What are you listening 2 now?

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Arrangements - Volume 4 - Roderick Williams baritone, Mary Bevan soprano & Nicky Spence tenor with William Vann piano. This final volume consists mainly of 15 songs from Newfoundland.

[Todd]

Le Deluge.

[Traverso]

Mozart


Piano Sonatas KV 279,280,281 & KV 282

[Linz]

Wand The Radio Recordings Cd1 Mozart Haffner Serenades with 'Bella mia fiamma, addio - Resta, o cara' Recitative and Aria for Soprano Edith Wiens

[Karl Henning]

So, I do always enjoy the c minor Symphony when I listen to it (of course) but it's not a piece of which I ever think, "that's exactly what I want to listen to now." Obviously that's no actual "criticism" of the music, but only lays out why the change-up from the Bach really works for my ears. YMMV.

On the other hand, I'm always game for the e minor Symphony:

CD 60

Brahms
Symphony № 1 in e minor, Op. 98
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Vars on St Anthony's Chorale, Op. 56a

[vandermolen]

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.

Received it today Danny - glad you like it.

TD
Vaughan Williams Flos Campi (or 'Camp Flossie' as he sometimes called it). Best performance on disc IMO:

[SonicMan46]

Hummel, Johann (1778-1837) - Piano Chamber Works; Quintets mixed w/ other composers of the era - prolific composer (LIST); fortepianos used in three of the recordings - reviews attached for those interested.  Dave

Johann Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Mozart, Salieri, Clementi, and Haydn. He was also friends with Beethoven and Schubert. (Source)

     

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony 8 Furtwangler 1954 Wiener Philharmoniker

[Roasted Swan]

Perlman is one of those violinists who was so ubiquitous back in his 'pomp' that it is easy (and quite) lazy!) now to look back and take his recorded lagacy for granted. 



I picked this disc up as another 99p Charity Shop bargain for not much of a better reason than it was cheap ( I really don't need another version of the Korngold I thought....).  But this is stupendous playing.  Possibly even more so in the Goldmark than the Korngold.  Goodness knows how much time and effort went into learning the Goldmark which is brain-spinningly hard.  By my reckoning after the famous (and extraordinary) Heifetz recording of the Korngold the next was Ulf Hoelscher in 1974 so when Perlman did this in 1981 it was very much the first time in literally decades a famous international soloist deigned to learn the Korngold.  This was quite a breakthrough and a valuable part of the rehabilitation of the composer.  Previn is of course super sensitive in this style of music.  The Pittsburgh SO are not a patch on where they are today with Honeck but this is still a fine disc all round.  This prompts me to dig out more of my Perlman recordings and learn to love him all over again.

[vandermolen]

Perlman is one of those violinists who was so ubiquitous back in his 'pomp' that it is easy (and quite) lazy!) now to look back and take his recorded lagacy for granted. 



I picked this disc up as another 99p Charity Shop bargain for not much of a better reason than it was cheap ( I really don't need another version of the Korngold I thought....).  But this is stupendous playing.  Possibly even more so in the Goldmark than the Korngold.  Goodness knows how much time and effort went into learning the Goldmark which is brain-spinningly hard.  By my reckoning after the famous (and extraordinary) Heifetz recording of the Korngold the next was Ulf Hoelscher in 1974 so when Perlman did this in 1981 it was very much the first time in literally decades a famous international soloist deigned to learn the Korngold.  This was quite a breakthrough and a valuable part of the rehabilitation of the composer.  Previn is of course super sensitive in this style of music.  The Pittsburgh SO are not a patch on where they are today with Honeck but this is still a fine disc all round.  This prompts me to dig out more of my Perlman recordings and learn to love him all over again.

A great bargain!

[vandermolen]

Fantasia on the Old 104th Psalm Tune - one of my very favourite works by Vaughan Williams:

[Karl Henning]

Oh, yes: recent mention of this prompted me to choose it for today's PT session. It was a hit, and quite possibly a First Listen (for Friday):

Tubin
Symphony № 2 in b minor, « Legendary » (1937)

[Karl Henning]

Fantasia on the Old 104th Psalm Tune - one of my very favourite works by Vaughan Williams:

I remember enjoying it, but I cannot remember a note of it. Time to listen again, I expect.

[Mandryka]

Mozart PC 27, Lupu and Muti. It's excellent, I can't remember hearing anything by Muti as good  (that may be my bad memory of course, I'm hardly a Muti expert), and Lupu exudes the feeling that he's at ease with the music, glad to be performing there. There are a lot of Mozart concerto recordings by Lupu which have never been commercially released. I bet that he was an outstanding Mozartian.

[vandermolen]

I remember enjoying it, but I cannot remember a note of it. Time to listen again, I expect.

It's one of those late, craggy works which really appeal to me Karl. My brother says that the opening always reminded him of the children's record 'Sparky's Magic Piano'! I first came across it in my wide-eyed early enthusiasm for Vaughan Williams and maybe it is this association which has stayed with me. It was originally coupled with Boult's EMI recording of Symphony No.9. I wrote to the pianist Peter Katin about it. He said that it was very difficult to play.

[vandermolen]

Tilman Sillescu: Symphony No.1 'Nightlights' (2020)
An endearingly approachable and atmospheric symphony.
Reminded me of Leonard Bernstein in places.

[vandermolen]

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.

Very much my opinion too Danny.

[vandermolen]

NP:

Glazunov
Symphony No. 7 in F major, Op. 77, "Pastoral"
USSR Ministry of Culture SO
Rozhdestvensky

From this set -



This is the symphony that finally turned me onto Glazunov's sound-world. Absolute magic from start to finish.

+1

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

SÁNDOR BALASSA: Pecs Concerto.

[Linz]

Neeme Jarvi BrucknerSymphony 5