What are you listening 2 now?

[Cato]

An Intrada recording of the complete organ works, yes.

Excellent! 


Jehan Alain was another composer-victim of war, like George Butterworth.

[VonStupp]

Alexander Scriabin
Symphonic Poem in D minor
USSR Radio & TV  SO - Boris Demchenko

VS

[Karl Henning]

Excellent! 


Jehan Alain was another composer-victim of war, like George Butterworth.

I forget the name of the track, but the first I heard the Litanies was its quotation by a group named Renaissance.

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Friday!

Handel
Dixit Dominus
La Nuova Musica

And the rest of this album:

Vivaldi
In furore iustissimae irae
Dixit Dominus

[foxandpeng]

I am glad you agree, like minds we are!

We are 😁

[JBS]

I've never heard anything by George Lloyd, so decided to start off with the Piano Concertos. I listened to One and Three the other night. Now it's the turn of Two [Roscoe/BBC Phil] and Four [Stott/LSO]

[Symphonic Addict]

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!

Completely agreed! Some criticise Neeme Järvi's conducting for this or for that, but for me he's a firm favorite conductor who is in his element in this sort of repertoire. That timpanist was something else on that recording indeed.

[Symphonic Addict]

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...

Curiously I hear more Chopin than Rachmaninov from his only concerto. And I kind of agree on the piano sonatas, but I would go even farther in saying that a big portion of his piano works is shapeless music that sounds quite similar from one piece to another (sorry, fans of Scriabin). I've never come to terms with that part of his output except for the early pieces. With his orchestral music I feel more comfortable, it resonates with me much better.

[Symphonic Addict]

I've never heard anything by George Lloyd, so decided to start off with the Piano Concertos. I listened to One and Three the other night. Now it's the turn of Two [Roscoe/BBC Phil] and Four [Stott/LSO]

I don't have strong memories from the first three concertos, but the most light-hearted 4th is pretty good, even if it can sound a little schmaltzy at times.

[AnotherSpin]

Mahler, Symphony No. 2, Rafael Kubelik

[brewski]

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 (Alain Altinoglu, conductor / Frankfurt Radio Symphony, live recording March 1, 2024). For whatever reason, the ensemble really digs into this piece, and watching their excitement is a joy.

-Bruce

[JBS]

I don't have strong memories from the first three concertos, but the most light-hearted 4th is pretty good, even if it can sound a little schmaltzy at times.

It was hard for me to a handle on any of them. Seemed to be lots of things going on musically. The slow movements if the Third and Fourth Concertos impressed me most.

[steve ridgway]

R. Strauss: Tod Und Verklärung

[steve ridgway]

Varèse: Déserts

A nice recording in which the industrial noises blend very well, a good conclusion to this 2 CD release .

[Traverso]

Josquin des Prez

[VonStupp]

Luigi Cherubini
Missa Solemnis in D minor

Camilla Tilling, soprano
Sara Fulgoni, contralto
Kurt Streit, tenor
Tómas Tómasson, bass

Bavarian RSO & Choir - Riccardo Muti

An even longer Mass setting than the earlier Mass in F 'di Chimay' I heard earlier, but even so, this one is more convincing musically from Cherubini, and I like these soloists better.
VS

[Todd]

[DavidW]

Mozart PCs 9 and 12 for the morning, and it will be Stanford this afternoon!

[vandermolen]

Pettersson: Symphony No.6

[SonicMan46]

Enescu, George (1881-1955) - Symphonies, Vox, Rhapsodies et al w/ Lawrence Foster on two 2-disc sets - Dave