What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Dvorak
Requiem
Maria Stader, soprano
Sieglinde Wagner, mezzo-soprano
Ernst Haefliger, tenor
Kim Borg, bass
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Karel Ancerl
(on Spotify)



I believe it's my first time listening to this work, and my goodness, is it gorgeous! Haunting, comforting, and heartbreakingly beautiful... the tenor solo in 'Recordare, Jesu pie' left me speechless. I definitely need to check out more of his choral music.

Head straight to the Stabat Mater.

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Now playing:

Penderecki
Clarinet Quartet
André Moisan, clarinet
Quatuor Molinari

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Now playing:

Novák
Slovak Suite, Op. 32
Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra
Bělohlávek

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 Sergiu Celibidache with the Münchner Philharmoniker

[classicalgeek]

Head straight to the Stabat Mater.

I'll definitely check it out! Thanks for the recommendation.

TD:
Uuno Klami
Symphony no. 2
Symphonie Enfantine
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Tuomas Ollila
(on Spotify)



Fine works, supremely crafted, and well-orchestrated.

[Symphonic Addict]

Wow I must check this out!

You'll dig it, Manabu. There is plenty of exotic flavour and passion.

[Symphonic Addict]

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Violin Concerto

Rather interesting to say the least. Yet another work that doesn't lack excitement, heartfelt passages, endearing lyricism.

It definitely deserves a better performance with a more convincing orchestra and soloist, chiefly. The latter had some trouble dealing with it in some intense and fast passages.

Last edit: An enjoyable piece that suffers from a very subpar interpretation.

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Ildebrando Pizzetti: Violin Concerto

Rather interesting to say the least. Yet another work that doesn't lack excitement, heartfelt passages, endearing lyricism.

It definitely deserves a better performance with a more convincing orchestra and soloist, chiefly. The latter had some trouble dealing with it in some intense and fast passages.

Last edit: An enjoyable piece that suffers from a very subpar interpretation.

If only Pizzetti received the same kind of advocacy as say Respighi, Casella and perhaps to a lesser extent Malipiero who has only in the perhaps 20 years or so been recorded with any frequency.

[André]

Very dated 'modern music'. Yucch.

[JBS]

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Violin Concerto

Rather interesting to say the least. Yet another work that doesn't lack excitement, heartfelt passages, endearing lyricism.

It definitely deserves a better performance with a more convincing orchestra and soloist, chiefly. The latter had some trouble dealing with it in some intense and fast passages.

Last edit: An enjoyable piece that suffers from a very subpar interpretation.

Perhaps the cover image featuring a violincello for a CD of violin works was a warning....

In fact, the cover art is on its own terms rather appealling to me. Who is the artist?

TD

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NP:

Moeran
Violin Concerto
Tasmin Little, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Davis



There are some beautiful moments throughout this concerto, but, for me, like a lot of Moeran's works I've heard, it just doesn't sound distinctive enough to me or it sounds like third or fourth-pressing of Vaughan Williams. There is a nice performance of The Lark Ascending on this disc along with the haunting Holst piece A Song of the Night. The Delius work is forgettable as much as I love many of this composer's works.

[Symphonic Addict]

If only Pizzetti received the same kind of advocacy as say Respighi, Casella and perhaps to a lesser extent Malipiero who has only in the perhaps 20 years or so been recorded with any frequency.

Quite true. Pizzetti is the most neglected one of this Italian team, and I consider he is the least interesting as well IMO.

[Symphonic Addict]

Perhaps the cover image featuring a violincello for a CD of violin works was a warning....

In fact, the cover art is on its own terms rather appealling to me. Who is the artist?

Good point.

Just checked and the booklet says nothing about the cover art artist.

[Symphonic Addict]

Saygun: Symphony No. 3

Now, this is much better!

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Now playing two back-to-back English SQ masterpieces:

Vaughan Williams
String Quartet No. 2
Maggini Quartet

Walton
String Quartet in A minor
Gabrieli String Quartet

From these recordings -

[Symphonic Addict]

Now playing two back-to-back English SQ masterpieces:

Vaughan Williams
String Quartet No. 2
Maggini Quartet

Walton
String Quartet in A minor
Gabrieli String Quartet

From these recordings -

I'll join you, but with another English quartet:

Rubbra: String Quartet No. 3

[JBS]

Good point.

Just checked and the booklet says nothing about the cover art artist.

Thanks. But Google found it for me.
It's a portrait of the cellist Ricard Pichot, done in 1920 by none other than...

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I'll join you, but with another English quartet:

Rubbra: String Quartet No. 3

Nice! I love Rubbra's SQs. I don't own the Maggini cycle, but the Sterling String Quartet's cycle on Conifer. I liked these performances so much that I haven't sought out any other recordings.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Quite true. Pizzetti is the most neglected one of this Italian team, and I consider he is the least interesting as well IMO.

It could be possibly and partially because Pizzeti was a pro-fascist guy connected to the Mussolini govt? He even wrote a symphony for the Imperial Japan, an Axis partner.  That's Symphony A major and it is in one of the Naxos discs. I don't listen to it because of the political reason though I like his compositions in general.

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It could be possibly and partially because Pizzeti was a pro-fascist guy connected to the Mussolini govt? He even wrote a symphony for the Imperial Japan, an Axis partner.  That's Symphony A major and it is in one of the Naxos discs. I don't listen to it because of the political reason though I like his compositions in general.

Yeah, that's a shame about his political leanings. We must also remember that Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem was also commissioned by Japan for the same event, although, if memory serves me, it wasn't actually used.