What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

Skipping to disc 58.  Good fun.

[SonicMan46]

Robert de Visée (c. 1655-1732/3) - Chamber Music on 4 discs w/ a wide assortment of period instruments (mostly reproductions); Maneul Staropoli on recorders/Baroque flute, Massimo Marchese on theorbo, and others on viola da gamba and harpsichord - for me the music is well recorded and pleasant, but the 'authenticity' of the instruments used has been debated (see review attachment, if interested). Decent bio of de Visée HERE - Dave

[classicalgeek]

Louise Farrenc
Symphony no. 1
Symphony no. 3
North German Radio Symphony
Johannes Goritzki
(on Spotify)



Really good, solid early Romantic symphonies!

[prémont]

Bela Bartok PC 3. Eva Bernathova, Czech Philharmonic/Karel Ancerl.

Clearly my favorite version of this concerto.

[vers la flamme]

Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No.2. Ida Haendel, Herbert Blomstedt, Swedish RSO

I wish Blomstedt would conduct more Pettersson. It's not too late for him to start a cycle of the symphonies 

[Lisztianwagner]

Allan Pettersson: Violin Concerto No.2. Ida Haendel, Herbert Blomstedt, Swedish RSO

I wish Blomstedt would conduct more Pettersson. It's not too late for him to start a cycle of the symphonies 

Awesome work, tense and gloomy, but absolutely mesmerizing anyway!

Yes, why not, as a matter of fact, good old Blomstedt is extraordinary remarkable with Nordic composers.  

[vers la flamme]

Awesome work, tense and gloomy, but absolutely mesmerizing anyway!

Yes, why not, as a matter of fact, good old Blomstedt is extraordinary remarkable with Nordic composers.

And he's only 96 years young, I bet he'd at least be able to make it through the 10th by his centenary.

[VonStupp]

Walter Braunfels
Te Deum, op. 32

Gitta-Maria Sjöberg, soprano
Lars-Erik Jonsson, tenor
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Swedish Radio SO & Choir - Manfred Honeck

I've noticed but haven't participated in the Braunfels rise of recordings in the last decade or so.

Braunfels' Te Deum kind-of took my breath away. It might be the longest Te Deum setting I know, but it didn't hinder the music at all. Powerful stuff!
VS

[Karl Henning]

The 10th was the first I heard, and the 14th was the second.  I was introduced to the 14th by a dynamite Bernstein recording.

It's a while since I listened to that 'un, so:

Shostakovich
Symphony № 14 for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra, Op. 135
Teresa Kubiak, sop
Isser Bushkin, bass
NY Phil
Lenny

[foxandpeng]

Alexandre Tansman
Symphony 2
Oleg Caetani
Melbourne SO
Chandos

🙂

[vers la flamme]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.6 in A minor. Pierre Boulez, Vienna Philharmonic

Getting back to this recording after listening to a bunch of the Karajan.

Round two with this Mahler 6th tonight

[Linz]

Mahler Symphonies Nos 1 in D major, Bertini.  WDR Symphony Orchestra

[Karl Henning]

It's a while since I listened to that 'un, so:

Shostakovich
Symphony № 14 for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra, Op. 135
Teresa Kubiak, sop
Isser Bushkin, bass
NY Phil
Lenny

Oh, yes, this was tasty!

[Keemun]

Pettersson: Symphony No. 8 (Segerstam/Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra)



I just finished this one and I think I prefer his 7th Symphony.  The 8th lacks the haunting beauty that acts as a counterpoint to the darkness.

And now for something completely different:

Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 (Hilary Hahn)

[classicalgeek]

Mahler Symphonies Nos 1 in D major, Bertini.  WDR Symphony Orchestra

Still my favorite Mahler cycle out there! Nearly impossible to find, however. A couple of members recommended I check out Jonathan Nott's cycle, which I plan to in the coming days.

TD:
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird (1919)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti
(on CD)



I found Pictures slightly underwhelming, though there were beautiful moments. Gnomus is insufficiently spooky (you can barely hear the whip crack!), Bydlo needs to sound more labored, The Great Gate of Kiev needs more grandeur. Firebird fares slightly better, but it too left me feeling less than satisfied.

[Mandryka]

The duo Plorans Ploravi is a significant piece of music. Some of the songs which follow on CD 3 are pretty distinctive - he's his his own man.

[Daverz]

Charlotte Sohy: Symphony in C sharp minor, Op. 10

Seems rather breezy and light on a first listen.  More info here:

http://www.bruzanemediabase.com/eng/Works/Symphony-in-C-sharp-minor-op.-10-Charlotte-Sohy/(offset)/430

[Peter Power Pop]

Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird (1919)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti
(on CD)

That was my first Muti CD, and I thought it was great. (Still do.)



(Details at Discogs.)

[Mookalafalas]

That was my first Muti CD, and I thought it was great. (Still do.)

Heard this first time recently (working through the box).  I had to play it twice. First agreed with ClassicalGeek, but then came around to your view.

TD

[Papy Oli]

On a Telemann kick for the last few days:

Telemann - Suite in A minor and Double concertos (Oberlinger)