What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

Edvin Kallstenius: Dalarapsodi
Joseph Marx: Idylle - Concertino

[Operafreak]

[Madiel]

Sibelius, Piano Quintet in G minor (plus a couple of other isolated movements for piano quintet)



Quite the grand piece. And with parts that definitely have a Sibelian flavour. Early-style Sibelius, yes, but mature enough to be recognisably the composer of better-known works. This was only 2 years before Kullervo for example.

[Que]

Morning listening:



A 2CD set with music by Guillaume Faugues, a contemporary of Johannes Ockeghem.

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/ORF_3025_3115.html

[Harry]

Morning listening:



A 2CD set with music by Guillaume Faugues, a contemporary of Johannes Ockeghem.

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/ORF_3025_3115.html

Well at least a attractive woman on the cover, images get better

[Harry]

Hans Leo Hassler.
Complete Organ works.
CD VIII.
Manuel Tomadin plays on a B. Malamini organ 1601, at the San Domenico Church in Cesena

[Irons]

Bridge:





Summer: The music has all of the correct ingredients but it just did not connect with me for some reason.
Cherry Ripe: This I would call a ditty or a lollipop.
Lament: I find this overly sentimental.


I am afraid that I am not having much success with the music of Frank Bridge.

Pre and post WW1 Bridge could not be more different. The war had a profound effect on his music. From "Cherry Ripe" to hard edged gritty compositions.

[Harry]

Mischa Spoliansky.

Orchestral Music.
My Husband and I: Overture.
Boogie
Symphony in Five movements.

Liepaja SO, Paul Mann.

New release.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 21 & 22 Op. 53 & Op. 54 [Brautigam]

[aligreto]

Have you tried the glorious Enter Spring, the darkly psychological cello and piano concerti Oration and Phantasm, or any of his superbly crafted chamber works?

The short answer is no. However, Enter Spring is on the same CD and I will give that a listen later on today.

And not to miss Dance Rhapsody and Dance Poem!

Thank you for the recommendations.

[Que]

Last disc. I always get a lot of enjoyment out of these Bach juvenelia. 



Christiane Wuyts plays a harpsichord by Henri Hemsch, 1754, and one by Jacques Goermans, 1774.

Originally issued in 1988 on the Belgium label Autographe.

[aligreto]

Pre and post WW1 Bridge could not be more different. The war had a profound effect on his music. From "Cherry Ripe" to hard edged gritty compositions.

I know nothing about Frank Bridge so thank you for that. It answers the big question that I was having with this composer which was Do I simply have an issue with the musical language of this composer? What you say would then make a lot of sense to me in this regard.

[Madiel]

I know nothing about Frank Bridge so thank you for that. It answers the big question that I was having with this composer which was Do I simply have an issue with the musical language of this composer? What you say would then make a lot of sense to me in this regard.

There really is a major transformation in Bridge's late music. Few composers have changed so markedly.

I personally think that chamber music is his best genre, the late pieces are quite something.

[Madiel]

Sibelius, Nights of Jealousy



Wow, what an experience this piece is! For piano trio, male speaker and a wordless female singer. A 15-minute long melodrama that must count as one of the most Romantic things that Sibelius wrote.

Another one of the earlyish pieces that Sibelius originally assigned an opus number (it was written the same year as the Karelia music and the op.12 piano sonata), and then took the number away. He really shouldn't have done that.

[Harry]

Zygmunt Stojowski.

Symphony in D minor.
Suite for Orchestra in E flat major.

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Antoni Wit.

[vandermolen]

Mischa Spoliansky.

Orchestral Music.
My Husband and I: Overture.
Boogie
Symphony in Five movements.

Liepaja SO, Paul Mann.

New release.

Ah excellent! I can now play my copy of the CD without feeling guilty 

[vandermolen]

I know nothing about Frank Bridge so thank you for that. It answers the big question that I was having with this composer which was Do I simply have an issue with the musical language of this composer? What you say would then make a lot of sense to me in this regard.

A strong vote from me Fergus for The Sea, Enter Spring, Phantasm Oration and the Cello Sonata.

Enter Spring is arguably Bridge's masterpiece. The Epilogue of Oration (apparently an afterthought) is extremely moving - the work is a kind of threnody to Bridge's friends and others killed in World War One. Bridge was a lifelong pacifist.

[Harry]

Ah excellent! I can now play my copy of the CD without feeling guilty 

LOL, absolutely

[Tsaraslondon]

Rachmaninov Symphonies.







Otaka's Rachmaninov Symphonies are often forgotten, but they are really very good indeed and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra here sound like a world class ensemble. Both the symphonies are absolutely splendid and the couplings well chosen, though Otaka's Isle of the Dead is not quite on the leval of Ashkenazy's superb Concertgebouw recording.

Rozhsdestvensky's second with the LSO is not as propulsive as some, but he justifies the slower speeds and the slow movement is absolutely gorgeous.

[Papy Oli]

Streaming this after being intrigued by the cover, while browsing the Presto sale last night.

Beautiful music and singing so far.