What are you listening 2 now?

[Todd]

Disc nine.  Tip top all around.  The use of a Yamaha pays big dividends here.

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky: Petrushka. William Steinberg, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Funny coincidence: first time I heard Petrushka live was the Pbgh Symphony in Heinz Hall.

[Karl Henning]

Debussy: Iberia

One of my favorite Debussy scores!

[Linz]

Arnold Bax In the Faery Hills, The Garden of Fand, Symphony No. 1 in E flat , Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones

[Florestan]

Charming music. I used to consider Eclogues,  Op. 56, B103 as my favorite piano work by Dvorak, but I kind of switched my allegiance to Six Piano Pieces, Op. 52, B110. 

[Linz]

Bruckner  Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, 1877 Version. Ed. William Carragan - Removes remaining Haas anomalies
Philharmonie Festiva, Gerd Schaller

[Brian]

This is a very 21st century performance of the Franck, in that it's a little bit slow and a little bit soft. Some parts feature forceful brass and a nice hefty orchestral sounds, but at times, it feels like the picture moves out of focus for a minute. A little bit disappointingly cautious coming from Tingaud.

The best Franck symphony I've heard in contemporary times remains Christian Arming's on Fuga Libera. And overall you still want Monteux or Munch. I assume Munch and Alexandre Bloch will remain supreme in the Chausson but will stream the rest of this Naxos CD to make sure.

The cover art is awful - the image is cheesy/sentimental, and the text all over it is insensitively laid out.

[Lisztianwagner]

Alexander Zemlinsky
Maeterlinck Lieder

Violeta Urmana (mezzo-soprano)
James Conlon & Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker

[Cato]

Alexander Zemlinsky
Maeterlinck Lieder

Violeta Urmana (mezzo-soprano)
James Conlon & Gurzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker

One of my favorite CD's!

I used the 6 Orchesterlieder in my German III and IV classes: the students translated the texts and then we listened to the work. 

This work often received their praise, and they were always a tough, skeptical audience.   

[SonicMan46]

 

Charming music. I used to consider Eclogues,  Op. 56, B103 as my favorite piano work by Dvorak, but I kind of switched my allegiance to Six Piano Pieces, Op. 52, B110. 

Hi Andrei - my Dvorak piano box is the one added above w/ Inna Poroshina which I've enjoyed - just curious about any comparisons if you've heard her?  Thanks - Dave

[Bachtoven]

[classicalgeek]

This is a very 21st century performance of the Franck, in that it's a little bit slow and a little bit soft. Some parts feature forceful brass and a nice hefty orchestral sounds, but at times, it feels like the picture moves out of focus for a minute. A little bit disappointingly cautious coming from Tingaud.

The best Franck symphony I've heard in contemporary times remains Christian Arming's on Fuga Libera. And overall you still want Monteux or Munch. I assume Munch and Alexandre Bloch will remain supreme in the Chausson but will stream the rest of this Naxos CD to make sure.

The cover art is awful - the image is cheesy/sentimental, and the text all over it is insensitively laid out.

Just got the Franck Orchestral Music box from Fuga Libera, so it's good to hear the Symphony receives a great performance!

TD: I was curious about Martinu's ballets
Martinu
Spalicek: Suites from the ballet
*Rhapsody-Concerto, for viola and orchestra
*Mikhail Zemtsov, viola
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi
(on Spotify)



Martinu doesn't sound like anyone else, that's for sure! Really enjoyable.

[VonStupp]

Love this recording, Fischer-Dieskau's sketchy Russian pronunciation notwithstanding. The Fourteenth is a kind of reply to Britten's War Requiem, which Shostakovich admired, but which he felt conveyed unwarranted hope.

Interesting. I don't know if I would have put those two works together, nor composers, but it makes sense upon hearing.

There is a moment where DF-D does something really strange with his French, causing my eyebrows to raise each time; I assume his Russian ought to be worse. I don't know the languages well enough to dismiss any of his choices.
VS

[Linz]

Hector Berlioz Le jeune pâtre breton, Op.13, No.4, Hermine,  Le Mort de Cléopâtre and 5 Mélodies, Frank Patterson, Dame Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, Josephine Veasey, Sheila Armstrong, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis 

[VonStupp]

Dmitri Shostakovich
The Song of the Forests, op. 81
The Execution of Stepan Razin, op. 119
The Sun Shines Over Our Motherland, op. 90

Konstantin Andreyev, tenor
Alexei Tanovitski, bass

Narva Boys Choir
Estonian NSO & Choir - Paavo Järvi

Passionate performances, dubious subject material. What wonderful, yet horribly vivid depictions of the execution crowd in Stenka.

An oratorio to propagate irrigation and reforestation is a curious idea, not altogether successful for me (the music, not reforestation).
VS

[Todd]

Two more big Schumann works flanking some chunks.  The big works are basically both flops.  Kinderszenen is undercharacterized to the point of blandness.  How does one deliver such a weak Traumerei?  I didn't expect the modern incarnation of Horowitz, or anything, but I kept waiting for it to take wing.  Novelletten, less recorded for sure, has a few passages of bustling energy, but it sounds aimless.  Andras Schiff Uhlig is not. 

[classicalgeek]

Matthijs Vermeulen
Symphony no. 2
Symphony no. 6
Residentie Orkest Den Haag
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(on Spotify)

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Funny coincidence: first time I heard Petrushka live was the Pbgh Symphony in Heinz Hall.

It must have been a great experience, Karl! Nowadays I'm listening to many recordings of Steinberg/Pittsburgh and I love all of them!

[Karl Henning]

It must have been a great experience, Karl! Nowadays I'm listening to many recordings of Steinberg/Pittsburg and I love all of them!

Superb!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Debussy, Lenny.