What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Nice to see this one 

+ 1

TD ... two works I haven't visited in a while

Hovhaness, Symphony of Metal Instruments, Op. 203
Elgar, The Music Makers, Op. 69

[j winter]

First listen to this work, very nice indeed... that Beethoven guy seems to know what he's about... 

[Karl Henning]

First listen to this work, very nice indeed... that Beethoven guy seems to know what he's about... 

Nice! Played that on my Junior Recital.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

+ 1

TD ... two works I haven't visited in a while

Hovhaness, Symphony of Metal Instruments, Op. 203
Elgar, The Music Makers, Op. 69

Karl, do you happen to know Jane Monheit's track of Some Other Time by Lenny?   

https://youtu.be/fDQiOnttN9Q

[Traverso]

Berio

[j winter]

Jean Sibelius'
Symphony No. 1

Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

I'm not normally a fan of Herr Karajan, but this was exciting -definitely not the smooth, legato experience I was expecting from the mere names of the protagonists. Recommended.

Just FYI, symphonies 1-3 from that set are with Okko Kamu; Karajan only did 4-7.  I agree it's a fine set, I've had it for years and have enjoyed it.

[j winter]

Nice! Played that on my Junior Recital.

Cheers!

Sticking with Beethoven...

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Nice to see this one 

Yes, excellent performance!

[Maestro267]

Rubbra: Violin Concerto.



All Rubbra hallmarks with more beside. A fine concerto.

Covers that absolutely look like Hyperion covers but they're not

[Todd]

The second disc equivalent from:



Lionheart was/is an American all-male choir.  (I am not sure if they still perform.)  The disc includes Palestrina's Missa In Duplicitus Minoribus 1, with other bits mixed in, most importantly some from Victoria.  It is well sung, in a pleasing acoustic.  They recorded some Morales, so I may give that a try at some point.

I will say that when it comes to all-male American choirs, Chanticleer is more to my taste, what, with some of the best ever Morales available, and tip-top everything else.

[Brian]

I had never heard Berio's completion of Schubert's 9th/10th (depending on your numbering scheme) before. I had heard a more conventional musicological completion only - maybe Newbould? But Todd asked, so I had to correct.

Well, it's extraordinary. What it captures for me is a personal experience that I don't know if everyone has. But there have been a few times in life where I've fallen asleep while listening to classical music on headphones - while sheltering in a hurricane, while on transatlantic flights. There have also been times where, at night, classical music is stuck in my head, and then I fall asleep while it is fading out.

In those moments - especially napping mid-music on a flight - the music takes on a phantasmagorical, hallucinatory quality. It stops being familiar beloved music you've heard before and starts to sound like the monsters that hid under the bed when you were a kid. Sometimes as I've fallen asleep the music seemed to slip into the wrong key, or become minor instead of major, as if it wasn't its real self anymore.

Berio's insertions are like that. They capture that experience more accurately than I could have imagined any waking experience could do. Schubert's symphony sounds like a budding possible masterpiece, but it moves in and out of focus during Berio's transitions and fill-ins, in a way that is exactly like the experience of slipping out of full awareness, from waking to dreaming and back.

Amazing!

[Todd]

Amazing!

Before I listened to the version that Berio himself conducted, I almost poo-pooed the idea.  Then I listened.  I'm glad I did. 

Chailly's take is something.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Verklärte Nacht

[Karl Henning]

Thanks! Not sure I've listened to that 'un:

Weinberg Symphony № 18 « There's no word more cruel » (1982-84)

https://www.youtube.com/v/OYy50Ocfw8w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYy50Ocfw8w

This is a beauty!

[Todd]

Wanted a comparatively soft, legato-laden, lyrical take on Bartok's PC2.  jk - I want some muscly playing.

[Symphonic Addict]

Verdi: Aroldo

[Symphonic Addict]

Just been listening to this too!  Very well played and the 2 RVW quartets are great but the Holst I thought was pretty dreadful - and I usually like folksong influenced music.  It just sounds like he was trying too hard - St. Pauls Suite but without the inspiration....?

Funny how reactions about music can differ so much among listeners. The other day I was listening to that work from another CD and I didn't think it was dreadful at all, on the contrary, I found it quite endearing. I wish the work would have had a more agitated ending, nonetheless.

[foxandpeng]

Deep Sky Blue
Philly Suite
Amanda Harberg
Brett Deubner (viola)
Caroline Fauchet (piano)

I only really know Amanda Harberg through her excellent Viola Concerto, but this is a really engaging Suite for Viola and Piano that I would also very much recommend. Immensely tuneful and great recorded sound.

[Karl Henning]

Karl, do you happen to know Jane Monheit's track of Some Other Time by Lenny?   

https://youtu.be/fDQiOnttN9Q

I did not, Manabu, thanks!

[JBS]

A Kocsis evening
Rachmaninov PCs 2 and 3

Dance Suite Sz 77 (piano reduction by the composer), Four Piano Pieces Sz 22,  Marche Funebre from Kossuth Sz 21, and two piano-only versions of the Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra Sz 26