What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

Last night:

Pettersson's 6th:


Alfven's 2nd:


Shostakovich's 4th conducted by Kondrashin:

What a great programme.

[foxandpeng]

NP: Rautavaara Deux Sérénades




Rautavaara's last compositional gasps. Truly lovely and atmospheric. These were written for Hilary Hahn and Kalevi Aho was called upon to finish the second movement in a fitting tribute (Aho studied composition with Rautavaara). For me, this is one of Hahn's greatest recordings.

I don't know this, but Rautavaara is usually in my top 5, or at worst, 10.

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I don't know this, but Rautavaara is usually in my top 5, or at worst, 10.

It's a gorgeous work and for someone who appreciates Vasks or those violin/orchestra works from Sibelius (sans the VC) would, I imagine, find enjoyment in this work.

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NP: Crumb Unto the Hills: American Songbook III

[foxandpeng]

It's a gorgeous work and for someone who appreciates Vasks or those violin/orchestra works from Sibelius (sans the VC) would, I imagine, find enjoyment in this work.

Already in my Rautavaara playlist, apparently, but now on my radar.

Thanks 😁

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Already in my Rautavaara playlist, apparently, but now on my radar.

Thanks 😁

My pleasure. Aho did a marvelous job on the completion of the second movement. I think he honored his teacher to beautiful effect.

[foxandpeng]

Errki Melartin
Complete Symphonies
Symphony #1
Leonid Grin
Tampere PO
Ondine

Late Romantic, Early Modern composers this evening, apparently 🤷�♂️

Why not? First time I have really been able to listen to anything of any note for a bit, tonight, so it is nice to explore.

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NP: Aho Concerto for Recorder and Chamber Orchestra



This might be a first-listen. Lovely piece so far.

[DavidW]

Back to Atterberg's 5th:

[JBS]

Originally issued as

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

[brewski]

An absorbingly assembled concert, live from the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine:

Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor                                             
Robin Scott, violin • Melissa Reardon, viola • Ahrim Kim, cello • Julian Martin, piano

Caroline Shaw: Boris Kerner (2017)
Keiko Ying, cello • Luke Rinderknecht, percussion

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring                                                  
Soyeon Kate Lee, Ran Dank, piano

[AnotherSpin]

Roused around 3 am by the familiar rumble of air defences. Yet another nocturnal performance from our Russian neighbours. A few calming drops (purely medicinal), a bit of Bach, and back to pretending all was perfectly ordinary.

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NP: MacMillan The Exorcism of Rio Sumpúl

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NP: MacMillan String Quartet No. 1, "Visions of a November Spring"

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NP: Koechlin Symphony No. 1, Op. 57bis

[Symphonic Addict]

Three string quartets and other miscellaneous pieces by Gibbs. I liked them more than expected. Very good pieces. I hope his other quartets will have the same luck as these ones to be recorded.

[Symphonic Addict]

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 Ghedini is an incredible composition, quite different from any other style I know.

[JBS]

Letzbor 1994 doing Biber 1681

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NP: Kancheli Symphony No. 2, "Chants"

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