What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Kosçak Yamada.
Overture in D major.
Symphony in F major, "Triumph and Peace".
Symphonic Poems "The Dark Gate" & "Madara No Hana".
Ulster Orchestra & New Zealand SO, Takuo Yuasa.

Really impressive!

[Operafreak]

 



Martin Fröst (clarinet)

Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow

   

[Traverso]

Mozart

Symphony No.35-36 & 38

It's been a long time since I listened to the Mozart symphonies conducted by Karl Böhm. Although, still attractive  they are not my first choice anymore. What  my first choice is depends on which symphony it is and not which complete set.

[Lisztianwagner]

Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto

Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Papy Oli]

BWV 92 & BWV 23 From the Fritz Werner JSB Cantatas box :

[Todd]

The third and fourth books.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Trio for piano, violin and cello Op. 121a [Kalichstein/Laredo/ Robinson Trio]





This is wonderful music that has an element of poignancy to it. It is very lyrically performed here but it also has a wonderfully dark hued edge to it in places.

[Operafreak]

Transmission

Edgar Moreau (cello), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Michael Sanderling

[Harry]

Hugo Alfen.
Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, "Midsommarvaka"
No.2, "Uppsalarapsodi"
No.3, "Dalarapsodi"
A Legend of the Skerries.
Elegy from "King Gustav Adolf II.
Iceland SO, Petri Sakari


A few of the finest compositions by Alfen.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 [Schreier/Olbertz]

[Florestan]

[Papy Oli]

BWV 92 & BWV 23 From the Fritz Werner JSB Cantatas box :

2 aren't enough.

BWV 72 & BWV 1.

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach

Prelude & Fugue No.1 BWV 846 (WTC Book I)

Gould
Leonhardt
S. Richter

[aligreto]

Brahms: Tragic Overture [Sanderling]





This is wonderful music and Sanderling delivers a fine performance of it. The presentation is wonderfully dark hued with the lower register instruments contributing wonderfully throughout.

[aligreto]

2 aren't enough.

BWV 72 & BWV 1.

Prelude & Fugue No.1 BWV 846 (WTC Book I)

Gould
Leonhardt
S. Richter

Back to Bach eh? 

[Harry]

Anton Stepanovich Arensky.
Symphony No.1 in B minor.
Fantasia on Themes by I.T. Ryabinin for Piano and Orchestra.
Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky.
Russian State SO, Valery Polyansky.

A well engineered disc by Chandos, with to my ears an excellent rendering of the works mentioned above. I almost forgot how well the Symphony is performed.
Recommended.

[Traverso]

Marius Constant

7 February 1925 – 15 May 2004) was a Romanian-born French composer and conductor.

[Brian]

I have an unhealthy, outsized love for Suppé overtures, but this 50-minute work is a mixed bag of fun stuff and patience-trying repetition. The main theme, set out in the prelude, is a laughably silly up-and-down tune that is very similar to "Frere Jacques." Then Suppé offers 15 variations on it depicting all the parts of the world from the original Around the World in 80 Days. These get much more fun and colorful - there are even chase scenes and things - but the CD only really kicks into top light music form on track 5, where Suppé stops channeling Johann Strauss and starts channeling Leo Delibes. Along the rest of the way, there are very minimal touches of "local color." It's mostly just perky Viennese light tradition. There are some eccentric percussion touches in the Wild West section, including a "gunshot". And when Fogg returns home, the orchestra plays "God Save the King."

Generally I enjoyed this more with faster, louder music and less with slower, smaller ensembles. There are some really good bits, but you could imagine a 15-minute suite capturing most of them.

Because this was originally a staged work with narration of Phileas Fogg's journey, there are some instances of repeated material and non-existent transitions. The main theme gets rather tiresome by the end. Astute Suppheads may also recognize a few quotes from his other works along the way (there is a brass motif for the Rajah that comes from "Fortune's Labyrinth").

Very competently played, conducted, and recorded. I imagine real light music collectors like Florestan will be delighted while some others will find it rather dull.

[SonicMan46]

Vorisek, Jan (1791-1825) - Piano Music w/ Artur Pizarro - two volumes each at 70+ minutes - bought as 'used' CDs, both in pristine condition. (some excellent extended comments of both recordings attached from an Amazon reviewer for those interested).  Dave

 

[brewski]

Marius Constant

7 February 1925 – 15 May 2004) was a Romanian-born French composer and conductor.

Thank you for posting this (which I have not heard). But it reminded me of an LP I had years ago with the 24 Preludes for Orchestra—which I just found, available as a free download, on the Internet Archive! Listening to it now, and a fascinating work, beautifully played. Comes with the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Serge Nigg with soloist Christian Ferras, and both works with the Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France, conducted by Charles Bruck.

https://archive.org/details/lp_24-preludes-for-orchestra-concerto-for-vi_marius-constant-serge-nigg-orchestre-philh



-Bruce