What are you listening 2 now?

[kyjo]

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.

Pounds the table! I haven't listened to the chamber music disc yet, but the epic 2nd Symphony and Crossroads (which, quite literally, represents a "crossroads" between his early and late styles!) are firm favorites of mine, even if the finale of the symphony doesn't measure up to the previous movements IMO. Have you heard his glorious 4th Symphony yet (one of my all-time favorite pieces of music)?

[Karl Henning]

Finishing up with this Malipiero disc, two listens to Symphony No 10 back to back.



This work (as I read in the notes) is dedicated to Scherchen, who died in Firenze immediately after conducting an opera by Malipiero. The opening and closing music is serene music, which I take it has some relation with the music Scherchen was conducting. In between the usual Malipiero mayhem.

A satisfying performance. I think I will focus on something else for a while to avoid Malipiero fatigue. I remember having an issue listening to the Malipiero piano concerti, because the general texture of the music was so consistent I became fatigued with it.

Mixing it up serves both the listener and the composer well.

[Karl Henning]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 Herbert von Karajan CD4 of this set with the VPO

I need to listen to that. My survey of this set stalled.

[Linz]

Haydn Sonatas played by Rudolf Buchbinder Sonatas 1 - 10 on CD1

[Artem]

Murail's piano music is very intriguing.

[Todd]

[North Star]

Murail's piano music is very intriguing.

It certainly is, based on Marilyn Nonken's complete survey from 2005. And it appears all of the works Guy has recorded are more recent (2018-21) - I'll have to give it a listen..





Thread duty:

Weinberg
String Quartets 8, 9 & 10
Silesian Quartet

Karel Husa
Symphony No. 2 'Reflections' (1983)
Trois fresques (1946-57)
Music for Prague 1968 (1969)
Prague Symphony
Tomáš Brauner
   

[Karl Henning]

Rota, Respighi, Barber & Elgar: Works for string orchestra- I Musici

I love the Barber & Elgar unreservedly. Am curious about the Rota.


Thread Duty:
Malipiero
Symphony № 10, « Atropo » (1967)
I say again: Man, do I love this!

CD 66
Whole lotta Delius ...
In a Summer Garden
Hassan (arr. Beecham)
Interlude between Scenes 1 & 2
Serenade
Koanga—La Calinda (Act 2) (arr. Fenby)
On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Summer Night on the River
String Quartet № 2—III. Late Swallows (arr. Fenby)
Brigg Fair 'An English Rhapsody'

This began so well. Loved In a Summer Garden and so on. In particular, I remember reflecting how much better I thought of Cuckoo than the first time I heard it (decades ago) ... Somewhere in the midst of the Summer Night or the Quartet movement, Delius Fatigue set in. I pulled out of it enough to enjoy Brigg Fair substantially. I'll come back to the disc before returning it to the box.

CD 4
19 Chopin Waltzes

In contrast, this disc does not tire my ear with repetition/sameness.

[classicalgeek]

There's also this towfer:



https://www.amazon.com/Sibelius-Oceanides-Finlandia-Serenades-Historiques/dp/B00004Z34P

This was the two-fer release of the Bournemouth/Kullervo......

So there *is* another one I missed... I see it duplicates Tapiola and Finlandia from the Bournemouth symphony set, but it does include a few things not on any of these collections (Oceanides, Scenes Historiques, and the two Serenades for violin and orchestra.) Very interesting...

Yes, I believe you have the sequence of events more or less accurately described. I bypassed the EMI Bournemouth set and went straight for the Japanese hybrid SACD reissue from Tower Records plus some other Japanese issues. So my Sibelius Berglund Bournemouth collection is a hodgepodge of Japanese releases, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

There is one I missed (see above) that also includes the Bournemouth Kullervo. So acquiring that plus the other EMI two-fer is an option.


TD:
Alfred Bruneau
Prelude to Act IV of 'Messidor'
Suite from 'L'Attaque du Moulin'
Prelude to Act I of 'Nais Micoulin'
'La Legende d'Or' from Act III of 'Messidor'
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
Darrell Ang
(on Qobuz)



Totally pleasant music, but faceless and, ultimately, forgettable.

[Mirror Image]

My favourite En Saga bar none!

Indeed. It's a damn good one.

[Linz]

Fauré with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra  Pelleas et Melisande, Dolly, etc

[foxandpeng]

foxandpeng has reminded me of my admiration for Rawsthorne. I should dig out some of my Rawsthorne recordings. Checking, I see I have symphonies in a Lyrita release and Piano Concerti with Tozer.

Lyrita don't have their Rawsthorne recordings available on Spotify, I don't think, apart from the Divertimento. Disappointing, because their championing of Lipkin and Fricker have been so good for me, and that is aside from their obvious promotion of Jones, Lloyd, Alwyn and others.

I'd love to read your reflections on Rawsthorne at some point!

[Linz]

CD4 of Lucia Popp with Strauss Lieder, Greig Songs from Peer Gynt and Orff songs from Carmina Burana

[Mapman]

Tippett: Spirituals from A Child Of Our Time
Tippett: CBSO

[bhodges]

As an encore after the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto, pianist Lars Vogt played Brahms' Intermezzo A-Dur op. 118 Nr. 2. Too lovely for words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFk0VKcM1ns

--Bruce

[Daverz]

So there *is* another one I missed... I see it duplicates Tapiola and Finlandia from the Bournemouth symphony set,

Here with another cover and a higher price:



I don't know why Amazon is charging so much for these budget twofers.

[DavidW]

[bhodges]

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Karina Canellakis (live recording from 1 April 2022) - Canellakis is one of my favorite conductors of the moment (she has a very talented brother, too), and the orchestra is doing fantastic work lately. This whole concert, with pianist Lars Vogt in the Beethoven PC 3 and Vogt's beautiful Brahms encore, is worth hearing.

https://youtu.be/qnIY6gm0RKw

--Bruce

[Sergeant Rock]

My favourite En Saga bar none!

+1

Sarge

[Todd]

Disc one.