What are you listening 2 now?

[Wanderer]

[vandermolen]

Arthur Bliss: 'Adam Zero' Suite from the Ballet.
Another fine score from this underrated composer.

[vandermolen]

Listen what the cat dragged in:


Gustav HOLST
Psalms, Choruses, Seven Partsongs
Nunc dimittis, The Evening Watch
Holst Singers & Orhcestra
Hilary Davan Wetton
Hyperion/Helios

Clever cat!

[Todd]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Walton: As You Like It. Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

[Karl Henning]

I didn't know that!

Nor me. So he was monetizing self-important jerkweedery at an early point. Good for him, I guess.

[ando]

Walton: As You Like It. Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

Nice. Gielgud's participation piqued me interest. Thanks.

[ritter]

Bought yesterday at Ludwig beck in Munich, and playing now that I am back in my office in Madrid:



Schoeck's Notturno is a new work to me, and so far (I'm halfway through the first movement), it justifies the many accolades it has received (not least here on GMG). And the work suits Christian Gerhaher's very refined artistry like a glove.

 

[Spotted Horses]

Came back to listen to Reger String Quartet Op 54, No 2, one more time.



A work full of humor, compositional and performance virtuosity, and fun.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Arthur Butterworth: 5th Symphony.

A favourite. Two big-boned sweeping outer movements with a reflective Adagio at the Symphony's heart.

Intrigued by your comments, I found it on youtube and am now listening to it.  Curious as to when the recording was from?

Here's the video if anyone else is curious:

PD

[ritter]

Well, the Schoeck Notturno made a very, very strong first impression! I will have to listen to it again soon, but can confidently say that, along with Penthesilea, it's definitely one of the composer's geratest achievements.

And now, the great Bruno Canino plays Dallapiccola's Quaderno musicale di Anna Libera.

[DavidW]

Mozart Divertimenti K 166, 186 and Anh. 226-227

These are early wind divertimenti from the big Brillaint box.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I'll have to see if I can find some samples of this.

I was intrigued by the artwork and was trying to find a bigger image of it.  I could tell that it was old and did some further digging.  A very intelligent use of artwork.  It's been attributed to Mary Queen of Scots and others (like Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury).  From what I understand, Byrd later converted to Catholicism and also the embroidery (of which Mary did many during her 18+ years in confinement) and also the fact that it is of a bird.  You can read more about the tapestries here:

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/prison-embroideries-mary-queen-of-scots

Amazing that they have lasted and held up so well--and weren't destroyed too!

PD

[Linz]

Granville Bantock A Celtic Symphony, The Witch of Atlas, The Sea Reivers, A Hebridean Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

[Maestro267]

Intrigued by your comments, I found it on youtube and am now listening to it.  Curious as to when the recording was from?

PD

This recording here, I assume.



Thread duty:

Dvorak: String Quartet No. 13
Stamitz Quartet

Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish")
Staatskapelle Dresden/Sawallisch

[Pohjolas Daughter]

This recording here, I assume.



Thread duty:

Dvorak: String Quartet No. 13
Stamitz Quartet

Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish")
Staatskapelle Dresden/Sawallisch

Thanks, I know as Irons posted a photo, which one it was.    I was asking when Butterworth recorded it.  Checking Wiki, he apparently died in 2014 (I would have guessed earlier, but I don't know much about him.    ).

PD

[Roasted Swan]

Bought yesterday at Ludwig beck in Munich, and playing now that I am back in my office in Madrid:



Schoeck's Notturno is a new work to me, and so far (I'm halfway through the first movement), it justifies the many accolades it has received (not least here on GMG). And the work suits Christian Gerhaher's very refined artistry like a glove.

 

A genuinely great performance of a genuinely great work......

[Traverso]

Bach


CD 9

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Antonio Soler Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 16-27. Vestard Shimkus.

[Mandryka]

Came back to listen to Reger String Quartet Op 54, No 2, one more time.



A work fall of humor, compositional and performance virtuosity, and fun.

That's what I felt about the Hiller Variations -- maybe check them out of you haven't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJVOIhMvfIE&t=1069s&ab_channel=RainerF.