What are you listening 2 now?

[ritter]

In eager anticipation of hearing the work live in concert next Sunday, revisiting Franz Schmidt's Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln, in Franz Welser-Möst's 1997 recording with the Bavarian Radio Sumphony Orchestra and Chorus, and a distinguished roster of vocal soloists.

[Que]

[Harry]

William Walton (1902– 1983).

Orchestral works. (New release)
Scapino (1940, revised 1950) A Comedy Overture for Full Orchestra (after an etching from J. Callot's Balli di Sfessania, 1622) This work was written for Dr F.A. Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation.

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1955–56, revised 1975)
For Gregor Piatigorsky.

Symphony No. 1 (1931 –35) To the Baroness Imma Doernberg.

Jonathan Aasgaard (Cello), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson.

It is a welcome addition to the repertoire, and well recorded too. Admirers of this conductor don't need to hesitate, Wilson delivers and how! Jonathan Aasgaard is a for me unknown Cellist, but he has mastered the idiom of Walton without serious hindrances.

[Harry]

Beachcomber.
Orchestral Works on the label Reference.
Dallas Wind Symphony, Frederick Fennell.

So...if you want to try what your system can deliver in terms of sound, this is the CD to try that. There are other Reference recordings that are equally capable of doing that, but this CD is quite a workout for your electronics and speakers. I managed beautifully, and was blown away many a time with all those beautiful arrangements of tunes we might all know. I had some fun time with them, and give you the same warning as the Label BIS gave when listening to their recordings. WARNING, the dynamics might cause serious harm to your speakers or AMP
  

[Que]

From Mastroprimiano's ongoing Beethoven cycle. This volume is played on a fortepiano after Anton Walter, 1795.

https://www.aulicusclassics.com/artists/aulicus-classics/mastroprimiano-costantino

[Iota]

Messiaen: Sept Haïkaï (Japanese sketches for piano solo and orchestra)
Joela Jones (piano)
The Cleveland Orchestra, Boulez


@steve ridgway's recent Messiaen postings have prompted me to visit the Sept Haïkaï today. Seven pieces of relative brevity, obviously in keeping with the spirit of haiku, but because of the density of Messiaen's music a great deal is always happening within in them. In this sense I suppose you could say they don't resemble haiku, and are more like M's response to them, and all the exotic sounds he encountered on his honeymoon trip to Japan, from which he'd just returned when he wrote them. All very engaging.

[Lisz]

[AnotherSpin]

The Complete Organ Works of Francisco Correa de Arauxo: Correa in the New World 

Robert Bates

CD 3

[ritter]

Irma Kolassi sings mélodies by Louis Aubert, Debussy, Roger-Ducasse and Jacques Leguerney (various pianists).

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No.1 in C Minor. 1877 Linz version with revisions - Ed. Robert Haas
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Wolfgamg Sawallisch

[Mapman]

Langgaard: Symphony #2, "Vårbrud"
Dausgaard: DR RadioSymfoniOrkestret

Thanks to @Brian for posting about Langgaard and reminding me that I wanted to continue exploring his symphonies. (I liked this!)

[prémont]

Curiously, the other recordings in the El Órgano Histórico Español series, performed by different artists, haven't resonated with me much. I've tried five or six, and something about them just doesn't sit right. Maybe it's the harshness of the sound, or something odd in the recording itself.

I think the CDs in this series made by Lionel Rogg, Montserrat Torrent, Kimberly Marchall and not the least Francis Chapelet are quite at the level of Foccroulle's CD. I don't care that much for the other organists (Uriol, Banegas, Bovet et.c.), but in all cases it's about important historical organs. Spanish baroque organs sound in this way.

[Linz]

Georg Philipp Telemann The Grand Concertos for Mixed Instruments, Vol. 4
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Don Juan

Klauss Tennstedt & London Philharmonic Orchestra

[Symphonic Addict]

In eager anticipation of hearing the work live in concert next Sunday, revisiting Franz Schmidt's Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln, in Franz Welser-Möst's 1997 recording with the Bavarian Radio Sumphony Orchestra and Chorus, and a distinguished roster of vocal soloists.

That is interesting. When I'm about to hear a work live, I want to listen to it as fresh as possible so that it makes the biggest impact, which implies not to listen to recordings of it prior to the concert. I want to be surprised as much as possible.

[Symphonic Addict]

Bridge: Enter Spring

One of my favorite pieces of music in any genre, form or whatever. Immensely majestic.

[Symphonic Addict]

Martinu: Duo No. 1 'Madrigals' for violin and viola

Delightful and quirky as only Martinu could do. Music filled with real personality. It astounds me a lot the substance and sound density Martinu gets from these two instruments. An absolute joy of a piece. IIRC, I've heard another recording of this work, but the members of The Dartington Ensemble stamp more character to some critical passages, mostly in the 3rd movement at 0:43, 1:07, 2:08 and 2:47 marks (above all the latter). Those gestures get me everytime.

[Madiel]

Vivaldi

Chamber concerto in G minor for recorder, oboe and bassoon (RV 103)
Vengo a voi, luci adorate (RV 682)



The chamber concerto is very fine. Now that I have all of the L'Astrée albums in my possession, it's clear that they recorded 18 out of the 22 chamber concertos. The one with lute appears separately on the lute album. That leaves 3 missing from the series... maybe the liner notes of the first volume will explain, maybe it's just a gap.

This cantata suits Laura Polverelli somewhat better than the previous one, thankfully. Still a long way from being my favourite performer in the series, but she isn't constantly straining at the top of her range like she was in RV 680.

[Symphonic Addict]

Melartin: Symphony No. 3 in F major

Much as I like his other symphonies (especially 5 and 6), I think the 3rd is his best effort in the form and this recording on YouTube is completely astonishing despite a few clics and some scarce noise from the audience (it's a live recording playing the Finnish Radio S.O. under Sakari Oramo). I can't get enough of it. A moment that is so powerful occurs in the slow movement when the music feels so heartfelt at its climax and then changes into a weighty funeral march. A great passage. Am I the only one who perceives partly a similarity between the scherzo and L'Apprenti Sorcier by Dukas? That wizardry-like feel to it in the Melartin reminds me of the Dukas, there's this fantastic and colourful writing that is so fun. This is the symphony that should go next in the hopefully ongoing cycle on CPO.

[AnotherSpin]