What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Mozart

piano concerto No.24

John Gibbons,Fortepiano

Orchestra of the 18th Century

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Friday!

CD 9

Vissarion Shebalin
Symphony № 3 in C, Op. 17

Yuri Shaporin
The Flea—Suite

Nikolai Rakov
Sinfonietta for string orchestra
Symphony № 3 in C for string orchestra

The Shebalin is from 1932-34 (the freewheeling pre-crackdown days in Soviet Music) and often sounds it, in good ways. Good piece, eminently likeable. For sampling, let me suggest the Andante. I can kind of think of the symphony as a whole, as a musical sampler in "small" in a way that the Shostakovich Fourth is a monumental example.
The Shaporin (from 1928) is based on a folk story by the 19^th-century writer Nikolai Leskov. In the scoring, Shaporin includes folk instruments, the domra and bayan, and the quirky flexatone. Charming music.
The Rakov pieces are from 1958 & 1962, respectively. The Sinfonietta, especially, if I had chanced on it, listening to the radio, I might have taken for Britten. Overall, an excellent disc, really.

[Karl Henning]

I am a chocolate man, that sounds irresistible. I would like it with chocolate shavings!

Can't go wrong!

[Traverso]

Can't go wrong!

expert opinion......

[Karl Henning]

expert opinion......

(* chortle *)

Goedendag, Jan!

[Traverso]

(* chortle *)

Goedendag, Jan!

And a good day to you Karl   

[vandermolen]

Love this album!

+1

[Todd]

The Liszt portion.  Monumentally fantastic.

[Karl Henning]

And, finishing off this lovely box:
Apart from the Mosolov, all first listens.

CD 10

Aman Agadzhikov
Concerto-Poem (1969)
for violin and orchestra
Aleksandr Souptel, vn

Andrei Volkonsky
Immobile (1977-78)
for piano and orchestra
Aleksei Lubimov, pf

Sergei Bulimov
Concerning Water, Dead and Alive (1987)
Concerto for oboe and strings
Juozas Rimas, ob

Leonid Polovinkin
Telescope II (1928)
Suite for orchestra

Aleksandr Mosolov
Iron Foundry, Op. 19 (1926-27)

True to its title (we might say) Agadzhikov's Concerto-Poem is largely a throwback to 19^th-century concertante violin sensibilities. Good work in its way.
The Volkonsky is a brilliant contrast, a kind of anti-concerto, somewhat Webernian (to the degree that an eleven-minute piece can be.
The Bulimov is a very nice oboe vehicle, from a composer "dedicated to East/West synthesis."
Overall, the disc has a "today and yesterday" vibe, or then-today, anyway. Thus we go back in time for the Polovinkin and Mosolov (the latter piece having found something of a latter-day celebrity (which could not much have recompensed the composer for his time in the Gulag.

[vers la flamme]

 

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.3 in D minor, WAB 103. Günter Wand, Symphonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks

Probably my favorite recording of decidedly not my favorite Bruckner symphony (I think I prefer 0, 1 and 2, to say nothing of the others), though it's been quite some time since I've heard it.

[Lisztianwagner]

Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet

Béla Bartók
String Quartet No.6

[Karl Henning]

CD 12

Olivier Messiaen
Les offrandes oubliées (1930)
Geo. Benjamin

Rob Zuidam
Adam-Interludes (2007-08)
Ingo Metzmacher

Claude Debussy
La mer (1903-05)
Bernard Haitink

Geert van Keulen
Fünf tragische Lieder (2007)
auf Gedichte van Anna Enquist
Detlef Roth, bar
Lothar Zagrosek

[Symphonic Addict]

Delius: Over the Hills and Far Away
Glazunov: From Darkness to Light, op. 53

[Que]

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Sonatas nos. 4 (Der Verliebte), 5 and 6 by Malcolm Bilson, Bart van Oort and Ursula Dütschler on reproductions after Schantz and Walter.

[Symphonic Addict]

Hans Koessler: String Sextet in F minor

If you enjoy Raff, this could be of your liking. A rather entertaining and memorable work.

[Jo498]

Mozart K 414 and 450 with Casadesus/Szell. Very good, the earlier piece is in mono but very acceptable sound.

[vers la flamme]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.4 in E-flat major, WAB 104, the "Romantic". Daniel Barenboim, Berliner Philharmoniker

Coming up on the finale coda, which might be my favorite part. 

[Lisztianwagner]

I'll join you in listening to Bruckner:

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.4

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky
Three Movements from Petrushka

Prokofiev
Sonata № 7, Op. 83

[vers la flamme]

I'll join you in listening to Bruckner:

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No.4

Very nice, I haven't heard much of Karajan's Bruckner, but I do like his "zen" approach to the music.