What are you listening 2 now?

[LKB]

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Emil Gilels
Reiner, Chicago

I've heard Gilels in this work via his recording on DG with ( I think, it's been a while ) Jochum.

I haven't heard him with Reiner. How would you compare the two, assuming you're familiar with both?

Also, try Haitink/Ashkenazy/VPO if you haven't already. Solid work from all concerned, and Robert Scheiwein's Cello in the third movement is perfection itself.

[Spotted Horses]

Wellesz's later symphonies are quite a bit thornier and without the appealing neo-Brucknerian/Mahlerian aspects of the earlier ones. It should come as no surprise that I also prefer the earlier ones.

I'd stop short of saying I prefer the earlier ones. I listened to them five years ago, so it is hard to compare impressions now to impressions received five years ago, based on some minimal notes in my listening journal. The 9th symphony made a big impression, with a very original style, to my ears.

[Traverso]

Bach

Like an orphaned animal, I find my home in the heavenly sounds of Bach and his organ works.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 In B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugen Jochum

[DavidW]

Schumann's 1st and 4th:

[Linz]

Jean-Baptiste Lully Divertissements, Guillemette Laurens, tenor, Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé

[kyjo]

George Lloyd: Concerto for Violin & Winds.  Second listen.

If you like neo-classical concertos from the 1920s and '30s, you'll really enjoy this one.

I'm a huge Lloyd aficionado (as you all know ), but this particular work did not enthrall me when I heard it for the first time a few weeks ago. I would classify it as one of Lloyd's weakest works, and I prefer his 2nd VC with string orchestra accompaniment. Then again, I'm generally not terribly keen on music scored for wind ensemble, with some exceptions.

[kyjo]

I'd stop short of saying I prefer the earlier ones. I listened to them five years ago, so it is hard to compare impressions now to impressions received five years ago, based on some minimal notes in my listening journal. The 9th symphony made a big impression, with a very original style, to my ears.

Good to know; I'll give Wellesz's later symphonies another go at some point. But I'm generally not very fond of atonal/12-tone music influenced by the 2nd Viennese School.

[Selig]

WTC by Davide Pozzi, a very good harpsichordist IMO. Haven't heard much of his organ playing yet...

[Lisztianwagner]

Egon Wellesz
Symphony No.6

Gottfried Rabl & Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

[Symphonic Addict]

Rubbra: String Quartets 1 and 2

Quite worthwhile music. I don't know how to express this feeling well, but there's "humanity" in these works, and in general, in Rubbra's compositions.

[SonicMan46]

Handel, GF - Chamber Music w/ L'Ecole d'Orphée - first up in my Handel collection (of about three dozen discs) and a long time in my possession - period instruments - good review MusicWeb HERE - Dave

 

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 In B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

A Sicilian Traveller. Alessio Pianelli & Avos Chamber Orchestra.

[Symphonic Addict]

Bax: Concertante for cor anglais, clarinet, horn and orchestra; Concertante for piano (left hand) and orchestra

[Symphonic Addict]

Egon Wellesz
Symphony No.6

Gottfried Rabl & Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

I remember this symphony to have a gripping march-like first movement.

[Bachtoven]

Superb!

[Symphonic Addict]

Still: Symphonies 1 and 2

How refreshing these symphonies are! Still made them quintessential American with those irresistible blues elements for the most part.

[Irons]

Bax: Concertante for cor anglais, clarinet, horn and orchestra; Concertante for piano (left hand) and orchestra

The first cover image rang a bell.

[Que]

Transcriptions of Renaissance music played on a Baroque guitar.