What are you listening 2 now?

[Papy Oli]

Finishing the last few tracks off this gem, started a few days ago.

[Traverso]

Bach

Sonata (II) BWV1014
Partita a-moll BWV 1013

Always returning to this great music as captivating and impassionedly performed as here.

[foxandpeng]

Alexander Scriabin
Symphonies 3 and 4
Valery Gergiev
LSO


More First Listen Friday with Scriabin. These symphonies are really good so far.

Second listen Saturday. Well, third listen really, but that doesn't alliterate.

Off to see Julius Caesar this evening at the RSC, so hoping to start listening to some Taneyev symphonies on the way there and back. 4 hours should be a good beginning despite the competition brought by the accompanying Concerto for Road Noise.

[vers la flamme]

Sergei Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.43. Vladimir Ashkenazy, Bernard Haitink, Philharmonia Orchestra

Happy 150th.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

[Harry]

Eric Coates.
Orchestral Works.

Suite: The Three Men
The Man from the Country
The Man-about-Town
The Man from the Sea
Concert Valse: Dancing Nights
Two Symphonic Rhapsodies
I Pitch my Lonely Caravan
Birdsongs at Eventide / I Heard You Singing )
Idyll: Summer Afternoon
Ballet: The Enchanted Garden (1946)
Concert Valse: Footlights (1939)
Suite: 4 Centuries (1942)
Rhythm (20th Century)
March: London Bridge (1934)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth.
Recorded in 2007. TT. 76:19.

Absolutely delightful, such enjoyable music, and perfectly performed and recorded. Coates quickly gets to my top list of favourite light music with a serious twist. But there is something odd on this recording, instead of the two Rhapsodies by Coates, (which I clearly miss) we are treated to two orchestral pieces by Elgar, not credited though, and some dodgy sound.  There must have been a tremendous error in editing the wrong music to a different composer. So, "I Pitch my Lonely Caravan" and "Birdsongs at Eventide / I Heard You Singing" are not on this CD, which is a bloody shame.
Still what is there is absolutely amazing.

[Traverso]

Busoni

Elegien. 7 neue Klavierstücke
Suite Campestre op.18
Zehn Variationen

Live recording 1987

I have read a review by Hurwitz in which he completely denounces these recordings (dreadful) and puts forward Jeni Slotchiver as a recommendation.
I must say, I had never heard of this pianist, but I will look for it.
Like all reviews, I do not take theme as decisive but I'm curious about his recommendation.

 

[JBS]

More Zen Bruckner.
Celi's style works better in the 8th.

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Fourteen Songs, Op.34

Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

[vers la flamme]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.3 in D minor, WAB 103. Eugen Jochum, Staatskapelle Dresden

I really do enjoy this recording of the 3rd, and I'm finding that Jochum's vision of Bruckner's music is resonating with me lately.

[Traverso]

Busoni

CD 4

Fantasia Contrappuntistica
Choral - Vorspiel Über Ein Bachsches Fragment
Nuit De Noël. Esquisse Pour Le Piano
Indianisches Tagebuch. Erstes Buch. Vier Klavierstudien Über Motive Der Rothäute Amerikas
Fantasia Nach Johann Sebastian Bach

[Spotted Horses]

After spending a lot of time on off-the-beaten-trail music it is satisfying to return to something brilliant and familiar. First Brahms, now Mozart, String Quartet No 23 (K590), the Amadeus Quartet



Extraordinary music. I'm can't get enough of the little chromatic figure that appears in the accompaniment to the end of the first movement exposition, and again at the close of the piece. The second movement, a poignant theme which is subject to intensifying ornamentation, which never fails to be imaginative. The finale is an explosion of creativity.

The Amadeus doesn't disappoint.

[Mandryka]

Busoni

Elegien. 7 neue Klavierstücke
Suite Campestre op.18
Zehn Variationen

Live recording 1987

I have read a review by Hurwitz in which he completely denounces these recordings (dreadful) and puts forward Jeni Slotchiver as a recommendation.
I must say, I had never heard of this pianist, but I will look for it.
Like all reviews, I do not take theme as decisive but I'm curious about his recommendation.

 

It has a bad reputation, it is true. I don't think you can do better in the sonatinas though.

[Karl Henning]

Composer : Dmitri Shostakovich
Recording : Symphony No. 5 (Noseda - 2016)
Performers : Gianandrea Noseda, London Symphony Orchestra

I like Noseda in practically all I've heard of his work. How is this?

TD:

I've lingered over this for a couple of days ... two of my favorite works of the Birthday Boy's

Symphony № 2, Op. 27
London Phil
Walter Weller

The Isle of the Dead (Остров Мёртвых), Op. 29
Rotterdam Phil
Edo de Waart

[Karl Henning]

Currently:



de la Rue: Missa Conceptio Tua


Don't think I've ever listened to this Composer before - Have a bit of his Music in my Library from various Compilations

Somewhat austere work perhaps - I like though...

At times, musical austerity is just what my ears hanker for.

[Roasted Swan]

I like Noseda in practically all I've heard of his work. How is this?

TD:

I've lingered over this for a couple of days ... two of my favorite works of the Birthday Boy's

Symphony № 2, Op. 27
London Phil
Walter Weller

The Isle of the Dead (Остров Мёртвых), Op. 29
Rotterdam Phil
Edo de Waart

The Weller/Decca set of the 3 Rach Symphonies are often overlooked but they are VERY good!

[Traverso]

It has a bad reputation, it is true. I don't think you can do better in the sonatinas though.

Have you heard the Jeni Slotchiver recordings?
What to say about the so-called bad reputation,I've also read so many positive reviews.
I'm glad to have them and see no need to purchase any other recordings.
Busoni is not that important for me.

[Mandryka]

Have you heard the Jeni Slotchiver recordings?
What to say about the so-called bad reputation,I've also read so many positive reviews.
I'm glad to have them and see no need to purchase any other recordings.
Busoni is not that important for me.

No, I haven't even heard of Slotchiver.

Thanks for mentioning Hurwitz's review. I haven't seen it but it explains why I'm getting so much stick for listening to these recordings!

In fact, Busoni is becoming more and more important for me, at least some of his music. There was a time when it's as if music had to change in some fundamental way - eventually Schoenberg's way kind of blazed the trail, but so many others were experimenting, including Busoni. I think it's fascinating.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Robert Haas - No significant difference to Nowak [1935], Berliner Philharmoniker, Gunter Wand

[Karl Henning]

Listening to Bach on 1 April. No foolin':

JSB
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