What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Bernard Herrmann conducts Great British Film Music.
Idiosyncratic but engaging performances. I remember the original LP with affection (1975)
I was working in the record department of a department store in London (during my university holidays) and was thus able to use my staff discount 
Highlights include the very slow version of Richard III by Walton, Constant Lambert's fine score for Anna Karenina (1947), VW's 49th Parallel and Bliss's 'Things to Come'.

[ritter]

Some Schoenberg tonight, conducted by Robert Craft: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Cello Concerto (after Monn), and the orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet.

[Lisztianwagner]

Some Schoenberg tonight, conducted by Robert Craft: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Cello Concerto (after Monn), and the orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet.

This Craft recording contains the best performance of Five Pieces for Orchestra for me, so powerfully thrilling!

[Spotted Horses]

Waiting for Amazon to deliver my CD of Bacewicz Piano Concerti, I decided to listen to Bacewicz Cello Concerti I have apparently not gotten around to yet, even though I've apparently had the CD for 10 years.



Concerto No 1. The second movement is particularly exquisite, with sparse, dissonant harmonies underlying a searching theme for solo cello.

[DavidW]

[Brian]

That Bruckner 3 appears to be the GMG Record Club Pick of the Month!

[ritter]

This Craft recording contains the best performance of Five Pieces for Orchestra for me, so powerfully thrilling!

Indeed, an excellent and very persuasive performance of the Five Pieces, which really impressed me. The Cello Concerto, OTOH, I found quite terrible; not the performance, the piece -- I cannot figure out why Schoenberg decided to work on such music. I'm not much of an admirer of Brahms, but after the Monn, the orchestrated Piano Quartet sounds decidedly celestial!

Good evening, Ilaria!

[Bachtoven]

Excellent playing and sound.

[Linz]

C. P. E. Bach The Complete Works for Piano Solo, Ana-Marija Markovina Vol. 12

[vandermolen]

Ragnar Soderlind: Symphony No.8 'In Memory of Jean Sibelius'
Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra/Fedoseyev
On You Tube
https://youtu.be/vr5oA_cyfZk

[SonicMan46]

Well, today I've just ended 6 months or so of culling through my non-classical CD collection, donating hundreds of discs to a local charity - back to some classical listening tonight:

Mozart, WA - Divertimenti & More - some discs selected from the Sandor Vegh 10-CD box below - Dave

[classicalgeek]

Joan Tower
*Violin Concerto
Chamber Dance
*Cho-Liang Lin, violin
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero
(on Spotify)

[vers la flamme]

That Bruckner 3 appears to be the GMG Record Club Pick of the Month!

I'm a trend setter It's so good, I listened to it again in the morning before work.



Richard Wagner: Preludes to Die Meistersinger & Tristan. Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Meistersinger Prelude must be the single greatest thing Wagner ever wrote—or at least it's my favorite. It's glorious. My feelings about the Tristan Prelude are more mixed—it's incredible, of course, and changed music forever, but maybe a bit too languorous for me.

[Lisztianwagner]

Indeed, an excellent and very persuasive performance of the [b]Five Pieces[/b], which really impressed me. The Cello Concerto, OTOH, I found quite terrible; not the performance, the piece -- I cannot figure out why Schoenberg decided to work on such music. I'm not much of an admirer of Brahms, but after the Monn, the orchestrated Piano Quartet sounds decidedly celestial!

Good evening, Ilaria!

Good evening, Rafael! I agree about the quality of the Piano Quartet, it is a splendid example of Schönberg's ability of orchestration, such a powerful, colourful texture brilliantly elaborated with great timbric richness; it definitely keeps Brahms' spirit in an extraordinary way. Well, Schönberg was very interested in 18th century Austro-German composers as for him, there was nothing absolutely new and the modern style was rooted into tradition anyway; Monn's Concerto was brought to his attention for the first time for a critical review asked by Adler and years later, when he decided to dedicate a work to Casals, he brushed up the idea of a composition after Monn (it was the same period of the composition of the Strings Concerto after Handel, he wanted to show the connection between his music and tradition), but freely transformed starting from the original opening themes, as he thought Monn's piece had a poor and simple structure, lacking in melodic inventiveness and thematic development, so to bring out real substance from that music.

[VonStupp]

Jacques Ibert
Escales...
Bacchanale
Féerique
Divertissement
Hommage à Mozart
Overture De Fête
Sarabande Pour Dulcinée
Suite Symphonique 'Paris'

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Neeme Järvi

The only work/recording I have really held onto from Ibert is Charles Munch's Escales. With Jarvi, Ibert's is very gregarious music, ala Satie's orchestral music or exotic ala Khachaturian. The orchestra here is in very fine shape!

I notice Ibert has recieved some standalone recordings in the last decade on Timpani and Somm. I may check some out to explore.
VS

[vers la flamme]

I like the Schönberg/Monn concerto.



Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.8 in C minor, WAB 108. Eugen Jochum, Staatskapelle Dresden

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jacques Ibert
Escales...
Bacchanale
Féerique
Divertissement
Hommage à Mozart
Overture De Fête
Sarabande Pour Dulcinée
Suite Symphonique 'Paris'

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Neeme Järvi

The only work/recording I have really held onto from Ibert is Charles Munch's Escales. With Jarvi, Ibert's is very gregarious music, ala Satie's orchestral music or exotic ala Khachaturian. The orchestra here is in very fine shape!

I notice Ibert has recieved some standalone recordings in the last decade on Timpani and Somm. I may check some out to explore.
VS

I don't understand the term 'holding onto from', but I like the Munch very much while I have a mixed feeling about the Jarvi.

I will check the latter again since I assume you like it.

[JBS]

Also Anton

The Second WAB 102
1877 Version[Haas]
RSO Saarbrucken
Recorded March 1968

@Brian in the Bruckner thread mentioned liking fast and vigorous performances that maintained lyricism, and so far this performance fits that description. I'm liking it quite a lot.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

https://hisakohiseki.es/en/bio/recomendaciones

Hisako Hiseki played the Hatto Granados - so it is excellent, obvs.

   

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ami Fujiwara - Etudes of Virtuosity.