What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

Repeat listen to an excellent CD


The music is varied, but the Bush is a nice little neo-classic bonbon to end with.

[Mirror Image]

Continuing with the Stravinsky ballets --- now playing Apollon musagète from this Markevitch recording:

[Daverz]

Wagenaar (1862-1941): Sinfonietta, via Qobuz



Oh, this is really fine.

[Operafreak]

Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76- Chiaroscuro Quartet

   
   

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Now playing Respighi Feste Romane with Bernstein:



Great performance!

[Mapman]

Wagenaar (1862-1941): Sinfonietta, via Qobuz

Oh, this is really fine.

I've been meaning to listen to that. Maybe this weekend!

Now:
Pfitzner: Palestrina - Preludes
Thielemann: Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

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Before heading to bed playing excepts from this Saint-Saëns mélodies recording:

[Madiel]

Haydn op.20/1. One half of my quest to get all the Mosaiques recordings arrived yesterday.

[Operafreak]

Coleridge-Taylor & Dvorak: Violin Concertos

Philippe Graffin (violin)/ Johannesburg Philharmonic, Michael Hankinson

[vandermolen]

I don't own the Erato set, but this is something else indeed, Jeffrey!

Agreed on both!

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Good to know - thanks Cesar 

The Koch Herrmann CD had v good booklet notes and some nice photos - like Herrmann on the Grand Canyon.

[foxandpeng]

Vagn Holmboe
String Quartets Vol 2
String Quartets 2, 14 and 21 'Quartetto Sereno' (completed by Nørgård)
Nightingale String Qt
Dacapo

*hits play button*

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Job 'A Masque for Dancing'. I increasingly think that this is one of the composer's greatest works. I also think that Bostock's German performance is excellent. Bostock tends to get unfavourably reviewed but I am very fond of this recording (not least for the interesting shorter works on the CD) as well as his Novak CD (ClassicO and Alto) and even his much derided Bax's 6th Symphony accompanied by a very fine 'Tintagel':

[aukhawk]

M9 is complicated by being a work that can be played effectively in several different ways. It's been a while since I've played either one, but IIRC Chailly and Geilen both go for a temperate middle of the road approach. Then there's the rip your heart out and wear it as a bleeding badge approach, of which Bernstein was the paragon (although I suggest Levine/Munich Philharmonic on Oehms if you can stream it). And then there is the serene ascent to heaven way of doing it, of which Zinman is (I think) the best, and Maderna/BBC is another good example.

And then there's Haitink.

[Irons]

Repeat listen to an excellent CD


The music is varied, but the Bush is a nice little neo-classic bonbon to end with.

Interesting review of the Searle piece here - http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/2022/05/humphrey-searle-concertante-for-piano_01103285829.html

[Tsaraslondon]

It was a good idea to couple Karajan's 1969 recording of Metamophosen to his famous recording of the Vier letzte LIeder. To me it's always seemed more of Karajan's recording, with the voice treated instrumentally. The effect is undeniably beautiful and I know for many it's a first choice for the songs, but I miss the deeper meanings found in the songs, by such as Schwarzkopf and Norman. The orchestral contribution is of course absolutely wonderful and Janowitz certainly isn't unfeeling, so maybe I should leave it at that, but over the years I have found others more satisfying.

A wonderful disc, nonetheless.

[Harry]

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

First Book of Psalms by David.
CD III from III.
Psalms.
Cantique de Simeon.
Organ variations on Psalm 140.

Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Harry van der Kamp.

[vandermolen]

Interesting review of the Searle piece here - http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/2022/05/humphrey-searle-concertante-for-piano_01103285829.html

Sounds like a nice concert!

[Papy Oli]

A little bit of JSB's organ music(Koopman)

[Operafreak]

Hartmann: Symphony No. 3; Charles Ives: Robert Browning Overture- Bamberger Symphoniker, Ingo Metzmacher

[Tsaraslondon]

I wasn't a big fan of Norman's Vier letzte Lieder when it first came out, but I must have been particularly curmudgeonly at the time. It's grown on my over the years and now is one of my favourite versions, only second to Schwarzkopf/Szell. I still find the tempo for the last song too slow, and it is amazing she is able to sustain it at that speed, but I would still rate it as one of the very best recordings of these popular songs ever made.

The fill-ups are hardly less desirable, with a particularly radiant Cäcilie and a beautifuly floated Wiegenlied, though yet again I find the tempo a wee bit too slow. A superb disc.