What are you listening 2 now?

[vers la flamme]

Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.7. Christian Lindberg, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Definitely one of the best CDs I purchased this year.

Round two in two days. (And something like round 15 in a year or so with this great symphony, which I first heard last summer...) I couldn't tell you what it is that draws me in so closely, but I'm finding new details each time.

I think I like this recording quite a bit better than the one I got to know the symphony with: Albrecht on CPO. I like the detail-oriented production, even though the BIS engineers may have made it sound more like being somewhere in the middle of the orchestra than in the audience...

[Symphonic Addict]

I should revisit that (also for the Cocteau text).

Good evening, Symphonic Addict!

Likewise, Rafael!

[Symphonic Addict]

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini (Markevitch, New Philharmonia Orchestra)

Powerful stuff. The stormy ending is done as I like it, without hurry.

[Mapman]

Atterberg: Symphony #2
Rasilainen: Frankfurt

The first movement is great! It has a wonderfully lyrical main theme. The second movement is a thematically integrated slow movement and scherzo, which also recalls the 1st movement theme. The 3rd movement seemed weaker, but I was falling asleep.

[JBS]

CD 2
The first two Razumovskys
SQ 7 in F major Op 59/1
SQ 8 in e minor Op 59/2

[vers la flamme]

Allan Pettersson: Symphony No.2. Stig Westerberg, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

So far so good.

[Keemun]

Saint-Saëns: Cello Sonatas 1 and 2 (Christian Poltera, cello / Kathryn Stott, piano)

[JBS]

Closing out the night


From

[Que]

Morning listening, the Misa sine nomine 1 by Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435 - 1511):



A three part mass that is described as "dark but transparent", which is an adequate description!

[Que]

Starting off with the Third Book of Psalms. Again skipping the added melodies from the Genevan Psalter and focusing on Sweelinck's corresponding psalms and the occasional organ adaptation.

What a delight.

[Iota]

Myroslav Skoryk: Triptych: Dytynstvo (Childhood)
Diptych

A Ukrainian composer (1938 - 2020) I'd never heard of before this morning. Dytynstvo has a certain Rossinian flair/authority to its deftness, albeit in Carpathian folk mode, a fresh and very charming piece. From which he sidesteps effortlessly into the darker Diptych, which has flecks of Shostakovich and Mahler, and substantially more flecks of noirish/filmic elements in its make-up, but it's comfortable in its own skin, and is again excellently done. A very worthwhile encounter so far.

[vandermolen]

Listened to both of these works yesterday with much pleasure:

[brewski]

Morning listening, the Misa sine nomine 1 by Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435 - 1511):



A three part mass that is described as "dark but transparent", which is an dequate description!

Listening now, and quite marvelous, great early morning listening. (Full disclosure: have noticed the group's recordings for years, finally took the plunge.)

-Bruce

[Traverso]

Well.classical it is and I love it.....

[Todd]

[Roasted Swan]

Two old favourite discs and one first listen.....

 

These two discs of rare(r) Delius are genuinely excellent.  Very well played and recorded and Lloyd-Jones has a real feel for the Delian idiom.  What a genuinely beautiful piece Florida Suite is - all the more so when you consider it was Delius' first serious attempt at a substantial orchestral work.  Much more "works" than not

then a first listen to.....



Interesting collection of Holst ballet music collected in one place.  The Perfect Fool is good - probably not my favourite version.  The performances of the choral ballets "Golden Goose" and "Morning of the Year" I both prefer here to the Davan-Wetton versions on Hyperion - more bite and energy but I'm still not convinced by the "folksy" fusion Holst was after in The Golden Goose especially.  I understand the goal but the result feels a bit twee.  The revelation on this disc is "The Lure" whcih comes across as one of Holst's finest scores and it gets an excellent performance.  There seems to be more music here than included on the other (good) version on Lyrita from David Atherton and the LSO.

[VonStupp]

Anton Bruckner
Mass No. 3 in f minor
Locus Iste
Tota Pulchra Es

Maria Stader, soprano
Claudia Hellmann, contralto
Ernst Haefliger, tenor
Kim Borg, bass
Anton Nowakowski, organ
Bavarian RSO & Chorus - Eugen Jochum

This is really excellent symphonic chorus work, of which I haven't heard in a great while.

To hear distinctive dynamic gradations from Jochum leading - p sounds remarkably different from pp and the difference between f and ff is thrilling. Many large choruses seem to only know loud and quiet singing behind an orchestra, or don't go far enough in either direction to make much of a distinction; at least from what I have heard lately.
VS

[Madiel]

Mozart (arranger): Piano concerto no.3



Gosh those first 4 piano concertos are fun. At least when played this well.

[AnotherSpin]

Myroslav Skoryk: Triptych: Dytynstvo (Childhood)
Diptych

A Ukrainian composer (1938 - 2020) I'd never heard of before this morning. Dytynstvo has a certain Rossinian flair/authority to its deftness, albeit in Carpathian folk mode, a fresh and very charming piece. From which he sidesteps effortlessly into the darker Diptych, which has flecks of Shostakovich and Mahler, and substantially more flecks of noirish/filmic elements in its make-up, but it's comfortable in its own skin, and is again excellently done. A very worthwhile encounter so far.

I have not listened to this recording, but given the fact that Myroslav Skoryk spent much of his childhood in Siberia, where the regime deported his family, I find it hard to imagine that Skoryk could consciously imitate Shostakovich or any other representative of official Soviet propaganda. Unless it was for the purpose of parody.

[Madiel]

Shostakovich or any other representative of official Soviet propaganda

Um, WHAT?