What are you listening 2 now?

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Holst
A Somerset Rhapsody
Egdon Heath

David Lloyd-Jones & Royal Scottish National Orchestra

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Cemal Reşid Rey – Le Conquérant / Instantanés / Scènes Turques.

[Bachtoven]

[Todd]

Getting my fix of British music for the second half of the year.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1888 Third Version - Ed. Benjamin Korstvedt, Philharmonie Festiva, Gerd Schaller

[Karl Henning]

Another first listen. h/t to @Mandryka 

[VonStupp]

Am I right in remembering that the Piano Concerto is relatively unusual in that the solo part plays nearly/completely continuously....?!

Aye, straight from measure 1 to the end. Even if the piano isn't in the spotlight, it is always on the move as a texture.
VS

[Todd]

Paukenmesse

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach Motets, Cantus Cölln, CD5

[JBS]

First listens to these recordings: the First Symphony only (recorded 30 Sept 2021 "under Covid restrictions")

And now this
I wasn't aware until I looked at the booklet who Mrs. Nagano was.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jacques Ibert: Louisville Concerto and Bostoniana.

[Bachtoven]

I liked the streaming version enough to buy the CD, which unlike Qobuz's version, has some informative notes written by the pianist.

[Symphonic Addict]

Grieg: String Quartet No. 2 in F major

Grieg left this work unfinished and his close friend Julius Röntgen completed it, doing a great job as the completion sounds considerably natural. As in his first quartet, this also incorporates Norwegian airs. Delightful piece.

[Bachtoven]

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Florestan]

[Que]

"This programme focuses on the Missa pro defunctis by the composer Charles d'Argentil. Recorded for the first time here, it is one of only a dozen musical settings of the liturgy of the dead written before 1550 to have survived to this day. Little-known today, Charles d'Argentil, who worked in the prestigious Papal Chapel in Rome, was nevertheless a key figure in the French Renaissance, as well as in the establishment of musical settings of the Requiem for papal ceremonies. His setting sits alongside the three Lamentations du samedi saint by Claudin de Sermisy, composer to the French royal chapel under François I, as well as Jehan Barra's Salve Regina.

The Gilles Binchois ensemble here sheds light on an all-too-often overlooked part of musical history, through the generation that directly followed Josquin des Prés. The art of these three composers, who share a richly sonorous style, a good balance between imitation and homophonic declamation and formal clarity, bears witness to the high level of mastery attained by that productive and talented generation of French composers.

PS Charles D'Argentil was a good composer, but not a brilliant one. It's the rarity of an early 16th c. requiem that sells it.

[Que]

I'm fond of music played by recorder consorts, so I'm giving a these Dutch ladies a go. 

http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Apr/Delight_musicke_95654.htm

[Harry]

I'm fond of music played by recorder consorts, so I'm giving a these Dutch ladies a go. 

http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Apr/Delight_musicke_95654.htm

I liked the disc, but pure for the instrumental pieces, Klaartje is not my kind of Soprano, to put it mildly.

[VonStupp]

Philip Sainton: The Island
Patrick Hadley: The Trees So High

David Wilson-Johnson, baritone
Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus - Matthias Bamert

I was unexpectedly blown away by Sainton's The Island, and Hadley's Trees really came together at its conclusion.
VS