What are you listening 2 now?

[Roasted Swan]

Atterberg: Symphonies 6 and 7

The sixth is top-tier Atterberg, and that slow movement... those were undoubtedly his better specialty, gorgeousness galore. The seventh has its merits with the 1st movement containing the most remarkable music (pretty knightly in spirit), but the next two feel less inspired in my view.

I have this set - I'm  going to have to do some sustained Atterberg listening because of you!! 

[Madiel]

The violin concerto in D major that's possibly by Mozart, though people can't quite decide...

[Que]

A recording I missed back in the day  (2003)...

[Irons]

I have this set - I'm  going to have to do some sustained Atterberg listening because of you!! 

I do too. First time round didn't hit the spot. A good time to go again.

[Lisztianwagner]

Edward Elgar
Symphony No.1
Symphony No.2

Sir Mark Elder & Hallé Orchestra

[Traverso]

Telemann

Lovely Telemann recording,especially the Suite in D with Crispian Steele-Perkins is a delight.It was recorded in 1988,time flies.

 



 

[Que]

[DavidW]

Part 2!

[JBS]

I've been going through this set again:

[Mandryka]

Does anyone know what happened to Nadja Rubanenko? Top tier Schubert playing this in the A minor sonata - wonderful allegro vivace.

[VonStupp]

Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Burkhard Fritz, tenor
Netherlands PO - Marc Albrecht

It has been too long since I have visited this work last.
VS

[Florestan]

The violin concerto in D major that's possibly by Mozart, though people can't quite decide...

Which is evidence for the high quality of the music composed during the Classical era. Heck, there is the widespread complaint that it all sounds the same and there is simultaneously the widespread notion that Mozart was the greatest composer who ever lived. One cannot but logically conclude that the greatest composers who ever lived were contemporaries of Mozart.

[Traverso]

It has been a while since I listened to the great symphonic works.
Yet I choose again one of my favorite pieces by Bruckner.

Fortunately, here in a remastering that does justice to the intentions of the recording director and the acoustics of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Symphony No.1

[Madiel]

Which is evidence for the high quality of the music composed during the Classical era. Heck, there is the widespread complaint that it all sounds the same and there is simultaneously the widespread notion that Mozart was the greatest composer who ever lived. One cannot but logically conclude that the greatest composers who ever lived were contemporaries of Mozart.

Or it's just that musicology is embarrassing sometimes (similar to identifying who painted art works). I think my favourite is the "new" and "old" Lambach symphonies.

But it's also just plain difficult to assert that certain combinations of the 12 notes in Western music could only belong to a particular person.

The problem of course often started with something being published under a composer's name because that name would sell... and unscrupulous publishers felt that people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

[vandermolen]

Not feeling to well, so I play easy music for my ears.

ABENDMUSIKEN.
See for details back cover.
Recorded at the Eglise Notre-Dame de Bon Secours (Paris) from 17 to 20 October 2017.


One CD that ranks high in my estimation, must be surely Abendmusiken. Not only one gets SOTA sound, but also performances that have in my opinion no competition, although that is a personal opinion of course. Try it, you may be pleasantly surprised.

Hope you feel better soon Harry!

[SonicMan46]

Krommer, Franz - String Quartets & Symphonies on recordings below - Krommer wrote 75+ String Quartets (SQ) (and 35 String Quintets, plus 9 numbered Symphonies (LINK) - there are just 6 SQs on my two discs and not much else at Amazon, and nothing there of String Quintets - must be some good music in those 100+ works!) -     Dave

 

   

[vandermolen]

Bax: Symphony No.3 Hallé Orchestra, Barbirolli.
The Hallé Orchestra's first ever recording (Manchester, New Year's Eve 1943/44)
It's a wonderful pioneering recording, like Hamilton Harty's unrivalled recording of Walton's First Symphony, or Leslie Heward's of Moeran's Symphony.

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Complete Piano sonatas, Rudolf Buchbinder CD5

[brewski]

More from the Haitink/Concertgebouw live recordings box:

Disc 9, "France II"

Roussel: Suite from Le Festin de l'araignée (recorded 21 September 1974)
Honegger: Symphony No. 5 (19 February 1967)
Poulenc: Suite from Les Biches (14 October 1977)

-Bruce

[Florestan]

The problem of course often started with something being published under a composer's name because that name would sell... and unscrupulous publishers felt that people wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

That's true and proves my point. If Anonymous cannot be told from Haydn, or vice versa, then Anonymous is just as good as Haydn, or vice versa.