What are you listening 2 now?

[AnotherSpin]

[Que]

Tha's an oldie (mid '70s)! How is it? 

PS That cover by Lyrichord is full of sh%t: Morales was NOT a Medieval composer and "chants" are NOT "chansons"....

[Todd]

Op 28, from Robert Silverman's Audio High complete cycle that was only issued in part - 23 of the 32.  Couldn't find an image of the cover, and even Audio High no longer sells the set.

[Florestan]

Tha's an oldie (mid '70s)! How is it? 

PS That cover by Lyrichord is full of sh%t: Morales was NOT a Medieval composer and "chants" are NOT "chansons"....

...and it's Cristobal de Morales.

[Selig]

[Karl Henning]

I've had such a big break in my traversal of the Stravinsky ballets that I'm going to rewind back to Les Noces.

You're reminding me that I need to return to and finish that box.

[AnotherSpin]

Tha's an oldie (mid '70s)! How is it? 

PS That cover by Lyrichord is full of sh%t: Morales was NOT a Medieval composer and "chants" are NOT "chansons"....

There's probably no point in looking for historical truth in album covers, especially those from American labels. As for the music itself, I was curious to hear how early music was performed half a century ago. I liked it and added several albums by Capella Cordina to my Qobuz library, I'll be listening.

[Todd]

31/1.  A top three recording.

[Florestan]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major. 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Städtisches Orcheter Trier, Reinhard Petersen

[Wanderer]

[Wanderer]

What do you think of it?

Even though I don't listen to it very often, I'm quite fond of it.

[Wanderer]

Medtner: Two Skazki, op.8

No. 2 was a favourite of Prokofiev.

Another most favourite - and more relentless - version of Op. 8 is by Hamelin.

[Linz]

Gustav Mahler Symphony No.7 in E minor
Concertgebouw oOrchestra,; Riccardo Chailly

[Todd]

31/2.

For fun, I checked with AI for some info.  Gemini botched it, stating Houstoun recorded one cycle, while both Grok and CoPilot got the correct number.

[André]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major. 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Städtisches Orcheter Trier, Reinhard Petersen

I've been to Trier a few times. It's one of Germany's most interesting cities on a historic/architectural standpoint. Huge roman ruins, Roman era and early medieval buildings (oldest german cathedral), and Karl Marx' birthplace, now a museum. Plus, it's the beginning of the Mosel river's wine country. I bet our dear Sarge has been there more times than he'd care to remember.

I ha no idea they had an orchestra.

[Wanderer]

I've been to Trier a few times.

I had no idea they had an orchestra.

It's Germany. It'd be most uncharacteristic if they hadn't.

[André]

A specialist's pair of discs perhaps.

Symphony no 1 is conducted by the composer in 1977, but the sound is rough, mono. Barbirolli's 1958 broadcast performance (mono) sounds better. It would raise the roof if it had been recorded in stereo. It's also tauter, more electrically charged. The stereo Bostock sounds very well but it's slightly broader and less punchy than the two mono performances.

Symphony 2 is also a mid-seventies BBC mono broadcast but this time it's good, clear mono. Conductor Christopher Adey leads an alert, very fine performance. If I'm not mistaken it's the only recording of the work, making this release all the more valuable.

Symphony 4 has been recorded by the composer himself in excellent stereo (on Dutton). That release is paired with the viola concerto as well as with the aforementioned 1st under Barbirolli - an essential release. The performance on this Lyrita twofer is from 1986 and is conducted with great feeling by Bryden Thomson. While not as searingly intense and coruscating as the first, it inhabits its own world, more sibelian perhaps than the waltonian First.

Butterworth's musical language hails from the same cauldron of fiery, brooding, intensely eager works of british music that made the period 1940-1975 so rich in symphonic masterpieces. Moeran, Walton, Arnold, Butterworth. They all gave us intense, enigmatic, moody, angry, brass-laden works.

Butterworth is a major figure in British symphonic music. I wish his symphonies attracted more attention from record companies. Dutton has also released a fine recording of the 5th.

[Wanderer]

[steve ridgway]

Crumb - Music For A Summer Evening (Macrocosmos III)