What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

David Bedford: Recorder Concerto (see above)

Some info. on David Bedford:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bedford

[j winter]

Dvorak 7 & 8 to get things started, then all 7 Sibelius symphonies straight through.  I have oodles of Sibelius, but I find I frequently come back to Maazel WP, which was the first set I acquired many moons ago.  Perhaps I imprinted on it.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Roger Goeb SY3. Stokowski/CBS. Why is Stokowski unpopular, or non-popular, here?

[Linz]

Carl Nielsen Symphonies 3  Sinfonia espansiva Op. 27 Ruth Guldbæck, soprano Niels Moller, tenor, Royal Danish Orchestra, Symphony No. 5 Op. 50 New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

[Todd]

I was not anxious to listen to this, but now, just before the release of Zimerman's Szymanowski disc, I figured I'd give it a shot.  Zimerman plays at a Zimerman level, and Rattle and the BPO more than ably support him.  Too bad the music is D-list.

[Mapman]

Carl Nielsen Symphonies 3  Sinfonia espansiva Op. 27 Ruth Guldbæck, soprano Niels Moller, tenor, Royal Danish Orchestra, Symphony No. 5 Op. 50 New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

That's a nice performance of Nielsen's 5th.

[Symphonic Addict]

Verdi: La Forza del Destino (acts I and II)

[Symphonic Addict]

That's a nice performance of Nielsen's 5th.

+1, an electrifyingly exciting performance!

[Symphonic Addict]

Reznicek: Der Sieger

[JBS]

Repeat listen.  The Khachaturian is very well done. The Sheherezade is nice, but proves that Rimsky Korsakov knew how to put a full orchestra to good use. The final track barely registered.

[vers la flamme]

Hans Werner Henze: Violin Concerto No.1. Peter Sheppard Skærved, Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken

I don't know anything about Henze, except that he was gay, German, and a communist, but I'm intrigued to hear more of his music. I like how he writes for the violin here, it's a very lyrical solo part.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hans Werner Henze: Violin Concerto No.1. Peter Sheppard Skærved, Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken

I don't know anything about Henze, except that he was gay, German, and a communist, but I'm intrigued to hear more of his music. I like how he writes for the violin here, it's a very lyrical solo part.

I must check the recording! 

[Operafreak]

Chaminade: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2-Trio Parnassu

[JBS]

Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Recorded in 1934

Sound is very good for a recording of this vintage.

[Symphonic Addict]

Rosner: Symphony No. 5

[Que]

Organ works (VIII)

[Roasted Swan]

Reznicek: Der Sieger

I love this series of big Straussian works by Reznicek on CPO - for me they were genuinely revelatory.  His opera - Duke Bluebeard - is pretty damm fine too!

[Que]

Return to this intriguing cycle of 50 fugues for three voices (actually two part canons), part of Michael Maier's (1569-1622) alchemical emblem book Atalanta Fugiens.



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[aukhawk]

Excellent!  I wonder if the colours translated in Messiaen's mind to some particularly dense chromatic chord. 
Something like the opening of Les Ténèbres perhaps. (From Livre du Saint-Sacrement)

[Operafreak]

Avi Avital - Bach- Avi Avital (mandolin), Shalev Ad-El (harpsichord)

Kammerakademie Potsdam