What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

N.V. Bentzon - Symphonies nos. 5 'Ellipser' (1950) & 3 (1947) /Schmidt, Aarhus SO /DMA 2LP

So, how did your visit with Bentzon go MT?  And thank you, yes, off to a good start of my day here!  Hope that you have been enjoying yours!

I think some of his orchestral and concerto music works fine, but I absolutely get your dumbass point 

Now playing the great first disc from this, Silvestri and Berglund conducting:



The Tallis is stunning under Silvestri.

+1!

Starting off my morning with this masterpiece:

Tippett
Concerto for Double String Orchestra
ASMF
Marriner



I only like a handful of Tippett works: the Piano Concerto, The Midsummer Marriage, Fantasia Concertante, Fantasia on a Theme of Handel, A Child of Our Time and that's pretty much it. I just can't get into his later works and I do like avant-garde music like Ligeti and Boulez, but Tippett's development as a composer never did much for me.

You're not alone there, though I should revisit some of the recordings that I have of his.

TD

Witold Lutoslawski
So far, Mala suita (Little Suite)
and his Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

Mala suita - on first listen, alright but not keen on
Very different reaction to his cello concerto though!  Fascinating, on the edge of your seat kind of ride for me. 

From this SACD



PD

[foxandpeng]

Vagn Holmboe
Complete String Quartets
SQ #4
Kontra Quartet
Da Capo

[The new erato]

Thnx!  I'll line it up for a thorough listening session on Spotify.

McComb was also positive on the recording of the Gombert masses I recently got.

I try to buy some of his highest star rated discs, and he seems reasonably reliable according to my tastes.

I recently bought and listened to this disc which he also rates highly (****), and it is very fine IMO:

[Que]

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Prokofiev
Symhony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125
Rafael Wallfisch, cello
Scottish National Orchestra
Järvi



This is still the best performance of this piece, IMHO.

[André]

Joseph Jongen: Tableaux pittoresques, Op.56.

Very fine disc !

[André]

Now Brahms 1st Symphony From this set

Early sixties BPO ? That's one of the best versions ever IMO.

[Irons]

It was this one...Niels Viggo Bentzon: 5th Symphony which Irons had listened to from the thread about lessor known composers.  I don't know though whether or not it was the same recording.  This is the one that I had tried listening to yesterday:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8PJ9DAFDfA
Can't find the first movement, but then I still need to make my morning coffee!

PD

First movement here, PD.  https://youtu.be/4nkqODqa_IY

[Spotted Horses]

Good morning all,

Honegger
Cello Sonata
Cello Sonatina
Sonatina for Violin and Cello

That is a fantastic CD!

[Mirror Image]

That is a fantastic CD!

+ 1

[Pohjolas Daughter]

First movement here, PD.  https://youtu.be/4nkqODqa_IY

Thank you.  Was that the same one that you listened to yesterday Irons?  Personally, I found the ads to be very intrusive.   

TD

Arnold Schoenberg
String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7

As part of a 2-CD set of all of his quartets with the New Vienna String Quartet on Philips

Lovely SQ and wonderful playing (and sound) by the quartet; first recording that I recall hearing with them playing.

PD

[Papy Oli]

That is a fantastic CD!

I was nonplussed by it sadly but, then again, it was a first listen to those works. I'll revisit another time.

[Papy Oli]

[vandermolen]

Starting off my morning with this masterpiece:

Tippett
Concerto for Double String Orchestra
ASMF
Marriner



I only like a handful of Tippett works: the Piano Concerto, The Midsummer Marriage, Fantasia Concertante, Fantasia on a Theme of Handel, A Child of Our Time and that's pretty much it. I just can't get into his later works and I do like avant-garde music like Ligeti and Boulez, but Tippett's development as a composer never did much for me.

Great CD John. I like the Concerto for Double String Orchestra. The Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles and the first two symphonies. I met some old colleagues for a pub lunch yesterday. One of them worked for Mrs Tippett (the composer's mother) in his youth, as a gardener. The composer found him fast asleep in a wheelbarrow in the garden one day. 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Arthur Honegger
Cello Concerto
Rostropovich
Great Hall, Moscow (live)

Enjoying it (despite some occasional coughs).

PD

[vandermolen]

Arthur Honegger
Cello Concerto
Rostropovich
Great Hall, Moscow (live)

Enjoying it (despite some occasional coughs).

PD

I like most works by Honegger.

[Traverso]

Prokofiev

I really enjoyed the Sanguine Fan, great music. Can't think of any other composer who portrays this kind of soundworld than Elgar.

piano Concertos 2 & 3

[Karl Henning]

CD 15

Concerto in g minor, RV 576
Bassoon Concerto in C, RV 474
Concerto in F, RV 571
Bassoon Concerto in a minor, RV 498
Bassoon Concerto in F, RV 489
Concerto in g minor, RV 577

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I like most works by Honegger.

I'll have to see whether or not I might have his cello sonatas (not in my Rostropovich set).

TD

Followed by Richard Strauss'
Don Quixote
Rostropovich
Kondrashin
Moscow Phil.

Hadn't listed to this one in ages! Fun to revisit it!

PD

[SonicMan46]

España w/ Jean-Francois Heisser; inexpensive 6-disc box of Spanish piano music (composers and works listed on back of box, 2nd pic below) - review attached from ClassicsToday - these were recorded from 1989-1996 - recorded sound is excellent and performances uniformly well done - a cheap introduction to this national genre.  Recommended.  Dave