What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

I promised myself some Telemann! 

[Todd]

Belatedly getting around to YES' Cliburn recordings.  Not listening until now has been my loss.  Perfect Haydn, perfect Schumann, and then near-perfect Liszt here, all performed live.  And she took the silver, but since gold was split between Zhang Hao Chen and Nobuyuki Tsujii and no Crystal award was awarded, that means in effect YES placed third.  Which I find hard to believe.  I need to eventually listen to the two winners, because YES, Evgeni Bozhanov, and Alessandro Deljavan are all top shelf younger/youngish pianists, and somehow they didn't cut it. 

[Biffo]

Alwyn: Sinfonietta for Strings - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Glazunov
Suite caractéristique, Op. 9
USSR State SO
Svetlanov

From this fantastic set -

[Operafreak]

Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux & Moments Musicaux- Boris Giltburg (piano)

[DavidW]

Karl, the Grand Concerto series is great!

Thread duty:

[Mirror Image]

Before heading off to work...

Grieg
Four Piano Pieces, Op. 1
Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 3
Humoresques, Op. 6
Piano Sonata, Op. 7
Funeral March For Rikard Nordraak, EG 117
Eva Knardahl

From this marvelous set -

[Karl Henning]

Braga Santos
Sinfonietta for Strings

Karl, the Grand Concerto series is great!

Davey, I'm hooked!

[SonicMan46]

Nice to see all of the Telemann being played! 

Tomasini, Luigi (1741-1808) - Baryton Trios w/ the Esterházy Ensemble - from the synopsis below, Haydn and Tomasini were like brothers and Luigi helped to compose some baryton works for Nikolaus I (did the guy every play one over again?  ) - my only recording of Tomasini, although a few more are available on Amazon.  More on this recording HERE. A baryton in the second pic w/ two sets of strings, one being sympathetic.  Dave

Luigi Tomasini was an Italian violinist and composer. Discovered by Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy, he was engaged in 1757 as a servant and given musical training; he became a violinist in the prince's orchestra at his court in Eisenstadt. Joseph Haydn became the director of the orchestra in 1761, and Tomasini made konzertmeister. Tomasini composed about 30 string quartets, a few symphonies and violin concerti, violin sonatas and violin duos, and many baryton trios for Prince Nikolaus I, a baryton player). (Source)

 

[Traverso]

Franck


CD 4

[Lisztianwagner]

Robert Schumann
Symphony No.4

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony 1 and Songs of a Wayfarer with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and For the songs of a Wayfarer Wiener Philharmoniker

[Iota]

Two short Sainte-Colombe concertos for two bass viols, "Le retrouvé" and "Les bateries". Gorgeous music and delivered in bewitchingly dark, resonant tone from the viols.

[foxandpeng]

The revised revision, with gut strings and Moog. I like it better than the first he did, and I like that one a lot.



Never in my life have I paid so much for 40 minutes of music. A coffee table album sort of.

Looking good. Not something I would gravitate towards, but nice vinyl 👌

[Linz]

Now for my first introduction to Bruckner many years ago

[VonStupp]

Carl Nielsen
Little Suite for Strings, op. 1
Hymnus Amoris, op. 12

Barbara Bonney, soprano
John Mark Ainsley & Lars Pedersen - tenors
Michael Hansen & Bo Anker Hansen - baritone/bass

Copenhagen Boys' Choir
Danish NRSO & Chorus - Ulf Schirmer

Hymnus Amoris, a choral work that is divided into stages of human life, is a beautiful 20-minute cantata. Soprano Barbara Bonney is particularly wonderful too!

VS

[VonStupp]

Now for my first introduction to Bruckner many years ago

Love the 'wing' series of Bruckner!

VS

[SonicMan46]

Vanhal, Johann (1739-1813) - Cello Concertos & KB Quintets w/ Spanyi on fortepiano - own just under 20 CDs of his works, mostly symphonies and chamber pieces.  Dave

Johann Wanhal was a Czech classical music composer, who died in Vienna. His music was well respected by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. He was a proficient organist, but played the violin and cello. In 1782 he met Mozart and enjoyed playing music with Mozart and and other composers, as testified in Michael Kelly's account of the string quartet Wanhal played in together with Haydn, Mozart and Dittersdorf in 1784. He was a prolific composer with 100 quartets, at least 73 symphonies, 95 sacred works, and a large number of instrumental and vocal works.(Source)

 

[Mapman]

Witold Lutoslawski
Concerto for Orchestra

Bartok/Lutoslawski concertos for orchestra.
I enjoyed both of these performances (Andrew Davis, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra)

Great music, although I don't know those performances. (Should I pound the table?)

[Symphonic Addict]

Great music, although I don't know those performances. (Should I pound the table?)

Yes, you should! This is the greatest performance of that work I've ever heard, thank this forum. It's a corker: