What are you listening 2 now?

[Maestro267]

So you do care about the interpretation. The comments you made are exactly about the interpretation.

[Karl Henning]

I think Todd recently reported listening to it and didn't hate it.

Thomson was my first exposure to the music, and I liked it enough to be hooked on Martinu. But when I heard Valek I found it brought out a lyrical, rhapsodic character in the music, which I enjoyed. Thomson puts an emphasis on dramatic aspects which, to my ear, makes the Martinu symphonies sound more conventionally symphonic. The other standard recommendation is Belohlávek/BBC, but I found the audio quality unsatisfactory, sort of artificial sounding to my ear. I'm looking forward to listening to Belohlávek/Czech Phil (although there isn't a complete cycle).

Most interesting, thanks.

TD:

CD 45

Tchaikovsky
Symphony № 5 in e minor, Op. 64

Philharmonic Society of New York (New York Philharmonic)
recorded 27 Mar 1954

[Traverso]

Ockeghem


Missa Maistresse
A solus ortus cardine
O sidus Hispanie
Gaude Maria
Venit ad Petrum
Missa Caput

[ritter]

The first part was very thrilling, frightfully beautiful; now, on youtube:

Luigi Dallapiccola
Ulisse, act 2^

Lorin Maazel & Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

A beautiful work, isn't it? I listened to the first half yesterday, in the recording in Italian conducted by Ernest Bour (I also have the Maazel —of great historical and musical value— in my collection).

So glad you're enjoying Dallapiccola, Ilaria. His music is so seductive, in an ascetic way. Perhaps that reads like a contradiction in terms, but that's how I see it, and it makes the music so expressive.

Good evening to you. 

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1891 Vienna Revision by Bruckner himself. Ed. Guenter Brosche, March in D Minor and Three pieces for orchestra. Gustavo Gimeno, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg

[classicalgeek]

Over the last week:

Shostakovich
Piano Trio no. 2
Martha Argerich, piano
Gidon Kremer, violin
Mischa Maisky, cello
(on CD)


Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy
(on CD)


Haydn
Symphony no. 82
Symphony no. 83
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
(on CD)


Dvorak
String Quartet in E-flat major, op. 51
String Quartet in G major, op. 106
Pražák Quartet
(on CD)


My first foray into this box, which arrived on Saturday. Is there anything more beautiful than the opening of op. 51? The music and the performances are just astonishingly great!

[Karl Henning]

CD 45

Tchaikovsky
Symphony № 5 in e minor, Op. 64

Philharmonic Society of New York (New York Philharmonic)
recorded 27 Mar 1954

Splendid performance, excellent sound.

[Todd]

[j winter]

I gotta say, luxuriating in the full stereo version of this is the bee's knees... if our old pal Bogey's out there lurking somewhere, I raise a glass to ya... 


from:

[JBS]

[Time to tease @Florestan. ]

One of two Presto orders has escaped from the ruins of the Royal Mail and landed today.

Currently the Clarinet Concerto is playing.

[vandermolen]

Klami: Kalevala Suite
Turku Philharmonic, Jorma Panula - a great introduction to Klami's music:

[ritter]

Pierre Boulez's Tombeau à la mémoire du Prince Max Egon zu Fürstenberg (an original —and much shorter— version of what would become the last section of Pli selon pli).

The composer conducts the Ensemble du Domaine Musical and soprano Eva-Maria Rogner (live in Donaueschingen in 1959).



EDIT:

Following with more in memoriam avant-garde compositions of the second half of the 20th century.

Pierre Boulez: Mémoriale (composed in memory of flautist Lawrence Beauregard)



Luciano Berio: Calmo (in memory of Bruno Maderna)

[Mandryka]

Polyphonically very aware Mozart - voices responding to each other with sometimes (almost) contrasting emotions. A genuine dialogue rather than an echo chamber. It reminds me of the sort of thing Harnoncourt said he wanted to do with Baroque.

[Brian]

Prokofiev Second Symphony, then the Scythian Suite, then to calm my nerves down the First Symphony.

[71 dB]

Paillard J.S.Bach box disc 13.

[71 dB]

Uuno Klami: Kalevala Suite
Turku Philharmonic, Jorma Panula - a great introduction to Klami's music:

At one point I considered that CD.

Fun fact: "Uuno" is often used in Finnish language as a "nickname" for a gullible low-intelligence person. 

[vandermolen]

At one point I considered that CD.

Fun fact: "Uuno" is often used in Finnish language as a "nickname" for a gullible low-intelligence person. 

I'd recommend the CD. I especially like the Sea Pictures and the Kalevala Suite.

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Monday

Strikes me as Adams riffing, which does not especially engage me. My opinion. YMMV.

[Karl Henning]

CD 30

Schoenberg
Erwartung, Op. 17
Dorothy Dow, soprano
Křenek
Symphonic Elegy, Op. 105 for String Orchestra
recorded 19 Nov 1951

Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Philharmonic Society of New York (New York Philharmonic)
recorded 3 Mar 1958

[ritter]

CD 30

Schoenberg
Erwartung, Op. 17
Dorothy Dow, soprano
Křenek
Symphonic Elegy, Op. 105 for String Orchestra
recorded Nov 1951

Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

Philharmonic Society of New York (New York Philharmonic)
recorded 27 Mar 1958

Great stuff, Karl (the Erwartung and the Krenek Elegy are the ones I know, as they're the fillers for Mitropoulos' recording of Wozzeck as released in the "Masterworks Heritage" series decades ago).

Good evening to you!