What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Morning listening:



I have the original issue on Symphonia, but this is how it looks now. 

[Traverso]

Bach

[vandermolen]

Cyril Scott: Symphony No.1 - a lovely, charming, sometimes moving and inspiriting work. I'm so glad to have discovered it:

[Que]

Listening to a fascinating recording on Spotify! 



The recording offers Fantasias for viol consort by John Coprario that are transcriptions of Italian madrigals, each preceded by its original.

[Que]

On Spotify:

[DavidW]

Pettersson's 13th:

This one is the dark horse.  Pettersson himself was not satisfied with it, but people that don't like Pettersson's style might REALLY like this symphony.  It is complex and multi-faceted.  It makes no use of the motif that he usually builds themes out of.  It is varied in tone and style.  Wandering from dissonant, nearly atonal to neoclassical in conception. There are passages of neoromantic angst, but also waltz's, quotes of Rossini.  It is a wild ride and the kind of experimental work that I would expect from Schnittke instead of Pettersson.

I also listened to Klemperer's tectonic Brahms 2 and 3:

[Florestan]

[Papy Oli]

Back to this one from scracth, didn't have time to finish it yesterday.


George Antheil - Symphony No.5

(edit: oh, that shosta 5th quote at the start of the finale )

[Traverso]

Stravinsky

Apollon Musagète  1947

Concertgebouw Orchestra

[ChamberNut]

Thrift shop find from a few years back, and highly enjoying it!

[vandermolen]

New arrival - historical performances (10CDs for £12.57)
Piano Concerto No.2
Yakov Zak/Kurt Sanderling
USSR State SO

[Irons]

Benjamin Dale: Violin Sonata in E major, op.11.

Dale, a contemporary and friend of Arnold Bax.

[foxandpeng]

What did you think about it?

I do like Rozsa, and was surprised to consider a similarity between him and Holmboe. Isn't a connection I would have immediately made, but there is certainly a hint of Holmboe on the air in the early part of the Cello Concerto's 1st movement. Less so, perhaps, as it progresses, but listening for it in those early minutes didn't seem completely off the mark

I do like Rozsa, mind.

[Linz]

C. P. E. Bach The Complete Works for Piano Solo, Ana-Marija Markovina Vol. 5

[DavidW]

Overly ponderous Karajan:

[classicalgeek]

I forget what the program was, but I heard Luisi conduct the BSO and it was a fine night in the Hall.

That must have been quite the concert! There's an exciting-as-hell Beethoven 7 with the Dallas Symphony and Luisi on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgjtrE6NYCs

How did you find this cycle?

So far I've only heard the Fifth, and while it was perfectly fine, there was nothing particularly special about it. Gilbert and the New York Phil are still my top Nielsen cycle, and I've also enjoyed Schonwandt and Blomstedt. I'd also like to hear Oramo's, which I haven't yet. That said, I'll listen to another entry in Luisi's cycle - maybe the Second?

TD:

Beethoven
Symphony no. 3
Leonore Overtures nos. 1 and 2
Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer
(on CD)

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklärung

Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Kodaly: The Peacock, Bartok: Dance Suite. György Lehel, Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio and Television.

[DavidW]

Finally joining the CPE Bach party!

[Brian]

That must have been quite the concert! There's an exciting-as-hell Beethoven 7 with the Dallas Symphony and Luisi on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgjtrE6NYCs

I was in the concert hall for that live video! The coupling was Frank Martin's concerto for seven winds and orchestra. The Seventh sticks out in my memory because of how slow the second movement is compared to how fast and exciting the other three are.