What are you listening 2 now?

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Now playing this entire Braunfels recording of Orchesterlieder:

[Mapman]

Bruch: String Quartet #2, Op. 10
Nash Ensemble

[Symphonic Addict]

Vaughan Williams: Concerto for two pianos and orchestra

What a masterpiece! The slow movement has a very romantic pathos that is not too close to his more pastoral style.

BTW, one of my favorite VW's CDs.

[Operafreak]

Friedrich von Flotow: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Carl Petersson (piano)- Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Peter Wiesheu

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Vaughan Williams: Concerto for two pianos and orchestra

What a masterpiece! The slow movement has a very romantic pathos that is not too close to his more pastoral style.

BTW, one of my favorite VW's CDs.

+1 A winning disc all-around, although I like the Boult Job a lot, it's not my favorite performance of this work. My favorite would be Wordsworth on Collins Classics.

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Now playing Kabalevsky's Requiem from this 2-CD set (long OOP) -



Marvelous!

[Bachtoven]

[Que]

 Morning listening on Spotify:



Harpsichord sonatas by the "Swedish Händel", and they sound very Handelian indeed.
Enjoyable, but probably of passing interest. Thank you, Spotify.

[Operafreak]

Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2/ Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

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Now playing Kabalevsky's Requiem from this 2-CD set (long OOP) -



Marvelous!

IMO the great work there is Kabalevsky's own performance of the 4th Symphony John. To my mind it is one of the most unaccountably neglected symphonies of the Soviet era. I'll have to have another listen to the Requiem which didn't make much of an impression on me before.

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+1 A winning disc all-around, although I like the Boult Job a lot, it's not my favorite performance of this work. My favorite would be Wordsworth on Collins Classics.

Also available on Alto of course 

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Vaughan Williams: Concerto for two pianos and orchestra

What a masterpiece! The slow movement has a very romantic pathos that is not too close to his more pastoral style.

BTW, one of my favorite VW's CDs.

Mine too Cesar - great performances of both works. Definitely my favourite version of the double Piano Concerto. Boult's (5) recordings of 'Job' are all very special as he was the dedicatee. I first heard the work when Boult conducted it in London on 12/10/1972, the 100th Anniversary of the composer's birth. I agree with John that Wordworth's recording is excellent too. I suggested to Alto that they consider reissuing it  0:)

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Kilar: Bogurodzica (Mother of God), for chorus and orchestra

Heck, what a great work! Doom-laden and pensive in an effective combination of forces.

I must hear that! I have the CD. Thanks for reminding me of it John 

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I listened to No. 5 a few days ago and was rather disappointed. The quicker sections influenced by Brazilian folk music were quite charming, but I found the slower sections to be rather grey and unmemorable. I much prefer his 4th Symphony and any of Guarnieri's works in the medium.

Hi Kyle - I didn't like No.7 and much prefer Symphony No.4 to either of them.

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IMO the great work there is Kabalevsky's own performance of the 4th Symphony John. To my mind it is one of the most unaccountably neglected symphonies of the Soviet era. I'll have to have another listen to the Requiem which didn't make much of an impression on me before.

I'll have to agree with you about the Requiem. It's a nice enough work, but not really characteristic of the composer in which I enjoy the most. I'm afraid he's nowhere near his compatriot Shostakovich in terms of sustaining a dramatic narrative. When compared to say Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 13 & 14 or The Execution of Stepan Razin, Kabalevsky's Requiem just doesn't measure up. I'm glad I heard it, but it won't be a work I'll revisit in the near future.

[Harry]

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
De Wereldlijke Werken.
Volume I.
CD II from III.
Italian Rimes and Madrigals.

Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Harry van der Kamp.

A beautiful book, alas only in Dutch, with the number 0806. Only a 1000 copies were made of this exclusive release. The whole series I have are numbered thus. Glossa released an international copy, without a lavish book I am afraid. Lots of info in this Dutch version about Sweelinck and fine illustrations to boot. The performances are exemplary, and the recording captures all detail in a fine acoustic.

[Valentino]

17th May. Norwegian national day. Flags, flags and flags. Wraths for the fallen. Children's parades. All the ice cream and hot dogs you can eat. Champagne lunches. Marching bands.
Me, I'm spinning Johan Svendsen. Four Norwegian Rhapsodies, Karsten Andersen conducting Bergen PO, in 1975 it still had its terrific original name Musikkselskabet «Harmonien»s Orkester.

[Harry]

Johann Strauss II.
The complete Orchestral Edition.
CD 4 from 52.

Hopser-Polka (Hopping Polka) Op. 28.
Serail-Taenze, Walzer (Dances of the Harem, Waltz) Op. 5.
Austria-Marsch Op, 20.
Veilchen-Polka (Violets, Polka) Op, 132.
Knall-Kuegerln, Walzer (Firecracker, Waltz) Op. 140.
Motor.Quadrille Op. 129.
Buerger-Ball-Polka (Citizens' Ball Polka) Op. 145.
Dividenden, Walzer (Dividends, Waltz) Op. 252.
Verbruederungs-Marsch (Brotherhood March) Op. 287.
Im Krapfenwald'l, Polka francaise Op. 336.
O schoener Mai! Walzer (O Lovely May! Waltz) Op. 375.

CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra (Košice), Richard Edlinger.

[Harry]

17th May. Norwegian national day. Flags, flags and flags. Wraths for the fallen. Children's parades. All the ice cream and hot dogs you can eat. Champagne lunches. Marching bands.
Me, I'm spinning Johan Svendsen. Four Norwegian Rhapsodies, Karsten Andersen conducting Bergen PO, in 1975 it still had its terrific original name Musikkselskabet «Harmonien»s Orkester.

That's a fine looking turntable you have my friend!

[Roasted Swan]

Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2/ Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

Gergiev before he lost his razor