What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Carl Nielsen
Symphony No.4

Herbert Blomstedt & San Francisco Symphony

[Florestan]

HAHA very funny! 
Actually, after the concert, my wife (who does fantastic work as a sign-language interpreter) realised that she'd left her hearing aids on in her ear (she has a very minor hearing loss), so maybe that's why she thought it was 'LIKE WW3' or 'PLANET OF THE APES' (one of my favourite films - original version) as the sound may have been distorted for her. She had her hands over her ears for much of the Lyatoshynsky (were were sitting right at the front). However she loved Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto in the first half of the concert. My other four guests all liked the Lyatoshynsky.

Actually, this reminds me that 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff so this year I should manage to listen to his whole oeuvre, preferably in chronological order.

[Karl Henning]

Carl Nielsen
Symphony No.4

Herbert Blomstedt & San Francisco Symphony

Love it!

[Linz]

Beethoven Symphonies 4 and 7 Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Royal Concertgebou Orchestra

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bartok, some orchestral works.
Ivan Fischer (Conductor), Budapest Festival Orchestra.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

One of my favourite Vaughan Williams Symphonies is the second symphony.

Vaughan Williams - Symphony no. 2 "London"
Kees Bakels
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra



I have also recordings of 1913 version and 1920 version.

Love the second one too.  And like you, I have (and also enjoy) that Hickox one. 

PD

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube:

Roberto Gerhard
Concerto for Piano and Strings

Geoffrey Tozer (piano)
Matthias Bamert & BBC Symphony Orchestra

[absolutelybaching]

Joseph Haydn's
Symphony No. 013

Antal Dorati, Philharmonia Hungarica

[Løvfald]

First time listening to the complete incidental music. Despite the many spoken parts, this is a brilliant score.

[j winter]

Dvorak 7 & 8, Rowicki LSO

[absolutelybaching]

Benjamin Britten's
A Boy was Born

Terry Edwards, London Sinfonietta Choris, Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral, London Sinfonietta Voices

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

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A well-known Japanese cult!

[Løvfald]

Schumann praised this symphony with good reason, it's got good tunes, sparkling energy, cohesion. The last movement reminded me of Dvorak. The Concertino is strong too.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor 1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas Pierre Boulez

[Todd]

Disc two equivalent.  As good as the first disc equivalent, as expected. 

[vandermolen]

Actually, this reminds me that 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff so this year I should manage to listen to his whole oeuvre, preferably in chronological order.

Interesting. I hadn't realised that. I recently bought this set (new but very inexpensive):

[vandermolen]

Last CD before bed time.
I asked my daughter to get it for me a couple of Christmas's ago and hadn't realised how good it is. I like every track. The programme is:
Madetoja: Kullervo
Klami: Kalevala Suite (really like this atmospheric work)
Sibelius: Lemminkainen in Tuonela (1897 version - first recording). This is marvellous (nearly 16 mins) and very dark indeed. It's always been my favourite movement in the Four Legends for Orchestra and beautifully recorded here (best version I have heard since Thomas Jensen and the  Danish Radio SO),
But the big discovery here is:
Tauno Pylkkanen's 'Kullervo Goes to War'(1942) a dark and moving work, very relevant for its time and sadly still so today.
Here's a review of the CD:
https://sibeliusone.com/concert-reviews/scenes-from-the-kalevala-review/

[Lisztianwagner]

Actually, this reminds me that 2023 marks the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff so this year I should manage to listen to his whole oeuvre, preferably in chronological order.

An excellent idea, I'll provably follow your example about Rachmaninov's music this year.

2024 is Schönberg's 150th anniversary.....will you keep some time for his music too? 

[JBS]

The Italian and Reformation symphonies.

This set is as good as I remember it being

[Keemun]

Fauré: Requiem (Nigel Short, London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble & Tenebrae)

Very good and one of my top 3.