What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

First listen.  Perfectly serviceable second-rate music.

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No 3 Ozawa Boston Symphony Orchestra with Jessye Norman soprano, Tanglewood Festival Chorus American Boychoir

[aligreto]

Oh, that must be tasty!

'Twas tasty indeed.

[TheGSMoeller]

Elgar's 1st Symphony - with the LPO and Slatkin, seen below casting expecto patronum.

[Lisztianwagner]

Johann Strauss II
Phönix-Schwingen, Op.125

Johann Strauss II
Morgenblätter, Op.279

[Karl Henning]

Elgar's 1st Symphony - with the LPO and Slatkin, seen below casting expecto patronum.

How's this set pleasing you, Greg?

[Symphonic Addict]

Rorem: Symphony No. 3

One of the great American Thirds. I have no idea why I didn't remember how spectacular this work is.

[foxandpeng]

Christopher Rouse
Flute Concerto
Alan Gilbert
Royal Stockholm PO
BIS

This is a stand out work, if only for the beautiful Elegia, but is excellent throughout.

[VonStupp]

George Dyson
Three Choral Hymns
Three Songs of Praise
Psalm 150
Thomas Trotter - organ
St. Michael's Singers - Jonathan Rennert

Confortate
Psalm 150
Three Songs of Praise
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Richard Hickox

A run of Dyson choral music. I think I prefer the orchestrated versions over the organ only on Hyperion.

VS

 

[vers la flamme]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.6 in A minor. John Barbirolli, New Philharmonia Orchestra

I really like this recording. This is actually the first recording of the 6th that makes the Andante-Scherzo feel right to me.

[JBS]

The Fourth, with the BBCSO recorded 9/9/78 RAH London


First listen.

[Operafreak]

Les frères Francœur- Justin Taylor (harpsichord), Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin)

[Symphonic Addict]

Röntgen: String Sextet in G major

[Harry]

J.S.Bach.
Complete Cantatas.
Volume 19.
Bach collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.
No. 86/37/104/166.

[vandermolen]

The Fourth, with the BBCSO recorded 9/9/78 RAH London


First listen.

I had a first listen the other day Jeffrey and thought that it was a fine performance, as was the 11th Symphony 'The Year 1905'. I'll be interested to know what you think.

[Harry]

Lyrita celebrating 50 years devoted to British Music.
Volume I.
CD I from IV,
William Alwyn, Malcolm Arnold, Henry Wood, Granville Bantock, Arnold Bax, Arthur Benjamin, William Bennett.

[Traverso]

Hildegard von Bingen


The Ave Maria,O auctrix vite is of a breathtaking beauty and therefore more than worth having this CD. The music is far removed from the atrocities that plague our time and offers a different perspective on what life can be.

[vers la flamme]

Pierre Boulez: Pli selon pli. Pierre Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra, w/ Halina Lukomska, soprano soloist

Have not heard this in ages.

[Spotted Horses]

Followed up the tenth symphony with the eleventh, by Allan Pettersson.



The two were written at the same time, when Pettersson was hospitalized for a kidney ailment. The tenth is more violently convulsive, the eleventh more contemplative, but still saturated with angst. I struggle with the "formlessness" of Pettersson's music, but I came away with some impression of what the music is about.

[Operafreak]

Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces-Stephen Hough (piano)