What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Continuing on with the Pettersson Complete Edition on BIS ---

NP:

Symphony No. 6
Norrköping SO
Christian Lindberg

'The long struggle towards the sunrise' 

[vandermolen]

Brahms: Piano Sonatas 1 and 2 (Anatol Ugorski)

Good to reacquaint myself with these superb works. From his early years as a composer and one already notices his authentic genius and gestures that make his style distinguishable. Not for nothing Brahms is in my top 3 composers.




Arnell: Symphonies 4 and 5

More marvelous music today. Two strong symphonies finely orchestrated and full of energy, being the 4th troubled in mood, whilst the 5th exudes a more lively and optimistic spirit. This could be the best CD devoted to Arnell known to me.

I live Arnell's 5th Symphony although No.3 is probably my favourite.

[Lisztianwagner]

Very nice. What do you think about his symphonies?

I don't know them very well, I haven't listened to those works very often and there are some of them I haven't heard yet; but there some of Pettersson's symphonies I appreciate very much, like for example 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th, which are quite thrilling.

[Spotted Horses]

Continued with the third string quartet of Honegger, in the Erato Quartet recording.



For whatever reason, this work doesn't resonate with me as strongly as the first two quartets, probably because the central slow movement does not strike me as having the same sort of poignancy.

Also, get drawn back to the Koechlin chamber music set, repeat listening to the two Clarinet sonatas and this time they got through to me. Will probably follow up with the other pieces for clarinet and piano.



And now I remember that I was in the process of listing to the Brahms Piano Trios, Quartets and Quintet some time ago, but got derailed...

[Traverso]

Mozart

Overture Cosi fan tutte
Symphony No.25
Adagio and Fugue K546
Symphony No.29 (1965)
Symphony No.31 "Paris"



Many will not mention Mozart's symphonies as their ideal, names such as Mahler, Shostakovich, Bruckner are more likely to be considered.
Yet I do not include myself among them and have a special soft spot for No.29, I love to listen to it and Klemperer is a fine Mozart conductor.

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: L'Ascension

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I used to have a recording of his piano rolls, and there was a comment in the booklet -- I think from a contemporary review -- which said something like his playing is airy, as if he's outdoors breathing fresh mountain air. Daft I know, but somehow it has influenced the way I always hear him.

Those rolls are worth hearing

The video sounds excellent!

[Bachtoven]

His encore after playing Bach's Goldberg Variations. Stunning.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Szymanowski: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60.

Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Alfred Wallenstein.

[SonicMan46]

Myslivecek, Josef (1737-1781) - Trio Sonatas w/ flute, violin, cello, and harpsichord (Jaroslav Tuma) - recorded in 1998 and stated as Vol. 1 - not sure any more recordings were produced with this group?  The is now my 12th Il Boemo CD - not much left to pick! For those interested, more in his short thread HERE.

Also, there is a 2022 Czech film called Il Boemo that does not seem to have a streaming option at the moment; in addition, a second edition of the Daniel Freeman book was released in 2022 (I read and summarized the first edition in the earlier pages of the linked thread).  Dave

 

 

[Iota]

This concerto is nothing if not intriguing, unique, and often magical. Parts of it are rather enigmatic to me (especially in the slow movement), however more often than not I'm fully engaged by Tippett's inventiveness. And that's a great recording of it, too!

Yes, the slow movement's a good example of the work's mercurial side, rumbling around in disquieted fashion for a while, punctuated suddenly by a few short, passionate bursts of intensity on strings, before falling back to quiescence and enigma. Bewitching I think.

[Linz]

Johhann Sebastian Bach - Organ Works Vol. 09, Gerhard Weinberger (Thielemann-Orgel Gräfenheim, Duering-Orgel Bettenhausen)

[Daverz]

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 - Ozawa/Boston on Philips

[Cato]

The original film of Pacific 231 with Honegger's music:

[kyjo]

Szymanowski: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60.

Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Alfred Wallenstein.

Great piece! It's the essence of Szymanowski's mature, folk-inflected style, but occasionally infused with some impressionistic cross-currents. That finale is a real "banger"!  

[Lisztianwagner]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concertos No. 1 & 2

Gerd Seifert (horn)
Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

[DavidW]

Schubert's Great Symphony. His is a swift, tight, no nonsense performance. A great contrast to the expansive Bohm recording that I've been listening to a lot of lately.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Wolf Kerscheck - Trumpet Dances. Matthias Höfs, Hyogo Orchestra.

[Linz]

Holst, Vaughan Williams, Elgar Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Norman Del Mar