What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Claude Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune



Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 5 Netherlands Radio Philharmonic

[Lisztianwagner]

Now:
Hans Werner Henze
Sebastian im Traum



Mariss Jansons & RCO

[Todd]

It's been a while.  Better violinist than compositions.

[Karl Henning]

Arvo Pärt's
Tabula rasa

Paavo Järvi, Estonian National Symphony
Orchestra, Viktoria Mullova (violin)

Splendid. That's all you need to know, really.

First-rate Pärt

[Karl Henning]

I want to say something like "I had that Arvo Pärt in the back of my taxi once..."!
He came to Christ Church St. Laurence (Sydney) for a performance of his Passio, I think.
He was there, sat in the aisles... and I couldn't bring myself to go speak to him. I guess that's what 'awe' means.
I proverbially kick myself in the butt every day.

I comfort myself with the thought that his English would have been terrible and he might have thought I was asking him if he was in favour of the Big Mac or the Chicken Burger.
But it's probably the closest I've ever been to greatness, and I was utterly dumb-struck.
And I therefore still kick myself, gymnastically, in the butt every day.

He'd probably have been fine with the Big Mac.

Musicians are magicians. They astound me, every day.

Completely understand.

TD: Okay, in for a pound ...

Pettersson
Concerto № 1 for String Orchestra (1949/50)

[vers la flamme]

Completely understand.

TD: Okay, in for a pound ...

Pettersson
Concerto № 1 for String Orchestra (1949/50)

Would love to know your thoughts on it, especially being that you didn't connect with Pettersson's Violin Concerto No.2 in the past. (The string concertos are very different, and much earlier, works.)



Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major. Louis Lortie, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Lortie is a fine pianist and sounds absolutely killer playing Ravel.

[foxandpeng]

Completely understand.

TD: Okay, in for a pound ...

Pettersson
Concerto № 1 for String Orchestra (1949/50)

+1. Good call.

TD:

Paul von KLENAU
Symphony No. 1 in F minor
Symphony No. 5 (Triptikon)
Paulo und Francesca
Symphony No. 7 Die Sturmsymphonie
Klein Idas Blume (Ballett-Ouverture)
Gespräche mit der Tod
Jahrmarkt bei London (Bank holiday - Souvenir of Hampstead Heath)
Susanne Resmark (alto)
Odense Symphony Orchestra - Jan Wagner

These two discs of Paul Von Klenau's symphonies 1, 5 and 7 and other works are simply excellent. Long car journey today, so turned up the volume and played them back to back both ways 🙂

[Karl Henning]

Would love to know your thoughts on it, especially being that you didn't connect with Pettersson's Violin Concerto No.2 in the past. (The string concertos are very different, and much earlier, works.)

I like this very much, indeed. Will change up with some Mozart before carrying on.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Verklärte Nacht



Such a masterpiece by Schönberg; maybe I prefer the version for string orchestra for the wider presence of colors and timbres expressed, but the original orchestration for string sextet is absolutely beautiful and thrilling too.

[Karl Henning]

Arnold Schönberg
Verklärte Nacht



Such a masterpiece by Schönberg; maybe I prefer the version for string orchestra for the wider presence of colors and timbres expressed, but the original orchestration for string sextet is absolutely beautiful and thrilling too.

Nice!

And ... TD:

Pettersson
Concerto № 2 for String Orchestra (1956)

[Peter Power Pop]

Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major. Louis Lortie, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Lortie is a fine pianist and sounds absolutely killer playing Ravel.

You're not wrong there. I have Lortie's Ravel piano CDs and love 'em.

Volume 1


Volume 2


Music for Four Hands

[vers la flamme]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.2 in C minor, the "Resurrection". Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Shinyukai Choir

This is just a stunning performance. Wow. Urlicht currently plays; Nathalie Stutzmann sings. (She's a conductor as well, and is now the music director of the Atlanta Symphony). Her voice is very powerful and imposing, if perhaps a little bit on the cold side. Ozawa really put together a great band in the Saito Kinen; per his own comments, he is especially proud of their string section.

[Symphonic Addict]

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!

It seems rather evident that Reznicek was parodying Strauss when wrote Der Sieger and Schlemihl, and he succeded at it methinks. Thanks for mentioning that opera. I guess Donna Diana is worth listening too.

[Symphonic Addict]

I really enjoyed that CD (both works) Cesar.

I'll have to give the Flagello a spin as I have zero recollections of it.

Superb disc. Disclosure: I'm an acquaintance of the conuctor's.

Good to know, Karl!

[Symphonic Addict]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

It's always a pleasure to revisit these warhorses, and with these stupendous accounts nothing could go wrong.

[JBS]

[Operafreak]

Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Terzo & Quarto/Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew

[Que]

Morning listening:

   

That any English music at all...from the early 16th century should survive is a miracle in itself

[Roasted Swan]

It seems rather evident that Reznicek was parodying Strauss when wrote Der Sieger and Schlemihl, and he succeded at it methinks. Thanks for mentioning that opera. I guess Donna Diana is worth listening too.

For sure they do sound like Strauss and by all accounts they are meant to parody the more famous composer.  But I do find it a bit odd that anyone would expend that amount of time and effort creating a long-winded "joke".  Whatever the motivation behind their creation I enjoy the music in its own right.  Donna Diana is lovely but a comic opera whereas Bluebeard is OTT drama!