What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Symphonies 2 and 4
John Kangas
Finnish RSO
Finlandia

Nice, atmospheric start to the day with these fine symphonies.

[Maestro267]

Weinberg: Symphony No. 7
Gerstein (harpsichord)/Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Grazinyte-Tyla

Weinberg: Symphony No. 18
Soloists, St. Petersburg Chamber Choir
St. Petersburg State SO/Lande

[Operafreak]

Weinberg: Violin Concertino, Symphony No. 10 & Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes

Ewelina Nowicka (violin)- Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, Anna Duczmal-Mróz

[Lisztianwagner]

Luigi Nono
Como una ola de fuerza y luz

Maurizio Pollini (piano), Slavka Taskova (soprano)
Claudio Abbado & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

[Traverso]

Purcell

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Bach


Never too early in the year to listen to this festive music. This time not the recording with Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden but with this beautiful one on the Collins label.

[Todd]

A nice, mixed 20th Century rep recording.  The Schreker Kammersymphonie is the highlight.

[pjme]

https://youtube.com/v/4FuZfgx5cwc

Another sad-angry symphony from Jan Fila's YT channel!
Kabelac comes to mind and the symphony by Ctirad Kohoutek i mentioned earlier.

[Traverso]

Villa-Lobos

CD 3

Choros Nos 5,7 & 11

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Bach


Never too early in the year to listen to this festive music. This time not the recording with Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden but with this beautiful one on the Collins label.

I was debating yesterday about that as I had just purchased a recording of it but on LP; however, mine is with K. Richter, Wunderlich et. al.    I do like the Sixteen though and should try and find a sample of their recording too.

PD

[SonicMan46]

Robert de Visée (c.1655-c.1732) - La Musique de la Chambre du Roy w/ Manuel Staropoli on recorders & Baroque flute, plus others on more recorders, theorbo, viola da gamba and harpsichord; recorders and flute all period instrument copies. Staropoli and his group have taken liberties in these works with the instrumentation - de Visée was an instrumental 'plucker' and the compositions are wind adaptations on the 4-disc set - much more discussion, if interested in the attached reviews.  Dave

Robert de Visée was a French lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a singer and composer for lute, theorbo and guitar. Visée published two books of guitar music that contain twelve suites between them, as well as a few separate pieces: Livre de guitare dédié au roi (Paris, 1682) and Livre de pièces pour la guitare (Paris, 1686). He also published a collection of pieces for the theorbo and lute: Pièces de théorbe et de luth (Paris, 1716); these may also be performed as ensemble pieces. The contents of all three books are tabulated with incipits and concordances in Rebours 2000. He composed many other pieces for theorbo and Baroque lute. (Source)

 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I would really urge a listen to Suzuki's version, if you can find it. It's not that the 16 are bad; I just find them rather thin and terribly English. And, weirdly, Japanese Bach sounds a lot more like I imagine Bach would want to have sounded than the English cathedral school of singing provides for.

Interesting!  I've only heard a tiny bit of one of the Suzuki/Bach cantata recordings (via radio) in the past, but will keep your suggestion in mind.

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's
Symphony No. 6

Igor Markevitch, London Symphony Orchestra

Nice!

PD

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Miklos Rozsa: Three Hungarian Sketches. Gamba/BBC.

[vandermolen]

Gustav Holst's
The Cloud Messenger

Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra, London
Symphony Chorus, Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)

It features some lovely proto-minimalist sections.

[vandermolen]

Hovhaness: Symphony 11 'All Men are Brothers' (RPO, Hovhaness)
One of my favourite Hovhaness symphonies. I like these old Crystal recordings. As with some of his other scores there are echoes of the Tallis Fantasia of Vaughan Williams:

[Karl Henning]

Weinberg: Violin Concertino, Symphony No. 10 & Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes

Ewelina Nowicka (violin)- Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, Anna Duczmal-Mróz

Love the Tenth!

[Karl Henning]

Pettersson
Concerto № 2 for String Orchestra (1956)

I enjoyed N^os. 1 & 2 very much, part of me wants to re-listen right away, but more of me wants to go on to № 3

[foxandpeng]

Ib Nørholm
Symphony 5 'The Elements'
Jan Latham-Koenig
Danish RSO
Via YouTube

I've long been curious about Ib Nørholm's symphonies, so have dug out my YouTube rips from some years ago. I know I listened with interest, but remember little of them. The Fifth Symphony is spread over four movements depicting the elements of air, earth, fire and water. Far more complex than my limited musical understanding can effectively describe but I really do like this kind of thing.

[JBS]

Mahler Symphony no 2
Ormandy/Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Corinne Frank Bowen soprano
Anne O'Malley Gallogly contralto
Twin Cities Symphony Chorus
Recorded in 1935. As far as I can tell, this was the second commercial recording of the symphony. Ormandy doesn't linger over many roses, but he wasn't a speed demon: overall time is approximately 76 1/2 minutes.  There are some intonation flubs but the sound is good compared to most recordings of that era.


ETA
Quite out of the blue, Ormandy included peals of church bells over the final moments of the symphony.

Onto another CD from the set
The Fourth Symphonies of both Schumann and Beethoven, filled out by the Leonore Overture 3