What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

BUT at the very end, he talks about the newer Igor Levit box as a top 'modern' choice for these works

Distler would be better situated to assess the cycles, I think.  I'd also like to know how many modern cycles (ie, 21st Century) Hurwitz has heard, including all the foreign market cycles.  Sony Classical alone has three other modern cycles that are better . . .

[DavidW]

P.S. at the bottom is another Hurwitz discussion - he is selective but likes the ones mostly in that top 10 tier linked above, BUT at the very end, he talks about the newer Igor Levit box as a top 'modern' choice for these works; Todd has Levit in the middle of his 3rd tier - may have to do a listen on Spotify - other opinions?

I like Levit's box but you can also try Buchbinder and Badura-Skoda (PI one, haven't heard the MI).  I'm taking modern as digital stereo.  If it comes to last few years, heck if I know!

[Todd]

I'm taking modern as digital stereo.

The earliest digital cycles are forty years old now.  I'm not sure those qualify as modern anymore.

[Linz]

Verdi Requiem, Tito del Bianco, , Amara, Forrester, Tucker, London, Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy

[Christo]

Time and again, as I don't have time for listening to music for months in a row, but still find some during a few car tours: Ruth Gipps, Symphony no. 3 (1965), one of the most wonderful symphonies I know, and indeed the very best "Third" I know. Listened to it again this morning while touring through neigbouring Germany, and was overwhelmed again: simply superb.

[Iota]

No booklet on Qobuz, but the sound is streaming.

Am finding these very engaging!

I haven't noticed the major labels doing this, but sometimes the smaller, quirky labels. Probably they want to motivate people to buy the physical media, rather than wait for the eventual streaming release.

The Lim Chopin Etudes on Decca was a recent example.

Judge for yourself.

(Mikhail Pletnev) Alexei Shor is a melodist, and being a melodist nowadays is the greatest courage. Everyone can write nonsense, and this is considered good. But no one wants to listen to this. Shor is an independent person, he writes what he wants and what he hears. That's why his music is so popular.

It's disappointing to hear someone as apparently intelligent as Pletnev seeming to imply that people who write music not to his taste, are not writing what they want or what they hear.

[Karl Henning]

Am finding these very engaging!


The Lim Chopin Etudes on Decca was a recent example.


It's disappointing to hear someone as apparently intelligent as Pletnev seeming to imply that people who write music not to his taste, are not writing what they want or what they hear.

Also: being a melodist nowadays is the greatest courage is piffle.

[Linz]

William Walton Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor, Siesta, London Philharmonic O|rchestra, and Symphony No. 2, London Symphony Orchestra,Charle Mackerras

[vandermolen]

How did you like the CD, Jeffrey?

PD

Liked it all PD. An unusual Finnish Naxos release featuring Finnish themed works by Klami, Sibelius and Glazunov. I enjoyed the whole programme of works.

[Mandryka]

Am finding these very engaging!

Yes. I'm enjoying most the songs with instruments and the soprano. Their tone, their "grain",  seems quite pure and neutral, I think (I'm not sure) singers call it "white" - I 'd like a bit more character to the vocal timbre ideally I think.

[prémont]

- believe that I'll just keep the stereo box.  Dave

It's a wise decision to watch out for the omnipresent threatening CDCDCD here in GMG... 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Liked it all PD. An unusual Finnish Naxos release featuring Finnish themed works by Klami, Sibelius and Glazunov. I enjoyed the whole programme of works.

What was the Glazunov work?

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Bax: Cello Sonata.



Kicked off listening session with George Lloyd's 11th Symphony which I did enjoy. Not star of the show though as that accolade goes to Arnold Bax! At an hour of symphonic listening my admittedly short attention span is on the wane and it would take something special to perk me up (so to speak ). Middle movement of the Bax Cello Sonata is stunningly beautiful.

I don't believe that I've heard Bax's Cello Sonata before?  I'll have to find it and dig in.   

PD

[Symphonic Addict]

Bloch: Évocations, for orchestra

This is simply one of Bloch's greatest works IMO. Orchestral music at its best. I'm fascinated by how exotic, atmospheric, magical, powerful and ferocious this music sounds like. There is another recording on BIS, but I prefer this one on Koch.

[Lisztianwagner]

First listen to:

Hans Werner Henze
Undine, act 2^ & 3^

Oliver Knussen & London Sinfonietta

[DavidW]

Also: being a melodist nowadays is the greatest courage is piffle.

Sounds like something WAM would write! 

Oh sorry... WAM+God.

[DavidW]

I don't believe that I've heard Bax's Cello Sonata before?  I'll have to find it and dig in.   

PD

You won't be disappointed!

[Karl Henning]

Sounds like something WAM would write! 
Oh sorry... WAM+God.

(* chortle *)

[Symphonic Addict]

Klami: Symphony No. 1

Elements of Sibelius and French music run throughout the work, which is better than I remembered.

[Symphonic Addict]

Farrenc: Symphony No. 3 in G minor