What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Bogey]

Performed by composer.

Haven't got to it yet, looking forward to in a minute here...

A favorite cd at this end.  Hope you enjoy it even half as much as I do.

[Opus106]

Bruckner 5
Munich PO/Celibidache
Live, 1985

It took 20 seconds to start and opened to what seemed to be a wonderful slow movement. Another 10 seconds and I realised that I had order of the tracks interchanged.  The first time I'm listening to this symphony.

Now playing in the correct order.

[Dundonnell]

Morton Gould : Cowboy rhapsody
Cecil Effinger : Little symphony
Douglas Moore: Symphony nr 2
Roy Harris : symphony nr 11

On Albany Troy 1042

Sinfonia Varsovia / Ian Hobson

A really good program. Rare American repertoire, a Polish orchestra....No heavy, dramatic works , but lots of fun and fresh sounding, refined music.

Peter

Thank you very much, Peter, for alerting me to this disc! I used to check the Albany Records new releases regularly but there have been none for a long time which interested me so I gave up

I have the Douglas Moore Symphony in a 1959 recording by the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under William Strickland on an old CRI disc but it will be great to hear a more modern recording and the Harris No.11 will be completely new to me Naxos has begun a Harris series under Marin Alsop but it is proceeding rather slowly-only one disc(Nos. 3 and 4) to date although Nos. 7 and 9 were on an earlier disc conducted by Theodore Kuchar and Alsop has recorded Nos. 5 and 6 for future release.

[Opus106]

Bruckner 5
Munich PO/Celibidache
Live, 1985

It took 20 seconds to start and opened to what seemed to be a wonderful slow movement. Another 10 seconds and I realised that I had order of the tracks interchanged.  The first time I'm listening to this symphony.

Now playing in the correct order.

Quite a long second movement (my original "first" movement), but it's beautiful.

[SonicMan46]

Tchaikovsky, Peter - Symphonies + other works w/ Rostropovich and the London PO; late 70s recordings - just getting started w/ this 5-CD set last night, but enjoying these exuberant recordings so far; outstanding Fanfare review in the most recent issue, Reprinted HERE - 

[ChamberNut]

Quite a long second movement (my original "first" movement), but it's beautiful.

The Bruckner 5th Symphony Adagio is beautiful indeed!  Happy to hear you enjoyed it.   

[pjme]

Thank you very much, Peter, for alerting me to this disc! I used to check the Albany Records new releases regularly but there have been none for a long time which interested me so I gave up

I have the Douglas Moore Symphony in a 1959 recording by the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under William Strickland on an old CRI disc but it will be great to hear a more modern recording and the Harris No.11 will be completely new to me Naxos has begun a Harris series under Marin Alsop but it is proceeding rather slowly-only one disc(Nos. 3 and 4) to date although Nos. 7 and 9 were on an earlier disc conducted by Theodore Kuchar and Alsop has recorded Nos. 5 and 6 for future release.

After a second hearing, the Harris symphony ( 1967) proves to be much darker than I thought. It consists of a single movement ( 22 minutes), but has two distinct parts. The work starts with a skittering piano ( punctuated by bells & vibraphone) and much uneasy string/trumpet/timpani motifs. It builds towards a tuba/bass trombone(?) heavy climax, then restarts with intricate strings/trumpet melodies that intertwine & develop ...I got lost a bit, this work doesn't have the easier flow of the violinconcerto or symphony nr 3. I quote from the booklet :..the music progresses....from The restlessness, apprehension,frustration,fear,anger,hate, which permeates the days and nights of our world" to arrive at" remorse,hope, expectationand realisation of a
more humane world". I'm not sure yet that the Sinfonia Varsovia & Ian Hobson have the full measure of these "noble" thougts....Possibly it isn't Harris's most accomplished creation. But it is great to have the work in excellent sound.
The other works vary from exuberant & light ( Gould/ think of Copland's Billy the Kid and Harris' Folksong symphony ) to neo-classical elegance à la Hindemith. ( Effinger & Moore).
Peter

[karlhenning]

Rakhmaninov
Concerto No. 1 in F# Minor, Opus 1
Howard Shelley
RSNO
Bryden Thompson

[Opus106]

Rakhmaninov

Surname surprise!

[Maciek]

I didn't know Hobson was also a conductor.

[pjme]

I didn't know Hobson was also a conductor.

Ian Hobson : a native of Wolverhampton. Keyboard artist, conductor. plays the viola, organ and piano. Studied in london and Cambridge. He's currently professor at the University of illinois/Urbana-Champaign....
But, apparently, he conducted in London, Vienna, Scotland, New Zealand, Philadelphia, St Louis, Baltimore and Chicago.

Peter

[Drasko]

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.3
Deutches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Georges Pretre
(live, 27.10.08, Philharmonie Berlin)

impressive!

[Henk]

[Dundonnell]

Ian Hobson : a native of Wolverhampton. Keyboard artist, conductor. plays the viola, organ and piano. Studied in london and Cambridge. He's currently professor at the University of illinois/Urbana-Champaign....
But, apparently, he conducted in London, Vienna, Scotland, New Zealand, Philadelphia, St Louis, Baltimore and Chicago.

Peter

Yes, he has conducted quite a lot in recent years. I have him conducting all of the Don Gillis symphonies(poor works inmho), the two Quincy Porter symphonies and Graham Whettam's Concerto Drammatico for cello and orchestra but he is also the soloist in Benjamin Lees' 2nd Piano Concerto. He now does a lot of work for Albany with the Sinfonia Varsovia.

[Maciek]

Interesting. I've heard him live as pianist once (not sure when exactly but more than 5 years ago), plus I think I have one recording (Paderewski's PC). Wasn't aware at all that he also had a conducting career going.

[Dundonnell]

http://www.ianhobson.net/home.htm

[Maciek]

Hm, the Paderewski PC is listed as on Zephyr. But I have it on Polish Radio:


You can never trust the internet.

[PaulR]

Gorecki:  Symphony #3 Wit/Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Dundonnell]

Gorecki:  Symphony #3 Wit/Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Glorious performance

[Kullervo]

Delius - Sea-Drift, Songs of Farewell, Songs of Sunset (Hickox/Bournemouth/Bryn Terfel)
RVW - A Sea Symphony (Haitink/London Philharmonic)