What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Not sure if the world needed another recording of Vivaldi's mandolin concerto RV 425, but it is a very good performance. Of course the less famous mandolin concertos by Giovanni Paisiello, Francesco Lecce and Hummel are the real draw here, laced with concert pieces (not featuring the mandolin) by Galuppi, Paisiello and Haydn.

Great recording, recommended for those into this kind of repertoire.

Thanks for mentioning this, wishlisted. The Hummel is a peach.

[Florestan]

Three discs gone, two to go.

This is a strong contender for the best Mozart box set ever released. Pure bliss, both performance-wise and sonic-wise.

[vandermolen]

Uuno Klami.
Chamber Music.
See back cover for details.
Recorded at the Kuusankoski Hall, 2020.

This is a wonderful surprise, the music I mean! Impressive and deep, even magical. It had huge impact on me. Of course I will try to find more of this composer to listen to. The performance is good, and the sound also, but will look further for other interpretations. But that proved to be a lost battle, for Qobuz has not many recordings of Klami's music, which is what I expected more or less.

Do you know this CD Harry which I greatly enjoy?

[Harry]

Do you know this CD Harry which I greatly enjoy?

Yes I know it quite well, it's also one of my favourites. I searched the database of Presto for recordings of Klami, and most I found on Qobuz. Funny enough if you look at the discography of Klami in Roon, only a handful appear, meaning that although Roon has many more of them in the library through Qobuz, you will not get to see them in his discography, another flaw I think in Qobuz. Only manual search will find them, through orchestras or composers and even artists, but not through the composers own discography. To many discographies I think.......

[akebergv]

If download is an option, a good source for Klami is eClassical (here).

[Iota]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1

Never heard Pletnev conducting a Tchaikovsky symphony before, he certainly brings all his vivid music-making charm and energy to it. I can't recall ever having heard the 'Winter Dreams' symphony before either, if I have it's been long forgotten, but both it and the performance much enjoyed.

[ritter]

Another work from an Italian conductor-composer: revisiting Gino Marinuzzi's Symphony in A.



TBH, the work by Victor de Sabata I was listening to earlier was nothing to write home about (flashy orchestral writing, all sorts of influences, but little substance I at least could detect). This symphony by Marinuzzi, OTOH, is quite an accomplishment, and is if anything making a stronger impression now than when I first discovered it some years ago. Very well shaped, elaborate scoring, beautiful melodic invention and thematic development.

[JBS]

[Todd]

[Pohjolas Daughter]

7.30 PM (UK time)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z05s

Did you end up watching it Jeffrey?  If so, what did you think of it?

PD

[Karl Henning]

Schnittke: Symphony No. 1

Love it!

[DavidW]

One of my favorite Shostakovich cycles, and the Ninth was superb. A little disappointed in the Tenth, though... it felt a bit... underpowered? Lacking that little something extra at the climaxes?

I just listened to the Kondrashin 10th which delivered... but I recommend Haitink if you want more oomph.

I also I've been listening to Pettersson's 5th and Penderecki's works for cello and orchestra... so I am now just worn out on depressing neoromantic music.  I think I'm just going to focus on Bach, Haydn and Mozart for awhile.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yes I know it quite well, it's also one of my favourites. I searched the database of Presto for recordings of Klami, and most I found on Qobuz. Funny enough if you look at the discography of Klami in Roon, only a handful appear, meaning that although Roon has many more of them in the library through Qobuz, you will not get to see them in his discography, another flaw I think in Qobuz. Only manual search will find them, through orchestras or composers and even artists, but not through the composers own discography. To many discographies I think.......

I don't know the recording that you showed Harry, but like Jeffrey, I also have that one plus: one on BIS-CD-676 and two on Ondine (*ODE 854-2 and ODE 1143-2).  I particularly like the "Cobblers on the Heath".
*This one is actually an Arkiv reproduction CD.

I discovered his music via a program on the BBC; it was about Finnish composers.  They had about a week's worth of episodes.    It was with Donald Macleod.

PD

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Stanislaw Orchestra Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

[foxandpeng]

George Lloyd (1913-1998).

Disc 4.

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat (1947-8).
Recorded: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 1989.

Symphony No. 6 (1956.
Recorded:Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester 1988.

BBC Philharmonic.

An ongoing pleasure, in music, performance and sound. The second movement of the 6th Symphony is absolutely devastating in its tonal beauty.

Couldn't agree more 🙂

[Mapman]

Huber: Symphony #1 (Tellsinfonie)

An attractive Romantic symphony. The 2nd movement reminded me a bit of Brahms. It's not as immediately memorable as his 2nd, but I still enjoyed listening to it.

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Lisztianwagner]

Hans Werner Henze
Symphony No.5

Marek Janowski & Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

[Maestro267]

Huber: Symphony #1 (Tellsinfonie)

An attractive Romantic symphony. The 2nd movement reminded me a bit of Brahms. It's not as immediately memorable as his 2nd, but I still enjoyed listening to it.

I picked up this set a few months back. I'm slowly getting round to going through it again.

I hope to get the Lloyd 1-6 set soon as well.

[Karl Henning]

Haven't had a lot of time for music lately!

Shostakovich
Symphony no. 9
Symphony no. 10
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Barshai
(on CD)



One of my favorite Shostakovich cycles, and the Ninth was superb. A little disappointed in the Tenth, though... it felt a bit... underpowered? Lacking that little something extra at the climaxes?

I don't believe I've listened yet to the e minor symphony in that set, so I'm in!