What are you listening 2 now?

[Roasted Swan]

I like the Isle of the Dead comparison Lol. Who is the conductor (Kuchar perhaps)?
I remember hearing it on the radio in a shop when I was on holiday in Suffolk a few years ago. I hung around in the shop in order to hear what the music was.

Definitely not Kuchar - its too old a recording for him to be conducting - good old school Melodiya!  The YouTube image has Ukraine down as part of the "SSR" - Halcyon Days if your name is Vladimir Putin..........

[vandermolen]

Definitely not Kuchar - its too old a recording for him to be conducting - good old school Melodiya!  The YouTube image has Ukraine down as part of the "SSR" - Halcyon Days if your name is Vladimir Putin..........

Thanks!

[pjme]

Exploring more music by Jan van Gilse. I have no cds , so rely on YT.

Wagner meets Elgar, Ravel and Richard ànd Johan Strauss...very Leidenschaftig and often grandioso- quasi erotico....

[Todd]

Another Paillard recording, and what a delightful one it is.

[Harry]

200 Ans de Musique a Versailles, Louis XIII.
Voyage au Coeur du Baroque Francais.
CD I.
Les Salons Precieux du Premier Baroque.
Anthony Bousset.
Monique Zanetti, Soprano.

Robert Ballard, Pieces pour Luth.
Anonyme, Pieces pour Luth.
Claire Antonini, Luth.
Live recording 2007.
The box seems to be OOP, apart from second hand for quite hefty prices.

Zanetti carries quite some vibrato in her presentation, but I guess that was the style of singing at Louis's court.

[Harry]

Antonin Dvorak.
Complete Symphonies.
No 5 & 8.
Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi.

[Traverso]

Purcell


Onward with Purcell and these great performances

Bonduca
Circe
The Virtuous Wife
The Old Bachelor

[brewski]

For those interested, yesterday's live broadcast from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra was excellent, and the recording will be available for 7 days at the link below.

Despite a major snowstorm, the concert actually happened, starting with an intriguing piece from Julia Perry (1924-79, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Perry) for 10 percussionists, keyboard, and harp, followed by violinist Randall Goosby bringing down the house with the Tchaikovsky (and an encore, Louisiana Blues Strut by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson). After intermission, the Prokofiev was suitably fiery (if slightly fast).

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Randall Goosby, violin
Louis Langrée, conductor

Perry: Homunculus C.F. (1960)
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3

-Bruce

[Todd]

Sticking with Paillard.

[Karl Henning]

Inaugural Listens:

Bax
Symphony № 2 in E minor and C Major (1924-26)
November Woods (1917)

Confirming that I'd never heard  November Woods before: they are turbulent.

[Karl Henning]

Who is the conductor (Kuchar perhaps)?

Well, in the YouTube video I posted, the composer conducted.

[Roasted Swan]

Today I've enjoyed revisiting 3 more excellent BBC Music Magazine cover discs.  As usual all of BBC orchestras mainly playing with their (at the time) principal conductors.  The performances are genuinely very fine.  I like the diversity of the music on these discs - if you were a Classical Music "newbie" you could do a whole lot worse than use these cover discs as your introduction to a wide range of repertoire;

[Irons]

Back to the Decca Boult box with my favourite recording of (IMO) the greatest Vaughan Williams Symphony (No.6 in E minor) which takes me back to my school days when I first encountered this extraordinary work on (a Decca Eclipse) LP (see below). Furthermore I think that this is the best CD transfer. The Belart CD was disappointing and the recent Pristine transfer is too shrill for my liking. This one is just right (sounds like the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story  ). The Decca British Composers Box set was re-mastered and I'd imagine that it is similar to the one in the Boult set but I haven't heard it for a while. I can't listen to this recording without travelling back in time to my first encounter with it 50 years ago - it's an oddly unsettling experience, as reflected in the music itself, with its philosophical speculations (IMO) on life, death and war (especially in the finale):

I have a birthday coming up. Seed has not been sown but soon will.

[Harry]

A Secret Labyrinth.
CD II.
Febus Avanti, Music at the Court of Gaston Febus, (1331-1391)
Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel.

This box is a real treasure trove, filled with music after my heart. The performances are on the highest possible level as are the recordings.

[Mandryka]

Podophilia and cheirophilia people -- whether you like Bach or not WATCH THIS !


J. S. Bach - Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582 - Irene De Ruvo, organ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnN0IrkkrVM&ab_channel=IreneDeRuvo

(How did people learn to do that in the day. I mean, stacked clavichords can simulate a pair of manuals, but not pedals!

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Monday!

Bax
Symphony № 3 (1928-29)
The Happy Forest (1914-21)

[Mandryka]

It's very good!  @Que you will like it and possibly  @Harry too -- you'll like it. @premont already knows it I expect.

[vandermolen]

I have a birthday coming up. Seed has not been sown but soon will.

Good plan 

[Harry]

It's very good!  @Que you will like it and possibly  @Harry too -- you'll like it. @premont already knows it I expect.

I will put it on my list.

[prémont]

It's very good!  @Que you will like it and possibly  @Harry too -- you'll like it. @premont already knows it I expect.

Yes, and I do recommend it too.