What are you listening 2 now?

[Operafreak]

Weber: Konzertstück; Overtures: Der Freischütz · Euryanthe · Oberon

Mikhail Pletnev (piano)- Russian National Orchestra

[Que]

Morning listening  - a new arrival:

[Maestro267]

Beethoven: Wind Sextet, Op. 71
Wind soloists of CO Europe

[Que]

[vandermolen]

Prokofiev: Suite from Semyon Kotko

Simply astonishing. The whole opera looks more than promising. Prokofiev at the height of his creative powers.

How interesting Cesar - I don't know that work at all.

TD
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.5 Marriner - an excellent and underrated performance.

Unfortunately I'm having to listen on a Sony portable CD player as my (comparatively new) NAD CD player has packed up. Still, it is being fixed under the warranty. I will be without it for a fortnight  . However, I guess that this is a 'First World Problem', so mustn't complain.

[Undersea]

Bach: Cantata #147, BWV 147

[vandermolen]

VW Symphony No.6 (from the Collins Classics CD posted above).
A more compassionate rendering of this turbulent score. The violence is perhaps understated but I find this to be a very valid approach to Vaughan Williams's (IMO) symphonic masterpiece. I like the coupling together of symphonies 5 and 6 (usually you get 4 and 6 placed together).
However, Slatkin links 5 and 6 as does the (fabulous) new Boult ICA disc.

[Operafreak]

Natalie Dessay sings Schubert- Natalie Dessay (soprano) & Philippe Cassard (piano), Thomas Savy (clarinet)

[Maestro267]

Sibelius: String Quartet, "Voces intimae"
Emerson SQ

Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 4
Ukrainian State SO/Kuchar

[Tsaraslondon]

 

I've been concentrating on one composer at a time recently, going through all the discs I have of that one composer in my collection. The next few days will be spent on Sibelius. First, the Violin Concerto and then Lemminkäinen, Luonnotar and The Bard. Phyllis Bryn Julson is the lovely soprano soloist in Luonnotar.

[steve ridgway]

First listen to Messiaen - Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum. Sounds very promising.

[Maestro267]

I've been concentrating on one composer at a time recently, going through all the discs I have of that one composer in my collection.

I keep wanting to try that idea but I always get burnt out before I can finish.

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen - Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum.

Wow that was a seriously loud piece of 1960s Avant Garde blaring brass and metal bashing, he was really keeping up with the times.

[Iota]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1
Freidrich Gulda (piano)


The rampant structure of this sonata seems an almost pictorial illustration of Beethoven's buccaneering will. A feeling intensified by Gulda's mercurial virtuosity, which is as invigorating and revealing as ever.

[Tsaraslondon]

I keep wanting to try that idea but I always get burnt out before I can finish.

I rather like immersing myself in the sound world of one composer at a time. Of course, for some composers I only have one or two discs anyway, but some I have quite a lot more. It's going to take a long time to get through my Verdi collection for instance, as I have all the operas, and the Requiem, many in multiple recordings.

[steve ridgway]

I keep wanting to try that idea but I always get burnt out before I can finish.

I could probably do it with some, such as Scelsi, Penderecki and Takemitsu but the thought of nothing but Stockhausen fails to appeal.

[Biffo]

Varese: Arcana
Debussy: Nocturnes Tryptique symphonique

- SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg conducted by Michael Gielen

[VonStupp]

Sergei Prokofiev
On the Dnieper (complete ballet)
Semyon Kotko Suite

WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
Michail Jurowski

For this morning:

The Dnieper ballet (Sur le Borysthène) is new to me, as is this recording.

VS

[steve ridgway]

Varese: Arcana
Debussy: Nocturnes Tryptique symphonique

- SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg conducted by Michael Gielen

An interesting combination, did you enjoy both?

[VonStupp]

Prokofiev: Suite from Semyon Kotko

Simply astonishing. The whole opera looks more than promising. Prokofiev at the height of his creative powers.

Giving this a listen on a different recording this morning. It is a fun score! Not sure if I will pursue the opera quite yet.

VS