What are you listening 2 now?

[Wanderer]

[pjme]

First listen to Dukas La Péri.

A magical score! I enjoy my old 1973 Supraphon recording with de Almeida.
I found this (25 year old) Russian performance on YT :

LA PÉRI OU LA FLEUR D'IMMORTALITÉ
State Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation / EVGENY SVETLANOV, cond.
Recording: Festival de Montpellier/France, 29 July 1998

After a first listen, I find it a bit slowish but very interesting. Lovely. No fanfare, alas!

[SonicMan46]

Bach, CPE - Keyboard Concertos on harpsichord w/ van Asperen & Remy (4 disc); also own 7 CDs of Michael Rische on piano which (w/o duplications) gives me about 28 of CPE's KB concertos - how many did he composed? From this list (and eliminating sonatinas), I count about 66, although low-mid 50s is also stated elsewhere -  Dave

P.S. On the BIS label, Miklos Spanyi has recorded 20 Vols. of the KB Concertos, likely amounting to 60+ works (and not sure if he has done the sonatinas?)

   

[ando]

Baroque Music: Jarzębski, Mielczewski, Szarzyński Intemperata Ensemble (2023, Sagittaria)

Spotify playlist

[AnotherSpin]

Valentin Silvestrov will turn 86 tomorrow. New recording, made in August 2023 in Kiev:

[Mandryka]

Valentin Silvestrov will turn 86 tomorrow. New recording, made in August 2023 in Kiev:

I'm listening now. Tell me, have you heard Howard Skempton's piano music, and Laurence Crane's? I just think that what Silvestrov is up to is not dissimilar in effect. There used to be a YouTube pianist who championed Skempton called Carson Cooman - I thought he was pretty sympathetic to the music.

[Mandryka]

I'm listening now. Tell me, have you heard Howard Skempton's piano music, and Laurence Crane's? I just think that what Silvestrov is up to is not dissimilar in effect. There used to be a YouTube pianist who championed Skempton called Carson Cooman - I thought he was pretty sympathetic to the music.

And I just want to add how spine tingling it is to have this sort of music making on record from Kyiv now - a sort of act of defiance.  Bravo Evgeny Gromov!  Similar things happened in Europe in WW2 - Myra Hess and Wanda Landowska - all these recordings are a sort of testimony of how humanity, humaneness, somehow keeps on, endures, despite everything.

[Symphonic Addict]

Honegger


An impressive composition that is heartbreakingly beautiful in its musical portrayal, excellently performed.

Agreed, a superb masterpiece in a splendid performance.

[Symphonic Addict]

Jacques Ibert: Louisville Concert and Bostoniana. Louis Fremaux, City of Birmingham.

Love Symphonie Marine!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Love Symphonie Marine!

I do too, while I like Louisville Concerto a lot.

[Karl Henning]

Astor Piazzola: María de Buenos Aires. Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Musica

Love this!

[AnotherSpin]

I'm listening now. Tell me, have you heard Howard Skempton's piano music, and Laurence Crane's? I just think that what Silvestrov is up to is not dissimilar in effect. There used to be a YouTube pianist who championed Skempton called Carson Cooman - I thought he was pretty sympathetic to the music.

I don't remember listening to Howard Skempton or Laurence Crane. Will try, thank you.

[Lisztianwagner]

Malcolm Arnold
Symphony No.3

Vernon Handley & RLPO

[kyjo]

I should have listened to these two ballets before, sheer joy to hear. Wholly invigorating, gorgeous, greatly orchestrated.

+1 Two of Ibert's most engaging scores!

[kyjo]

Ottorino Respighi
Trittico botticelliano

Geoffrey Simon & Philharmonia Orchestra

An absolutely brilliant and life-affirming work which I had the great pleasure of performing recently. The 2nd movement (L'Adorazione dei Magi) has a touching and often subtly mysterious quality that I find quite moving. Some accuse Respighi of merely being a practitioner of bombast and orchestral pyrotechnics, which reveals that those people really haven't listened to much of his output beyond the Roman Trilogy...

[Linz]

Schumann Requiem Op.148, Requiem für Mignon, Éva Andor, Katalin Szőkefalvi-Nagy,sopranos, Zsuzsa Barlay, Livia Budai, contraltos,  György Korondy, Tenor,  Jósef Gregor, Bass, Budapest Chorus, Hungarian State Orchestra, Miklós Forrai 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

And appropriate for the time of year, since two of the songs are directly linked to the High Holy Days: Tashlich is a ritual performed during or (if weather interferes) just after the New Year*, while Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father Our King) is the best known litany recited during the prayer services.**

TD

Number 2, Opus 26 in A Major

*one throws pieces of bread into a body of water that contains fish or other living creatures while reciting Biblical passages.  This symbolizes throwing away one's sins. There is no connection to the biblical admonition to "cast your bread on the waters": it first started in the Middle Ages and involved throwing away garden vegetables.

**also said on fast days during the year, and the final line is said as part of a section of prayers recited most weekdays throughout the year.

Thank you for sharing this with us.  I enjoy learning about various faiths and philosophies and I expect that others here do too.

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Joseph Martin Kraus
Four Symphonies
Concerto Köln
Capriccio

Right now the opening Andante of the very catchy, zippy Symphony in C-flat minor (what a key!).

Looking forward to the "Symphonie funebre", too...

Cheers!

Hey!  You're alive!   

PD

[Linz]

Mahler Sir John Barbirolli, Symphony No. 6 and the Berliner Philharmoniker

[Lisztianwagner]

An absolutely brilliant and life-affirming work which I had the great pleasure of performing recently. The 2nd movement (L'Adorazione dei Magi) has a touching and often subtly mysterious quality that I find quite moving. Some accuse Respighi of merely being a practitioner of bombast and orchestral pyrotechnics, which reveals that those people really haven't listened to much of his output beyond the Roman Trilogy...

How wonderful, Kyle!
I absolutely agree, Respighi's Trittico is a splendid, beautifully evocative work; it shows a great mastery of orchestration, where all the instruments are used at the best of their expressive possibilities, both technically and for what concerns colours and harmonic contrasts, to perfectly depict Botticelli's paintings, with such gracefulness and elegance!
I also agree about the second movement, it is certainly marvelous and maybe my favourite part of the composition; I love the elusive, suasively mesmerizing, but at the same time warmly peaceful atmosphere of the woodwinds, wonderfully balanced by the contemplative profundity of the strings.

Geoffrey Simon is absolutely top-class in Respighi!