What are you listening 2 now?

[Mapman]

Gustav Mahler: Rückert-Lieder. Christa Ludwig, Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic

It was too late to get started with a symphony, but I had to listen to something on the 112th of the maestro's death, and this, shortest of the works that I count among my favorites, had to be the one.

I love this performance. I have Traverso to thank for putting me onto this performance back when I was new to classical music and VERY new to Mahler (I mentioned on another board that I had never heard Das Lied von der Erde nor any other Mahler Lieder, and he took it upon himself to educate me at once ). This was actually the very work that convinced me once and for all that Mahler was an important composer and not just some megalomaniac conductor who wrote huge and overly ambitious symphonies in his free time.

I listened to the same recording from a different reissue. It is good (although the Rückert-Lieder aren't my favorite Mahler).

[Mapman]

Dvořák: Zlatý Kolovrat (The Golden Spinning-Wheel)
Inbal: Philharmonia

After reading the (gruesome) story, it was mostly possible to follow the story by listening to the music.

[Madiel]

I'm on my 7th Haydn string quartet for the day.

The first 3 were the Chiaroscuro quartet's recent op.33 album.

Now I'm onto the Hanson Quartet album "All Shall Not Die".

Plenty of good playing all around. And an excellent way to break something of a classical drought.

[Que]

Morning listening:

[Daverz]

Schumann: Symphony No. 4



Brahms: Symphony No. 4

[Florestan]

[Mandryka]

Here's a nice bit of Haebler Mozart which someone put me on to just yesterday, a little gigue, K574

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MU6xRoSOQ6U&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.for3.org%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo

[Florestan]

Here's a nice bit of Haebler Mozart which someone put me on to just yesterday, a little gigue, K574

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MU6xRoSOQ6U&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.for3.org%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo

It's taken from this desert-island set:



She also recorded the complete piano concertos:



An underrated pianist.

[Roasted Swan]

Gustav Holst
A Winter Idyll
Walt Whitman Overture, op. 7
Symphony in F 'Cotswolds', op. 8
Indra, op. 13
Japanese Suite, op. 33

Ulster Orchestra - JoAnn Falletta

I am fully convinced by the Cotswolds Symphony, and enjoyed it more here than from a Douglas Bostock recording I have. Need to hear the Lyrita offerings of Holst while I am at it.

I used to see more discussion around JoAnn Falletta, but haven't seen much lately. I noticed she and Buffalo performed quite a bit of Lukas Foss together this year; I hope it ends up on a recording.

VS

Falletta's (few) discs with the Ulster during her very brief tenure as principal conductor - clearly something didn't work there - are uniformly excellent and in repertoire she has not previously been associated with.  Her "Cotswolds" is far better than Bostock's - the Lyrita disc only includes the slow movement which Imogen Holst approved of while dismising the rest of her father's symphony.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

This recording was made using all analog/tube gear--the sound is wonderfully rich and warm, and the playing is excellent.

I hadn't heard of that label before now.  Quite interesting--and in a good way! 

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Falletta's (few) discs with the Ulster during her very brief tenure as principal conductor - clearly something didn't work there - are uniformly excellent and in repertoire she has not previously been associated with.  Her "Cotswalds" is far better than Bostock's - the Lyrita disc only includs the slow movement which Imogen Holst approved of while dismising the rest of her father's symphony.

I've greatly enjoyed the recordings that I've heard of hers with Buffalo and believe that I may have heard a couple of recordings with Ulster (both over the radio).  I'm sorry to hear that things didn't work out with her and Ulster.

PD

[Lisztianwagner]

Luigi Dallapiccola
Rencesvals

Towato Sato-Schöllhorn (soprano)
Sven Thomas Klieber (piano)

A little gem in old French, absolutely enchanting.

[Todd]

[Spotted Horses]

Returned to this release, Rouse Symphony No 5, Supplica.



I found the symphony to have some interesting bits, but overall too noisy. On a repeat listen to Supplica, I was more drawn to the slowly unfolding, sensuous harmonies and textures.

Also listened to a brief selection from Le Sage's Poulenc set, three Intermezzi. Charming.

[Linz]

Miaskovsky  Vol.14 Symphony No.21 in F minor Op.51, Sinfonietta in A major Op.10, Silence in F minor Op.9 and Serenade No.1 Op.32, Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian State Symphony Orchestra

[Florestan]

D459
D537
D568

Keywords in Haebler's performance are simplicity and naturalness (her expertise in Mozart being most helpful). She doesn't force them into subjective proto-Romantic utterances but play them with poise and sensibility, perfectly capturing their youthful spirit. She sings (sic!) of joys and dreams unbeclouded by introspection and of a vague melancholy untinged by despondency. Serene gaiety alternates with calm nostalgia; music and performance to soothe one's serves and cheer up one's mood. A most felicitous start with this set.

[vers la flamme]

One more for the maestro's death-anniversary.



Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.9 in D major. Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic

This must be one of Karajan's best recordings of anything.

[SonicMan46]

Czerny, Carl (1791-1857) - Piano Trios & Chamber Works w/ performers on the cover art below - prompted by some activity in the dormant Czerny thread - hard to believe that I'm up to 16 discs of music by this Beethoven pupil and bane of modern piano students -     Dave

 

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D Major, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

[ritter]

Sergei Prokofiev's suite from Chout, and Symphony No. 6. Jean Martinon conducts the Orchestre National de l'ORTF.