What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Schönberg again, now:
Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene

A wonderful miniature (well, not so diminutive, really!)

[Karl Henning]

Some vintage Georges Enesco today at work. He conducts his Romanian Rhapsodies No. 1 & 2, op. 11 (Orchestre des Concerts Colonne), Dinu Lipatti plays the Piano Sonata No. 3 in D major, op. 25, and then Enesco conducts the Orchestre Symhonique de Paris in Ernest Chausson's Poème, op. 25, with a very young Yehudi Menuhin as soloist.

CD 1 of this ultra-budget set:

Nice! Good day, Rafael!

[SonicMan46]

Pleyel, Ignaz (1757-1831) - Clarinet & Wind Works + Piano Trios - decided to continue w/ Pleyel from yesterday - he composed 48 Piano Trios, according to the Benton catalog (Ben 428-429;431-471) - the CPO recording uses a fortepiano (details not in the notes, a Pleyel reproduction would have been nice -  ) and a regular piano used by the Joachim Trio - there are 7 trios on the two discs w/ only one duplication.  Dave

     

[aligreto]

Arnold: Symphony No. 9 [Penny]





Notes will be posted in the Malcolm Arnold thread for those interested.

[Florestan]

[Traverso]

Bach


CD 4  second sunday after epiphany


Cantatas   


BWV 13-73-81 & 144

[Traverso]

Nice! Goedendag, Jan!

TD:

A little peculiar that this is an inaugural listen. The exchange on the Hillside made me realize it's time:

NP: The Maggini Quartet playing Elgar's e minor string quartet, Op. 83

And a good day to you too  ...

[Traverso]

Remarkable choice Andrei....

[Que]

On Spotify:

[Florestan]

Remarkable choice Andrei....

Am enjoying it enormously, Jan. There is a Benedicamus Domino whose melimas are simply otherworldly.

[Lisztianwagner]

A wonderful miniature (well, not so diminutive, really!)

It is indeed, such a thrilling, suggestive piece!


Now:
William Walton
Symphony No.2

https://www.youtube.com/v/qVyCUQJ420s

Vladimir Ashkenazy & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

[Traverso]

Am enjoying it enormously, Jan. There is a Benedicamus Domino whose melimas are simply otherworldly.

There is so much to discover,....enjoy Andrei 

https://www.youtube.com/v/bzbpI5u3pZ0

[pjme]

Ralph Vaughan Williams' symphony nr 8....
-....favourite RVW symphony. Probably. Always a delight, anyway: thank you, Puccini!

This made reach for a book I bought many years ago in London: Working with RVW, the correspondence of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Roy Douglas.
Douglas, member of the LSO, composer,orchestrator, pianist and editor, worked, corrected and edited for many years the scores of RVW.
RVW writes to Roy in 1955:
"I went to Turandot yesterday and they used a set of tuned gongs, chromatic scale, which sounded superb, much better than tubular bells. Of course they could not do a glissando. Do you think it would be worth while to put them in the score as an alternative to the tubular bells?- keeping those for the glissando."
Roy meditates on those "confounded gongs"! - "How I regretted his visit to Turandot!....their inclusion led to considerable complications.
A couple of days later:
"I am rather a flapdoodle about the new gong part. Or rather its notation. "
Apparently in 1955 only the Covent Garden orchestra seems to have had that set of tuned gongs, so Douglas forsees plenty of problems for the performance of the new symphony.
But RVW writes"...it would be more fun to have tubular bells and gongs ALL the time (the latter to be ad lib) except for the occasional single note - I rather feel the more the merrier! - can you devise some means of showing the conductor what I want?
How about:
Tubular bells
Chromatic gongs - ad lib
1 gong - deep indeterminate sound in abscence of chromatic gongs?
Would it be a good plan to give the gongs something to play during the glissando?"
What a bloody nuisance I am.
Later, in december 1955:
Dear Roy,
...I have adopted a truly British compromise.
I have written a new gong part on three notes  D E A upwards, they should be marked "ad lib" but a note should be added to effect that though they are not absolutely essential their inclusion is VERY DESIRABLE."

Voila, - afaik, the symphony has always been performed with the gong parts.

https://www.youtube.com/v/6vl_KZzBrBY

[Karl Henning]

Not sure I've ever listened to this before: it's sounding very fresh!

Dvořák
Symphony Variations, Op. 78
Cz Phil
Neumann

[Karl Henning]

Not sure I've ever listened to this before: it's sounding very fresh!

Dvořák
Symphony Variations, Op. 78
Cz Phil
Neumann

Not surprisingly, some more:

Dvořák
V přírodě, Op. 91
Cz Phil
Neumann

[Todd]

The first seven tracks, out of 164 total.  (That's $0.006/track.)  Tracks are below.  Mr Entremont gets B and C+ performances out of his C-list orchestra.  The Debussy fares best in its gorgeous languidness.  The recordings sound quite spacious.  The 240 kbps MP3s sound good enough, especially given the mostly 80s vintage.  A big slug of Berlioz conducted by Alexander Gibson and Charles Mackerras is up next in this set.

Tracks:

1. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle: La Marseillaise
Denver Symphony Orchestra; Philippe Entremont, conductor

2. Georges Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1 (Les Toreadors & Sequedille)
Royal Promenade Orchestra; Alfred Gehardt, conductor

3. Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (Can-Can)
Royal Promenade Orchestra; Alfred Gehardt, conductor

4. Claude Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L.86
Denver Symphony Orchestra; Philippe Entremont, conductor

5. Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Denver Symphony Orchestra; Philippe Entremont, conductor

6. Camille Saint-Saëns: French Military March
Denver Symphony Orchestra; Philippe Entremont, conductor

7. Paul Dukas: L'Apprenti Sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
Denver Symphony Orchestra; Philippe Entremont, conductor

[Linz]

Mendelssohn & Beethoven - Violin Concertos Joshua Bell and Roger Norrington Camerata Salzberg

[vandermolen]

John Kinsella: Symphony No.6

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Peter Mennin - Symphony 4. 

[Karl Henning]

Peter Mennin - Symphony 4. 

Nice! Don't think I know it!