What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pizzetti: Concerto dell'estate, Edipo re (three orchestral preludes), Clitennestra (prelude), La festa delle Panatenee. Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Myron Michailidis.



Enjoying this quite a bit... 

Exotic and aesthetic.

[Linz]

Jean Sibelius The Tempest - Overture, Op.109, No.1
The Oceanides, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 73
Nightride and Sunrise, Op.55
Richard Wagner Lohengrin, WWV75, Prelude to Act I and Prelude to Act III, Berliner Philharmoniker
Parsifal, WWV 111, Prelude and  Act 3, Good Friday Spell
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum

[DavidW]

[Mister Sharpe]

"Too slow, chicken marengo!" says the Cat in one of my favorite episodes of Red Dwarf.  While I could say the same of de Leeuw's playing sometimes, over the years I have warmed considerably to his slower tempos and that of other pianists, too. Excepting of course for much of Satie's cabaret material. After studying this a while now, I'm persuaded that Satie himself would be shocked to hear how fast his work is often performed. The meditative states he induces support slower speeds and certainly the number of lent, très lent indications along with the more playful ones like lent et douloureux, and arguably the most famous one:  il sera bon de se préparer au préalable, et dans le plus grand silence, par des immobilités sérieuses appear to support a slower pace for his work. I have most but not all of de Leeuw's recordings.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Georg Tintner

[Karl Henning]

From 2019, live from Houston, Texas, the combined Dover and Escher Quartets in octets by Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, and Enescu.

Listening now!

[Linz]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski

[Number Six]

Now streaming on Qobuz:



Bach: Cantatas 100-101

Harnoncourt/Leonhardt

[JBS]

Wrapping up with CD 4: Purcell, Respighi, Stravinsky

[AnotherSpin]

[Symphonic Addict]

Litolff: Concertos Symphoniques 4 and 5

Other record labels should spread these works with the same enthusiasm as with the concertos of the core repertoire. Wonderful music. The scherzo-intermezzo-type movements are especially delightful and they are pervaded by a similar lightness often heard in Saint-Saëns.

[AnotherSpin]

@Dry Brett Kavanaugh @AnotherSpin

This Scriabin LP is on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcUyPiigcgM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhhVsQIRrCc

Thanks for the link. I'm not terribly interested in Scriabin's works, was merely trying to be helpful with some information about that particular album.

[Linz]

Antonín Dvořák Serenades, Opp. 22 & 44
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Kancheli Symphony No. 3

From this set -

[Mapman]

I've been listening to various music by US composers for 4th of July weekend.

But the highlight, just now, was returning to Bernstein's 2nd Symphony "Age of Anxiety". Today's recording choice was Kahane and Litton with Bournemouth. I think this is my favorite American symphony.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

I've been listening to various music by US composers for 4th of July weekend.

But the highlight, just now, was returning to Bernstein's 2nd Symphony "Age of Anxiety". Today's recording choice was Kahane and Litton with Bournemouth. I think this is my favorite American symphony.

Ah, what a coincidence! I'm also listening to some Bernstein --- NP: Symphonic Suite from "On the Waterfront"

[Symphonic Addict]

Martin: Polyptyque
Schoeck: Festlicher Hymnus

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

More Bernstein --- Chichester Psalms

From this set -

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Strauss Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Last work for the night --- NP: Takemitsu Nostalghia