What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

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[ritter]

That's a great box Rafael,enjoy your weekend...

Thanks, Jan. Likewise!

And your subsequent post reminds me I should revisit Rameau sometime soon...

[vandermolen]

Arrived today (in time for the 150th Anniversary on 12th October) Vaughan Williams Symphony No.6 BBC SO Brabbins. Terrific! Best performance I have heard since Boult's LPO account on Decca. In many ways it sounds like a modern version of that legendary performance:

[Maestro267]

Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 1
Ukrainian State SO/Kuchar

Gliere: Symphony No. 2
BBC PO/Downes

[vandermolen]

Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 1
Ukrainian State SO/Kuchar

Gliere: Symphony No. 2
BBC PO/Downes

Wasn't Gliere the teacher of Lyatoshinsky?

[Lisztianwagner]

Georg Friedrich Händel
Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No.5

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.4 in E-flat major, op.7. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Perhaps my favorite of the sub-opus-10 Beethoven works, and a wonderful performance of it. I haven't spent any real time with any of the Beethoven sonatas in ages, and I'm not sure that now is the time to embark on another deep dive into these works, but it's good to revisit one of them.

[ritter]

Chamber music by Henri Dutilleux. CD 7 of this set:

[Maestro267]

Wasn't Gliere the teacher of Lyatoshinsky?

I wouldn't entirely be surprised. Some of the woodwind writing in the Lyatoshynsky symphony reminded me of the incredible woodwind passage in the slow movement of Il'ya Muromets.

[vandermolen]

I wouldn't entirely be surprised. Some of the woodwind writing in the Lyatoshynsky symphony reminded me of the incredible woodwind passage in the slow movement of Il'ya Muromets.

Just checked it up (Wiki):
In 1913, on the advice of his father, Lyatoshynsky entered the Faculty of Law at Kyiv University. When his piano quartet was performed in public in time for his father's birthday, the local press praised the work, although it was clear to those who heard the piece that the piano part was over-dominant. Lyatoshynsky's family decided to ask the composer Reinhold Glière, then the director and professor of the newly opened Kyiv Conservatory (now the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music of Ukraine), to teach the young man composition. His mother brought Glière the score of the quartet, and Glière agreed to teach him.[5] A postcard has survived which reads: "I invite His Excellency Mr. Borys Lyatoshynsky to my first lesson. Professor Glier."[8][note 2] Lyatoshynsky's early musical style was influenced by his family, his teachers, and his future wife Margarita Tsarevich—in his letters to her written between 1914 and 1916, his first ideas about writing music are revealed.[10]

[Mandryka]

Errrr - this is . . . special.

[Karl Henning]

From today's concert:

My Life, My Life (text by our Cato)
https://youtu.be/goP1YvVOX4Q
https://www.youtube.com/v/goP1YvVOX4Q

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Praeludium, Fuge und Allegro, BWV 998 [Leonhardt]





I think that this is a particularly fine piece of musical writing and it is wonderfully played and interpreted here by Leonhardt.

[aligreto]

From today's concert:

My Life, My Life (text by our Cato)
https://youtu.be/goP1YvVOX4Q
https://www.youtube.com/v/goP1YvVOX4Q

Well done to both Karl and Cato!

[Karl Henning]

Also from today's concert:

The Crystalline Ship (text by our Cato)
https://youtu.be/hai0GsbWO-w
https://www.youtube.com/v/hai0GsbWO-w

[Karl Henning]

Well done to both Karl and Cato!

Thank you, sir!

[Todd]

[vers la flamme]

Bohuslav Martinů: Symphony No.5. Bryden Thomson, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Sounding better than ever.

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Krzysztof Penderecki: Symphony No.3; Threnody. Antoni Wit, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

I really love this symphony. Not sure whether I'd say I "love" the Threnody, but I do find it to be a fascinating and very unique work.

[vers la flamme]

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Uirapurú. Eduardo Mata, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

This is the only work of this composer that I know, but I like it. Very exciting ballet music in the post-Rite of Spring vein. I suppose I'll get around to hearing something else of his eventually, but he wrote so much and I don't know where to next.