What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Nielsen: Flute Concerto



I don't think I really understand what's going in this piece. *Goes to hit play again*

EDIT: Okay, that did actually help.

[Papy Oli]

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 (New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sawallisch)

[PaulR]

Weinberg: Symphony #5

[Madiel]

Ravel: La Valse



Honestly, that piano reduction has a lot to compete with.

[Papy Oli]

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1
Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Fey

[Madiel]

Schumann: 6 Gesänge, op.89



Graham Johnson doesn't much like the poetry (and it probably isn't outstanding to be honest), and I don't much like the singer of 5/6 of these songs. So it was never going to be a highlight. It's telling that the final song, with a different singer, seems to come off the best.

I doubt that alternative performances are particularly thick on the ground. This is not a group of Schumann songs that people are going to be reaching for regularly. Ah well.

[Madiel]

Chopin: 3 Mazurkas, op.50



Op. 50/3 will always hold a very special place for me. One of the longest and most complex mazurkas, and one that I know how to play.

[Traverso]

Handel



Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne

Anthem for the Foundling Hospital

Utrecht Te Deum

[PaulR]

[AnotherSpin]

Symphonies 4, 5 from this set.

[PaulR]

Saint Saens: Symphony #3 'Organ'

[Iota]

Symphonies 4, 5 from this set.

The set that introduced me to the Sibelius symphonies. I still get a warm glow seeing the cover.

[Iota]

Bach: French Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV815
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)

Music that plays perfectly set against the sunlight coming through the bare limbs of trees at this time of year. And the joy of a Gigue on a harpsichord is a wonderful thing indeed.

[Papy Oli]

One more...

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11
Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

[Todd]

6.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jack Gallagher: Orchestral Music.

[Brian]

Working through the MTT jumbo box set. The Steven Mackey album is a first and probably final listen. I just do not like this style of contemporary music, with references to other genres, tunes, and sounds (even a telephone voice mail message) deployed for no apparent reason except to get a laugh; with frequent outbursts of percussion to reclaim the listener's attention; and with a basically tonal language that steadfastly avoids melody or development. Tuck and Roll is an electric guitar concerto, and Eating Greens is a seven-movement suite with whimsical titles.

Oh, yeah, the whimsical titles. They very rarely make any reference to the music, and seem to serve the same purpose as the telephone sound effect: providing mild amusement. "Puffe," "Waffling (sic)", "The Title Is Almost As Long As The Piece Itself"...the only ones that make sense are homages to Matisse and Thelonious Monk. Coincidentally, the Matisse homage might be the best work on the album, with a brassy Americana verve that suits MTT's style very well.

[Papy Oli]

Mahler 2 / Ono

Concluding this one from yesterday with the last movement.

[André]

Weinberg: Symphony #5

A quite extraordinary disc. Dokshitzer's take on the trumpet concerto is unlike any other.

[André]

Busch: String Sextet in G major

If you like Reger's, you'll dig this one too. More interesting than expected.

A truly marvellous disc. I purchased it for the Braunfels sextet but through it I got to discover Busch as a composer - and a fine one. Really worth exploring.