What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Here are the LP and CD releases of the Cello Concerto No.2 with Shafran conducted by Kabalevsky - best performance I know:

Thank you very much Jeffrey. I went looking last night and found a few CDs of the work but nothing with Shafran. Much obliged my friend.

[Tsaraslondon]

Disc 6 & 7

Requiem - Grande Messe des Morts

Ronald Dowd - Tenor

Te Deum

Franco Tagliavini - tenor
Nicholas Kynaston - organ

Wandsworth School Boys' Choir
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Sir Colin Davis

Davis's first recording of the Requiem was recorded in Westminster Cathedral in 1969, the Te Deum in Watford Town Hall in 1976, so there are newer recordings which probably capture better their sonic splendour, though none have captured so well the essence of these works, their magnificent gravity and seriousness. In any case, the recordings are incredible for their age and the performances surely never bettered, not even by Davis himself.

[Harry]

This is probably the best CD I bought this year with organ music by Sweelinck. I am mightily impressed, which frankly,  I did not expect.
Gorgeous organ, and a fine performance, wonderfully recorded too.

[aligreto]

Rossini: Overtures to Semiramide, La Scala di seta & Il Turco in Italia [Abbado]

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Bax - Symphony No.1 (Brydon Thomson / LPO)

https://www.youtube.com/v/ues1W2t4UZE

[Traverso]

Bach

[Madiel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwUJHbZIUw

I notice a lack of direct links to Youtube etc clips here. Is this a forum policy or simply a lack of a feature in the software to enable insertion of links?

There is in fact a method for inserting the video from Youtube directly, using the "Insert Flash" option. So that tends to be used rather than a link.

So your video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwUJHbZIUw

Can also be rendered like this (quote to see the code, I haven't altered the 200x200 default size) https://www.youtube.com/v/-iwUJHbZIUw

[Introverted]

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Bruckner: Symphony #4 in E Flat, WAB 104, "Romantic"

Karl Böhm: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

[Madiel]

I basically haven't listened to classical for over a week, veering back into it via Shostakovich, Symphony 5 is where I was up to.

[Introverted]

I basically haven't listened to classical for over a week, veering back into it via Shostakovich, Symphony 5 is where I was up to.

I really like Petrenko's version of the 5th - The Allegretto is particularly to my taste.

[Madiel]

I really like Petrenko's version of the 5th - The Allegretto is particularly to my taste.

I like his approach in general and picked the box set as my version of the symphonies (I'm weird enough by GMG standards to generally only want one version of works, though I did already have another recording of a couple of symphonies).

Because I'm currently doing a fairly thorough Shostakovich chronology, it's the starkness of the 1st and 3rd movements that I really notice.

[Wakefield]

Telemann: Ouvertures à 8
Zefiro Baroque Orchestra
Alfredo Bernardini



Over the years, I find myself increasingly enjoying Telemann's music. I think it's not just that I'm getting older. Several ensembles and performers have reached a deeper understanding of this composer and found the exact interpretative point of his music.

In short, this recording is a pleasure. 

[Madiel]

Trying to keep straight in my head that String Quartet No.1 was written a year after Symphony No.5



First listen to SQ1 for several years. Indeed, first listen to any of the quartets for several years. Because this was one of the few bits of Shostakovich's body of work I already knew well, and I was trying to get to grips with other bits.

[Introverted]

I like his approach in general and picked the box set as my version of the symphonies (I'm weird enough by GMG standards to generally only want one version of works, though I did already have another recording of a couple of symphonies).

His cycle is really good I think - I know what you mean about not needing many versions of the same work (most of my collection is this way).

Because I'm currently doing a fairly thorough Shostakovich chronology, it's the starkness of the 1st and 3rd movements that I really notice.

Movements #1 & 3 are awesome for sure - It's not often that a Scherzo would be my favourite movement of a work but I really dig this one.
I love the Allegretto of Symphony #10 too.

[Madiel]

Shostakovich, the real Second Jazz Suite. Not the Suite for Variety Orchestra that spent decades being misidentified.

https://www.youtube.com/v/kUscdue3RMw

I'm not sure there's actually a commercial recording of this yet? Almost everything that claims to be "Jazz Suite No.2" is the wrong thing.

[Harry]

New arrival.

This is quite remarkable music, right up my alley. Did enjoy this quite a bit. This is the first from the Ondine recordings. I keep my eye out at other CD'S with his music.

[Harry]

Armas Jarnefelt, Song of the Scarlet Flower, Full score to the 1919 silent film.

I knew Jarnefelt would not disappoint me, and what a gorgeous score he wrote for this film. I enjoyed every single minute of it. We have lost a great composer in him. I just wished he would have written more orchestral music. This twofar was recorded in 2018, and sounds really good. The performance is to my ears without fault. Recommended.

[aukhawk]

Glass : Appomattox (Excerpts Arr. for Piano)    
  Not Ten Years Back
  The President Has Had a Dream
  War Is Always Sorrowful


Glassworlds Vol.6 : Nicolas Horvath

To be honest I consider Nicolas Horvath to be a breaker of Glass.  He brutalises the music.  And the recorded sound is to match.
But I don't think these three pieces are recorded elsewhere, so credit to him for that.

[Mandryka]

Laurence Crane's song Tour de France statistics. If anyone can be bothered I'd love to know what you make of it, I got into a big row about it yesterday. I mean it's clearly well composed and rather beautiful, but is it just an exercise in style, or is there anything more to it than that? Is this avant garde music or just a parody? This is the sort of music which would cause a riot in Donaueschingen.

[André]

Glass : Appomattox (Excerpts Arr. for Piano)    
  Not Ten Years Back
  The President Has Had a Dream
  War Is Always Sorrowful


Glassworlds Vol.6 : Nicolas Horvath

To be honest I consider Nicolas Horvath to be a breaker of Glass.  He brutalises the music.  And the recorded sound is to match.
But I don't think these three pieces are recorded elsewhere, so credit to him for that.

That is my impression as well when it comes to the Etudes (vol 2). As the saying goes, he tears off a limb and beats the body with the bloody end. I found his playing more to my liking in vol 1 and 4. But then, the music is very different - calm, cool, dreamy.