What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, 1872/77 Mixed Versions. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies

[Todd]

[Brian]

I have always loved Dohnányi's recording of Dvořák's 8th and now I am pleasantly surprised by this 6th.

It's got great energy and freshness!

[foxandpeng]

Mats Larrson Gothe
Symphony 2 '...sunt lacrimae rerum...'
Frederik Burstedt
Helsingborg SO

Outstanding music. Dramatic and tense.

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Complete Piano Sonatas CD 4, Rudolf Buchbinder

[Bachtoven]

Great playing and sound.

[Florestan]

Le plus que lent --- seriously? 

[brewski]

Jonathan Dove: In Beauty May I Walk (The Crossing / Donald Nally, conductor). Composed in 1998 as a gift for Anthony Whitworth Jones, former general director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, marking his departure. What a gorgeous piece.

-Bruce

[Brian]

Just Miroirs. I don't want to get burnt out on the Stravinsky - heard the orchestral Firebird last month and seeing the orchestral Petrushka live next month.

[foxandpeng]

Great playing and sound.

I'm a little confused by the cover art, I have to admit.

[Linz]

Arnold Bax The Nash Ensemble

[Todd]

[Bachtoven]

Some of his interpretive decisions are a bit unorthodox, but if everyone played everything the same, then we'd need just one musician. Very good sound.

[foxandpeng]

I find Balada fascinating. His symphonies 4 and 5 are really captivating and filled with discomfort and familiarity. When I first heard his music, I mistook it for Penderecki, which may be my shortcoming in musical knowledge, but what I like about him, I like in Balada.

I need to explore him further to understand him better!

[kyjo]

Colin McPhee (1900-64)
Tabuh-Tabuhan (Toccata for Orchestra and Two Pianos)
I have a fine old Mercury CD featuring this engaging work but it's nice to have a more modern recording:

Yes, it's a fine work, Jeffrey! There's not much else by McPhee that's been recorded besides the works on this wonderful CD:



Included are Tabuh-Tabuhan, the gorgeous Symphony No. 2 Pastorale, the Concerto for 8 Wind Instruments, Nocturne, and Transitions - all written in McPhee's personal quasi-"exotic", modal style. I hope more of his works get recorded (there's at least one more symphony), but I suppose his output wasn't terribly large.

[Symphonic Addict]

Glazunov: String quartets 3 and 4

The third quartet has rusticity aplenty, you can't get more folksy than this and it's aptly titled "Slavonic". The somewhat overlong fourth quartet was a sort of let-down because of the first two movements, but the next two saved the work.

[kyjo]

Over the past few days: Symphonies 2-5 by Atterberg from the CPO set.

Whilst some prefer the recordings of Symphonies 3 and 5 from Caprice and Musica Sveciae respectively, I am completely enamoured of the CPO recordings. You can't get this music played with more passion, intensity and cinematographical vividness. Simply spectacular in every possible way. My admiration for this composer has increased. This man knew how to write memorable, colourful, warm music, and I don't regret in the least if he didn't follow the modernist trends of his time.

I couldn't have said it any better! Atterberg was one of my very first "unsung" discoveries when I began extensively exploring outside the standard repertoire, and ever since then he's remained one of my very favorite composers. His gifts for melody, orchestration, and dramatic narrative are in no way inferior to those of any of the most renowned composers. And those CPO recordings led by Rasilainen do absolute justice to the grand, sweeping nature of Atterberg's inspirations.

[SonicMan46]

I'm a little confused by the cover art, I have to admit.

Well, I've eaten dozens of Maine lobsters over the decades, and will have to agree - what's the point?      Dave

[Bachtoven]

No.7.

[Cato]

This work came up under Pieces Which Have Blown you Away Recently: Jean Martinon and his Symphony #2!

Something  went wrong earlier, so here is the YouTube link: