What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Yes, I remember that one.

You were there ? 

[Traverso]

Villa-Lobos
   
CD2

String Quartets  3-8 & 14

[Todd]

[Mandryka]

You were there ? 

Is that typical Dutch humour?

[Traverso]

Bartók

String Quartet No.6

[Traverso]

Locatelli

Concerto 1-2-3 & 4

[MusicTurner]

Bliss - Cello Concerto etc. - Hugh, L-Jones - Naxos CD

An excellent disc, on repeat on an otherwise quiet day.

[Todd]

Disc one equivalent.

[vandermolen]

Bax: Christmas Eve in the Mountains - I find this a very moving work, especially when the organ comes in towards the end:

[vandermolen]

Bliss - Cello Concerto etc. - Hugh, L-Jones - Naxos CD

An excellent disc, on repeat on an otherwise quiet day.

I agree. Bliss originally called it a Cello 'Concertino' but Britten thought the title was too diminutive for such a work, so Bliss, rightly, re-designated it as a concerto.

[vandermolen]

Stanley Bate, Symphony No. 4 (1955). Sometimes I think: even better than the sparkling Third, this introvert and brooding symphony.

I agree and find the Fourth Symphony just as powerful than No.3 and more-so in places.

[vandermolen]

The Suite contains the most memorable music, but the complete work has other good movements like the March and Dance and Chorus from the act III and The struggle between Hindbad and Aladdin from the act V. A nice work overall.

On my wish list.

[JBS]

Landed this afternoon, into the CD player first thing.

[SimonNZ]

[SimonNZ]

[Symphonic Addict]

Behold the Sea!!

Nystroem: Symphony No. 3 Sinfonia del mare
Glazunov: The Sea
Borresen: Symphony No. 2 in A major The Sea




I love how rugged the Nystroem sounds, although to be fair there are lots of poetry as well, mostly in the evocative third movement whose climax is a mini-wallow, very in the vein of Bloch, and that 4th movement is so angry!! The big climax before the quiet ending is so exciting and marked. Just arresting.

The Glazunov has traces of Wagner. It's a vivid and exciting piece. I should play this work more often. Stunning.

Last but not least, Borresen's 2nd Symphony is practically as good as any symphony by Tchaikovsky or Svendsen, if not better than some. Vibrant, colourful, tuneful. When it's over you feel energized in a similar way like when you hear Nielsen's Espansiva.

[JBS]

This

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[Symphonic Addict]

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1



Two works I can't live without.

[Florestan]

[Madiel]

First exposure (finally) to Durufle's Requiem.