What are you listening 2 now?

[ritter]

Love that work, and that is a good recording of it. Our fellow GMGer @Wanderer and I (on different nights) saw Ms. Cotillard in the title rôle in a fully staged product Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher last year here in Madrid, and she was very convincing (I didn't like the Fura dels Baus staging, though...I'm getting really tired of that lot and their apocalyptic/ dystopian aesthetics, which they apply to anything and everything !  ).

[SimonNZ]

Love that work, and that is a good recording of it. Our fellow GMGer @Wanderer and I (on different nights) saw Ms. Cotillard in the title rôle in a fully staged product Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher last year here in Madrid, and she was very convincing (I didn't like the Fura dels Baus staging, though...I'm getting really tired of that lot and their apocalyptic/ dystopian aesthetics, which they apply to anything and everything !  ).

I've neglected the work until now for no good reason. What is your desert island recording of it?

(searching for the image above I encountered stills from a production with Audrey Bonnet that would have been...memorable)

[ritter]

Most people find the Baudo recording on Supraphon excellent, but I'm not really that keen on it.

On DVD, I think this performance from Montpellier under Alain Altinoglu is excellent. Sylvie Testud is simply extraordinary as the Saint!

And on CD, I remain partial to the Ozawa on DG, live from Saint Denis, with Martha Keller.

[AnotherSpin]

Great Hans Hotter.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Isa Krejčí: Serenade for Orchestra and Symphony No. 2.

What's the music like?  I don't know the composer.

PD

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

What's the music like?  I don't know the composer.

PD

The music is Central European/Caucasian with a sharp rhythm and folk-influenced melodies. Maybe @Symphonic Addict can provide a better description.

[VonStupp]

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.

Thank you!

The title does seem a bit curt. It was a fun recording though.
VS

[Symphonic Addict]

The music is Central European/Caucasian with a sharp rhythm and folk-influenced melodies. Maybe @Symphonic Addict can provide a better description.

Somehow the Symphony resembled Khachaturian's music a little, so the Caucasian connection turns out to be apt!

[Todd]

7 & 8.  So good.  As good as Ivanovic's set is, surely the world needs at least three additional complete cycles.

[Symphonic Addict]

Ruders: Piano Concerto No. 2

Now, this impressed me quite a bit. The kind of contemporary works (composed in 2009) that interest me. Striking composition.

[Linz]

Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73 Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The music is Central European/Caucasian with a sharp rhythm and folk-influenced melodies. Maybe @Symphonic Addict can provide a better description.

Thank you for chiming in. 

PD

[JBS]

November - hunting time....I love this!

I hope to find the cd sooner or later. I doubt a new recording will soon appear.

It's part of this set, isn't it?

I'm too tired from work to roust out my copy and confirm exactly what's in it. (And if it's not, the set still has plenty of similar music.)
TD
I am also, unfortunately, too tired to listen properly to this new arrival that just finished, so nothing to say about atm.

[Florestan]

Confirming the discussion from this weekend: Bowen's passionate sonata does not sound like this photo of a plump sheep!

Far from the madding crowd... 

[Karl Henning]

Shockingly dull Manfred.  I thought Previn wouldn't let me down.  I'll switch to Jurowski when I'm home.

Oh, that's too bad!

[Roasted Swan]

Oh, that's too bad!

You would have thought Manfred would have been right up Previn's street.  I've got it in this twofer;



where Temirkanov's Rach 2 is highly regarded.  I don't remember the Previn as being "awful" just not nearly as good as I was hoping/expecting.  As far as I can recall did Previn record any other Tchaik symphonies?  His ballets with the LSO from this same period have stood the test of time very well.  Just a bad day at the office perhaps!

[Irons]

It is playing to the stereotype that all British neoromantic music is pastoral in nature.

Yes, a poor image choice. No sheep, cowpats or farmer's gates feature in the Bax Cello Sonata either.

[Irons]

Shockingly dull Manfred.  I thought Previn wouldn't let me down.  I'll switch to Jurowski when I'm home.

Shame, as perfect cover image.

[Que]

Shockingly dull Manfred.  I thought Previn wouldn't let me down.  I'll switch to Jurowski when I'm home.

Perhaps try Chailly/RCO (looks like an unlikely candidate on paper, but it is a great performance with a great orchestra in great sound). Another personal favourite is Markevitch (Great Conductors series).

[Que]

Morning listening:



Only available streaming or as download, but another treat: a live recording (25 min) of Dionysos Now performing the Missa Inviolata by the mysterious "Maistre Jhan" (c.1485–1538), a French composer at the court of Ferrara and a contemporary of Josquin Desprez.

https://www.eprclassic.eu/items/Missa-Inviolata

Wonderful!