What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Guido Cantelli CD 6
Richard Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique"
Philharmonia Orchestra, Guido Cantelli

[hopefullytrusting]

There isn't even a competition anymore for the best recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto - this one crushes.



Too lazy to write anything more - just enjoying today.

[Todd]

With an obviously fantastic album cover, as one would expect from a beautiful young woman who also describes herself as an influencer, this mixed rep disc is anchored by Ina Boyle's Violin Concerto and works pretty well.  Abrami can obviously play, and everything here is well done.  Abrami makes it a point to not only perform music composed by women, but also pairs up with fellow female performers, including conductor Irene Delgado-Jiménez and the fantastic pianist Kim Barbier.  Just how many times does one get to hear orchestrated Miley Cyrus?

This is the second classical album I have with this title.  Truth to tell, this does not have the artistic impact of the great Sofya Melikyan's disc, but it's enough to make me want to listen to more from the main artist.

[Spotted Horses]

Listened to the remaining (3-6) Polonaises from Volume 4 of Koukl's set of Martinu Piano Music



After listening to the first two I wasn't too interested, but by the time I got the 5 and 6 I was finding more to enjoy in them (although I still do not consider them among my favorite Martinu Piano music).

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1877 Version Ed. Leopld Nowak (with Scherzo coda)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

[André]

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Mystery Sonata "Resurrection"
(from the so-called Rosary Sonatas) in G major for violin and basso

Music can serve to help us imagine reality as greater than we are accustomed to. Religion fundamentally thrives on the fact that we must imagine our ideas and images of transcendence (God, heaven, resurrection, etc.) as even greater and more dynamic than even the universe we know demands of us.


More cf:
https://www.discoveringsacredmusic.ch/16th-17th-century/biber

One of the greatest violin works ever penned, and my favourite version of it.

[André]

A fine, fascinating disc of beautiful music, in a superb 56-page booklet presentation complete with period pictures. Musique en Wallonie lavishes great love and care on their Ysaÿe series and this is the best disc of it so far.

[Linz]

Sergiu Celibidache CD 6
Richard Wagner Tannhauser  Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D major K. 504
Jean Sibelius En Saga
London Symphony Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache

[Linz]

Jean Sibelius
Lise Davidsen soprano
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner

[Mandryka]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony no. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
Munchner Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe

[Karl Henning]

Stayed awake through Glass. Will Adams do the trick?



NB--the back cover is from the LP version (I didn't even know Brilliant did any vinyl). On the CD Phrygian Gates is the second track and Hallelujah Junction is the final work.

ETA
Finished it. Won't be back for a second listen anytime soon. Might be the most boring John Adams CD I've heard. Is Hallelujah Junction really as bangy-clangy as the van Veens play it here?

Thanks for taking one for the team!

[Karl Henning]

@JBS

TD
Debussy
P to the A of a F
Nocturnes
La Mer
Suite from the Martyrdom of St. Seb.
Guido Cantelli conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra
From the EMI Icon Cantelli box

You posted this 1 July 2019, so mine is a seriously delayed reaction. More recent posts have piqued my curiosity about this box.

TD:

Igor Fyodorovich
Orpheus
Movements for Piano & Orchestra
Requiem Canticles
Threni

[JBS]

Harnoncourt seems to be getting some attention today. My contribution



The first CD from

[JBS]

Schumann's turn now.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Vladigerov symphonies, etc..

[Symphonic Addict]

Korngold: Piano Quintet in E major

Amongst his chamber pieces, I think this is one of his indisputable masterworks because of the inventiveness and freshness of the writing from the first note to the last, without overlooking that ardent and dreamy lyricism that is so typical of his personal style and the impish quality that is reflected mostly in the sparkling, infectious third movement. What a tremendous piece of music. Love it dearly.

[AnotherSpin]

The album unfolds across three realms: musica terrestris, Ars musica and Laudatio Dei, evoking a triptych of existence, the earthly, the artful and the sacred. Though modest in means, the music traverses a remarkable expanse, relying not on known names but on the quiet authority of its own voice. Anonymity here is not absence but a form of pure presence.

The sound is spare yet never static. It moves with a lucid joy, like light filtering through stained glass. Plucked strings, gentle percussion and breathy winds offer a natural balance, free from excess or embellishment. The restraint is striking, especially given the skeletal nature of the original scores. Voices intertwine not as a choir but as a shared breath, a single pulse of time. The recording has a live feeling, untouched by studio artifice, a testament to music as a state of being rather than a crafted object.

[steve ridgway]

Webern - Three Songs On Poems By Hildegard Jone, Op. 25

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - Voyage Absolu Des Unari Vers Andromède