What are you listening 2 now?

[Cato]

Franz von Suppe': Assorted overtures, among them...

I cannot find much information about The Tortures of Tantalus and how it could be a comic opera: it is based on a "comic vaudeville" by a certain Louis Angely.

Anyway, fun, inventive, and excellent music (as always) from Franz von Suppe'!

Plus, thanks to Dry Brett Kavanaugh:

[foxandpeng]

How many are they, I wonder? 

*checks under rocks* ... hmm...

[Brian]

First listen Ftuesday. Yardumian was a student of Pierre Monteux and had multiple Philadelphia/Ormandy recordings because he was a Philly local.

[Karl Henning]

I cannot find much information about The Tortures of Tantalus and how it could be a comic opera

The same question has smoldered in the back of mind viz. Orphée aux enfers, with its world-renownedly chipper Can-Can.

[Karl Henning]

High time I resumed this journey.

A first listen (probably)

Myaskovsky
Symphony № 11 in b^b minor, Op. 34 (1932)

And a chaser: the Stockholm Bach Choir singing the motet, Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Plus, thanks to Dry Brett Kavanaugh:

Nice composition, nice performance, and nice camera work.

[foxandpeng]

Sunleif Rasmussen
Symphony 2 'The Earth Anew'
John Storgårds
Helsinki PO
Dacapo

Boom. What a great symphony. Apparently composed as a life cycle based on the Old Norse myth of the tree of life, Yggdrasil, and inspired by natural phenomena and Faroese melodies.

Reflective of nature? Shimmering soundscape? Energetic, powerful mythologies of chaos?

Yeah, go on. I'll take some of that. If Storgårds is up for it, it must be as good as I think it is...

[Brian]

First listen Ftuesday. Yardumian was a student of Pierre Monteux and had multiple Philadelphia/Ormandy recordings because he was a Philly local.

This was not my cup of tea but it may well be others'. Dramatic, angsty music with lots of angry gestures, but committed to a basically tonal late-romantic language, so not quite as freely expressive as it could be. There is a lot of meandering, especially in the violin concerto, where the soloist has a lot of cadenza-like solo moments that don't carry much melodic/structural weight. Instead they just sound ominous.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Nice composition, nice performance, and nice camera work.

I enjoyed that! 

PD

p.s. Loved the lighting too (appreciated the candlelight in the background).

[Karl Henning]

This was not my cup of tea but it may well be others'. Dramatic, angsty music with lots of angry gestures, but committed to a basically tonal late-romantic language, so not quite as freely expressive as it could be. There is a lot of meandering, especially in the violin concerto, where the soloist has a lot of cadenza-like solo moments that don't carry much melodic/structural weight. Instead they just sound ominous.

Interesting. Should you revisit the piece in a year or so, I'd be further interested to see how your perceptions may or may not adjust.

[Bachtoven]

I think this is the first SACD recording of A Musical Offering. It's pretty good, especially the sound (although the flute is a little too prominent), but one aspect of the playing bothers me a little: Zacher's playing in the two Ricercare is a bit heavy-handed.

[Karl Henning]

To my complete astonishment (and mild shame) the last time I listened to a Cantata was 1 July 2023, so:

BWV 86 « Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch »

[The new erato]

Wonderful disc:



And very good as well:

[Pohjolas Daughter]

To my complete astonishment (and mild shame) the last time I listened to a Cantata was 1 July 2023, so:

BWV 86 « Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch »

No shame!  It's been much longer than that for me!   

PD

[Karl Henning]

To my complete astonishment (and mild shame) the last time I listened to a Cantata was 1 July 2023, so:

BWV 86 « Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch »

And, once you've boarded the Bach Train:

BWV 87 « Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen »

[Florestan]

[Karl Henning]

Myaskovsky
Symphony № 10 in f minor, Op. 30 (1927)

[prémont]

I think this is the first SACD recording of A Musical Offering. It's pretty good, especially the sound (although the flute is a little too prominent), but one aspect of the playing bothers me a little: Zacher's playing in the two Ricercare is a bit heavy-handed.

I don't think Zacher's own playing is a matter of great concern. I'm more annoyed by his endlessness of some of the canons.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1873 Original Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard

[Karl Henning]

BWV 88 « Siehe, ich will viel Fischer aussenden »