What are you listening 2 now?

[Madiel]

Tonight is a Dvořák chamber night:

Always a good thing.

[Symphonic Addict]

Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 20-4
Weber: Trio for flute, cello and piano
Mozart: String Quartet No. 19

[Undersea]

Currently:





Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 36

[Jo498]

Bach: Easter Oratorio BWV 249, Herreweghe.
I am not happy with countertenor Wessel nor with tenor Taylor in their arias. As this is one of the very few cantatas where the arias are assigned to characters it doesn't make much sense to have a man sing Maria Magdalena...
Must look if I have another recording of the piece (probably Rilling)

[Undersea]

Currently:



Dvorak: Symphony #8 in G, Op. 88, B 163

[Operafreak]

Giovanni Battista Sammartini - Six Symphonies/ Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon

[Biffo]

Haydn: Symphony No 98 in B-flat major - The Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell

[vandermolen]

Anna Clyne: 'Dance' for Cello and Orchestra:

[Papy Oli]

Good afternoon all,

JSB - Cantata BWV 134 & 6
(from the Kuijken set)

[Operafreak]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6/ Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev

[Florestan]

Pounds the table! Very good sets both. The Heutling in particular is a real sleeper.

Don't know that recording but the work themselves are delightful.

[vandermolen]

Patrick Hadley 'The Trees so High' - an absolutely marvellous and deeply moving work (and this is its finest performance on CD). It should appeal to admirers of Vaughan Williams but Hadley's score has an underlying sadness to it which I find unique. It is basically a symphony with a vocal contribution to the last movement.

[Madiel]

Dvorak: King and Collier (2nd setting), Act 1



The liner notes (once I found them in the Naxos music library) make a convincing case that Dvorak's extraordinary decision to rewrite the entire opera is a crucial moment in his career. It even has extracts from an interview he did some years later, talking about how the first version was heavily indebted to Wagner.

There is definitely a stylistic difference between the 2 settings. This second one (which itself underwent later revisions) is often a lot more direct. Textures are less complicated. Tunes are much in evidence (and "King and Collier no.1" was already a big progression from Alfred on these points).

And the second setting was the first time Dvorak got an opera staged. It didn't run for very long, but reportedly it was very well received.

[aligreto]

Handel: Messiah [Butt] CD 1

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach - Cantata BWV 4

(From the Gardiner SDG cycle)

[aligreto]

Janacek: String Quartet No. 1 [Gabrieli String Quartet]





This is an assertive statement and there is a wonderful sense of intensity and expressiveness in the delivery of the music. It is exceedingly well played here.

[aligreto]

Barry: String Quartet No. 1 [Xenia Ensemble]

[Spotted Horses]

Roussel, Concert pour petit orchestre, Dervaux, Orchestre de Colonne. Pour une fete de printemps, Jacquillat, Orchestre de Paris.



I previously listened to Pour one fete de printemps in the Martinon/ORTF recording, which had audio issues. This performance is equally interesting, in good sound. An imaginative tone poem featuring some brilliant orchestration. The Concert pour petit orchestre is a neoclassical work. I especially liked the quirky melodic development of the first movement.

Now, it starts to bug me that there is a Dervaux recording of the second symphony that I don't have!

[vandermolen]

Frederic Austin: 'The Sea Venturers', 'Spring' and other orchestral music - most enjoyable:

[DavidW]

Haydn some Op 20 string quartets, Auryn Q