What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Dmitri Shostakovich.

Symphony No. 15 in A major.

Gürzenich Orchestra, Koln, Dmitrij Kitajenko.

[Traverso]

Beethoven


String Quartets  No.8 OP.59 & No.9 OP.95

[Harry]

Max Reger.

Orchestral Works.
CD III.
Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart. (Staatskapelle Dresden, Heinz Bongartz)
Four Tone Poems after Arnold Bocklin. (Dresdner Philharmonie, Heinz Bongartz. Walter Hartwich, Violin)

Superb.

[Biffo]

Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G major - London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Istvan Kertesz

[Todd]

Disc eight.  More Mozart.  As un-HIP as possible, yet eminently enjoyable.

[North Star]

In the Garden of Polypghony: French Renaissance Music for Lute & Guitar
Pierre Attaingnant, Guillaume Morlaye, Pierre Phalèse, Albert de Rippe, Adrian Le Roy, et al.
Chansons, fantasias, dances
Israel Golani (6-course lutes after Georg Gerle, by Martin Shepherd, 2018 & Alfonso Marín, 2019, and 4-course guitar after Belchior Dias, by Alfonso Marín, 2017)

Grieg
Lyric Pieces (selections)
Leif Ove Andsnes, Grieg's 1892 Steinway grand piano, Troldhaugen, Bergen

[Harry]

In the Garden of Polypghony: French Renaissance Music for Lute & Guitar
Pierre Attaingnant, Guillaume Morlaye, Pierre Phalèse, Albert de Rippe, Adrian Le Roy, et al.
Chansons, fantasias, dances
Israel Golani (6-course lutes after Georg Gerle, by Martin Shepherd, 2018 & Alfonso Marín, 2019, and 4-course guitar after Belchior Dias, by Alfonso Marín, 2017)

You are the first member I see, that is actually listening to this fine disc. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

[Spotted Horses]

Finishing up with this Malipiero disc, two listens to Symphony No 10 back to back.



This work (as I read in the notes) is dedicated to Scherchen, who died in Firenze immediately after conducting an opera by Malipiero. The opening and closing music is serene music, which I take it has some relation with the music Scherchen was conducting. In between the usual Malipiero mayhem.

A satisfying performance. I think I will focus on something else for a while to avoid Malipiero fatigue. I remember having an issue listening to the Malipiero piano concerti, because the general texture of the music was so consistent I became fatigued with it.

foxandpeng has reminded me of my admiration for Rawsthorne. I should dig out some of my Rawsthorne recordings. Checking, I see I have symphonies in a Lyrita release and Piano Concerti with Tozer.

[North Star]

You are the first member I see, that is actually listening to this fine disc. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

It's a lovely recording indeed, Harry.

[Karl Henning]

The Leiden Choir Books.

Volume III-CD I.

Composers: Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Pierre Moulu, Johannes Lupi, Jheronimus Vinders. Anonymous.

Egidius Kwartet & College.


The best of the very best........

Dmitri Shostakovich.

Symphony No. 15 in A major.

Gürzenich Orchestra, Koln, Dmitrij Kitajenko.

You are red hot today, Harry!

[Harry]

You are red hot today, Harry!

Well indeed I might be dear friend!

[Operafreak]

Rota, Respighi, Barber & Elgar: Works for string orchestra- I Musici

[Mirror Image]

NP: Sibelius En Saga, Op. 9 from this Horst Stein set -



The playing has a rough quality to it that actually fits this music like a glove. Stein was a masterful Sibelian. Too bad he didn't record the whole symphony cycle.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Sandor Balassa: Valley of the Huns.  Laszlo Kovacs/Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

[Mandryka]

Very attractive sonata, bouncy and life affirming,  and an "original" set of preludes, also rather life affirming paradoxically,  nice and food for thought.

This Perlemuter chappy's the real deal.

[Todd]

5, 11, 12.

[Roasted Swan]

NP: Sibelius En Saga, Op. 9 from this Horst Stein set -



The playing has a rough quality to it that actually fits this music like a glove. Stein was a masterful Sibelian. Too bad he didn't record the whole symphony cycle.

My favourite En Saga bar none!

[Traverso]

Beethoven


Septet & Quintet in C

[SonicMan46]

Koechlin, Charles (1867-1950) - over the last few days I've been listening to my collection of about 14 CDs of this composer's varied music; I own the Persian Hours in piano and orchestral versions - most of my recordings can still be found on Amazon; now what I do not own are some shown below, i.e. Saxophone Works & Piano Music, latter on 3 discs at least w/ Michael Korstick - review attached on the saxophone music w/ some complaints about the engineering of the recording - is available on Spotify for a listen but would be curious if anyone who owns and/or has heard this music would like to comment?  Thanks - Dave

Charles Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. He was a political radical and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars, traveling, stereoscopic photography and socialism. He once said: "The artist needs an ivory tower, not as an escape from the world, but as a place where he can view the world and be himself. This tower is for the artist like a lighthouse shining out across the world." Among his better known works is Les Heures persanes, a set of piano pieces based on the novel Vers Ispahan by Pierre Loti. (Source)

 

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 Herbert von Karajan CD4 of this set with the VPO