What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Rubbra:

[VonStupp]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Festival Te Deum in F
Sir Adrian Boult

New to me. His Te Deum definitely signals celebratory coronation music, but the mode VW sets is chilly.
VS

[ritter]

And to wind up tonight's listening, RW's Siegfried-Idyll, with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch (live in 1953):



The sound is only so-so, the orchestra cannot compete with the best, but this performance (one of the slowest I know of on record —barring Celibidache, of course  —) is interesting as it is the most melancholy, actually almost sorrowful, recording of this work I have heard.

[VonStupp]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Romance for Harmonica in D flat

Tommy Reilly, harmonica
ASMF - Neville Marriner

Well, this was something! Hard not to admire someone who is passionate about an instrument not typical for classical music.
VS

[Karl Henning]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Festival Te Deum in F
Sir Adrian Boult

New to me. His Te Deum definitely signals celebratory coronation music, but the mode VW sets is chilly.
VS

Wonder if I've heard this....

[andolink]

Arnold Bax: Piano Sonatas No.2 in G major, No. 3 in G sharp minor and No. 4 in G major
Michael Endres, piano

[Symphonic Addict]

Gade: Vier Fantasiestücke for clarinet and piano

Mapman recommended me this work a while ago. Lovely and enchanting miniatures.

[brewski]

From the Trinity College Music Society, the string octets by Shostakovich and Mendelssohn (streamed live in May 2022). Wonderful.

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

I've really been enjoying the Silvestrov Postludium (piano and orchestra) and the Artyomov Concerto of the 13 (piano, winds and percussion) on the Russian Orchestral Works disc.

The Bloch is v. nice!

[brewski]

Shostakovich: String Octet, Op. 11 (Tonika Ensemble, live recording from 2021). After the spirited performance from the Trinity College ensemble, this one from Seoul is a bit more accurate. In any case, always good to see talented young musicians tackle this difficult piece.

-Bruce

[71 dB]

Elgar - Violin Concerto - Pinchas Zukerman/Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Lorin Maazel

[Symphonic Addict]

Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances - Suite No. 3

A rendition I decidedly don't enjoy. Doráti does it badly to my ears, especially on Siciliana (too much staccato) and Passacaglia (too slow). Ozawa with the Boston S.O. (DG) do a much better job, not for nothing it is my reference recording for these pieces.

[brewski]

Varèse: Arcana (Orchestre National de France / Pascal Rophé, recorded 24 May 2018). I'm so enamored of the Chailly version that it's nice to be reminded that excellent others are appearing all the time, like this one.

-Bruce

[JBS]

Followed by the BBC Music Magazine for September: Academy of Ancient Music performing music by J S Bach (5 movements from the Overtures plus the Sinfonia from BWV 42), Mozart Church Sonata 17 K336, Haydn Symphony 49 La Passione, and Dussek's Dona Nobis Pacen from the Messe Sollenelle. Conductors are Richard Egarr and Laurence Cummings.

[Wanderer]

[vandermolen]

The Bloch is v. nice!

A bit like the scores for Hollywood biblical epics of a later period. I love the Israel Symphony.

[Harry]

Johann Sebastian Bach.
Complete Organ works.
Volume VIII. CD I.
North German Influences.
BWV: in consecution, 535a/764/718/729/Anh50/596/766/566/1128/720/765/542.
Pieter van Dijk, Organ.
Flentrop Organ, (2008-2013) of the Hauptkirche Sankt Katharinen, Hamburg.
Pitch: a'= 465 Hz. Temperament: Bach-Kellner.

Despite the fact that this is practically a new Organ, albeit with a lot of old pipes from the original organ, it sounds gorgeous, and although the pitch is quite high it sounds just right. A well balanced instrument, and one can hear the research that has gone into it before it was built. Pieter van Dijk makes the most of this instrument, a bit more lively as with some of the other CD'S in this series, and on the whole does not disappoint. The only quibble I have, and that's quite personal, are the deliberate slow tempo's he is using throughout. The sound is good, without being exceptional. Bach liked the 32 Principal and the 32 Grosse Posaune very much, and rightly so.

[AnotherSpin]

[Harry]

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