What are you listening 2 now?

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Krzysztof Penderecki: Cello Concerto No.1. Siegfried Palm, Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sounding amazing right now. I love the dark postwar spirit. I should really be listening to more cello concertos!

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Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.95 in C minor. Colin Davis, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Too often I forget how much I enjoy Haydn's symphonies. They are amazing, and this is just a killer recording of all of the Londons.

[Symphonic Addict]

Speaking of cello concertos...

Enric Casals (1892-1986): Cello Concerto in F major

A violinist, conductor and composer brother of the mythic cellist Pablo. This CC is eminently beautiful and easygoing to the ear, if a little precious and "too-safe" harmonically speaking. Not a lost masterpiece by any means, but lovely it is, nonetheless.

[Brahmsian]

Krzysztof Penderecki: Cello Concerto No.1. Siegfried Palm, Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sounding amazing right now. I love the dark postwar spirit. I should really be listening to more cello concertos!

A wonderful two fer!

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A wonderful two fer!

I really should be listening to it more than I do. Every work on it is fascinating, and I can hardly imagine better performances.

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.95 in C minor. Colin Davis, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Too often I forget how much I enjoy Haydn's symphonies. They are amazing, and this is just a killer recording of all of the Londons.

Now Symphony No.98 in B-flat major. I have to admit this is probably one of the least familiar of the Londons to me but it sounds awesome, what stands out to me right now is that excellent, very melodic adagio with lots of interesting part writing (the cellos stand out especially in this regard). I'm really trying to get to know Haydn's music better. As I alluded to in my previous post, I do go through periods of not listening to much of him at all, so that means I have a lot of work to do with trying to differentiate the various symphonies.

[DavidW]

Shostakovich's 8th Barshai.  While I feel that Barshai beat Petrenko in the 8th, the tables are turned here.  Very good recording don't get me wrong, but just doesn't quite have the heft of Petrenko, my favorite even over Mravinsky and Kondrashin.

[Symphonic Addict]

Alwyn: Concerto for harp and string orchestra 'Lyra Angelica'

There are no enough words to express how ravishing this wonderful work is.

I wonder if Ilaria @Lisztianwagner knows this piece.

[Symphonic Addict]

Toch: Big Ben - Variation Fantasy

It needs several listens to grasp it better, it took me by surprise. Not necessarily easy music on a first encounter, but this was intriguing and sounds like nothing else.

[Que]

Morning listening:

[Papy Oli]

Marc Blitzstein - the Airborne Symphony
Bernstein/NYP

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Kuusisto: Symphony No.1
I've now listened to it several times, since it arrived on Friday, with increasing enjoyment. I now find snatches of it running through my head. The Violin Concerto is quite jazzy, at points sounding like those Yehudi Menuhin/Stephane Grappelli collaborations of the 1970s (which never appealed to me):

[Lisztianwagner]

Happy Easter to everyone!

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.2

Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic

[Lisztianwagner]

Alwyn: Concerto for harp and string orchestra 'Lyra Angelica'

There are no enough words to express how ravishing this wonderful work is.

I wonder if Ilaria @Lisztianwagner knows this piece.

I know Alwyn's Lyra Angelica by fame, but I don't think I have listened to it; I have got only a Hickox Alwyn recording with Concerto for Oboe and Harp and Three Concerti Grossi. Maybe it is time to revisit Alwyn's music.....

[Papy Oli]

JS Bach - Cantata BWV 39 From the Harnoncourt/Leonhardt box.

[Papy Oli]

On Idagio, "Music of George Barati" (hat-tip @Daverz )

Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra

[Madiel]

Chopin

3 Nocturnes, op.15
Scherzo no.1, op.20



I frequently find myself thinking that Chopin is one of the most singular geniuses of all time. Who else could have conceived of combining expressive bel canto melodies, played not sung but demanding that the pianist make them sing, with some of the most nutballs sliding chromaticism known to music?

[Karl Henning]

Toch: Big Ben - Variation Fantasy

It needs several listens to grasp it better, it took me by surprise. Not necessarily easy music on a first encounter, but this was intriguing and sounds like nothing else.

This looks right up my street!

[Papy Oli]

David Baker - Roots II

[Madiel]

Mahler: Symphony no.10 first listen.



Worth it just for the first section of the finale.

Which also means I've listened to everything in this box. Only took just over 4 years... though more than half of that was to get through numbers 9 and 10.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Somei Satoh; Birds in warped time II. Anne Akiko Meyers.