revealing because there's more Mörike songs than I had ever known about.

[Harry]

Johann Christian Bach.

Six Symphonies, Forster, opus 18.

The Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead.

These Halstead performances still belong to the best in regards to Johann Christian Bach. For me these recordings are still pointing out the road.

[foxandpeng]

Tilman Sillescu
Symphony No.1 'Nachtlichter (Night Lights)'
Christian Frank
Staatskapelle Weimar
Genuin
Via Spotify as usual


Recommended by Jeffrey (Vandermolen) in the Purchases thread, which is always a positive sign. The MusicWeb review encourages blind listening to this so as to put aside any preconceptions about the composer's other work (either positive or negative, I guess). I don't know his other work, so no problem for me.

I like it. Good, solid, contemporary classical music with some filmic qualities.

[Todd]

Wrapping up with the last disc.  Some type of shootout with some other Top 10/20 cycles is definitely warranted at some point.

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: The house of Life - song cycle - Nicky Spence tenor and Julius Drake piano

[DavidW]

[Karl Henning]

Cracking this box open:

CD 1
JSB
Harpsichord Cto in E, BWV 1053
Harpsichord Cto in D, BWV 1054
Harpsichord Cto in A, BWV 1055
Cto for fl/vn/hpschd in a minor, BWV 1044

Enjoyed this thoroughly, and it has rather set me up for some more J.B. led by J.B.:

CD 59
Brahms
Symphony № 1 in c minor, Op. 68
Tragic Overture, Op. 81