What are you listening 2 now?

[Mirror Image]

Last work for the night:

Ifukube
Ritmica Ostinata
Hitoshi Kobayashi, piano
Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
Hiroshi Wakasugi



I own a few performances of Ikfukube's Ritmica Ostinata, but I think this one with Kobayashi and Wakasugi is the best of them all. Some here may know Wakasugi from his Mahler cycle (the first all-Japanese Mahler cycle?) and recordings of the Strauss ballets on the Denon label. He was one of great conductors, IMHO.

[Operafreak]

And what are your impressions of this cycle so far? Overhyped or the real deal?

I am very satisfied with the  cycle.  But if it is the best ever?
I am so fond on Bernstein  / Ashkenazy and Vanska.

[MusicTurner]

A first listen:

Liszt - Orpheus, symphonic poem.
Haitink/London PO

One of his most attractive, purely orchestral works ...

[MusicTurner]

Niels Viggo Bentzon
Symphony no. 8
Symphonic Variations
Gothenburg-Aarhus Philharmonic Orchestra
Douglas Bostock
(on Qobuz)



Fascinating stuff!

That's a bit of a rarity!

[MusicTurner]

The contents of this CD


As part of this set


Based on the first CD of the set (Symphonies 2 and 5, Suite for Chamber Orchestra) this stuff should be of interest to Kyjo, Classicalgeek, Symphonic Addict, foxandpeng, vandermolen, and Harry if they don't already have it.
Mirror Image too, but I'm pretty sure he already has it!

Agree, fascinating stuff. Schulhoff was a very creative, quirky and at times also truly edgy composer. Had he been given a few more decades, he would have gained a position as more well-known and established among the 20th century ones.

[Operafreak]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52/ Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63


    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra-    Klaus Mäkelä
   

[Harry]

The contents of this CD


As part of this set


Based on the first CD of the set (Symphonies 2 and 5, Suite for Chamber Orchestra) this stuff should be of interest to Kyjo, Classicalgeek, Symphonic Addict, foxandpeng, vandermolen, and Harry if they don't already have it.
Mirror Image too, but I'm pretty sure he already has it!

I have it, indeed!

[Mandryka]

Enjoying the Wolf, not the Schumann. I like Prégardien's modest style. Prégardien is, of course, a Rihm singer, and it was Rihm's songs which prompted me to revisit Wolf's.

[Que]

Morning listening:

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Music from Lassus younger, pre-München years, which he spent in several places in Italy and Antwerp.
Excuted to perfection by Ludus Modalis.

This chronological series comprising five volumes in luxurious presentation should be the corner stone of any Lassus collection.

[Que]

This beautiful set arrived a year ago from jpc.de, time for a rerun:

 

Rademann conducts Requiem in Es and Miserere in d by Johan Adolf Hasse.

[Operafreak]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)- Wiener Philharmoniker, Jonathan Nott

[Que]

On disc 12 I'm skipping the pieces by Bull and Gibbons, to continue with a bunch of other composers: Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Warrock, Galeazzo, Martin Peerson, Robert Parsons, Robert Johnson, William Tisdale, William Inglott, John Marchant, Jehan Oystermayre, Thomas Oldfield and Wiliam Blitheman.

[Operafreak]

Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'

Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Werner Krenn (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass)- New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, Raymond Leppard

[Lisztianwagner]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)- Wiener Philharmoniker, Jonathan Nott

I'll join you, but with this recording:

[Traverso]

Haendel


CD2


Concertos pour Orgue  Op.7 No.6

                                          Op.4 No.4

                                          Op.4 No.6

                                          Op.4 No.3

                                          Op.4. No.2

                                          Op.4 No.1

[Operafreak]

I'll join you, but with this recording:

Much better 

[Florestan]

On Spotify:

[Karl Henning]

There's a surprising number of versions of the Requiem on disc. I wonder what the fuss is about. There are some interesting touches, but way too much sameness. The Concerto is a bit more palatable, but I still don't get it.

FWIW, I think much better of the Concerto, than the Requiem. I almost never return to the latter, e.g.

[Operafreak]

Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra

Zoltán Kocsis (piano)- Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer

[MusicTurner]

FWIW, I think much better of the Concerto, than the Requiem. I almost never return to the latter, e.g.

Ditto, though the Requiem hasn't been heard by my that much.