What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

A very recent and excellent one is this:

Yeah, I've seen that one, but I don't like Davidsen's voice that much. I'd like to find all of those lieder volumes from the Grieg Edition on the Victoria label, but they're difficult to track down individually, but I do like more variety in lieder in terms of vocalists, so it looks like I'll have to continue to search for them as the BIS box set only has Monica Groop.

[Florestan]

Yeah, I've seen that one, but I don't like Davidsen's voice that much. I'd like to find all of those lieder volumes from the Grieg Edition on the Victoria label, but they're difficult to track down individually, but I do like more variety in lieder in terms of vocalists, so it looks like I'll have to continue to search for them as the BIS box set only has Monica Groop.

Too bad you're not into digital, I could have let you have them...

[Mirror Image]

Too bad you're not into digital, I could have let you have them...

Thanks, Andrei, but you know I'd end up trying to find them all on CD.

[Florestan]

Thanks, Andrei, but you know I'd end up trying to find them all on CD.

I know, John, I know. For all your professed modernism, you're actually much more sentimental than me, a professed romantic...

[Mirror Image]

I know, John, I know. For all your professed modernism, you're actually much more sentimental than me, a professed romantic...

I'm a Romantic in sheep's cloth. And, yes, I'm quite the sentimental sap when it boils down to it.

[Florestan]

I'm a Romantic in sheep's cloth. And, yes, I'm quite the sentimental sap when it boils down to it.

[Spotted Horses]

Rawsthorne, Symphony No 1.



I generally like the texture of it. I didn't have the concentration to follow the musical argument so well. Will listen again when my brain is hopefully more capable of concentration.

[Linz]

Silvestri Tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony and Respighi's Pines of Rome

[Linz]

Jansons Tchaikovsky CD1 Winter Daydreams and the Little Russian Symponies 1 and 2

[André]

Cello concerto and 2 orchestral works, Reak and Harmonia. A fine album.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Braga Santos
Symphony No. 3
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra
Alvaro Cassuto



Love it! It's been ages since I've listened to anything from Braga Santos. I own all of the Marco Polo recordings plus some others, but think these earlier Marco Polo releases continue to make the best case for the composer.

[Todd]

Disc five.

[foxandpeng]

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 5
Symphony 6 'Vincentiana'
MDR Sinfonieorchester
Max Pommer
Ondine

#6 is one of my personal favourites amongst this cycle. The sound world is outstanding, although I have never been convinced that the final movement, Apotheosis, reflects Van Gogh's end. I get what Rautavaara is trying to do, though, and the music is beautiful and I enjoy it very much. I understand the desire for resolution, in any case..

[Linz]

Haydn Symphonies 82 - 84 with Roy Goodman and the Hanover Band

[vandermolen]

Bliss: Introduction and Allegro (RPO/Wordsworth) - one of two performances of this fine work featured in this excellent double CD set:

[vandermolen]

NP:

Braga Santos
Symphony No. 3
Portuguese Symphony Orchestra
Alvaro Cassuto



Love it! It's been ages since I've listened to anything from Braga Santos. I own all of the Marco Polo recordings plus some others, but think these earlier Marco Polo releases continue to make the best case for the composer.

+1 - absolutely agree John - No.3 is arguable the best (alongside No.4)

[SonicMan46]

Krommer, Franz (1759-1831) - Bassoon, Clarinet & Flute Music - started in on my FK collection today w/ some of his MANY wind compositions as shown below - I own about 20 Krommer CDs, mostly wind works and symphonies w/ only six string quartets; just looking at his composition LIST and concentrating on string chamber works - according to Karel Padrta's catalogue, Franz wrote 35 String Quintets (P VI:1-P VI:35) and 78 String Quartets (P VIII:1-PVIII:78)!  An interesting life span, i.e. born the same year Handel died and outlived Beethoven by 4 years - AND this is good music!  Do I need more?  Oy vey -    Dave

Franz Krommer - Born in Kamenice, he made his career in the service of various noblemen, finally settling in Vienna, where he became director of music for the Court Ballet and later entering the service of the Emperor Franz I, finally as imperial director of chamber music and court composer. Krommer's orchestral music includes symphonies and concertos, the latter for his own instrument, the violin, and for various wind instruments, either singly or in multiple concertos. He added to the repertoire of Harmoniemusik, music for wind band, with well crafted compositions that serve their entertaining purpose admirably. Krommer's string quartets seemed to contemporaries to equal those of Haydn and rival those of Beethoven. He wrote a quantity of chamber music, quintets and quartets, a number of these involving wind instruments, in addition to trios and duos, all reflecting the style and taste of the period in which he lived. (Source)

[Lisztianwagner]

Lovely! Zemlinsky is a great favorite of mine. Hope you're enjoying Lyrische Symphonie. This work is sometimes unfairly viewed as the Mahler Das Lied little brother, but I disagree. It's a work that stands on its own and has something of interest to say musically.

Oh, really? Well, I read Zemlinsky himself compared his work to Mahler's Das Lied, and as a matter of fact, the compositions share similarities: they both have a similar structure in movements, they both are based on oriental poems (chinese poems for Mahler, indian ones for Zemlinsky); boths alternate a male and a female voice (but with opposite registers), and boths have a more powerful, intense beginning, while ending in a peaceful, deep suggestive adagio.
I heard reminiscences of Mahler in the orchestration and in the extended harmonies, which anyway seem sometimes to handle a development in light dissonances that reminds the Expressionism tones; I agree the atmospheres are personal and evocative, and there's a brilliant use of the glissando.
I certainly enjoyed it, are there other works you could suggest?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I don't know the piece at all. What do you think?

TD:

CD 5
Liszt
Années de Pèlerinage, Troisième année, S. 163

CD 7
JSB
Vn Sonata in b minor, BWV 1014
Vn Sonata in A, BWV 1015
Vn Sonata in E, BWV 1016

with Lars Frydén, vn

I like the vivacity while I like the entire box set, which is fun and spontaneous music.

https://youtu.be/LbQO393FrvE?list=OLAK5uy_mmG0Kk7veQTRGiNpjVxJRQvQU5dq5v8S0

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbw8fgeF1gSgI1HCmS_CjtUWp2TcztDpg

[Mirror Image]

+1 - absolutely agree John - No.3 is arguable the best (alongside No.4)

I like them all. Even the craggy late ones.