What are you listening 2 now?

[Mister Sharpe]

Sonata for violin and piano, G maj.  Quite surprised, nay, astonished, even more nay, delighted, to see how numerous the Lekeu CD issues are of late. 

[JBS]

[SonicMan46]

Giuliani, Mauro (1781-1829) - Solo & Chamber Music with David Starobin on a copy of a J.G. Staufer guitar (ca. 1829) made by Gary Southwell; the first volume is a CD w/ booklet of solo works; the second volume is a MP3 CD-R of solo and duet music - its contents are listed HERE.

Giuliani 'was a leading guitar virtuoso of the early 19th century' (Source). He wrote a wide variety of music for the instrument, including many solo works, duos (for violin, flute, and guitar; the first two interchangeable), concertos, Rossini themes, etc.  I own a dozen or so recordings of his works, about half being duets with violin or flute.  Dave

 

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major,  1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugen Jochum:

[Traverso]

Mahler

Sympnony No.7

Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam

Kirill KONDRASHIN

[Karl Henning]

Curiously, I've been listening to Respighi of late, as well (rather more than Iis my wont) mostly the Antiche danze ed arie Suites.

In the tranche of CDs which Dan kindly offloaded hither are two Respighi discs, I first listened some few times to Neville Marriner leading the LA Chamber Orchestra.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Schmitt: La tragédie de Salomé; R. Strauss: Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils; Lalo: Namouna, Suite No. 1.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra · Paul Paray.

[JBS]

Opera in the afternoon

[Iota]

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664
Can Çakmur (piano)

D664 has never been as enchanting to me as it is in this recording, Çakmur really is a remarkable pianist, There's always something happening in his Schubert, every note almost seems shaped, but it is done with such artistry that the flow of the music is not impeded in any way, and hidden treasures suddenly seem to pour out of the music. Even the last movement, which has never been one of Schubert's most interesting moments to me, seemed less of a duty than usual.

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Symphonies Vol. 4 CD 3
Symphony No. 30 in C major
Symphony No. 31 in D major, 'Horn Signal'
Symphony No. 34 in D minor
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

[Lisztianwagner]

Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No.3

Pierre Cochereau (organ)
Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Karl Henning]

Yesterday and today, I've spent some time with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, led by Hugh Wolff. where Marriner's recording is the three Suites of the title, the program of the Wolff disc is the Trittico botticelliano (I keep forgetting that the second number is L'Adorazione dei Magi, and very creatively adopts the plainchant, Veni, Emmanuel) Gli Uccelli and the second and third Antiche danze ed arie Suites.  Gli Uccelli is in much the same vein as these. The third Suite (1932) is strings alone, and concludes with a Passacaglia. Largely for those reasons it has become my favorite of the three. With the exception of the third number (Siciliana) Marriner's timings are briefer than those of Wolff. Without finding any genuine objection to the Marriner, I find I prefer the Wolff.
Separately, my introduction to  Gli Uccelli was a performance in Carnegie Hall by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, to which, if I do not wildly misremember, @brewski invited me.

[Linz]

Richard Wagner Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63: Overture
Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Overture
Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act 1: Prelude and Act 3: Prelude
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96: Prelude
Charles Gounod Faust, Ballet Music
Paris Opera Orchestra, André Cluytens

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Richard Wagner Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63: Overture
Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Overture
Lohengrin, WWV 75, Act 1: Prelude and Act 3: Prelude
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96: Prelude
Charles Gounod Faust, Ballet Music
Paris Opera Orchestra, André Cluytens

Nice recording!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ginastera, Villa-Lobos, and Chavez.

[DavidW]

This morning, the Great Symphony:


This afternoon, Vivaldi:

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony no. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ferdinand Leitner
Karl Amadeus Hartmann Ymphony No. 6

[hopefullytrusting]

More Honeck:


Honeck's conducting Mahler Symphony 1 with the NDREO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lurl-klLJWo

If you know, you know.

[JBS]

Furtwangler as composer



The issue I have is with the Naxos label, gives the orchestra's name as Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic (Kosice), and replaces the serene Seurat with the upper half of this painting (War, second version) by Böcklin.


Just a slight change of tone...

[JBS]

Two first listens. Both seem recommendable.