What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

I've already listened to it recently, but this piece has definitely blown me away......

Arnold Schönberg
Verklärte Nacht

[vandermolen]

Yes! Nordgren is excellent. I have heard the discs with 2 and 4, and 3 and 5 in the last few days, finding them hugely positive. 2 and 4 have been particularly worthwhile. Time for a run at 7 soon, as that is coupled with a good solid 8

Listening now to both of those I have already prodded, on the back of your post 🎻

Excellent Danny! I have the Ondine CD but not the Finlandia. I misread your message as implying that you would be breaking off from listening to Nordgren to go out running ('Time for a run at 7.00 (am or pm?) I thought 'how impressive is that!' 

[foxandpeng]

Excellent Danny! I have the Ondine CD but not the Finlandia. I misread your message as implying that you would be breaking off from listening to Nordgren to go out running ('Time for a run at 7.00 (am or pm?) I thought 'how impressive is that!' 

*coughs*

*eats bagel*

[vandermolen]

*coughs*

*eats bagel*

LOL

NP
Finzi: 'Requiem da camera' (1923-25)
A lovely and entirely characteristic work:

[Traverso]

Messiaen



In 1993 Naji succeeded Hakim Messiaen as organist of the church of La Trinite, Paris.

[JBS]

Excellent! Looks like a great CD. Symphony No.3 is the only one that I heard live in concert. I wonder how the DGG compares with the Chandos recording.

I only have a hazy memory of the Chandos CD--the Third on this one is good, but it's the Seventh that packs a punch. (I don't have the Chandos recording of that one.)

[Todd]

and



from




More crusty old recordings of even crustier, older works.  Dig the Lassus.

[Karl Henning]

I only have a hazy memory of the Chandos CD--the Third on this one is good, but it's the Seventh that packs a punch. (I don't have the Chandos recording of that one.)

I near immediately nabbed the mp3 album. First, though:

Pettersson
Concerto № 2 for Violin & Orchestra (1977/78)
Ida Haendel, vn
Swedish Radio Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt

[Que]

More crusty old recordings of even crustier, older works.  Dig the Lassus.

Most of those early Early Music recordings are really outdated...

Lassus is like Bach: his genius will shine through in any performance.

[Mountain Goat]

Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Symphony No.7 (2003)
One of the most impressive 21st Century symphonies that I have heard (along with Soderlind's 8th Symphony 'Jean Sibelius, In Memoriam' and James MacMillan's 4th Symphony)

I enjoy symphonies 3 & 5, but that's the only CD of his I have - the others seem to be hard to come by unfortunately!

[Karl Henning]

Most of those early Early Music recordings are really outdated...

Lassus is like Bach: his genius will shine through in any performance.

Indeed!

[Karl Henning]

Pettersson
Concerto № 2 for Violin & Orchestra (1977/78)
Ida Haendel, vn
Swedish Radio Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt

I cannot say for absolutely sure, but this is what I think I remember: I had bought the cpo recording of the Concerto, listened (or tried to listen) once, came away feeling that the piece and probably the composer were awful. Was resolved as a consequence simply to avoid Pettersson.

I really enjoyed this, today. As with the String Concerti, I need to go back, as there is too much to "digest" on a single hearing, but I expect my enjoyment to deepen over time.

[Spotted Horses]

I cannot say for absolutely sure, but this is what I think I remember: I had bought the cpo recording of the Concerto, listened (or tried to listen) once, came away feeling that the piece and probably the composer were awful. Was resolved as a consequence simply to avoid Pettersson.

Glad you found the string concerti rewarding. It is the only Pettersson that I have managed to come to terms with.

[foxandpeng]

I enjoy symphonies 3 & 5, but that's the only CD of his I have - the others seem to be hard to come by unfortunately!

Spotifyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!

Always my choice.

Glad you found the string concerti rewarding. It is the only Pettersson that I have managed to come to terms with.

Deeply rewarding stuff, and a gateway to other great works of his, I feel. Symphony 7, maybe, as a next step?

[vandermolen]

I near immediately nabbed the mp3 album. First, though:

Pettersson
Concerto № 2 for Violin & Orchestra (1977/78)
Ida Haendel, vn
Swedish Radio Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt

I had the LP which made a huge impression on me.

[vandermolen]

I enjoy symphonies 3 & 5, but that's the only CD of his I have - the others seem to be hard to come by unfortunately!

Well, I'd definitely recommend the extraordinary No.7

[Spotted Horses]

Deeply rewarding stuff, and a gateway to other great works of his, I feel. Symphony 7, maybe, as a next step?

I have listened to the seventh, and I remember enjoying parts of it in an episodic way, but the overall musical arc of the work eluded me. Between the "good parts" I was lost at sea.

(That's the way I felt about a lot of Mahler, when I first encountered it.)

[Papy Oli]

Bach Cantatas BWV 2, 3 & 4 (Rilling)



And more of Foccroulle's Bach organ works :

[Biffo]

Bax: Overture, Elegy & Rondo - BBC Philharmonic conducted by Sir Andrew Davis

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Cemal Resit Rey: Scenes from Turkey.