What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

Niklas Sivelöv
Symphonies 1 and 5
Joachim Gustafsson
Malmö Opera Orchestra
Naxos

First listen Friday. So far, so good.

[Bachtoven]

Saw this on another forum...very nice.

[Linz]

Nielsen Symphony No. 4 'The Inextinguishable' and Symphony No. 5, San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt

[vers la flamme]

Morton Feldman: Coptic Light. Michael Tilson Thomas, New World Symphony

First listen. A very good performance from this Floridian student orchestra under its famous music director. Better than the CPO maybe, definitely slower. I love the album artwork with the Chrysler building too.

[JBS]

Morton Feldman: Coptic Light. Michael Tilson Thomas, New World Symphony

First listen. A very good performance from this Floridian student orchestra under its famous music director. Better than the CPO maybe, definitely slower. I love the album artwork with the Chrysler building too.

The New World Symphony isn't really a student orchestra: it's more a post-grad institution. And the membership is from all over, even if its home is South Beach.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Symphony_(orchestra)

[JBS]

TD
Opus 76

CDs 17 and 18 of

[vers la flamme]

The New World Symphony isn't really a student orchestra: it's more a post-grad institution. And the membership is from all over, even if its home is South Beach.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Symphony_(orchestra)

Ah, I took the term "orchestral academy" too literally. They surely sound like a consummately professional orchestra. I'd love to see them perform sometime. Edit: I'm looking at the upcoming concerts, very cool programming! I'm not sure I'll be able to swing a trip to Miami anytime this year, hopefully I'll catch a concert of theirs someday in the future.

[SimonNZ]

[JBS]

Ah, I took the term "orchestral academy" too literally. They surely sound like a consummately professional orchestra. I'd love to see them perform sometime. Edit: I'm looking at the upcoming concerts, very cool programming! I'm not sure I'll be able to swing a trip to Miami anytime this year, hopefully I'll catch a concert of theirs someday in the future.

I live an hour away, but just about all their concerts are either in South Beach on the weekend or downtown Miami, and I'm not willing to endure the traffic and parking that requires.

[Daverz]

From this new Sony set:



The composer conducting the orchestra he founded.  You may have to wait another day for these to show up on the streaming sties.  These are recorded in quite good stereo (with good bass), and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional De México sounds great.  I don't think you can get more idiomatic.

[vandermolen]

Niklas Sivelöv
Symphonies 1 and 5
Joachim Gustafsson
Malmö Opera Orchestra
Naxos

First listen Friday. So far, so good.

Interesting! What's the music like Danny?

[Que]

Unexpectedly, in my Franco-Flemish journey, I returned back to Josquin Desprez... Explorations on Spotify led me to this:



These are obviously arrangements, of mass movts and songs. The approach is generally slow and expansive, stretching the music to "heavenly length".

[Harry]

DIVINS MYSTÈRES.
ORGAN DISCOVERIES.
BERKELEY & CAUMONT MANUSCRIPTS.
21 Anonymous pieces.
Hymne Ave Maris Stella; Suites de Pieces du 5eme & 6eme ton; Hymne Ave verum; Hymne Victimae Paschali; Hymne Pange lingua; Hymne Veni Creator.
Jacques-Denis Thomelin (1635-1693). Tierce en taille.

Jean-Baptiste Robin, orgue.
Facteurs: Robert Clicquot et Julien Tribuot (1711), Louis-Alexandre Clicquot (1736), François-Henri Clicquot (1762).
Reconstruction par Jean-Loup Boisseau et Bertrand Cattiaux (1995)
37 jeux, 4 claviers et pédalier.
Tremblant doux, tremblant fort (à vent perdu), accouplements à tiroir :
I/II et II/III, tirasse G.O.
La: 415 HZ.
Tempérament mésotonique adouci, selon Corrette, avec trois tierces pures.
Recorded October 2022, at the La Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles.

"Two treasures are finally being made available to the public: the Berkeley manuscript and the Caumont manuscript with numerous anonymous pieces for organ, which are finally brought to life by these premiere recordings. Composed around 1700, when the French organ school was at its height, here are five great anthems and numerous pieces organized in suites."

This is really very good, a glorious organ, good performance, and music that gladdens my heart. Well recorded too.

[vandermolen]

From this new Sony set:



The composer conducting the orchestra he founded.  You may have to wait another day for these to show up on the streaming sties.  These are recorded in quite good stereo (with good bass), and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional De México sounds great.  I don't think you can get more idiomatic.

Looks like a great set - beautifully presented.

[Harry]

Anthonius Gosswin (ca 1546-ca 1598).
Selected Works.
Geistliche Chormusik, Lieder & Madrigale.
Le Miroir de Musique, Baptiste Romain.
Recording place: Leymen (F), église Saint-Léger, October 2022.
Cover illustration: Lambert Lombard (1505-1566): Lombard, Lambert; St Paul before the altar of the unknown god (ca 1530).

A new release and a good one. Anthonius Gosswin I have to admit, is totally unknown to me, but after reading the booklet about him, I am fully aware that he was a composer of name, and well regarded in his time. This release does him proud, for the performance as a whole is very good. The vocal ensemble sings without undue vibrato, so beautiful straight lines without all kinds of frills. Instrumental there is also a lot to enjoy.

[vandermolen]

Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No.5

[vandermolen]

Kilar: Exodus for orchestra and mixed choir
Polish Radio National SO, Katowice
Polish Radio and TV Choir, Cracow
Antoni Wit (cond.)
This is a very powerful and moving version.

[Que]

Anthonius Gosswin (ca 1546-ca 1598).
Selected Works.
Geistliche Chormusik, Lieder & Madrigale.
Le Miroir de Musique, Baptiste Romain.
Recording place: Leymen (F), église Saint-Léger, October 2022.
Cover illustration: Lambert Lombard (1505-1566): Lombard, Lambert; St Paul before the altar of the unknown god (ca 1530).

A new release and a good one. Anthonius Gosswin I have to admit, is totally unknown to me, but after reading the booklet about him, I am fully aware that he was a composer of name, and well regarded in his time. This release does him proud, for the performance as a whole is very good. The vocal ensemble sings without undue vibrato, so beautiful straight lines without all kinds of frills. Instrumental there is also a lot to enjoy.

Interesting - never heard of him either! 

[Harry]

Richard Stöhr.
Orchestral works, volume II.
Suite No.1 for String Orchestra.
Symphony No.1 in A minor.
Piotr Wilczynski, Organ.
Sinfonia Varsovia, Ian Hobson.
Recorded in 2022.


This second release just out, impressed me as much as the first volume. Stöhr is not well known, let alone recorded, and it is not for the lack of good music, but he simply has been forgotten as so many good composers. The Suite is a full blooded romantic work with  a gorgeous second movement, sublimely orchestrated, and with much feeling I might add. Same goes for the Symphony, a sound picture painted with much creativity. Well performed and recorded. Do try, will you not?

[Madiel]

Adam: Giselle (excerpts)



It is one of the slightly disappointing things about this set that we only get 41 minutes of Giselle highlights rather than the complete ballet (which is around 110 minutes). From the limited information I have there's no indication that the Ballets Russes put on a truncated production in their 1910 season - the evidence suggests that Giselle was a complete evening in itself, whereas their other performances combined 2 shorter ballets. Even if you're trying to keep to a single disc, there's a Naxos one with over an hour of music.

I don't know that I'd listen to the whole work in one go if I had it. I'd almost certainly have a decent break between Acts. But there are other large-scale recordings in this box. It feels as if Warner just went with this bunch of excerpts because that was what they had in their catalogue.

That quibble aside, what's here is very good. No complaints about the sound quality of the 1961 recording (Robert Irving and the Philharmonia Orchestra).