What are you listening 2 now?

[Daverz]

Berwald: Symphony No. 1 - Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu

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I'd still have to give the Bis Berwald cycle the edge for beautiful playing and transparent sonics, but Kamu knows what he's doing in this music.

Grace Williams: various lighter orchestral works on Lyrita

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Lighter, that is, than her very serious Symphony No. 2, not meaning trivial.  I really enjoyed the whole disc, but particular enjoyed the Carillons for oboe, complete with very British sounding oboe, and I don't usually groove on oboe concertante music.  I'll be looking for more Grace Williams (her chamber works on Naxos are also very good.)

Lopes-Graça: Sinfonieta, Op. 220, "Homenagem a Haydn" (Homage to Haydn)

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I've been listening to this brief little symphony (under 16 minutes) a lot lately.

[Operafreak]

Debussy: La damoiselle élue & other orchestral works/London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Claudio Abbado

[Que]

Vivaldi, Antonio - Cello Concertos w/ Roel Dieltiens & Ensemble Explorations - Vivaldi wrote 27 'Cello Concertos' RV 398-424 (Source); Dieltiens performs 12 in this RV range, but adds RV 544/561 for violin + cello(s); also own the 4-CD Brilliant set w/ L'Arte dell'Arco (last pic below) who records all 27 for single cello.  Dave

 

One of the very rare occasions in which the Naïve series doesn't quite satisfy...
But luckily there are the ones your picked! 

[Que]

Morning listening:

[Operafreak]

Berwald - Symphonies Volume 2- Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, Thomas Dausgaard

[Que]

Pachelbel by Simone Stella:



Organ works (IX)

[Mookalafalas]

Wow. Forgot how wonderful these are.

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,


The end of Boulez - Répons (section 5 onwards)

Followed by

Dialogue de l'ombre double for Clarinet and Electronics (Version 1984)




Earlier, JSB's BWV 20 from the Harnoncourt/Leonhardt Cantatas box.

[Mookalafalas]

Que's post reminded me of this. Playing it as nice interlude, before tackling some more Perahia/ASMIF/Bach

[Tsaraslondon]

Three different versions of Mottl's orchestration of Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder.

The Baker disc is something of a classic. One might not naturally associate Baker with Wagner, but these are warmly expressive performances and the Brahms and Strauss songs are just as beautiful.

Baltsa's tangily Mediterranean voice might not be to everyone's taste but I rather like it. The orchestral contributions under Jeffrey Tate are excellent and I also enjoy Baltsa's version of the Berlioz.

Anne Evans is the one true Wagnerian, having sung Brünnhilde at Bayreuth under Barenboim. This performance is a live one from the 1994 Proms and the couplings are Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene, as well as orchestral music from Götterdämmerung with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka.

[Papy Oli]

Messiaen - Vingt Regards sur L'Enfant-Jésus pour Piano (Muraro)

Parts 1 to 7

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Fryderyk Chopin
Mazurkas Op.6, 7, 17 & 24

Pianist: Arthur Rubinstein



Absolutely brilliant performances, so lively and expressive, but also so delicate and elegant; the choices of tempo are always excellent and there's a very fine use of the rubato. Rubinstein was such a marvelous Chopin interpreter, he could perfectly bring out all the poetical beauty of that music.

+1    I bought this old RCA box set years ago....what a treasure trove!



PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Taking a break from Mozart, and switching to Dvořák:

String Quartet in E^b, Op. 51 (1878-79)
String Quartet in C, Op. 61 (1881)
Panocha Quartet

From a Group A composer to another Group A composer. 

PD

[Todd]

Another listen, through cans this time.  Dynamic contrasts have less impact, of course, but minute details have more impact.  This is Zimerman level playing.

[Lisztianwagner]

+1    I bought this old RCA box set years ago....what a treasure trove!

Completely agree!

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Good morning all,

Répons

One of my favorite works,I hope you liked it. 

[pjme]

Lovely and interesting afternoon on France Musique - a portrait of Rudolf Firkusny: Dvorak, Janacek and Martinu.

https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/portraits-de-famille/rudolf-firkusny-1912-1994-sur-ses-terres-natales-1989739

Beautiful! : Quintette n°2 en La Maj op 81 : Dumka : Andante con moto - pour piano et cordes
Rudolf Firkusny (Piano), Quatuor Ridge, Krista Bennion-Feeney (Violon), Robert Rinehart (Violon), Maria Lambros-Kannen (Alto (instrument)), Peter Wyrick (Violoncelle)

Album Neumann Firkusny Dvorak Janacek (1992)
Label RCA (74321 88683 2)

https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/le-van-beethoven/rudolf-firkusny-de-beethoven-a-dvorak-6449790

And: Belgian composer Raymond Chevreuille's "Brueghel, peintre des humbles" , "Brueghel, painter of the humble"

https://archive.org/details/lp_brueghel-peintre-des-humbles-suite-symphon_raymond-chevreuille-august-baeyens-orchest_3/disc1/01.01.+Fanfare+a+la+gloire+de+Brueghel%3B+Le+Repas+de+noces.mp3

[Traverso]

Bach


Suite No.2

I was eighteen years old when I first heard these suites. I was in military service and interrupted a train journey to pop into a record store to listen to this suite.I was immediately in another world and I still love it

It was then Karl Richter a recording that I no longer have.

[Karl Henning]

From a Group A composer to another Group A composer. 

PD

I'm in the musical sweet spot!