What are you listening 2 now?

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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Henry V Overture
Fat Knight, Sir John in Love Suite
Serenade to Music (orchestral version)

James Clark, violin
RSNO - Martin Yates

A few weeks of personal-life strife has made me appreciate DST. The official end of my 14-hour work days and a few extra days of driving to work in daylight sound wonderful.

Really enjoyed Fat Knight; like A Cotswold Romance's effect on me, I am now interested to hear the opera.

Haven't heard the purely orchestra/concertante version of Serenade to Music either.
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Falstaff, Bardolph, and Dame Quickly (1845), Francis Philip Stephanoff

A pity that VW gave the work such a stupid title!
I like the Henry V Overture.
Sorry to hear about the personal-life strife and wish you well.

[Symphonic Addict]

[Lisztianwagner]

Vítězslav Novák
The Storm

Jaroslav Krombholc & Czech Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra

[Roasted Swan]

A pity that VW gave the work such a stupid title!
I like the Henry V Overture.
Sorry to hear about the personal-life strife and wish you well.

Wasn't Fat Knight just the original title RVW gave Sir John in Love.  Given that he changed it I'm not sure we can "blame" him if the later editors have returned to it for the suite that's been orchestrated from an incomplete short score.......

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Wasn't Fat Knight just the original title RVW gave Sir John in Love.  Given that he changed it I'm not sure we can "blame" him if the later editors have returned to it for the suite that's been orchestrated from an incomplete short score.......

Yes, I think that you are right.

[Mapman]

Alwyn: Symphony No.3 + Violin Concerto
Two of his finest works.

PS I've just realised that parts of the second movement remind me of Khachaturian's Second Symphony 'The Bell'.

That CD was my introduction to Alwyn (through the 3rd symphony). I got it at the same book sale as the Novák, in fact.

I finally listened to the Violin Concerto today. It is beautiful!

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That CD was my introduction to Alwyn (through the 3rd symphony). I got it at the same book sale as the Novák, in fact.

I finally listened to the Violin Concerto today. It is beautiful!

I think that it's a great Violin Concerto - one of my favourites. Shamefully it was rejected by a BBC 'Listening Panel' (including Rubbra) and disappeared for decades. Now, at least we have two fine recordings of it (Naxos/Chandos). I'm very pleased that you share my high opinion of it. That was a very successful book sale! I've just been playing it here.

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Vítězslav Novák
The Storm

Jaroslav Krombholc & Czech Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra

Do you know the later Supraphon recording?

[Symphonic Addict]

Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher

First-class performance and recording.

[SimonNZ]

L'Ascension

[JBS]

[Karl Henning]

First listen. Part of a Presto package that landed yesterday.
Cover image befits today.

Hah!

[Keemun]

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (Norrington/Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart)

[Symphonic Addict]

Sergei Bortkiewicz: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major

Anyone with penchant for concertos a la Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninov should try this Ukrainian composer. This work is suffused with some beautiful and soaring melodies. I'm surprised that this is the only recording of this piece as far as I know.

[Symphonic Addict]

Sibelius: Violin Concerto

I wonder why Barenboim has not conducted anything else by Sibelius or Nielsen apart from their violin concertos. Judging by this rendition, he did a notable job here along with Vengerov and the CSO.

[JBS]

Sibelius: Violin Concerto

I wonder why Barenboim has not conducted anything else by Sibelius or Nielsen apart from their violin concertos. Judging by this rendition, he did a notable job here along with Vengerov and the CSO.

He actually recorded the Sibelius two more times for DG, once with Zuckerman and (fairly recently) then with Batiashvili.

[Symphonic Addict]

He actually recorded the Sibelius two more times for DG, once with Zuckerman and (fairly recently) then with Batiashvili.

Yes, I was aware of that, but I was referring more towards the symphonies or, regarding Sibelius, also the tone poems. It seems that some conductors don't like to tackle certain repertoire or don't feel comfortable doing it.

[Mandryka]

A suite of seven pieces in D at the start of the first disc, one of my favourite French baroque suites. Without Flint I would never have discovered it.

[Que]

A suite of seven pieces in D at the start of the first disc, one of my favourite French baroque suites. Without Flint I would never have discovered it.

Sofar I've not become a particular Flint fan.
But if it is available streaming, I'll certainly give it a go! 

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Martinu: Symphony No.1