What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, = "Romantic" 1881 Version, Haas Edition, Günter Wand, Münchner Philharmoniker

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ulvi Cemal Erkin: Sinfonia Concertrante. Verda Erman, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Hikmet Şimşek.

[classicalgeek]

Roger Sessions
Symphony no. 4
Symphony no. 5
Rhapsody for Orchestra
Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Christian Badea
(on Spotify)

[Mandryka]

I've been playing this all day, I'm really impressed by the quality of the singing - by the quality of everything really.

[vandermolen]

William Alwyn.
Orchestral Works.
Elizabethan Dances.
The Innumerable Dance-An English Overture.
Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Strings.
Aphrodite in Aulis-An Eclogue for Small Orchestra, after George Moore.
Symphonic Prelude-The Magic Island.
Festival March.
Jonathan Small, Oboe.
Royal Liverpool PO, David Lloyd Jones.

Really good performances and well recorded. If Alwyn is demanded I first go for these performances. 

This is my favourite disc of Alwyn's shorter symphonic works. I was delighted to discover 'Aphrodite in Aulis'.

[vandermolen]

Edgar Bainton: Symphony No.2
I'd quite forgotten how good this symphony is:

[Lisztianwagner]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante K.364

Karl Böhm & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Florestan]

They are tough. I can only listen to them in my worst moods 

This is an interesting topic, which might be worth a dedicated thread. I mean, if I'm în good moods I certainly need no depressive and depressing music to spoil it. And if I'm în bad moods, I certainly need sunny and uplifting music to cheer me up. That leaves Pettersson's music în a limbo AFAIC. 

[Harry]

This is my favourite disc of Alwyn's shorter symphonic works. I was delighted to discover 'Aphrodite in Aulis'.

Ditto Jeffrey!

[Harry]

Edgar Bainton: Symphony No.2
I'd quite forgotten how good this symphony is:

Again Ditto!

[vers la flamme]

This is an interesting topic, which might be worth a dedicated thread. I mean, if I'm în good moods I certainly need no depressive and depressing music to spoil it. And if I'm în bad moods, I certainly need sunny and uplifting music to cheer me up. That leaves Pettersson's music în a limbo AFAIC. 

For some unknown reason that probably has something to do with the mysteries of temperament, sometimes when I'm depressed, listening to sunny and uplifting music only makes me feel worse. Opening the door for über dark music like Pettersson, which somehow then makes me feel a little bit better. Don't ask me to explain.

Edit to add; I'm by no means a clinical depressive, and indeed have a pretty sunny disposition for the most part, though I do suffer from my fair share of other mental ailments. Please don't try my strategy at home, kids, especially if you've been diagnosed with a major depressive disorder. 



Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.8. Thomas Sanderling, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

I'm starting to think this may be the best of them.

[Florestan]

For some unknown reason that probably has something to do with the mysteries of temperament, sometimes when I'm depressed, listening to sunny and uplifting music only makes me feel worse. Opening the door for über dark music like Pettersson, which somehow then makes me feel a little bit better. Don't ask me to explain

Fair enough. Indeed, I marvel at, and cherish, and relish the infinite diversity of human nature. 

[vers la flamme]

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.14, op.135. Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, with Gal James (soprano) and Alexander Vinogradov (baritone)

I haven't made much sense of Shostakovich's late symphonies yet, but I think this 14th is starting to click. The Petrenko/RLPO cycle, which I've had for about three years now and return to sporadically, is pretty damn good!

[prémont]

I've been playing this all day, I'm really impressed by the quality of the singing - by the quality of everything really.

Yes, It's very impressive. But I don't think Mala Punica is that bad - it's a question of taste.

[JBS]

I've been playing this all day, I'm really impressed by the quality of the singing - by the quality of everything really.

Heulgas here as well

[JBS]

This is an interesting topic, which might be worth a dedicated thread. I mean, if I'm în good moods I certainly need no depressive and depressing music to spoil it. And if I'm în bad moods, I certainly need sunny and uplifting music to cheer me up. That leaves Pettersson's music în a limbo AFAIC. 

I have Haendel's recording of the Violin Concerto and one CD of his symphonies (the most recent one from BIS, whichever ones are on that; I'm too lazy to look it up).  They do little or nothing for me, good or bad. At this point I have just put him on the side.

[Todd]

The third of six discs.  Muy bueno.

[JBS]

What features recommend it above other, more famous sets? I ask because I have it on my radar.

Re Nott's Mahler:

I think it's good because of quality control. Each symphony is at the same high level.
There is no single one in which Nott's is the "best", but there are no misses. Most Mahler cycles have at least one dud and a couple of installments that are just okay. Nott avoids that.

Inbal is another cycle that manages to do this as well, btw.

[Symphonic Addict]

Saint Joan Suite is the most interesting work here and one of the most appealing works of this series.

[Mapman]

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Skrowaczewski

Well-played, but not scary enough (especially in the last movement).