What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

(such a strange description for a work allegedly being musical portraits of the composer's 3 children!)

Maybe the composer was really cranky that day, and those darn kids ....

[Harry]

William Alwyn.
Symphony No.5 "Hydriotaphia"
Sinfonietta for Strings.
London SO, Richard Hickox.

Short but a powerful fifth symphony, one of my favourites, and well performed it is, and those bells in the last movement, "Tempo di Marcia Funebre", gave me pleasant shudders. But then again all the movements are impressive, so I also have to mention the third movement "Allegro con Fuoco", how Alwyn's art has grown into perfection. Stunning and amazing.
Actually the Sinfonietta strikes me as the sixth symphony, for it has all the musical requirements. It is also a work which keeps the mind captured in a web of musical bliss. I am really pleased with the performances.
 

[Karl Henning]

[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

More Robert de Visée today - my remaining collection are the first 4 recordings below (Smith as a MP3 CD-R) - a combination of suites and solo theorbo - looking at the Baroque lute CD w/ Toyohiko Satoh - anyone know this recording?  Also, de Visée was considered the best French guitar virtuoso of his time - curious if there are any recommendations?  Dave

 

 

[Mandryka]

More Robert de Visée

A friend of mine who can play this music really rates Xavier Díaz-Latorre. I haven't heard it myself but seeing your post has reminded me that I intended to.

Actually you can see him in action here -- I couldn't play it but I really want one of those theorbos to hang on the wall!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5W9YlQkNwY&ab_channel=XavierD%C3%ADaz-Latorre

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1873 Original Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Staatskapelle Dresden, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

[Spotted Horses]

Pettersson, Symphony No 6 (cpo)



Actually only the first half (finding an uninterrupted hour is not feasible).

Vivid music, much more interesting than the recently listened to Symphony No 3. Everyone goes on about how anguished it is, so yes, anguish. But I like it for the sound of the orchestra.

[Lisztianwagner]

On youtube:
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.6

Rafael Kubelik & BRSO

[Florestan]

William Alwyn.
Symphony No.5 "Hydriotaphia"

Hydrio... what? 

[ritter]

Hydrio... what? 

Hydrio...this (I presume): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydriotaphia,_Urn_Burial

Good evening, Andrei!

[Florestan]

Hydrio...this (I presume): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydriotaphia,_Urn_Burial

Thanks. Very interesting. Never heard about it before.

Good evening, Andrei!

Servus, Rafael!

[classicalgeek]

Mahler
Symphony no. 1
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Nott
(on Spotify)



All in all, a very enjoyable performance. Thrilling climaxes to the first movement and finale, a suitably vigorous scherzo, appropriate schmaltziness in the 'Klezmer' episodes of the third movement.

[vers la flamme]

On youtube:
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.6

Rafael Kubelik & BRSO

I haven't heard Kubelík's Mahler 6th, but I'd be very curious to. (Though I have a few others on the backlog right now to hear for the first time, so it may be a while.) I've been loving the Boulez and Karajan recordings of this symphony, which has skyrocketed in my estimation over the past month or so.

Pettersson, Symphony No 6 (cpo)



Actually only the first half (finding an uninterrupted hour is not feasible).

Vivid music, much more interesting than the recently listened to Symphony No 3. Everyone goes on about how anguished it is, so yes, anguish. But I like it for the sound of the orchestra.

Nice! I might listen to this recording of the 6th later.

Now playing:



Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra

For some reason the Tallis Fantasia was playing in my head on the drive home, so it is the first thing I'm listening to after work. This CD was sent to me by accident once, several years ago, but I'm glad it was because I've grown to like it far more than whatever it was I was supposed to get in its stead Definitely the best disc of English music by American forces in my collection.

[Lisztianwagner]

I haven't heard Kubelík's Mahler 6th, but I'd be very curious to. (Though I have a few others on the backlog right now to hear for the first time, so it may be a while.) I've been loving the Boulez and Karajan recordings of this symphony, which has skyrocketed in my estimation over the past month or so.

I was very curious too since I saw posts about Kubelik's Mahler symphonies many times. Kubelik's recording was really fine, I enjoyed it, though I often found the tempi of the first two movements a bit too rushed, especially in the more vigorous sections, which of course reflected a great energy, but also lost a little that haunting atmosphere, ghostly that they should evoke in my opinion; instead the quieter sections, despite the fast pace, worked well, sounding lyrical and nostalgic. The conductor was excellent in handling the orchestra anyway, so in the end the performance resulted very moving and compelling. Karajan's recording remains my favourite along with DG Bernstein, while I've never been particularly struck by Boulez.

[Harry]

Hydrio... what? 

A book written by Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, Alwyn Admired this man enormously,

[vers la flamme]

Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.6. Manfred Trojahn, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Killer performance, the DSO sounds amazing. I'm still in an early stage of understanding this music; right now I only know it as the Pettersson symphony with the massive coda, but on this listen I'm charmed by the beginning of the symphony, which seems like an epic buildup to something.

[Lisztianwagner]

Edward Elgar
Cockaigne Overture
In the South

Georg Solti & London Philharmonic Orchestra

[Symphonic Addict]

A widely lyrical, optimistic and exotic-sounding work, I found pleasure on it. But somehow it didn't succeed my expectations. I think it lacked more drama and agitation to be more gripping to my tastes.

[Symphonic Addict]

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



Really good, solid early Romantic symphonies!

Indeed, fine works. Among her chamber music, the two Piano Quintets, the Piano Trio No. 1 and the Sextet for piano and winds are also quite compelling.

[Lisztianwagner]

A widely lyrical, optimistic and exotic-sounding work, I found pleasure on it. But somehow it didn't succeed my expectations. I think it lacked more drama and agitation to be more gripping to my tastes.

I've seen this recording is on youtube; I would like to have a listen to it, at least to get an idea of how Atterberg's opera sounds.