What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Really lovely.

[Traverso]

Shakuhachi [The Japanese Flute] - Kohachiro Miyata.

Very nice !

[Florestan]

A new album by Les Alizés. I quite like their Ciciona album.

You mean Cicciolina, right? 

[Traverso]

Hot hot hot,this is  very suitable music for it.

[Linz]

Carl Nielsen Symphony No. 5, Opus 50b
Symphony No. 6c: "Sinfoni Semplice"
Royal Danish Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund

[AnotherSpin]

[ritter]

Concertante works for cello by Malipiero, Ghedini, and Casella. Nikolay Shugaev (cello, joined on a second cello by Dimitrii Prokofiev in Ghedini's L'Olmeneta), Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra, Valentin Uryupin (cond.).



The Casella work, mysteriously not listed on the cover, is  Notturno e tarantella, op. 54.

[Iota]

Bruckner: Symphony No.5
RCO, Jochum


Thanks to @Roasted Swan's enthusisasm on the Bruckner thread, I decided to take a listen this very highly-reputed (as I learnt) final live performance of Bruckner's Fifth by Jochum. And, clearly like many before me, I found it a truly wonderful thing. Everything about it just seemed right, I can't ever remember enjoying the symphony as much.
As a footnote, I do find that Kaulbach portrait of Bruckner on the cover very striking.

[Que]

You mean Cicciolina, right? 

How did you know? 

[JBS]

Just started a first listen to this opera.

It is important to note that, despite the cover art, no actual Jacobins appear in this opera, and it's set in rural Bohemia. In three acts, it can be best described as being in the opera semiserie tradition.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing for a first listen: Crumb American Songbook I (The River of Life) and American Songbook II (A Journey Beyond Time)

From these recordings -



Such evocative and haunting music.

[Linz]

Sir Edward Elgar The Black Knight
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Richard Hickox

[Roasted Swan]

Bruckner: Symphony No.5
RCO, Jochum


Thanks to @Roasted Swan's enthusisasm on the Bruckner thread, I decided to take a listen this very highly-reputed (as I learnt) final live performance of Bruckner's Fifth by Jochum. And, clearly like many before me, I found it a truly wonderful thing. Everything about it just seemed right, I can't ever remember enjoying the symphony as much.
As a footnote, I do find that Kaulbach portrait of Bruckner on the cover very striking.

Hurrah!!

[Mister Sharpe]

My Weill collection is fairly strong on CD and/or LP but - embarrassingly - I didn't have this until last week when I picked it up for, er, a song! 

[Mandryka]

A new album by Les Alizés. I quite like their Ciconia album.



 

Well the sung Deuil Angoysseux (they obviously didn't learn spelling in those days) certainly got my attention! Lovely track for a heat wave.

[Iota]

This morning, I was distracted by a claim on YouTube that the Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue for Piano by Cesar Franck is an accursed work in the Van Cliburn Competition.

In over 30 years, nobody who has played this work in the competition advanced after they had played it: 0- 7.

Supposedly, young pianist Magdalene Ho was eliminated early from the competition - to the outrage of many - because of her interpretation of this piece, not because of any mistakes in the playing.

Anyway, here it is:

I listened to a very articulate and heartfelt expression of amazement about her elimination from the competition, by an experienced piano-watcher a few weeks back, also on youtube, he seemed genuinely stunned/upset. I hadn't been aware of the connection with the Franck, but it seems odd if so, I've just listened to your video and it strikes me as a very fine performance.

The video in question below if interested.

[Lisztianwagner]

Mieczysław Weinberg
Concertino Op.42

Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica

[Cato]

My Weill collection is fairly strong on CD and/or LP but - embarrassingly - I didn't have this until last week when I picked it up for, er, a song! 

I noticed that it is from the old Musical Heritage Society!

What a fine company that was: they were not averse to promoting obscure works, which was a wonderful mission!

This afternoon, one of the best performances of this work, which has the highest notes shrieking in anguish of incomprehension at the climax near the end:


Pelleas and Melisande - Schoenberg, conducted by Pierre Boulez, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra

[VonStupp]

FJ Haydn
Symphony 73 in D Major 'La Chasse'
Symphony 74 in E-flat Major
Symphony 75 in D Major
Austro-Hungarian HO - Ádám Fischer

VS

[VonStupp]

I noticed that it is from the old Musical Heritage Society!

What a fine company that was: they were not averse to promoting obscure works, which was a wonderful mission!

I see they are still around and have moved with the times. I don't know anyone who subscribes, though.
VS

Musical Heritage Society