What are you listening 2 now?

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NP:

Glazunov
String Quartets Nos. 3 & 5
Utrecht String Quartet

[Karl Henning]

Nice! Fun cover art too.

TD:

CD 6

JSB
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in d minor, BWV 903
Keyboard Sonata in D minor, BWV 964
Toccata in G, BWV 916
Suite in e minor, BWV 996
Sonata in G, BWV 968

[classicalgeek]

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)?

I've heard a lot about his Fourth, though I don't know if I've listened to it. My guess is, I haven't - so I know what's going on my listening backlog!

Here with another cover and a higher price:



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

So there are, in fact, multiple ways to get his Bournemouth Kullervo!

It is kind of annoying that Marketplace sellers charge so much for out-of-print CDs. I have several of these EMI two-fers in this series, and I'm guessing I paid about U.S. $15 for it new. I wonder how many of these sellers actually sell their grossly marked-up CDs?

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Now playing this entire recording:

[foxandpeng]

Ludwig Van Beethoven
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 3 'Eroica'
Christian Thielemann
Wiener Philharmoniker

[André]

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...

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

I think more highly of Bruneau's music. A lot more, actually  . However I like your description, as I think it applies to this latest listening:

[JBS]

The second CD of Mozart's Infantile Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard, with Gerard Poulet violin KV 13-15 & 26-31

[classicalgeek]

I think more highly of Bruneau's music. A lot more, actually  . However I like your description, as I think it applies to this latest listening:

Maybe if I heard something else by Bruneau? There's not a lot available on the streaming services. I'm always open!

I don't think I've heard anything by Pavlova yet, though I'm curious. I'm gathering the 'faceless and forgettable' comment applies to her Fifth Symphony?


TD:

Hindemith
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Konzertmusik for Strings and Brass
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein



Solid Hindemith from Bernstein and the Israel Phil, including spectacular playing from the brass section in all three works. The Mathis der Maler symphony and the Konzertmusik are top notch, and while I've heard version of the Metamorphoses I prefer (namely Szell and Levi), Bernstein's was still a fine performance.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Maybe if I heard something else by Bruneau? There's not a lot available on the streaming services. I'm always open!

I don't think I've heard anything by Pavlova yet, though I'm curious. I'm gathering the 'faceless and forgettable' comment applies to her Fifth Symphony?


TD:

Hindemith
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Konzertmusik for Strings and Brass
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein




Solid Hindemith from Bernstein and the Israel Phil, including spectacular playing from the brass section in all three works. The Mathis der Maler symphony and the Konzertmusik are top notch, and while I've heard version of the Metamorphoses I prefer (namely Szell and Levi), Bernstein's was still a fine performance.

Love the IPO disc, especially Konzertmusik for Strings and Brass.

[JBS]

English instrumental music c 1550-1650, much of it written for or associated with Jacobean era masques.  Instruments used include violins, violone grande, violone piccolo, viola da gamba, cornets, sackbuts, organ, cembalo, virginal, lute, theorbo, dulcian, recorder, and an unspecified percussion (the group photograph in the liner notes shows a large drum carried by a cloth over the shoulder). The liner notes detail which instruments appear on which track.
Pleasant entertainment--which was after all the purpose this music was written for.

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NP:

Grieg
Lyric Pieces VIII & IX
Eva Knardahl

From this set -



I've been thoroughly enjoying this box set thus far. I'm still kicking myself that I haven't explored Grieg's solo piano music sooner. Knardahl performs incredibly well. In fact, I'll probably find myself imprinting on her performances and I'll end up developing one of those nasty biases, but I do plan on hearing some other pianists in this particular repertoire. I probably won't get the Naxos complete set, but I do plan to dip into my own collection and see what else I have --- I know I have some Leif Ove Andsnes and some others.

[Operafreak]

Vivaldi X2-Adrian Chandler (violin/director)-L-a Serenissima

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NP:

Strauss
Thus sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176
San Francisco SO
Blomstedt

[Spotted Horses]

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!

My first reflection is that when I thought I was recalling enjoying Rawsthorn's, it was actually Leighton. I've never listened to Rawsthorne, according to my listening notes.

However, that will not deter me from listening to Rawsthorne!

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Last work for the night:

Nielsen
Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57
Olle Schill, clarinet
Gothenburg SO
Chung

[Operafreak]

Villa-Lobos: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7- São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky

[Que]

Finishing ftom where I left off yesterday morning:

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Reissued by Brilliant Classics as a set - pictured to the right.

PS And moved on to the last disc of the series:

[aukhawk]

Just so I have this all straight:

EMI first boxed up Berglund's Helsinki symphony cycle, plus his Helsinki tone poems, but included his Bournemouth Kullervo (I had this set, but sadly sold it off along with my initial collection ca. 2007-2008 )


When they reissued that set (as Warner Classics), they gave us his Helsinki symphony cycle, plus his Helsinki tone poems, this time with the Helsinki Kullervo on this set, which I have:


Meanwhile they released the Bournemouth symphony cycle, plus some of the tone poems and orchestral odds and ends - but not all of them on this set (which I also have):


The remaining tone poems and other orchestral bits (plus what I presume are duplicate performances of King Kristian II and The Bard) were released as a 'Double Forte' mid-priced two-fer (which I don't have, but want!):


But no Bournemouth Kullervo! So the only way to acquire his Bournemouth Kullervo on CD is to get A) the old EMI box of his Helsinki cycle, or B) the single-disc Japanese reissue.

Only slightly confusing!  

  It doesn't help the confusion that the Bournemouth Kullervo employs the Helsinki University Male Voice Choir.

[Operafreak]

Raff: Violin Sonatas Nos. 2 & 5- Ariadne Daskalakis (violin), Roglit Ishay (piano)

[foxandpeng]

My first reflection is that when I thought I was recalling enjoying Rawsthorn's, it was actually Leighton. I've never listened to Rawsthorne, according to my listening notes.

However, that will not deter me from listening to Rawsthorne!

Haha. I like it 🙂

Thread:

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 3
Symphony 4 'Arabescata'
MDR Sinfonieorchester
Max Pommer
Ondine

I dislike having only one attention span and two ears. Life is too busy and short to listen to everything I enjoy, as often as I would choose. Rautavaara is one of my real loves, but I haven't listened to him seriously for months. After a fascinating odyssey through Cantus Arcticus with the cat this morning, I am revisiting the symphonies today. Maybe longer than today.