What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

These newer versions are just wrong on every level - impossible to dance to and lacking the space and room to emotional engage.

Amen, brother!

[Cato]

The preludes to two operas by Ildebrando Pizzetti based on Greek antiquity. The early  Fedra (from 1915) and his last opera, from fifty years later, Clitennestra (1965).

I am intrigued!  Thanks for the recommendation!


Today:

From Nikolai Tcherepnin's ballet The Masque of the Red Death, a suite called Le Destin

And...I heard this on the radio with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic: things were fine for a while but then, I found tempos and other things to be questionable.

Anyway, how about a recent classic?  Leonard Slatkin and The Detroit Symphony:

or...

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The preludes to two operas by Ildebrando Pizzetti based on Greek antiquity. The early  Fedra (from 1915) and his last opera, from fifty years later, Clitennestra (1965).

Nice! Feliz Navidad!

[Belle]

The best Symphonic Dances of Rachmaninoff is this one, IMO.  It was recommended by folks on another music board.  And I love it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4IB5mM0H_Y

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Skoryk: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 2. Andrej Bielow.

[Cato]

The best Symphonic Dances of Rachmaninoff is this one, IMO.  It was recommended by folks on another music board.  And I love it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4IB5mM0H_Y

That is another fine choice!  Eugene Ormandy, of course, knew Rachmaninoff personally, so...the odds for a great performance are nearly 100%!

[Peter Power Pop]

British Light Music Discoveries 5 (City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland)



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[Madiel]

Handel as arranged by Mozart (with some later slight mucking around by a guy named Mosel): Alexander's Feast (retitled by that other guy for some reason)



I'm not aware of any other recordings existing.

I really did not have any awareness of Mozart's numerous Handel arrangements until I reached them in the Koechel catalogue. It does make me inclined to go check out a lot more Handel. Eventually. My list of things to check out rarely shrinks.