What are you listening 2 now?

[Iota]

Stanford:


Thanks to @kyjo on the last one.  I'm genuinely mad about the last one.  Stanford's chamber works are not just good,  they are GREAT.  They are masterpieces.  How dare the idiot critics not recognize Stanford as canon?  I did some research and discovered that critics of the time were mostly critical of him (a) being Irish, and (b) too conservative Brahmsian in nature.  I've had it with incompetent pathetic critics ruining careers for one they have zero talent to possess themselves.

I will be listening to EVERY work I can find from Stanford.  And the predecessors to Hurwitz can enjoy being pathetic no-name-lame losers.

Your passionate advocacy is much appreciated. I was prompted to have a listen to the Piano Quintet on the recording above, and I found it delightful. The Brahmsian connection is obvious, but it's texturally lighter than Brahms, and not haunted by the same intensity or obsessive edge to development. But I enjoyed every single bar of it, and especially those very differences, it's helped also by a really good performance too it seems.
I think it's probably actually the first time in my life I've actively sought out Stanford's music, rather than passively coming across bits of it here and there, so congratulations on ending a 60-odd-year-long streak of lethargy! Next stop the String Quintet.

[Iota]

Now I just noticed, Paysages et Marines is a piano piece, but arranged by Koechlin for wind ensemble?

A lovely piano piece too, particularly as played by Michael Korstick I seem to remember.

[ritter]

Starting the Copland conducts Copland box at the beginning.



The Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra (with Benny Goodman), and the Piano Quartet (New York Quartet).


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[Todd]

[Mandryka]

Now I just noticed, Paysages et Marines is a piano piece, but arranged by Koechlin for wind ensemble?

Like Les Heures Persanes.

[Linz]

Johann Sebastian Bach  Organ Works Vol. 9, Gerhard Weinberger (Thielemann-Orgel Gräfenheim, Duering-Orgel Bettenhausen)

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Friday!

Handel
Dixit Dominus
La Nuova Musica

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Elektra

Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Philharmoniker

[Traverso]

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I'm longing for Innsbruck.....

[brewski]

Schnittke: Tango from Faust Cantata (Fiona Kimm, vocalist / London Schools Symphony Orchestra / Sian Edwards, conductor, recorded Jan. 8, 2020). I would love to know what some of the young musicians thought of this piece afterward. Just magnificent.

Here's the complete program, called "Music from the Dark Side," with music interspersed with literature:

Penderecki 'Melodrama' from Paradise Lost
Milton: "How The Fallen Angels arrived in Hell" from Paradise Lost
Mendelssohn Prelude from The First Walpurgis Night
Marlowe: "Mephistopheles reflects on the nature of Hell" from Dr Faustus
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1
Milton: "Moloch's Declaration of War on Heaven" from Paradise Lost
Berlioz Rakoczy March from The Damnation of Faust
Goethe: "Mephistopheles explains himself to Faust" from Faust
Berlioz Ride to the Abyss & Pandemonium from The Damnation of Faust

Interval

Marlowe: "Faustus faces his final damnation" from Dr Faustus
Schnittke: Faust Cantata

Sian Edwards, conductor
Dame Janet Suzman, narrator
Fiona Kimm, mezzo soprano
Soloists from Guildhall School: Collin Shay countertenor, Brenton Spiteri tenor, and Thomas Mole baritone
The LSSO Chorus

-Bruce

[SonicMan46]

Lots of Enesco today - now on:

 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

László Lajtha - Symphony No. 7 • Suite No. 3 • Hortobágy. Pécs Symphony Orchestra · Nicolás Pasquet.

[Linz]

Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev Overture, The Oresteia, Op.6 and Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12, The Philharmonia, Neeme Järvi

[Mandryka]

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I'm longing for Innsbruck.....

When I saw the title it made me want to hear this, which is a real lovely recording IMO

[kyjo]

Was listening to something on the radio and it turned out to be unexpectedly gripping. I had to wait for it to finish to know the name of the piece. It's the work that accompanies this symphony on this recording:



This epic overture is actually a tone poem from his opera Oresteia. Taneyev's most inspired orchestral work I reckon.

A desert-island recording for me, both in terms of repertoire and performances. None of Taneyev's other works with orchestra even come close to the 4th Symphony and Oresteia overture in inspiration, with the exception of the Suite de concert for violin and orchestra. The Philharmonia under Järvi play as if possessed, especially the timpanist who makes his thunderous presence known throughout both works!

[Bachtoven]

This set arrived today. I was disappointed to see that the few titles originally issued as SACD are now RBCD. Oh well, this is still a great set, and for $35 quite a bargain. I'm starting with No.3--I'll get to No.0-2 at some point.

[kyjo]

Alexander Scriabin
Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20

Oleg Marshev, piano
South Jutland SO - Vladimir Ziva

I was really taken by this PC, even if it is more Rachmaninov than Scriabin.
VS

To the bolded text - this is probably the reason why it is by far one of my favorite works by Scriabin. The finale, in particular, is an absolutely glorious outpouring of melody (that secondary theme)! Give me his Piano Concerto any day over the hermetically elusive late piano sonatas...

[Roasted Swan]

A desert-island recording for me, both in terms of repertoire and performances. None of Taneyev's other works with orchestra even come close to the 4th Symphony and Oresteia overture in inspiration, with the exception of the Suite de concert for violin and orchestra. The Philharmonia under Järvi play as if possessed, especially the timpanist who makes his thunderous presence known throughout both works!

If its the date of recording I think it is the timpanist was Andy "Thumper" Smith

https://philharmonia.co.uk/resources/instruments/timpani/

[Cato]

Marie-Claire Alain playing the music of her brother Jehan.

Is that the recording with Litanies ?

[Karl Henning]

Is that the recording with Litanies ?

An Intrada recording of the complete organ works, yes.