What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Demessieux

Te Deum Op. 11 [1957/58]
Preludes et Fugue Op. 13 [1964]
Six Etudes Op. 5 [1944]
La Nativité - Op. 4 [1943/44]
Twelve Choral Preludes Op. 7 [1947]

[JBS]

No.  I own it.  It is hit and miss.  Some are great, some are terrible and everything inbetween.  There far more consistent box sets, and of course individually you could just pick the best for each one.  I bought it because I couldn't stream it.  If I could, I wouldn't have bought it!  I do have a far more positive impression of his Bach cantatas cycle, and in general I love his conducting of everything baroque but man I'm not in love with his organ set.

He did a series of six CDs on Novalis which would probably be worth getting if you can find them at a reasonable price.

That's the set, which currently is not reasonably priced on Amazon.
I have his complete cycle as part of the Teldec Complete Bach set, but it's been so long since I've listened to it I can't remember much about it.
TD

The Emperor and the Violin Concerto in its piano incarnation
Fortepiano is a Franz Bayer instrument dating to c 1825.

[aligreto]

Glazunov: Piano Concerto No. 2 [Romanovsky/Serebrier]





This is a relatively short work and the three movements merge seamlessly into one another. I find this work to be wonderfully lyrical and soothing, playful and joyful.

[Linz]

Gustav Leonhardt playing some Bach in CD1 of this set

[Todd]

[Klavier1]

[Linz]

Arthur Grumiaux and Paul Crossley for the Fauré Sonatas with Gyorgy Sebok joining Grumiaux in the Franck sonata

[VonStupp]

Richard Strauss
Josephslegende, op. 63
Festmarsch, op. 1

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

All new works to me for this morning.

VS

Despite its length, and times when I detect a bit of musical ballet padding, I enjoyed Josephslegende greatly.

This could be the Chandos SACD, but I suspect Järvi and the Scots underplay this one a bit, until the grand, organ-laden finale. I would be interested to hear the recordings from Sinopoli or Iván Fischer in the same music. The former can be quite powerful I know, and I have enjoyed quite a bit from I Fischer too.

The Op. 1 Festival March was a bit of Strauss juvenilia.

VS

[VonStupp]

Richard Strauss
Feuersnot - 'love scene' excerpt

London PO - Norman Del Mar

I love when Strauss gets going with the french horn!

VS

[Symphonic Addict]

Bentzon: Symphonies 3 and 4

Apart from the ones by Nielsen, Langgaard, Holmboe and Riisager, some of the most compelling Danish symphonies out there.

[VonStupp]

Richard Strauss
Elektra Suite, realization by Tomáš Ille

Pittsburgh SO - Manfred Honeck

VS

[Linz]

 More Grumiaux

[VonStupp]

Richard Strauss
Elektra Suite, realization by Tomáš Ille

Pittsburgh SO - Manfred Honeck

VS

I found Tomáš Ille's 30-minute Elektra 'Symphonic Drama' engaging and the sonics from Pittsburgh were spectacular. I don't mind bleeding chunks Strauss either, but I know they are not for everyone.

Pittsburgh is a very brass-forward performance and it makes for an exciting and impactful listen.

Now on to:

Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie, op. 64

Vienna PO - André Previn

I am always surprised when a major release comes with only one or two tracks.

The Honeck above had only two tracks, although the liner notes broke it down timing-wise based on the action, and this Alpine Symphony comes on just one track spread over 45 minutes. I suppose some symphony movements track that long too though.

VS

[aligreto]

Gerald Barry:





Flamboys
Sur Les Pointes
Diner

[aligreto]

Richard Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie, op. 64

Vienna PO - André Previn

I am always surprised when a major release comes with only one or two tracks.

The Honeck above had only two tracks, although the liner notes broke it down timing-wise based on the action, and this Alpine Symphony comes on just one track spread over 45 minutes. I suppose some symphony movements track that long too though.

VS

One of my very favourite works in classical music.
I have not heard that version, though.

[Linz]

Atterberg Symphonies 1 and 4 with Ari Rasilaienen

[foxandpeng]

Bentzon: Symphonies 3 and 4

Apart from the ones by Nielsen, Langgaard, Holmboe and Riisager, some of the most compelling Danish symphonies out there.

Bentzon is well worth hearing. Thank you for the prompt. Time to revisit these and the disc with 5 and 7 too...

[bhodges]

A spine-tingling reading of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol, recorded live in August 2017 at an outdoor concert in Frankfurt, with Pablo Heras-Casado and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. I'm most familiar with Heras-Casado in contemporary scores, so to see him in this bit of late 1800s brilliance is a treat. (PS, the orchestral playing is fantastic.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_HSpn3tE_A

--Bruce

[DavidW]

Just a wow from me.  An exceptional performance of both symphonies.

[Bachtoven]