What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

The same conductor/orchestra did a very fine Korngold Symphony

+1

[vandermolen]

The interesting thing about this fine CD (well, interesting to me perhaps) is that the identical combination of works (piano concertos by Bliss and Rubbra with Bax's 'Morning Song - Maytime in Sussex') appears one one of the discs in the Malcolm Sargent Icon Box - obviously in older recordings. They make a fine programme of works:

[Que]

After the "Messes Anonymes", Spotify took me to this:



A hotchpotch of Flemish Renaissance music really, but quite charming. 
And a perfect introduction for those unfamiliar with the genre.

[aligreto]

Desprez: Missa Da pacem [Gottwald]





I really like the way waves of sound from the ensemble wash over one in this presentation. The recording is done in a suitably favourable reverberant acoustic which enhances this quality.

[Operafreak]

Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 & 8- Bamberger Symphoniker, Jonathan Nott

[Papy Oli]

Another run through Klemperer's Magic Flute.

[San Antone]

Bach: L'oeuvre de luth
Hopkinson Smith

[Traverso]

Music by Bull,Byrd & Gibbons


Harpsichord and Virginal

[Madiel]

Sibelius: 6 Lieder, op.50. Sibelius goes German.

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Harpsichord BWV 1014 [Kuijken/Leonhardt]

[The new erato]

Scratching my itch for french music:

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 Op. 53 "Waldstein" [Fischer]

[Madiel]

Carried on with more Sibelius:

The stark op.35 songs, which by actual chronology are more like op.54 or 55. The accompaniment for Teodora is just astonishing.



Then Night Ride and Sunrise op.55.

[Papy Oli]

Strauss - Oboe Concerto in D (From the Kempe box)

[Que]

   

[aligreto]

Parry: Symphonic Variations in E minor [Bamert]





This is an engaging and exciting work. It contains large doses of both drama and tension throughout. I particularly like the orchestration in the work. I also like the pacing in this presentation; I believe that it induces an invigorating sense of excitement and keen forward momentum into it. This is an auspicious beginning into the relatively unknown symphonic music of Parry for me.

[Todd]

3.

[VonStupp]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto 3 in d minor, op. 30
Andante From Sonata For Violoncello And Piano, Op. 19
Sérénade In B Flat Minor From Morceaux De Fantasie, Op. 3 No. 5
Romance in F Minor From Morceaux de Salon, Op. 10 No. 6
Prelude In F Minor From 13 Preludes, Op. 32 No. 6
Prelude In D Minor, Op. Posth.
Étude-Tableaux In C Sharp Minor, Op. 33 No. 6

Arcadi Volodos, piano
Berlin PO - James Levine

VS

[Mapman]

Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos
Bernstein et al.

As great as I remembered. I liked the Mozart-like 2nd movement even more than the first time I listened. This definitely belongs in my purchases of the year.

[aligreto]

Strauss - Oboe Concerto in D (From the Kempe box)

You reminded me, Olivier, that I had scheduled this work for a listen but had not done so until now.


Strauss: Oboe Concerto [Holliger]





The Strauss Oboe Concerto is always a beguiling and interesting work. It is, for me, a cohesive and an organic whole as far as composition is concerned. This particular presentation of the work is definitely one to be recommended. The slow movement is particularly beguiling and engaging. The work, as a whole, and this presentation in particular, is vibrant and expansive, energetic and exciting. It is also very well driven where appropriate. This is, perhaps, the finest version that I have heard of this work so far; most definitely one of them! The playing throughout is supreme.