What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[MN Dave]

Feeling pastoral lately.

[Conor71]

Vine: Symphony No. 4.2
Vine: Symphony No. 5, "Percussion"
Vine: Symphony No. 6, "Choral"
Hovhaness: Cello Concerto, Op. 27
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 22, Op. 236, "City Of Light"
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, Op. 132, "Mysterious Mountain"

[Lethevich]

I used to dislike this work, but after hearing and extremely guiltily enjoying music by Georgy Sviridov even Pendi's 7th symphony somehow no longer sounds as overblown as it used to.



Also, outburst at the end of the Lauda Jerusalem movement still sounds like the Woody the Woodpecker tune to me.

Edit: Hehe, this entire work makes me lol... in a good way, and as it works so well despite aesthetic concerns, I guess somebody had to compose it. And as usual with this composer, it is exceptionally well-done, and well over-done.

[Wanderer]

The SOBR/Haitink Ring cycle.

[Opus106]

The SOBR/Haitink Ring cycle.

Walkürenritt
Vienna Phil.|Furtwängler

[mahler10th]

This can only be described on first hearing as DELICIOUS.

[jlaurson]

Big Band Bach

J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concertos Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Riccardo Chailly Decca 2 CDs

[Lethevich]

[Coopmv]

It's a single disc and to my knowledge not also availble on any of the twofers ( with Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione and L'Estro Armonico)

Q

Q,  Thanks for the info.  I have a number of Vivaldi works by Biondi on the labels Arcana and Opus111.  Perhaps I have the same works on those recordings ...

[Antoine Marchand]

Big Band Bach

J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concertos Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Riccardo Chailly Decca 2 CDs

Apparently, Jens wrote the product's description: 

"In 2010, Maestro Riccardo Chailly records Johann Sebastian Bach for Decca for the very first time with 3 releases. Having conducted the illustrious Gewandhaus Orchestra since 1986, this esteemed conductor's association with Leipzig is but one year less than Bach's. Chailly's profound musicality illuminates three of Bach's large-scale masterpieces: The St. Matthew Passion, the Brandenburg Concertos and the Christmas Oratorio. Played on modern instruments, Chailly's Bach beautifully demonstrates that vivid, stylistically aware performance is not the exclusive preserve of period instrument ensembles. The first release from this trilogy, the Brandenburg Concertos, showcases the Orchestra's expert soloists. Collectively, they celebrate the orchestra's renaissance under its charismatic Italian music director".

No, that description wasn't written by Jens because he knows perfectly that the Branderburgs are not really large-scale works (if it is a reference to the number of performers). 

[Coopmv]

Now playing CD12 - Symphonies in D, 33 & 34 from this set in a hurry.



Now that the Pinnock's set has arrived ...



and this should be it for HIP Mozart Symphonies

[Coopmv]

CD10 from this highly enjoyable set ...

[Harry]

This can only be described on first hearing as DELICIOUS.

Agreed, this is a wonderful disc John.

[Drasko]

[Papy Oli]

No.32
No.31
No.30
No.29

[The new erato]

My first Xenakis' experience was this work, on an old French LP. Quite atmospheric IIRC. How do you like it? And what's the label?

[Lethevich]

My first Xenakis' experience was this work, on an old French LP. Quite atmospheric IIRC. How do you like it? And what's the label?

Montaigne Records, which I think has since been absorbed by Naïve. I'm not big on the composer, to be honest, but I connect to him better than many of his era due to his preference for large single-span works, essentially tone poems. This disc's ancient world concept works surprisingly well, and despite being entirely in a modern idiom it surprisingly (for me) manages to evoke something of a feeling of the ancient world - if played blind, the fanfares would be a tip-off. It'll take more listens to "get" the piece's structure, though, as at the moment I get slightly bored towards the end after the novelty of the effects wear off

[The new erato]

Thanks. I remember it as very ritualistic.

[Coopmv]

CD12 from this set ...

[listener]

Langlais, Vierne and Duruflé on the 1877 Willis organ at Salisbury Cathedral.
The Vierne is Les Angelus  for soprano and organ
organ info. at http://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/music.organ.php