What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

Op 9/1.

[Mapman]

Medtner: Piano Concerto #3
Tozer, Järvi: London Philharmonic

I wasn't impressed by this. I'm not sure if it is the composition or the recording, but it sounded muddy, and it was hard to pick out the important parts. My girlfriend said that it was boring.

[JBS]

The Brilliant Cesar Franck Edition includes this to represent his operatic output


Franck composed it at the age of 19, but finished only the vocal score. This recording is the world premiere of the opera, using a modern orchestration.
The plot revolves around an apparently fictional love affair of the 17th century composer Alessandro Stradella (the real Stradella seems to have been a rogue and a lothario who had to leave town hurriedly more than once when things got too hot, and who was eventually murdered for allegedly seducing the sister of his killers).

In case you're wondering why Brilliant chose this recording, it's probably because there's not much choice. Franck wrote three other operas. One was close in time to this one, also never published. His third opera, Hulda, is the one whose only recording was released by Naxos earlier this year. His fourth was Ghiselle, produced posthumously in 1896 after his students (Chausson, D'Indy, and two others) completed its orchestration (Franck had completed the vocal score and the full score of Act I)--and of which there seems to be no recording at all.

Stradella seems to be typical mid-19th French grand opera, going by what I've heard so far (Act I).

[Mapman]

Ernst von Dohnányi's
Symphony No. 1

Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

I was impressed with that symphony a couple months ago. Do you have any thoughts on it?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Medtner: Piano Concerto #3
Tozer, Järvi: London Philharmonic

I wasn't impressed by this. I'm not sure if it is the composition or the recording, but it sounded muddy, and it was hard to pick out the important parts. My girlfriend said that it was boring.

Right that album is mediocre.

Check out the Vox gig by Michael Ponti. Many members here and I like it.

[Operafreak]

Handel: Water Music & Rodrigo Overture- Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski

[SimonNZ]

Sibelius' Valse Triste on the radio

Impossible to hear this without feeling sad for the fate of a cat

[Peter Power Pop]

Sibelius' Valse Triste on the radio

Impossible to hear this without feeling sad for the fate of a cat

What a movie.

[Harry]

J.S. Bach.
Complete Cantatas.
Volume 29.
BWV. 135/2/3/38.
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki.
Dorothea Mields, Pascal Bertin, Gerd Turk, Peter Kooij.

Mields was a surprise I forgot in that she also participated in this Bach series. Such a young woman, singing such serious music. Time flies.
Wonderful performances, and good SACD sound.

[Que]

Morning listening:

[Harry]

Organ works from the North German Baroque.
Volume VI.
Franz Tunder & Nicolaus Hasse.
Complete Organ Works.
CD II.
Friedhelm Flamme, Organ.
Instrument: Christian Vater (1724) St. Petri-Kirche, Melle.

[Irons]

A CD kindly prepared by a friend of mine (with transfers from LPs, totalling 90+ minutes), of some vintage recordings of music by Roberto Gerhard with the BBC Symphony Orchestra: Dances from 'Don Quixote' and Symphony No. 1 (conducted by Antal Doráti), Collage (Frederik Prausnitz), and Concerto for Orchestra (Norman del Mar).

These are the original LP covers (AFAIK, none of these recordings was ever reissued on CD):



Great stuff!

I have the ASD and Argo issues. Never set eyes on the middle one which must be like most Gerhard rare as hen's teeth.

A nice recording of his violin concerto did make it to CD.

[Operafreak]

Hartmann: Symphony No. 3; Charles Ives: Robert Browning Overture/ Bamberger Symphoniker, Ingo Metzmacher

[Tsaraslondon]

A selection of Vivaldi. The Mutter disc has a wonderful freshness and vitality, whilst the other two are linked to personal memories: a concert in one of Venice's beautiful churches featuring Intepreti Veneziani and the promotional concert at the Barbican for the Daniels/Biondi disc.

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No.2

Gil Shaham (violin)
André Previn & London Symphony Orchestra

[Harry]

Jean Sibelius.
Symphony No. 5 & 6.
The Swan of Tuonela.
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan.

Really, by the standards of this controversial conductor really good. Fine ADD sound.
By further investigation, nah, it is going to be culled, to much pomp and circumstances delivered by Karajan, especially in the first movement of the Fifth, blaring horns at maximum, and thundering Violins, there is hardly room for Sibelius.

[Traverso]

Vivaldi


Le Quattro Stagioni

Concerto For 4 Solo Violins, Viola & Basso Continuo In B Flat MAjor RV 553

Sinfonia For Strings & Basso Continuo In G Major RV 146

Concerto Alla Rustica For Strings & Basso Continuo In G Major RV 151

[Harry]

Pjotr I'llych Tchaikovsky.
Suites 1 & 2.
USSR, SO, Evgeny Svetlanov.

I am not sure if I like these performances....hmmmmm are there better alternatives?
They are going to be culled too, to slow and the sound is not of the best, shrill violins and such a difference in pressure from ppp to fff, you constantly have to adjust the volume. I will follow recommendations from other Fu members and find some others to replace them, for I love the music.

[Tsaraslondon]

Pjotr I'llych Tchaikovsky.
Suites 1 & 2.
USSR, SO, Evgeny Svetlanov.

I am not sure if I like these performances....hmmmmm are there better alternatives?

The Dorati set is superb.

[Harry]

The Dorati set is superb.

Thank you, I will dive into these recordings, Dorati seldom disappoints.