What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

Ian White and Andrew MacDonald
Kinnoull Symphony 1
Kinnoull Symphony 2
Andrew MacDonald
Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

Commuting to work for the first day in a very long time, this morning. Haven't missed cancelled trains or unappealing bacon rolls and oily coffee much.

Listening to these inoffensive and tuneful works as a foil to the unpleasantness of it all. Filmic and easy listening, #1 summons up the composer's Perthshire landscape in summer, whereas #2 is a 28 minute journey of pure film score quality with lots of memorable content. Ian White usually writes to accompany settings of the psalms for personal and congregational use, so this is something different from him.

Has made my commute more bearable, so that is a win.

[Harry]

New acquisition, First listen.

Emilie Luise Friderica Mayer. (1812-1883)
Orchestral Works.
Overtures.
No. 2 in D major, in D minor & C major.
Faust Overture for Large Orchestra, opus 46, in B minor.
Symphony No. 3 in C major, "Military".

Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin, Mark Rohde.
SACD, MDG recording.


This is a treat, perfectly recorded and performed with great care and insight into the musical framework devised by Emilie Mayer. I enjoy her works immensely, for the many novelties and twist and turns unexpected. She is to my ears part and parcel of the musical culture dominated by "Überhebliche Männer" who thought that the music of women were at best third rate. Well not surprisingly her music is first rate, and often better as the male counterparts.

[Traverso]

Beethoven

String quartets 1&2

[Operafreak]

Barber: Cello Concerto & Britten: Symphony for Cello & Orchestra

Yo-Yo Ma (cello) /Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman

[Lisztianwagner]

Benjamin Britten
Simple Symphony

[Harry]

Carl Loewe.
Orchestral Works.
Symphony No. 1 in D minor & No. 2 in E minor.
Overture "Themisto"
Jenaer Philharmonie, Simon Gaudenz.


This recently bought disc is full of surprises. I never knew Loewe wrote symphonies, but he did, and good ones too. Powerful, and it comes with the message of having something to add to the already existing body of Symphonies of other composers of his time. Not that anyone was listening though, this part of his oeuvre was largely ignored. Gaudenz however makes a strong case for them, and gets a spirited respons from this orchestra. A very good recording too, done by another coryfee, Bernhard Hanke, an engineer of which I have a lot of recordings.
As a side remark, Emilie Meyer was taught by Loewe. He considered her a very good composer, and did all he could to promote her music.

[vers la flamme]

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.7 in E major, WAB 107. Günter Wand, Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks

Second listen to this recording. I like it!

[Traverso]

Balade A III Chans


After a long wait finally in the mailbox, but when listening there is only joy of these beautiful recordings   

[Harry]

New acquisition, First listen

Emilie Louisa Friderica Mayer.
Symphony No. 3 in C major. "Military".
Symphony No. 7 in F minor.
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Jan Willem de Vriend.

[Mookalafalas]

[vers la flamme]

Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.6 in A major, op.82. Dinara Klinton

[Operafreak]

Joseph Haydn: Complete Piano Trios, Vol.1; Johannes Fischer: One Bar Wonder- Trio Gaspard

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
A Survivor from Warsaw



My favourite recording of this Schönberg's work; very tense and dramatic, but also powerfully thrilling.....it always impresses me.

[Todd]

Thomas Beecham in London, in stereo.  There's not too much overall difference between this and the prior in terms of approach, though this one, while in better sound, is slightly slower and less energetic and less lovely in the slow movement.  The older recording is better.

[Linz]

Strauss, Alpine Symphony and Rosenkavalier Suite Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker

[Todd]

Listened to my quota of harp music for the year.

[Operafreak]

Liszt: Dante-Symphony- Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresden State Opera Chorus, Giuseppe Sinopoli

[Traverso]

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Going through this cycle starting with....


A Sea Symphony

[SonicMan46]

Benda Brothers - Violin Sonatas & Concertos by Franz and Keyboard Concertos by Georg - finishing up my Benda recordings this morning.  According to the Shelley booklet, Georg Benda wrote 10 harpsichord concertos (other web sources suggest less?) - Shelley is on piano and Bauer on harpsichord; each recording has 4 concertos with at least two and likely three being the same works (in my matching the movement names), so there are likely 5 concertos on the two discs; of course on different keyboard instruments.  Dave

     

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony 4 Herbert Blomstedt