What are you listening 2 now?

[DavidW]

Good, because I am bound to need your wisdom and helpful opinions in my pokings of the great man during 2024

I don't know how wise he is in Bruckner if he almost wrote off one of the great symphonists that ever lived several times!   I would listen to @Cato instead.😇

[Spotted Horses]

I don't know how wise he is in Bruckner if he almost wrote off one of the great symphonists that ever lived several times!   I would listen to @Cato instead.😇

Sometimes you can get ideas from a skeptic that you can't get from an acolyte.

[DavidW]

Good, because I am bound to need your wisdom and helpful opinions in my pokings of the great man during 2024

btw since you are highly sensitive to sound quality, try the out of the box incomplete recordings of Haitink and the BRSO.  I've found them all to be sensational with the fifth being the standout:

[foxandpeng]

I don't know how wise he is in Bruckner if he almost wrote off one of the great symphonists that ever lived several times!   I would listen to @Cato instead.😇

Hehe. I have long learned to hear the voice of our Spotted friend 🙂

I suspect that there are a good many different guides on whom I may lean in the months ahead.

btw since you are highly sensitive to sound quality, try the out of the box incomplete recordings of Haitink and the BRSO.  I've found them all to be sensational with the fifth being the standout:

Ah, that's helpful, thank you. See, helpful voices worth hearing 😜

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev: Symphony #7
Ozawa: Berlin

RIP Seiji Ozawa. The 2nd movement is wonderfully colorful.

Great set!

[Traverso]

North German Baroque Vol II





 

[Karl Henning]

btw since you are highly sensitive to sound quality, try the out of the box incomplete recordings of Haitink and the BRSO.  I've found them all to be sensational with the fifth being the standout:

(* pounds the table *)

[Mapman]

Rachmaninoff: Symphony #2
Ormandy: Philadelphia

There are numerous cuts in the 1st movement. I stopped following the score after that, so I don't know how many there are in the rest of the symphony.

[VonStupp]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cheryomushki, op. 105
Pimlico Opera - Wasfi Kani

On recommendation from @Roasted Swan , taking me beyond Cornall's concert suite. I knew what I was in for as soon as I heard 'Spoil it' rhymed with 'toilet' in the 2nd track. A sort-of 'Soviet Jazz' meets Gilbert and Sullivan production. Portions had my family snickering, and we all had the Cheryomushki chorus stuck in our heads afterwards.

Strangely, I found out one of the Amazon marketplace sellers was just a few blocks away from me, so I took the girls on a walk to try and save a buck on an already super-cheap recording.
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[Mapman]

Nielsen: Symphony #3
Schønwandt: Danish National Symphony Orchestra

I don't know this symphony as well as many of Nielsen's others, so I'm trying to correct that! The first movement's climax is great, with the first theme in canon in the brass while the strings play a second theme. There's lots of imitative counterpoint elsewhere in the symphony, too.

[Spotted Horses]

btw since you are highly sensitive to sound quality, try the out of the box incomplete recordings of Haitink and the BRSO.  I've found them all to be sensational with the fifth being the standout:

 Love the Haitink Concertgobouw cycle from the 60s and 70s. I should listen to some of this.

[Mapman]

Langgaard: Symphony #6 "The Heaven-Rending"
Dausgaard: DR

Fascinating, like everything I've heard so far from Langgaard.

[Bachtoven]

These transcriptions are for two guitars. The guitarists used to be called SoloDuo--not sure why they dropped the name. Anyway, their playing is phenomenal, and the sound is superb: closely mic'd but with plenty hall sound.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bloch: Schelomo. Symphony of the Air/Leopold Stokowski.

[Cato]

Bloch: Schelomo. Symphony of the Air/Leopold Stokowski.

What is up with that cover?! 

No, don't tell me!  I would rather not know! 


Urania Records, in the good ol' days of vinyl, had terrible sound quality: I hope this CD is devoid of noise!

Leopold Stokowski should give you a fine performance with the Symphony of the Air.


Today on the radio...

Excellence from Yo-Yo Ma and friends!


And an all-around favorite: Etienne Mehul: Symphony #1

[Bachtoven]

Great playing and sound. His own composition is surprisingly dissonant.

[prémont]

Oh, it is still available...a reliable seller and near mint 

https://www.discogs.com/release/13544755-Various-Het-Historische-Orgel-In-Nederland

It is good to know for people who have the box "The Historical Organ in the Netherlands" in their possession
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Thanks. I was fortunate to acquire it many years ago.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

What is up with that cover?! 

No, don't tell me!  I would rather not know! 


Urania Records, in the good ol' days of vinyl, had terrible sound quality: I hope this CD is devoid of noise!

Leopold Stokowski should give you a fine performance with the Symphony of the Air.


Today on the radio...

Excellence from Yo-Yo Ma and friends!


And an all-around favorite: Etienne Mehul: Symphony #1

This could possibly be a new skin rejuvenation method. The recording sound is fairly good, or excellent. The performance is wonderful as you imagine. Thank you for your interest and have a wonderful week!

[Linz]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 1 in G minor °Winter dreams", op. 13, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

[vandermolen]

Frank Martin: Polyptyque - for solo violin & two string orchestras.



A suite of 6 episodes of the Passion. A concise note by the composer of each episode (Image) is most helpful in fully appreciating and understanding inspiration behind the work.

I   Image des Rameaux (The Palms)
II  Image de la Chambre haute (The Upper Room)
III Image de Juda (Judas)
IV  Image de Gethsémané (Gethsemane)
V   Image du Jugement (The Judgement)
VI  Image de la Glorification (The Glorification)

That was a fine old LP!