What are you listening 2 now?

[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

[Operafreak]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'

Emil Gilels (piano)
    Cleveland Orchestra
    George Szell

[Mandryka]

Returning to this. It's a real goodie because of the tenor.

[Roasted Swan]

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'

Emil Gilels (piano)
    Cleveland Orchestra
    George Szell

All together now...... "If you're happy and you know it look like us.........."

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Cantatas from Leipzig, 1724.
Volume 17.
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.

The world looks grim, and the outlook has no joy in it. Things go rapidly wrong, What beter as the comfort of Bach's Cantatas.

[Irons]

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

Front Cover: The Garden Gate, gouache 1978. Printed by kind permission of the artist, Mr. Benedict Rubbra and the owner, Lady Dorothy Pratt. (quote)

[Traverso]

Bach

After the many organ works there is now time again for the beautiful cantatas.

[Harry]

Georg Bohm.
Complete Organ Works.
CD II.
Friedhelm Flamme plays on a Creutzburg Organ 1731, Propsteikirche, St. Cyriakus, Duderstadt.

[vandermolen]

Raff: Symphony No.5 'Lenore':

[Harry]

Raff: Symphony No.5 'Lenore':

A beautiful work Jeffrey. I have a soft spot for all orchestral works by Raff.

[Traverso]

Thomas Tallis

[vandermolen]

A beautiful work Jeffrey. I have a soft spot for all orchestral works by Raff.

Thanks Harry - I think that I own almost every recording of 'Lenore' 

Apparently, Bernard Herrmann (who conducted it) paid for the famous first recording (Unicorn) himself.

[Papy Oli]

Richard Strauss

"Aus Italien"

[Harry]

Emilie Mayer.
Symphony No 3 & 6.
Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven, Marc Nieman.

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: Wasp Overture; Symphony No 6 in E minor - BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent (live from the Proms) - My first impression of the symphony was that it was rather brisk but a quick comparison with Boult's first recording indicated the timings were pretty similar. A fine performance.

[Papy Oli]

Dutilleux
Symphony No.1

(From the Tortelier set)

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: Wasp Overture; Symphony No 6 in E minor - BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent (live from the Proms) - My first impression of the symphony was that it was rather brisk but a quick comparison with Boult's first recording indicated the timings were pretty similar. A fine performance.

I very much agree re. Symphony No.6

[Harry]

Gustav Mahler.
Symphony No. 5.
Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott.

[foxandpeng]

Valeriy Antonyuk
Symphonies and Other Works Vol 1
Symphony 1 'Harmony of Motion'
Symphony 2 'Fanfare'
Symphony 3 'Predictable Music'
Symphony 4 'The System of Desires'
Piano Concerto
Valentina Antonyuk etc
Academic Symphony Orchestra of National Philharmonic of Ukraine
National Company of Ukraine Symphony Orchestra
Ukraine NSO


First listen to this contemporary Ukrainian composer. Valeriy Antonyuk was born in 1979 in Ukraine. He is a composer, arranger, pianist, and 'song poet'. He works in all the existing musical genres and plays Ukrainian flutes, Moldova cimbalom (dulcimers), classical guitar, electric guitar, drums, and bass guitar. He won the International Prokofiev Composer Competition, Ukraine (2000), and has apparently 7 symphonies to his name so far, along with several acclaimed film scores and a pile of other compositions.

I have never heard of him, but I am enjoying so far 🙂.

Shockingly for me, a convinced pianophobe, I really like his Piano Concerto. Less 'plink plink' and more 'crash wallop'. How good is that?

[Papy Oli]

Richard Strauss

"Sinfonia Domestica"