What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

[Papy Oli]

Good morning all,

Last night and concluding now:

Pierné - Orchestral Works No.2



Étude de concert
Fantaisie-Ballet in B flat major Op. 6
Les Cathédrales
Nocturne en forme de valse No. 2
Paysages Franciscains
Poëme symphonique in D minor Op. 37
Scherzo-Caprice in D major Op. 25

[Pohjolas Daughter]

CDs 1 and 2, the first 28 songs from this unique manuscript, now in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, about an hour and forty minutes worth of music.

From a website selling a full scale facsimile (yours for only €3480!)
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Are you pondering whether or not to purchase one for your sweetie? 

But, seriously, for that kind of price, the gold mentioned in the description had better be gold leaf!

PD

[Wanderer]

Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7

[Harry]

Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7

Not one of the best recordings Jarvi made for Chandos, often muddy sound and plodding tempos.

[vandermolen]

Walton: Symphony No.1
LSO/Sir Hamilton Harty
First recording (1935) - a riveting performance:

[Karl Henning]

Benjamin Britten's
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne

Eric Rieger (tenor), J.J. Penna (piano)

Ghastly. Simply ghastly. A strangulated tenor-sound with a vibrato more than a mile wide. Sorry, Dr. Rieger: your voice is probably appropriate to a lot of music, but definitely not this.
And as Lady Bracknell might have said, "To ruin one song cycle might be regard a misfortune; to ruin three looks like carelessness".

I'm always keen to hear 'Peter Pears' vocal works done by a different voice, but this one is about to be deleted from the hard disk, frankly.

That's a shame. The Ančerl/Stravinsky is a good palate-cleanser.

TD:

"Wolferl"
Viola Quintet in C, K. 515
Viola Quintet in g minor, K. 516
Juilliard String Quartet & Jn Graham, va

[Traverso]

Bach


Weihnachts Oratorium

[Karl Henning]

Bach


Weihnachts Oratorium

Good day, Jan!

[Linz]

Tippet Symphony No.1 and Piano Concerto

[Traverso]

Good day, Jan!

And a good day to you as well Karl....

[Wanderer]

Not one of the best recordings Jarvi made for Chandos, often muddy sound and plodding tempos.

I do like these renditions very much. This cycle has one of the most convincing Thirds (for some reason, many conductors don't seem to get it  - the first movement in particular - quite right) and one of my most favourite Sevenths - dark and menacing! As for the sound, I think it's in line with the typical Chandos sound of the era, well blended and somewhat reverberant - which I like in orchestral music. Certainly not super-detailed (which in many modern recordings can also be a detriment, when tinkered-with and unnaturally-mixed orchestral details jump in your face the way they never do at the concert hall), but certainly not muddy, either.

I hope the Uhlig Schumann set continues to satisfy? Have a great day, my friend! 😎

[Wanderer]

Ten Biblical Songs

[Harry]

I do like these renditions very much. This cycle has one of the most convincing Thirds (for some reason, many conductors don't seem to get it  - the first movement in particular - quite right) and one of my most favourite Sevenths - dark and menacing! As for the sound, I think it's in line with the typical Chandos sound of the era, well blended and somewhat reverberant - which I like in orchestral music. Certainly not super-detailed (which in many modern recordings can also be a detriment, when tinkered-with and unnaturally-mixed orchestral details jump in your face the way they never do at the concert hall), but certainly not muddy, either.

I hope the Uhlig Schumann set continues to satisfy? Have a great day, my friend! 😎

There you have it, my equipment tells me something different, but I am glad you like them.
And yes Tasos, the Uhlig Schumann set is a constant joy, and I am very happy with Uhlig' s approach.
And let your day and all the days to come be great too.

[Linz]

Shostakovictch Symphony No. 4 Eugene Ormandy CD1

[Traverso]

Stravinsky


Returning to this very fine performance of the Pulcinella Ballet.....Concertgebouw Orchestra

[vandermolen]

Shostakovictch Symphony No. 4 Eugene Ormandy CD1

Still a very fine performance - it's how I discovered the work on LP.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Walton: Symphony No.1
LSO/Sir Hamilton Harty
First recording (1935) - a riveting performance:

The LSO is phenomenal in the recording. I like the performance of Viola Concerto as well.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Joseph Jongen: Tableaux pittoresques, Op.56. Liege/Haeck.

[j winter]

Starting the day with Beethoven 2 & 4, followed by some Mendelssohn....