What are you listening 2 now?

[Bachtoven]

STEVE ELCOCK.
Orchestral Music, Volume One.
Symphony No. 3, Op. 16 (2005–10).
Choses renversées par le temps ou la destruction, Op. 20 (2013).
Festive Overture, Op. 7 (1997).
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Mann.
Richard Casey, harpsichord.
Recorded 2017 in Te Friary, Everton, Liverpool.

Recommended by @Bachtoven, I started the first CD with Orchestral Works, and must say I am not disappointed. Elcock's sound world needs some adapting for me. There are moments of serialism, and repeated rhythms, with Brass running contra on these rhythms, and there is quite some sarcasm about too. Virtuoso orchestral writing, fierce energetic and titanic violence, leavened at times by a sardonic sense of humour. I have nothing in my collection matching this music to or connecting to anything i heard before. So before I will give a definitive opinion, I have to do  repeated listening. It will have a follow up.
Good sound and performance.

EDIT: I have gone through the Orchestral & Chamber music, but it is too loud for me, no rest for the wicked so to say. He is simply out of synch with me. A step to far for personal comfort.

I'm sorry that he was too much for you. At least you gave him a fair shot!

[Daverz]

STEVE ELCOCK.
Orchestral Music, Volume One.
Symphony No. 3, Op. 16 (2005–10).
Choses renversées par le temps ou la destruction, Op. 20 (2013).
Festive Overture, Op. 7 (1997).
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Mann.
Richard Casey, harpsichord.
Recorded 2017 in Te Friary, Everton, Liverpool.

Recommended by @Bachtoven, I started the first CD with Orchestral Works, and must say I am not disappointed. Elcock's sound world needs some adapting for me. There are moments of serialism, and repeated rhythms, with Brass running contra on these rhythms, and there is quite some sarcasm about too. Virtuoso orchestral writing, fierce energetic and titanic violence, leavened at times by a sardonic sense of humour. I have nothing in my collection matching this music to or connecting to anything i heard before. So before I will give a definitive opinion, I have to do  repeated listening. It will have a follow up.
Good sound and performance.

EDIT: I have gone through the Orchestral & Chamber music, but it is too loud for me, no rest for the wicked so to say. He is simply out of synch with me. A step to far for personal comfort.

Interesting take.  I remember initially being impressed by some of Elcock's orchestral music, but later finding it difficult to get into.

[Harry]

I'm sorry that he was too much for you. At least you gave him a fair shot!

Its quite okay dear friend, but let this not hinder you in giving more recommendations.

[Bachtoven]

Its quite okay dear friend, but let this not hinder you in giving more recommendations.

Of course not.

[Lisztianwagner]

Several Karajan's recordings in the latest posts, who am I not to join that party?

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.3

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[DavidW]

I think I'll stick with this awhile (put it on repeat):

[Harry]

Gerald Finzi (1901–1956).
Cello Concerto, Op. 40.
Raphael Wallfisch cello.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley.
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Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988).
Cello Concerto, Op. 31.
Raphael Wallfisch cello.
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bryden Thomson.


Recording venues Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool; 6 & 7 February 1986 (Finzi) and Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow; 23 & 24 January 1989 (Leighton).


Tenderness when needed, dark eloquence infused with strength when appropriate. The glowing, radiant colors and refined textures, are immediately winning, and the emotionally charged melodies embrace you effortlessly. All the passion leads to a ultimate experience. Raphael Wallfisch plays the Concertos as if his life depended on it, and his ear for the finer details is never lost. He is sublimely backed by both orchestras. Chandos sound at its best.

[Linz]

Beethoven Symphony No.2 In D Major, Op.36 and Symphony No.4 In B Flat Major, Op.60, Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharmonker

[SonicMan46]

Nope... (that is a nice recording BTW) Mandryka means this recording:

 Reissue:

No, this

https://www.discogs.com/release/9248590-Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Bob-Van-Asperen-Prussian-Sonatas-W%C3%BCrttemberg-Sonatas

Sorry guys - listening to a mixture of CPE Bach and confused the KB works and the flute stuff! 

Will look for a good deal on Bob van Asperen's set of the Prussian/Wurttemberg Sonatas (assume that you both prefer his performance over that of Belder?).

In the meantime, a new arrival (used 2-disc set from Discogs): Papa Bach's Flute Sonatas w/ Jed Wentz on a reproduction Baroque flute after Carlo Palanca, ca. 1720.  Dave

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Don Juan

Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Philharmoniker

[Henk]

A decline of the religious, a curating from that decline, bracing for the classical, Italian style, with a clarity of sunny well-designed landscapes. Music that accompanies one's recovering mode, not necessary but filling a gap on a rainy day.

[Henk]

More stimulating than Arodaky, a certainty of strenght, refound and celebrated.

[Que]

Will look for a good deal on Bob van Asperen's set of the Prussian/Wurttemberg Sonatas (assume that you both prefer his performance over that of Belder?).

Not me, I've put it on the listening list but I'm looking forward to it. 

[Mandryka]

Why aren't the Bloch quartets better known? I can't remember ever seeing one programmed in a concert.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke: Concerto in B-flat minor for trumpet and orchestra op. 41 (1930). Timofei Dokschitzer/Bolshoi.

[Brian]

Streaming while plotting to purchase. "Sinfonia india" probably belongs on my live performance bucket list.

[Daverz]

Streaming while plotting to purchase. "Sinfonia india" probably belongs on my live performance bucket list.

I listened to all the symphonies in one sitting (it doesn't take long).  Really enjoyed this set.

TD: Haydn: Symphony No. 90 - David Blum conducting the Esterhazy Orchestra

One of my very favorite Haydn symphonies, and this is one of the best recordings of it.

[SonicMan46]

Not me, I've put it on the listening list but I'm looking forward to it. 

Well just finished a visit to BRO, both Procopio & Esfahani were there; plus a harpsichordist named Anneke Uittenbosch doing the Prussian Sonatas on Etcetera - put in an order, about $22 USD for all three recordings (total of 4 discs) - believe I prefer Procopio over Belder but will do some re-listening - not sure about Uittenbosch (cannot find even a label much less a review!).  Will hold off on Bob van Asperen until I receive the above.  Thanks for the comments.  Dave

 

[Que]

Well just finished a visit to BRO, both Procopio & Esfahani were there; plus a harpsichordist named Anneke Uittenbosch doing the Prussian Sonatas on Etcetera - put in an order, about $22 USD for all three recordings (total of 4 discs) - believe I prefer Procopio over Belder but will do some re-listening - not sure about Uittenbosch (cannot find even a label much less a review!).  Will hold off on Bob van Asperen until I receive the above.  Thanks for the comments.  Dave

 

Thnx! Since I can't stream the Esfahani, I'd be curious what you think of it.

[Henk]

This sounds to me like the workings of the body, the gut or the brain, disorded, living on the dividing line between illness and health, struggling for an increase of powers, it demonstrates only this most complex struggle. It sounds like revolving around a point of equilibrium, fragile, a harmonizing of disharmony, balancing. Many will find this annoying music, but I would say it is about the sublimation of annyonancy, and as such a relief from annoyancy, with which we have to live day by day.