What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

Mendelssohn's First Quartet and the Octet, with the Kocian Quartet as partners.

[foxandpeng]

Sculthorpe: String Quartets 6-9

Very depressing and unfocussed, not too much interesting to be honest, except for the 9th SQ which has more direction.




Myaskovsky: Symphonies 22 and 23

Two of my favorites, particularly the No. 23 in A minor with its wistful melodies and delightful folk flavour.

I love your last few listening lists! Inspiration 👍

[Symphonic Addict]

I love your last few listening lists! Inspiration 👍

Thank you, Danny! You're very kind.

[Symphonic Addict]

The viola concertos by Vasks and Schnittke

They couldn't be more different each other.

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

Dipping in at random:

Novorossisk Chimes (The Flame of Eternal Glory) Op. 111b (1960)
I've found a story that bears on this piece, which I'll post at the Dacha.

[Symphonic Addict]

I liked the 10th, but the highlight for me was the Requiem.  Something about the ethereal sound of the organ and the choral sections grabbed me.  This might be my focus for the next week or two.

Oddly enough my reaction to the Requiem has been rather lukewarm. It's quite sober and austere to my tastes, but anyway, glad you have enjoyed listening to some of his works so far.

[foxandpeng]

Alexander Glazunov
Symphony 1
USSR Ministry of Culture SO
Gennady Rozhdestdvensky
Olympia

Night music...

[Symphonic Addict]

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

The performance is more on the lyric side rather than on the flashy one.

[Keemun]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887 Original Version. Ed. Paul Hawkshaw [2014], Markus Poschner, Bruckner Orchestra Linz

Linz, what did you think of this recording?  I tried listening to it twice but did not get through the first movement.  I found the sound lacked the size and heft needed for a good Bruckner performance (in my opinion, of course).  I don't know if it was the orchestra or the sound egineering.

[Keemun]

Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 (Muti/Philadephia Orchestra)

[Karl Henning]

It's quite sober and austere

At the risk of stating the obvious, as befits the genre.

TD: something not in the least austere

CD 6

TRANSCRIPTIONS
Suite from JSB: E major Partita for violin solo
Franz Schubert: "Wohin?" (Die schöne Müllerin)
Felix Mendelssohn: Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Georges Bizet: Minuet (L'Arlésienne Suite № 1, 1923 version)
Modest Musorgsky: Hopak (Sorochintsy Fair)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Lullaby, Op. 16 № 1
Polka de W.R. (after Franz Behr Lachtäubchen)
Rakhmaninov: Lilacs, Op. 21 № 5
Rakhmaninov: Daisies, Op. 38 № 3
Fritz Kreisler: Liebesleid
Kreisler: Liebesfreud

ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS
6 Morceaux, Op. 11 (piano four hands)
Waltz (piano six hands, 1890)
Romance (piano six hands)
Italian Polka (piano four hands, and trumpet)

The Star-Spangled Banner (Jn Stafford Smith, transc. Rakhmaninov)

[JBS]

Second listen to this

[Mapman]

Brahms: Schicksalslied, Op. 54
Davis: BRSO

Beautiful. The first ~half of the piece was much more calming and relaxing than I expected from the title. The final section, however, was more like my expectations!



Rautavaara: A Requiem In Our Time
Lintu: Finnish Brass Symphony

[Brian]

Is that an entirely instrumental requiem? Interesting.

[Mapman]

Is that an entirely instrumental requiem? Interesting.

Rautavaara's "A Requiem In Our Time" is for brass and percussion. I don't know how many people would think it was a requiem if they didn't know the title. The Dies Irae movement does sound appropriate for its title.

[vers la flamme]

Michael Haydn: Missa Sancti Joannis Nepomuceni, MH 182. Werner Ehrhardt, Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Kammerchor Cantemus

First listen to this or anything by this composer besides a few random symphonies on a CPO disc I found once upon a time. It sounds good! Michael Haydn is mostly known for his sacred music it seems, and I do like sacred music from the classical period, so probably worth checking out more.

[JBS]

Second listen.
As before I think the translation to modern instruments works well.

[Florestan]

Also from me.

And from me!

Thank you, guys.

[Florestan]

It would be statistical on the condition that you behave just as you would if you knew you had Covid-19 (isolating so as not to transmit whatever you have to others).

Of course.