What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

First listen to:
Malcolm Arnold
Symphony No.9

Charles Groves & BBC Philharmonic

[Karl Henning]

CPE Bach
Cello Concerto in a minor, Wq 170
Truls Mørk & Les Violons du Roy

Mighty tasty!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Hindemith - Cello Concerto/Clarinet Concerto. Tibor De Machula, George Pieterson, Kiril Kondrashin, Concertgebouw Orchestra.

[Linz]

Schumann  Symphony No. 1 in B flat major ('Spring'), Op. 38, Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61. and Genoveva, Berliner Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelik

[SimonNZ]

[atardecer]

Apart from the Danses concertantes (which I've always found to be great fun), I consider the rest of the works on this disc (Ode, Four Norwegian Moods, and the Concerto in D) "B list" Stravinsky, and I seldom listen to them. My opinion has not changed this time around.   

I really like Ode and the Concerto in D, but I agree with you on Four Norwegian Moods. A year or so ago I listened to all of Stravinsky's works on the DG box, and overall I was impressed with the consistent high quality of his music. But those pieces to me stuck out like a sore thumb as being below his usual standards. They don't even sound like Stravinsky to me.

[atardecer]

A recording of the 1971 world premiere of Samuel Barber's Cantata "The Lovers" op. 43

"Here is the world premiere performance of Samuel Barber's cantata to poems by Pablo Neruda featuring bass-baritone Tom Krause, the Temple University Choirs, Philadelphia Orchestra, under Eugene Ormandy.  From the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, 22 September 1971.  Sadly, the audio quality of this radio broadcast from fifty years ago has suffered through the generations, but we are fortunate that it exists."

[Karl Henning]

Cross-post. There will be a more professional video. This was just a capture on my cell phone.

[Symphonic Addict]

Shchedrin: Suite from 'Not Love Alone'

Shchedrin's style has lots of personality, quirkiness and freshness that don't fail to hook and this work has got all of that.

[Spotted Horses]

Toch string quartet No 6, Verdi Quartet



Mixed feelings. I find the work attractive. The recording grates on me a bit, a claustrophobic sound stage with annoying upper midrange/treble resonance.

[akebergv]

I really like Ode and the Concerto in D, but I agree with you on Four Norwegian Moods. A year or so ago I listened to all of Stravinsky's works on the DG box, and overall I was impressed with the consistent high quality of his music. But those pieces to me stuck out like a sore thumb as being below his usual standards. They don't even sound like Stravinsky to me.

A main reason, I believe, is that because Stravinsky's finances took a hit during WWII by curtailing his European revenues, he attempted (largely unsuccessfully) to woe Hollywood. The Four Norwegian Moods were originally intended as film scores, which I think explains why they sound less "Stravinsky." I fully agree with the assessment that the war years were his nadir as a composer, but what is really remarkable is how he rebounded, first with the concluding neoclassical works (in particular The Rake's Progress) and then his final twelve-tone-inspired period. To my mind, Agon and Threni are as good as anything written during Stravinsky's previous periods.

[Que]

Morning listening:

[Que]

Solo music and duets for theorbo and its smaller sister the tiorbino by Bellerofonte Castaldi, a poet, lutenist and composer from Modena and a friend of Claudio Monteverdi.


https://outhere-music.com/en/albums/castaldi-ferita-damore-musiche-habito-tiorbesco

[vandermolen]

Glazunov: Symphony No.3
LSO/Yondani Butt

[vandermolen]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Songs of Travel
On Wenlock Edge
Edward Elgar
Pleading, op. 48
Three Songs, op. 59
Two Songs, op. 60
George Butterworth
Love Blows as the Wind Blow

Robert Tear, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
CBSO - Simon Rattle & Vernon Handley

I don't think I have heard the orchestrated versions of RVW's song cycles. Different, but enjoyable, as are the contrasting Elgar songs, which I had not known previously.

Historically, I never have cared for Robert Tear's tenor. Not much to complain about here though, although much different than the Ian Partridge and Philip Langridge I heard earlier. A more pointed, Italianate sound.
VS


Map of Shropshire (c1850), Thomas Moule (1784-1851)

'Coming up from Richmond' in the Butterworth is a lovely piece.

[Irons]

Hindemith - Cello Concerto/Clarinet Concerto. Tibor De Machula, George Pieterson, Kiril Kondrashin, Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Delighted to purchase a LP copy last year. Performance excellent and although a live recording I still  found sonics disappointing.

[Irons]

'Coming up from Richmond' in the Butterworth is a lovely piece.

I must look out for that one, Jeffrey. Butterworth an excellent song composer. Wonder if Richmond Yorkshire or Surrey? Guess the former.

[Wanderer]

[ando]

I'm up now. Morning. 

Si suoni la tromba W.A. Mozart Wynton Marsalis, Kathleen Battle, Orchestra St. Luke's

[Traverso]

Bach

Today again the Matthäus-Passion, this time with my favorite performance of this work, which takes me much more directly to the core of this composition.
poignant in its severity and accurate in its optimal depiction of the text.
Compelling, certainly, but with almost minimal resources but sharply profiled and leaving the view of the architecture of the whole intact.
Music and text in an ideal balance draw you in to a performance that is no less than moving and soul-stirring.