What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Jerusalem.
City of the two Peaces, Heavenly and Earthly peace.
CD II.
Jerusalem- A City of Pilgrimage, (continued)
Jerusalem- A Arab City and a Ottoman.
Jerusalem- A Land of Refuge and Exile.
Earthy Peace- A Duty and a Hope.
Dialogues of Songs, Anonymous oral tradition.
Final Fanfare- against the Barriers of the Spirits.

Al Darwish (Galilea) Hesperion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall.
From my CD collection.

Part two-most excellent.

[SonicMan46]

Bach, JS - Flute Sonatas - a couple of 'different takes' on these popular works:

Michala Petri on tenor & alto recorders w/ Hille Perl on viola da gamba and Mahan Esfahani on harpsichord - just 1 disc at 74+ mins that includes six works.

Marina Piccinini on a modern flute w/ the Brasil Guitar Duo (which look like modern 6-string guitars from the pic shown).  Dave

[Iota]

Great! 

The conductor Herreweghe once quipped: "Life is too short to listen to Telemann". He was obviously very wrong...  But in his defence: until not that long ago Telemann performances were abismal and deadly boring... But in the right hands and in the right pieces, his witty, polyglot style comes to life.

Indeed. It was the Camerata Köln/La Stagione Frankfurt/Michael Schneider recordings on CPO that first showed me the light (and rather think it was you that first made me aware of them 👍).

Here:



Hymne

Having heard of Diepenbrock without remembering anything about him, this tone poem-esque orchestral piece started out rather ho-hum-ish for me, as it sounded so derivatively post (&-lite) Wagnerian, but as it proceeded I was won over rather by its heart and melodic richness. Herr D. certainly spins an attractive musical tapestry.

[VonStupp]

Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto 1
Piano Concerto 2
Edward MacDowell
Piano Concerto 2
Dallas SO - Andrew Litton

PI Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto 1
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Concerto 2
Atlanta SO - Yoel Levi

I see that pianist André Watts has passed. I remember him mostly through his collaboration with Bernstein, but only managed to hang onto these two Telarc concerto releases, I imagine from record clubs from the 90's.

I don't remember what composer(s) were in Watts' particular wheelhouse, but I recall Liszt figuring prominently. Figured I would give these a spin.
VS

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1874 First version - Ed. Leopold Nowak, Eliahu Inbal, Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt

[brewski]

Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor - From some extremely talented students at the Bowdoin (Maine) Festival.

-Bruce

[Symphonic Addict]

This might interest you:

The first movement is in Milhaud's late "busy lilliputtian abstract shimmering" flecked with lyricism style
The second movement is a long, very slow build up to a percussion laden climax
The third movement is short, fun, exiting, very rythmical and has a virtuoso role for the military drum.

l'Homme et son désir is indeed a fascinating, very original (little) work, inspired by the Brazilian jungle and scored for a wordless vocal quartet, a handful of instruments (flute, harp, trumpet, clarinet...) and a large percussion section .

Thank you!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Vladimir Peskin Trumpet Concerto.  Selina Ott, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/Roberto Paternostro.

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
String Trio

LaSalle Quartet

[vandermolen]

Howard Hanson: Symphony No.6
One of his best I increasingly feel.

[Mandryka]

Tetsuro Hanai, Josquin Missa Ave Maris Stella. Fallows says that he thinks this mass grew out of Missa Gaudiamus - a simplification of Missa Gaudiamus. He is full of praise for it, he uses words like "sovereign", "perfectly controlled", "serene." He must have hypnotised me because I think he's right! It seems extremely pure, paired down, both beautiful and austere.

Such a shame that Tetsuro Hanai hasn't recorded Missa Gaudeamus. I'll have to make do with Rebecca Stewart's Capella Pratensis recording. Tomorrow.

[vandermolen]

Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 7 'A Sea Symphony'
Written at the end of Hanson's life. I find the quotation from his most famous work 'Symphony No.2 'Romantic' towards the end to be very moving and a great way for Howard Hanson to 'sign off':

[Todd]

Decidedly OK.

[SimonNZ]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Tetsuro Hanai, Josquin Missa Ave Maris Stella. Fallows says that he thinks this mass grew out of Missa Gaudiamus - a simplification of Missa Gaudiamus. He is full of praise for it, he uses words like "sovereign", "perfectly controlled", "serene." He must have hypnotised me because I think he's right! It seems extremely pure, paired down, both beautiful and austere.

Such a shame that Tetsuro Hanai hasn't recorded Missa Gaudeamus. I'll have to make do with Rebecca Stewart's Capella Pratensis recording. Tomorrow.

In October, they will do Jean de Ockeghem, Heinrich Isaac, Dufay, etc.  If you send a message to Hanai about Missa Gaudeamus, probably he will respond to you and explain why he hasn't recorded it.

https://www.cappellajp.com/news/554

[Mapman]

Revisiting two works I've enjoyed in the past year:

Harty: With the Wild Geese
Thomson: Ulster



Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Jansons: St. Petersburg

[Symphonic Addict]

Stenhammar: Serenade in F major

Being a Stenhammar fan, I confess this work didn't make an impression today. Not sure if it had to do with the recording and rendition, probably yes.

[JBS]

I'm now up to CD 4 of this set, Symphony 5 and the Symphonic Variations.
Symphonies 2-4 left me feeling a bit meh, but these two works are both a bit more familiar and much meatier for the ears.

CD 5
Melbourne 30 October 2019

SQ 2 in G Opus 18/2
SQ 11 in f minor Opus 95 "Quartetto Serioso"
SQ 10 in E Flat Opus 74 "Harp"

This set continues to impress me.

[Linz]

Sibelius The Oceanides, Op.73, Karelia Suite, Op.11, Scènes historiques: Suite No. 1, Op. 25, Tapiola, Op. 26, Finladia, Op. 26, Serenade No. 1, Op.69a D major and Serenade No. 2, Op.69b G minor, Ida Haendel violin for serenades. Paavo Berglund, Bournmouth Symphony Orchestra

[Que]

Based on the albums I have streamed so far and really enjoyed, I have a mixed bag of ageing:

- Wind Concertos & String concertos (Musica Antiqua Köln - i haven't tried the various CPO series for mixed instruments)
- Tafelmusik (M.A.K. again and the Freiburger Barockorchester)
- Fantasias for flute (Berthold Kuijken, also Lazarevitch)
- Fantasias for violin (Grumiaux & Guglielmo)
- Paris Quartets (Freiburger again and also the Kuijkens with Leonhardt)
- Trio sonatas & other Scherzi (Parnassi Musici)
- Suite in A minor and Double Concertos (Oberlinger)

Any other artists/ensemble worth a listening to please?

You're right to mention Goebel and his MAK and the Kuijkens as early Telemann pioneers. Already quite the shortlist! 

Definitely second the recommendation for La Stagione Frankfurt with Schneider for the complete wind concertos and mixed concertos (CPO). Ditto for two disc of chamber music by the Camerata Köln (CPO):

Indeed. It was the Camerata Köln/La Stagione Frankfurt/Michael Schneider recordings on CPO that first showed me the light (and rather think it was you that first made me aware of them 👍).

Other ensembles/performers:
Epoca Barocca: Trios & Quartets (CPO)
Paolo Pandolfo: Fantasias for viola da Gamba (Glosa)
Münchener Cammer-Music: XII Solos à violon ou traversiere avec la Basse Chiffrée (accomponied flute sonatas).

From the perfomers mentioned, Oberlinger and the Ensemble 1700 did a disc with accompied sonatas and trio sonatas ("Telemann"). The Parnassi musici did a recording of trio sonatas with bassoon with Sergio Azzolini (CPO)

If you like the harpsichord, I'd recommend 36 Fantasias for harpsichord with Andrea Coen (Brilliant).

A totally other side of Telemann is shown in a beautiful selection of opera arias by Nuria Rial with the Kammerorchester Basel (DHM)