What are you listening 3 now?

[foxandpeng]

Jón Leifs
Baldr
Kari Kropsou
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
BIS

Leifs is fast embedding in my affections. Very much my thing.

[Linz]

Reinhold Glière Bronze Horseman, Shakh-Senem Gyul'sara
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Andre Anichanov

[Symphonic Addict]

Haydn: Symphony No. 76
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16

In the mood for remarkable classical works.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1888 Third Version - Ed. Benjamin Korstvedt [2004]
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner

[brewski]

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Alan Gilbert / New York Philharmonic, live recording)

Quite good; Gilbert was underrated during his time in New York. The brass may be too prominent for some, but heavens, they sound great.

[JBS]

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Alan Gilbert / New York Philharmonic, live recording)

Quite good; Gilbert was underrated during his time in New York. The brass may be too prominent for some, but heavens, they sound great.

He did a nice M9 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic



Amazon shows performances of M3 and M9 with the NYPO for DL/Streaming.

I seem to remember a M2 DVD with NYPO, but if it's the one I think it is, it's just mid-tier. (Of course to my ears there are only three bad M2 recordings, and two of them are Abbado recordings.)

[JBS]

TD
Spread out over the evening


10 Concertos from Il Cimento Op 8 (the two oboe concertos don't qualify for this box) and four concertos from Otto Concerti Solenni.  The latter are performed by Enrico Casazza and La Magnifica Comunita.

[Que]

https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Oct10/missa_caput_CDH55284.htm

http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/h/hyp55284a.php

[AnotherSpin]

Vier letzte Lieder

[Mandryka]

I have not investigated Charles Koechlin for far too long!

It is probably a coincidence, but I wondered more than once whether Bernard Herrmann knew of his works!

I thought Constantin Silvestri made much more interesting music out of it.

[Madiel]

Mozart: 'Haffner' Serenade K.250, with opening and closing marches.



Everything about the serenade genre maximalised. Eight movements (not counting the marches) and longer ones at that. Like several of the earlier serenades, there's practically a violin concerto built into the first half. Three menuets total.

Surely one of the pinnacles of the Salzburg period.

[pjme]

I thought Constantin Silvestri made much more interesting music out of it.

Silvestri made the only recording (BBC) of the second symphony. Afaik, he never conducted the first.

[Iota]

Martinů: Piano Concerto No. 4,'Incantation'
Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Outside of Mozart's, I haven't listened to a piano concerto in ages and decided to dive back in with this sparkling beauty from Martinu. In many ways it feels like a fairy tale being related to an enthralled child, constantly bubbling away with the thrill of enchantments and mysteries, and erupting at moments in glittering outpourings of orchestral colour. An irresistible and lovely piece.
The deft-fingered Kahánek tells the tale with great zip and flair, and the whole band feel very involved. Excellent .

(I couldn't help feeling that the shot of Kahánek on the cover put him in the vicinity of a separated at birth category with Mackenzie Crook .. a positive association for me I should say .. if he were a joanna tinkler I bet he'd come up with a knockout version of his own .. )

[Mandryka]

Silvestri made the only recording (BBC) of the second symphony. Afaik, he never conducted the first.

Is this not the same music?

[Traverso]

Mozart



part of this nice box

[Madiel]

I attempted to watch the OperaVision production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, but I couldn't do it. Yet again a German production (Mannheim) is awful to look at.

This time it's the stage design. Made up of great big pieces of writing not just on the walls but on the floor too, tabloid headline style. It makes an effective Point for about 2 minutes and then you have to keep watching it. Because that's the problem - your eye is constantly being drawn away from the cast, who seemed from the first section to be doing quite a decent job of it - to the "background".

Someone forgot some basic  principles about who is supposed to be the star of the show. When you're looking at the floor underneath Lucrezia as much as you're looking at her, it's a big fail.

[pjme]

Is this not the same music?

No.
More info:
https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,9845.740.html

[VonStupp]

William Walton
Richard III
Macbeth
Major Barbara

Sir John Gielgud, narrator
Ian Watson, harpsichord & organ
AoSMitF - Neville Marriner

Another fine entry in Marriner's Walton contributions on Chandos.
VS

[Madiel]

Rossini: L'occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes a Thief)

Rossini's one-Act comedy starts with an accidental luggage swap, which leads to 2 men turning up to a wedding claiming to be the groom.

My second OperaVision attempt of the night was far more successful, to the point where I'm going to recommend this as a watch while it's still available for a bit. This is what happens when a smart director really adds to and enhances a production. It's all done on a rather small stage, but with so much acting and detail. Whether it's the singing cast or the ones who've been added to the scene even when they're not in the score, it's all delightful - even when the English subtitles occasionally fall away. And it takes less than 90 minutes.

[Mandryka]

No.
More info:
https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,9845.740.html

Yes someone confused me by saying that the thig Silvestri conducted was in fact the first symphony, just wrongly announced by the BBC. There's a nice little discussion here. Anyway, the Silvestri is very good! How can it be that we have no other performances of this extraordinary work?

https://classik.forumactif.com/t3654-koechlin-les-symphonies