What are you listening 2 now?

[VonStupp]

Olivier Messiaen
La Nativité du Seigneur
Richard Gowers, organ

The more I listen to this work, the more I like it. Another spin.
VS

[kyjo]

Metamorphoseon, which is like if the Enigma Variations didn't have a Nimrod in the middle, and Belkis Queen of Sheba.

Well, of course, Respighi's musical language in this masterwork is quite different from Elgar's!

[kyjo]

Earlier today listening to this:



These performances suit Nielsen's quirky personality a little more than the CPO recording I heard the other day. Needless to say this is great music with a good deal of sparkle.

Nielsen's piano music (like his SQs) are a real hidden "treasure chest" in his output. The Luciferian Suite and Chaconne are particularly marvelous and striking works.

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube:
Arnold Schönberg
String Quartet No.2 (arr. for string orchestra)

Slavka Taskova (soprano)
Michael Gielen & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Todd]

A disc with all new to me music, but I didn't have the energy to do a detailed write up.  The Trumpet Concerto and Double Concerto are both gnarlyish modernist works and sound nice enough.  They'd be great in a mixed program.  The Sixth Symphony strikes me as a blend of Mahler and quasi-Asiatic music.  The Erhu sounds nifty and presumably exotic to people who never listen to music by Asian composers, and it nearly matches some Asian compositions qualitatively.  It's not by any means bad, it's just not particularly memorable. 

[vers la flamme]

Olivier Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur. Louis Thiry

[Henk]

I was seaching for the album recommended by Que and Harry, but presupposed it was CPE Bach and found this one. Listening now and it sounds lovely & enlightening.

[vers la flamme]

Carl Nielsen: Symphony No.4, op.29, the "Inextinguishable". Herbert Blomstedt, San Francisco Symphony

I can't believe how good the SFS plays on this recording. Blomstedt's whole Nielsen cycle is excellent, but this disc is the highlight in my book.

[DavidW]

Carl Nielsen: Symphony No.4, op.29, the "Inextinguishable". Herbert Blomstedt, San Francisco Symphony

I can't believe how good the SFS plays on this recording. Blomstedt's whole Nielsen cycle is excellent, but this disc is the highlight in my book.

You're inspiring me to a relisten!

[SimonNZ]

[Bachtoven]

Disc 3.

[Todd]

[Brian]

Carl Nielsen: Symphony No.4, op.29, the "Inextinguishable". Herbert Blomstedt, San Francisco Symphony

I can't believe how good the SFS plays on this recording. Blomstedt's whole Nielsen cycle is excellent, but this disc is the highlight in my book.

Agreed about that whole cycle except for the quiet ending to No. 4...how do you feel about that?

[Mapman]

Mahler: Symphony #3
Dudamel: Berliner Philharmoniker

A beautiful performance.

[JBS]

CD 5 from

[ando]

Brahms 3 Piano Quartets Quartetto di Torino (Music Collection, unknown release date, vinyl)

[vers la flamme]

Agreed about that whole cycle except for the quiet ending to No. 4...how do you feel about that?

I don't know the first thing about Nielsen, so I decline to comment. This might be the only recording of the 4th that I've heard.

[vers la flamme]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K 527. John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir

Nice performance of this great opera, which I should listen to a lot more than I do.

[JBS]

CD 7
Schumann Carnaval Op 9
Recorded June 5 and December 11, 1928
Schumann Etudes Symphoniques Op 13 and Op post
Recorded March 6 and March 19, 1929
Liszt Sonata in b minor S 176
Recorded 13 March 1929

The booklet says this was the first recording of the Liszt sonata by anyone.

[vandermolen]

I merrily downloaded The Snow Maiden and then discovered I already had the CD. Grrr.

Ah well.

I recently ordered a second hand copy of 'The Miklos Rozsa Collection' on Koch and then, almost immediately, found a copy of the CD in my collection! Oh dear. Another one for the charity shop.