What are you listening to now?

[Daverz]

Another impressive Bate Symphony recording from Dutton and the SNO

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Many of the elements we all love are already there in Braga Santos's Symphony No. 1 (he was 22), if not yet applied for maximum excitement (the finale is a bit of a let down).

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The Portuguese Symphony Orchestra sounds great.  I wonder why we don't hear them more on records.

[Sergeant Rock]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Lorin Maazel
Seraphim

Excellent...my favorite Bruckner 8.

Sarge

[vandermolen]

Another impressive Bate Symphony recording from Dutton and the SNO

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Many of the elements we all love are already there in Braga Santos's Symphony No. 1 (he was 22), if not yet applied for maximum excitement (the finale is a bit of a let down).

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The Portuguese Symphony Orchestra sounds great.  I wonder why we don't hear them more on records.

Two fine symphonies nevertheless.

[Kontrapunctus]

Strong Sibelian overtones (never a bad thing!). Seems well performed and is very well recorded.

[Zeus]

More Marx:

Marx: Eine Frühlingsmusik, Idylle, Feste Im Herbst
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Johannes Wildner
CPO

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Apparently this is 2/3 of the Nature Trilogy, plus Feste im Herbst, but I can't find a booklet.

Hat tip to SymphonicAddict and Daverz listening to Marx the other day – you guys inspired me to check him out for myself.

[SymphonicAddict]

More Marx:

Marx: Eine Frühlingsmusik, Idylle, Feste Im Herbst
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Johannes Wildner
CPO

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Apparently this is 2/3 of the Nature Trilogy, plus Feste im Herbst, but I can't find a booklet.

Hat tip to SymphonicAddict and Daverz listening to Marx the other day – you guys inspired me to check him out for myself.

His music is wonderful, isn't it? 

[kyjo]

If you don't mind, this will be the one I'll start with. Three weeks to go with only Spotify in my luggage, but it has the Pizetti. Will report back. 

Please do, Johan! I'd think it would be right up your alley. 

[André]

[Que]

Morning listening:



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[Mandryka]

Pollini's Schoenberg recordings are the ones for me, but do think that the solo works are rather mixed - they dont really push the instrument and seem more like compositional studies. They are most subject to the 'Brahms with wrong notes' charge that sometimes gets laid on his music.  It seems Schoenberg was struggling on how to fully utilize the textures of the piano for his compositional style.  Having lost all the Romantic piano textures, and avoiding doublings but not using the really dense vertical chords you see in later 20th century piano music, the pieces sound thin.  None of the piano writing in the solo pieces comes close to that of the Concerto.  certainly Webern's piano music overshadows AS's

He did figure out the piano when he wrote the Concerto, but none of the solo works are from this period

Serkin makes this music sound like dewy gossamer webs in the dawn sunlight. Nuanced, delicate, fresh, refined, kaleidoscopic. Is this what you meant by thin?

It would be good to hear Serkin play Lemma Icon Epigraph (Ferneyhough), which seems to me to owe a lot to Schoenberg.

This music sounds nothing like Brahms - the idea of "Brahms with wrong notes" is rubbish, even in op 11, at least as interpreted here.

I only know one Webern piece for piano alone, that's the variations. Is that what you're thinking of? It's not obvious to me that it "overshadows" the music Schoenberg wrote at all. 

It's a while since I heard Webern's chamber music with piano, and I haven't got a clear enough memory of how he writes for piano there to comment on your idea. I'll be back!

[Mandryka]

I have a huge soft spot for the Orgelbüchlein, so I immediately searched for his version on Apple Music. Unfortunately the sedated tempi put me off almost immediately too. BTW, do you have something like a favorite Orgelbüchlein, Poul?

I think that given your interest in string sounds, you should try this



(For me one main weakness of the recording is that there's a pause after each piece, I like orgelbuchlein when the pieces seem to flow naturally one from the other.)

[vandermolen]

Strong Sibelian overtones (never a bad thing!). Seems well performed and is very well recorded.

Great work! The CD conducted by Stig Westerberg is my favourite version although I don't know this one.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Hello there. Biking about the countryside over; back in front of a computer. Cheers & all!
(Oh, and GMG is working for the first time in weeks (to the extent I have been able to try.)



#morninglistening to #SPECTER - #Antheil w/@Duo_Odeon

https://amzn.to/2NhtjLz

"Gebauer" #ViolinSonata No.4, #ViolinConcerto (reduction) & #SpecterOfTheRose #Waltzes

[Christo]

Please do, Johan! I'd think it would be right up your alley. 

Tasted my first slice of Pizzetti, soon to be followed by more. 

[North Star]

Test-drive Tuesday
Holmboe
Chamber Concerto No. 8, Op. 38 'Sinfonia Concertante' (1945)
Danish National Chamber Orchestra
Hannu Koivula
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[Traverso]

Poulenc

Concerto  pour Orgue
Gloria
Quatre Motets pour un temps de Pénitence

[Draško]

3 & 4. Brahms deconstructed.

[Wakefield]

I think that given your interest in string sounds, you should try this



(For me one main weakness of the recording is that there's a pause after each piece, I like orgelbuchlein when the pieces seem to flow naturally one from the other.)

Thanks, Mandryka! I will listen to it. It's available on Tidal. 

[Karl Henning]

This music sounds nothing like Brahms - the idea of "Brahms with wrong notes" is rubbish [....]

It is no use as a general rule, no.  But, like much rubbish, there was a time and a specific place where it seemed to serve a purpose.  IIRC the phrase was given to an orchestra which was having trouble "getting inside" the music they were asked to play.

It is one of the odd things in life, when a moment's inspiration, serving a temporary purpose, becomes a marble albatross....

[Karl Henning]

Hello there. Biking about the countryside over; back in front of a computer. Cheers & all!

Good to "see" you, Jens!