What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

This one's a step in the right direction - but still, somehow I think - soulless - as if he's playing music for people to dance to almost. But it's lively at least.

Well, technically they are collections of dances...

TD
Symphony 8

[Linz]

 Johann Pachelbel Canon & Gigue, Handel The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Albinoni Concerto in D minor op.9 No. 2, Avison Concerto No. 9 in C major/A minor after D. Scarlatti, Haydn Piano Concerto in D major, Purcell Chacony in G minor

[Brian]

Georges Onslow Symphonies 1 and 3 NDR Radiophilharmonie Johannnes Goritzki conducting

What do you think? I haven't listened to Onslow in a long time, except the string quintets, which are totally lovely. Might be time for me to revisit the symphonies too. His music is charming and craftsmanlike.

[prémont]

Colourful sewing machine from Karl Richter.  Every couple of minutes there's a little idea which maybe makes it sound like a human being's playing and not a plucking droid. I don't think I can get to the end of a whole partita.

Precisely. Fortunatutely he does only a few of the repeats.

[prémont]

Chansons der Troubadours


My very first LP with music from the Middle Ages.

Also an early purchase for me. I think it still keeps its attraction - as all of Binkleys recordings do.

[prémont]

This one's a step in the right direction - but still, somehow I think - soulless - as if he's playing music for people to dance to almost. But it's lively at least.

Yes, and more colorful in the right way than Richter's recording - maybe also caused by the different instruments (revival harpsichord vs. period copy). But they have some of the sewing-machine approach in common.

[Linz]

What do you think? I haven't listened to Onslow in a long time, except the string quintets, which are totally lovely. Might be time for me to revisit the symphonies too. His music is charming and craftsmanlike.

I thought it was quite good it reminded me of someone but I can not remember who

[SimonNZ]

on the radio: Capriccio Italien

[foxandpeng]

RVW
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 8
Bernard Haitink
London PO

[Daverz]

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6



Not a good performance (sour playing) or recording (though listenable enough), but sticking with it to hear Martinon's interpretation.

[vers la flamme]

His 14 is a real high point, not just of the set but of the whole universe.

Agreed, I really love that one—especially the Ivan Moravec recording.

[vers la flamme]

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, op.55; String Quartet No.7 in F major, op.59 no.1. John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique; Guarneri Quartet

Really having a great time rediscovering Beethoven's music lately.

[Mapman]

Arthur Foote: Piano Quintet, Op. 38
Barbagallo; Da Vinci Quartet

Attractive, tuneful, Romantic music. It feels somewhere between Mendelssohn and Dvořák, with small hints of Scottish folk music.

[Mapman]

Really having a great time rediscovering Beethoven's music lately.

Great! I've also been enjoying exploring Beethoven, especially pieces that I have not yet heard.

[JBS]

I've listened three times to this CD...


.... and each time the Cello Concerto has gone in one ear and out the other. Despite it being the lead-off piece and the only one named on.the front, I can't tell you a thing about it. Not only did it leave no impression on me, I don't remember a single note from it.

I'm much more positive about the other three works: Peanuts Gallery is nice and accessible, the Romance is a meaty work with just enough virtuosity to make me wish it was much longer, the Prologue and Variations on the same level.
So I'd recommend the CD overall, with an asterisk on the Cello Concerto.

On now, a second listen to CD 1

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
"Othello" Orchestral Suite Op 79
African Suite Op 35*
Ballade in a minor Op 33
Petite Suite de Concert Op 77
Avril Coleridge-Taylor**
Sussex Landscape Op 27***

*first three movements orchestrated by Chris Cameron
**Samuel's daughter born 1903 died 1998
***on the CD this appears between the Othello and African Suites

I don't remember hearing any of this music prior to getting this CD.  Comparable to, and as least as good as, composers like Bax and Delius.

[Mandryka]

Agreed, I really love that one—especially the Ivan Moravec recording.

The reason I like the Perahia is the irreverence of the final movement.

[Operafreak]

  Rachmaninov - Daniil Trifonov (piano)-Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

[Harry]

Good morning all!

J.S. Bach.
Complete Cantatas, Leipzig 1724.
Volume 24.
BWV, 8/33/113.
Appendix BWV 8, Second version, 2 movements.
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.

Always a pleasure and soothing too, to play Bach's cantatas in the morning, no matter which cantata.

[Roasted Swan]

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
"Othello" Orchestral Suite Op 79
African Suite Op 35*
Ballade in a minor Op 33
Petite Suite de Concert Op 77
Avril Coleridge-Taylor**
Sussex Landscape Op 27***

*first three movements orchestrated by Chris Cameron
**Samuel's daughter born 1903 died 1998
***on the CD this appears between the Othello and African Suites

I don't remember hearing any of this music prior to getting this CD.  Comparable to, and as least as good as, composers like Bax and Delius.

I actually rather like Coleridge-Taylor's music - clearly he was very talented if musically conservative.  But those comparisons are simply odd.  The two mentioned composers occupy a completely different sound world and musical aesthetic.  Unless you simply mean "good" as a qualitative comparison (with which I'd still disagree but each to their own) linking those names you might as well say "as good as Shostakovich".

[Florestan]

pleasant, but nothing to write home about

At least three quarters of all music ever written qualify.