What are you listening 2 now?

[SonicMan46]

Barber, Samuel (1910-1981) - Orchestral Works from the Naxos American Classics 6-CD box - listening now to the top row of the enclosed discs - nice 'one-stop' shopping for his orchestral compositions and well reviewed (see attachment if interested); also own a handful of other singles (piano music w/ Browning; Upshaw in Knoxville; and Ma in the cello concerto) - but don't have any of his chamber works (listed HERE)?  Dave

 

[Karl Henning]

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

Have not heard this in ages.

I should revisit that, as well.

TD: a first listen

Dvořák
Viola Quintet in a minor, Op. 1

[Karl Henning]

Antonin Dvorak.
CD 5.
Symphony No. 8 in G major.
Staatskapelle Berlin, Otmar Suitner.

Nice! Goedendag, Harry!

[Linz]

Emilio de' Cavalieri  Lamentations Le Poème Harmonique

[Traverso]

JSB organ works: Piet Wiersma.

It's good to see Piet here. 

[Mandryka]

Some lovely Scarlatti here from Cziffra, a concert in Strasbourg in 1960.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHXbWI7ltk

[Karl Henning]

Some lovely Scarlatti here from Cziffra, a concert in Strasbourg in 1960.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHXbWI7ltk

Thanks, Howard!

[Traverso]

Chopin


Preludes-Impromptus

[Traverso]

Thanks, Howard!

+1

[Karl Henning]

TD:

Hovhaness
Return And Rebuild The Desolate Places. Op. 213

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C minor Kurt Eichhorn with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz CD7

[Traverso]

Listening on YT. It's something else indeed.

(And I take "atrocities" not only in the political sense, but cultural and social as well[/b].)

Glad you liked it Andrei...

Paradise seems a unattainable ideal..........

[Florestan]

Glad you liked it Andrei...

After that Sequentia disc I listened to this one, which is equally magnificent:



I do need more Bingen in my life.

Paradise seems a unattainable ideal..........

Certain works of art can give us a glimpse of it, though, especially music.

[Daverz]

Ginastera: Violin Concerto



First listen to this new Hilary Hahn recording.

[bhodges]

Ginastera: Violin Concerto



First listen to this new Hilary Hahn recording.

Oooh, that got my attention. Love Hahn, don't know this concerto but do like other Ginastera I've heard, e.g., the Piano Concerto. (And I've been so stuck on the Frankfurt ensemble's livestreams, I didn't realize they had any releases on DG, but happy to know.)

How is it?

-Bruce

[bhodges]

Franck - Symphony in D minor (Orchestre national de France / Leonard Bernstein, conductor) - Never heard this recording, and liking it. At first hearing seems a bit over-the-top in that Bernstein way, but the piece can handle it, so why not?

-Bruce

[Daverz]

Oooh, that got my attention. Love Hahn, don't know this concerto but do like other Ginastera I've heard, e.g., the Piano Concerto. (And I've been so stuck on the Frankfurt ensemble's livestreams, I didn't realize they had any releases on DG, but happy to know.)

How is it?

-Bruce

Excellent so far.  The other recordings I have are Andrew Wan (2020) and Accardo's ancient (though very impressive) recording (1968, I think).

[bhodges]

Excellent so far.  The other recordings I have are Andrew Wan (2020) and Accardo's ancient (though very impressive) recording (1968, I think).

Great, thanks. (Also happy to know of the other two.)

Now, more Frankfurt:

Martinů: Double Concerto (Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Andrés Orozco-Estrada) - A recent fave, recorded in June 2020 shortly after the lockdown, so...no audience. But good for them for overcoming whatever they had to do to get this done. Both conductor and orchestra are on fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8WYEANIj0&t=4s

-Bruce

[Symphonic Addict]

Excellent music!

Indeed, a most compelling rediscovery.

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major Boston Symphony Orchestra Kiri Te Kanawa soprano