What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Arnold Bax In the Faery Hills, The Garden of Fand, And Symphony No. 1

[Todd]

[Mirror Image]

The Capriccio is next up on my list from that Janacek set 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hindemith: Symphony Ebmaj. Lenny, NY.

[Lisztianwagner]

0:)  AMEN!   0:)

I revisited Jacob's Ladder a few weeks ago, the same recording, and it remains one of my favorite works, a powerful spiritual journey similar to Moses und Aron, whose last bars of eternal yearning are similar in emotion to the last bars of Die Jakobsleiter.

Great, Cato!

That reminds me I need to revisit Moses und Aron too.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Moses und Aron, 1^ act

[Linz]

Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano & Wind Instruments with Nikita Magaloff (piano),  Zimmermann Symphony in one movement, Fortner: Symphony all with the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra and Ligeti: Lontano with the North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

[VonStupp]

Carl Nielsen
Symphony 2 'The Four Temperaments', op. 16
San Francisco SO - Herbert Blomstedt

VS

[classicalgeek]

Last night:

Mozart
Piano sonata in D major, K 311
Piano sonata in G major, K 283
Piano sonata in B-flat major, K 281
Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
(on CD)



I don't know if it's the fortepiano in general or Bilson in particular, but I found these interpretations of the Mozart sonatas drab and monochrome. Perhaps I should listen to Ronald Brautigam (who has been critically acclaimed for his Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven) in these works for comparison.

[Florestan]

Last night:

Mozart
Piano sonata in D major, K 311
Piano sonata in G major, K 283
Piano sonata in B-flat major, K 281
Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano
(on CD)



I don't know if it's the fortepiano in general or Bilson in particular, but I found these interpretations of the Mozart sonatas drab and monochrome.

Which is anything but how they should actually be.

[DavidW]

Perhaps I should listen to Ronald Brautigam (who has been critically acclaimed for his Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven) in these works for comparison.

Yes!  Bilson is boring and always has been.  Brautigam is the opposite.  I haven't heard his Beethoven, but his Haydn and Mozart are superb.

Can't be the fortepiano, it is not THAT different.  It is the artist sitting behind the instrument that matters.

[Cato]

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 
    Eugen Jochum, Staatskapelle Dresden

Some people prefer this performance to the earlier one on DGG: do you know that performance?  Any preference?

[DavidW]

Some people prefer this performance to the earlier one on DGG: do you know that performance?  Any preference?

I'm not the poster but as I just listened to the earlier recording semi-recently... yeah I do have a preference.  Dresden by a long shot.  The earlier recording is just... odd.  And not in a good way.  Many people seem to consider these sets as nearly equal, but outside of the 8th and 9th I prefer the Dresden cycle.

[ritter]

A new arrival:



As a child, we had the Wenzinger recording of Telemann's Overture (Suite) in C major Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth at home on LP, and listening to this lovely music again brings back fond memories. The Hamburger Admiralitätsmusik 1723 (a full-fledged oratorio composed for the same occasion as the Overture) is completely new to me.

The performances by the soloists, the Alsfeld Vocal Ensemble, and the Bremen Baroque Orchestra under Wolfgang Helbich are very persuasive.

I liked Telemann a lot when I was very young. My interests have shifted since, but every time I revisit this composer, I'm delighted! 

[Todd]

Going through this cycle again, for the first time in years, and the Third at times sounds too fraught and frantic, but then at other times, like in the grand last movement, so delicate and beautiful, taking on an almost Parsifalian beauty and sheen unmatched by anyone else, that it more than counters the frantic playing.  Still, not a top 3/5 version.

[Linz]

Gerd Schaller Symphony No. 3 in D minor with the 1890 Thorough revision Bruckner with Joseph and Franz Schalk Ed. Theodor Raettig version

[Traverso]

De Falla

[SonicMan46]

Telemann, GP - Wind Concertos w/ the performers on the back cover of the 8-CD box - will pull out just 3 or 4 for the late afternoon and dinnertime - Dave

 

[Mirror Image]

Catching up with some late 4th of July listening as that particular day I wasn't really in the mood to listen to much music so...

NP:

Ives
Symphony No. 4
Dallas SO & Chorus
Litton



Next up:

Copland
Billy the Kid
San Francisco SO
MTT



And then:

Diamond
Symphony No. 3
Seattle Symphony
Schwarz

[Cato]

Arnold Schönberg
Moses und Aron, 1^ act

It has been noted that Schoenberg's two greatest religious works were unfinished, yet do not seem that way!

Also interesting is that an "A" in Die Jakobsleiter is the last note of the work, parallel with the final note "A" which Moses has on the word "fehlt" (is lacking), (while the violins hold an F#).

Although Schoenberg's literary mind had created much more text for both works, his musical instincts told him otherwise.  Yearning for theosophic revelations, it would seem, symbolized by the lonely note "A" fading away slowly (A-F# in Moses und Aron), is the connection between the works.