What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

After that, going to take a cue from Florestan's posts to fill out the rest of my morning listening:

Please report on them.

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
                            Sinfonia antartica

Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin with Women of the Philharmonia Chorus and Linda Hohenfeld soprano

Slatkin's VW performances are underrated IMO.

[Karl Henning]

I like Martinu best when he is being playful.

I'll take my cue from Fergus:

Martinů
La revue de cuisine, H. 161 (1927 Paris)

[Florestan]

Act I up to, and including, Una voce poco fa. Splendid performance.

Every time I hear this opera I understand why Rossini in comic mode was like a gush of fresh air breezing in a room filled with heavy perfumes. One of the greatest musical firebrands ever.

[Karl Henning]

Martinů
Film en miniature, H. 148 (1925)
Lada Valešová, pf

[Spotted Horses]

Slatkin's VW performances are underrated IMO.

I've only listened to his recording of A London Symphony and I enjoyed it greatly.

[Karl Henning]

Martinů
Fantaisie et Toccata, H. 281 (1940)
Eleonora Bekova, pf

[bhodges]

Martinů
Film en miniature, H. 148 (1925)
Lada Valešová, pf

Don't know this or some of the other Martinů works you've been hearing. He really is one of the 20th century's most underrated composers, and with such an enormous output to explore, too.

--Bruce

[bhodges]

Martinů: Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani (Radom Chamber Orchestra (ROK) / Beethoven Academy Orchestra (OAB) / Maciej Zoltowski, conductor) - Recorded in May 2012 in the Penderecki Concert Hall in Radom, Poland. Quite fine, and with personnel likely off the radar for most listeners. Sound is very good, and shows off the internal voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BLJxJG1kQo&t=21s

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Martinů: Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani (Radom Chamber Orchestra (ROK) / Beethoven Academy Orchestra (OAB) / Maciej Zoltowski, conductor) - Recorded in May 2012 in the Penderecki Concert Hall in Radom, Poland. Quite fine, and with personnel likely off the radar for most listeners. Sound is very good, and shows off the internal voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BLJxJG1kQo&t=21s

--Bruce

Nice! I'm in.

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi (1743-1805) - Oboe & String Quintets + Sextets - 3 discs pulled from the 10-CD Capriccio box below - an excellent bargain (review HERE for the interested) - the only 'weak' performances IMO and the linked review are the two discs of the Guitar Quintets, but I have several other recordings of those works.  Dave

[Lisztianwagner]

First listen to:

Luigi Nono
.....Sofferte onde serene....

[Todd]

2.

[Karl Henning]

First listen to:

Luigi Nono
.....Sofferte onde serene....

Isn't it great?

[Symphonic Addict]

Verdi: I Lombardi

[Karl Henning]

Martinů: Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani (Radom Chamber Orchestra (ROK) / Beethoven Academy Orchestra (OAB) / Maciej Zoltowski, conductor) - Recorded in May 2012 in the Penderecki Concert Hall in Radom, Poland. Quite fine, and with personnel likely off the radar for most listeners. Sound is very good, and shows off the internal voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BLJxJG1kQo&t=21s

--Bruce

I have to admit to a little ocular-neural effort not to read that as Random Chamber Orchestra. Cracking performance!

[ritter]

First listen to:

Luigi Nono
.....Sofferte onde serene....

Isn't it great?

I find it fascinating. Nono at the top of his game...

Good evening, Ilaria and Karl.

[Karl Henning]

Good evening, Rafael!

TD:

The Ninth with the Berliners

[classicalgeek]

Been a while since my last post! I was finalizing my entry for an orchestration challenge (Orchestration Online), so I haven't done much listening in the last couple of weeks.

Most recently, listened to two recordings of Aaron Copland's Short Symphony:

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop



Orpheus Chamber Orchestra



While Alsop's version was perfectly fine, Orpheus was the clear winner for me. They bring a tightness of ensemble that's unparalleled, and they really get the complex rhythms that drive the piece.

[Todd]