What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Neeme Jarvi BrucknerSymphony 5

[Symphonic Addict]

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)

Good to know, Karl! A broodingly atmospheric and menacing piece. Which performance?

[Symphonic Addict]

Respighi: Vetrate di Chiesa (Chuch Windows)

I could save the first three movements, but San Gregorio Magno just doesn't sound great at all! It lacks much more punch, timpani, biblical spirit, grandeur. Terribly underwhelming.

[vandermolen]

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)

A fabulous score and my introduction to Tubin.

[Karl Henning]

Good to know, Karl! A broodingly atmospheric and menacing piece. Which performance?

Järvi/Swedish Radio, Cesar.
TD:

Malipiero
Sinfonia del mare (1906)

Even this early work, I enjoy very much

[Mandryka]

Lupu Schubert D959 in Kanagawa Japan in 2013. Inspired music making, I'm tempted to use words like "profound", a rather different conception of the music than the studio recording. IMO considerably more interesting than the commercial performance. However this is an audience recording with all the inevitable consequences for sound quality.

I'm starting to see why piano people admired Lupu so much. He was outstanding in the live event.

[Linz]

Cd 3 of this Karajan Set Mozart Mass in C major. K 317 Corination
Bruckner Te Deum

[classicalgeek]

Respighi: Vetrate di Chiesa (Chuch Windows)

I could save the first three movements, but San Gregorio Magno just doesn't sound great at all! It lacks much more punch, timpani, biblical spirit, grandeur. Terribly underwhelming.

Good to know about that performance, Cesar. Falletta and Buffalo have been inconsistent for me - their recordings of Schmitt and, more recently Novak, have missed the mark. But I've sampled their Roman Trilogy and Il'ya Muromets Symphony, and they're excellent! I've been very impressed with Geoffrey Simon on Chandos (the recordings are almost 40 years old and more than hold their own!), and I eventually want to collect Neschling's Respighi on BIS; I've read good things about that cycle too!

TD: confirming I do, in fact, like Braga Santos!

Symphony no. 2
Crossroads (Encruzhilada)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Alvaro Cassuto



Complete chamber music, Volume 3
various artists
(both on Qobuz)



Braga Santos is definitely a composer whose style evolved throughout his career, and you can hear it on both of these discs. The chamber music disc in particular spans his entire career; this disc is a collection of miniatures, and they're all charming (with the exception of some iffy intonation by the violinist in the Nocturno). And of course the orchestral works are both excellent; I especially liked the ballet Crossroads, part of his more neoclassical phase (I caught hints of Roussel, although Braga Santos is very much his own voice.) The Second Symphony is in his earlier, more modal (and lushly orchestrated) style, but it's no less alluring. I'd love to follow along to any of his pieces with a full score; unfortunately, his scores are all but impossible to find.

[foxandpeng]

Very much my opinion too Danny.

Winner. Thanks for the recommendation yet again!

[Symphonic Addict]

Järvi/Swedish Radio, Cesar.
TD:

Malipiero
Sinfonia del mare (1906)

Even this early work, I enjoy very much

Thanks, Karl. A scorching performance!

[Symphonic Addict]

+1 My favorite work of his after the Kalevala Suite. The 1st Symphony is very fine as well (I prefer it to his 2nd), with a life-affirming finale that sounds more like Braga Santos than his countryman Sibelius!

Some other of his orchestral pieces contain fine and memorable music as Suomenlinna and Karelian Rhapsody. He was especially good regarding rhythm and orchestration.

[Symphonic Addict]

Good to know about that performance, Cesar. Falletta and Buffalo have been inconsistent for me - their recordings of Schmitt and, more recently Novak, have missed the mark. But I've sampled their Roman Trilogy and Il'ya Muromets Symphony, and they're excellent! I've been very impressed with Geoffrey Simon on Chandos (the recordings are almost 40 years old and more than hold their own!), and I eventually want to collect Neschling's Respighi on BIS; I've read good things about that cycle too!

TD: confirming I do, in fact, like Braga Santos!

Symphony no. 2
Crossroads (Encruzhilada)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Alvaro Cassuto



Complete chamber music, Volume 3
various artists
(both on Qobuz)



Braga Santos is definitely a composer whose style evolved throughout his career, and you can hear it on both of these discs. The chamber music disc in particular spans his entire career; this disc is a collection of miniatures, and they're all charming (with the exception of some iffy intonation by the violinist in the Nocturno). And of course the orchestral works are both excellent; I especially liked the ballet Crossroads, part of his more neoclassical phase (I caught hints of Roussel, although Braga Santos is very much his own voice.) The Second Symphony is in his earlier, more modal (and lushly orchestrated) style, but it's no less alluring. I'd love to follow along to any of his pieces with a full score; unfortunately, his scores are all but impossible to find.

I agree about her Ilya Murometz, it's more convincing and powerful. The Chandos recording of VdC is really a knock-out. One of my favorite CDs actually.

And good to see you hearing some Braga-Santos. He's a favorite of mine. I'm liking his later style more and more. It's truly dark and atmospheric music.

[Symphonic Addict]

Lutoslawski: Concerto for oboe and harp

Phenomenal piece. The oboe reaches some impressive registers.

[Karl Henning]

Malipiero
Sinfonia del mare (1906)

Even this early work, I enjoy very much.

Couldn't stop:

Malipiero
Symphony № 3, « delle campane » (1944-45)
Symphony № 4, « In memoriam » (1946)

And then:

CD 2

JSB
Harpsichord Cto in f minor, BWV 1056
Harpsichord Cto in F, BWV 1057
Harpsichord Cto in g minor, BWV 1058
Ob Cto in d minor, BWV 1059R
Cto for two harpsichords in c minor, BWV 1060

[Todd]

Disc seven.

[Symphonic Addict]

Hartmann: Symphony No. 5

Until now I realize that opening motif in the 1st mov. is one from Wagner's Die fliegende Holländer, and in the 2nd mov. Hartmann uses the opening motif from Stravinsky's Le sacre with slight variations. One always rediscovers music.

[foxandpeng]

Brenton Broadstock
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 1 'Toward the Shining Light'
Symphony 2 'Stars in a Dark Night'
Andrew Wheeler
Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony Orchestra

[Karl Henning]

Well, now, this looks tasty:

CD 61

RVW
A London Symphony (1936 Revised Edition)

R Strauss
Metamorphosen

[vers la flamme]

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi. David Willcocks, Jacques Orchestra, Choir of King's College, Cambridge

This is becoming one of my favorite RVW discs

[Daverz]

The big Mitropoulos box hit the streaming sites today, so I'm sampling some of my Mitro faves.



This particular recording is in good stereo.  The remastering sounds great so far.