What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak,  Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies

[Bachtoven]

[Traverso]

Bach Rübsam,the box is sold,I'm curious if it is a member of this forum.

[foxandpeng]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Complete Symphonies
Symphony 6
Richard Hickox
LSO
Chandos

Last one tonight, probably

[André]

Finn Mortensen.
Symphony, Opus 5.
All info on the front cover.
Recorded 2017.

A spectacular Symphony in SOTA sound. I am a great admirer of this composer. A work of strength, insight, and visionary.

Your advocacy made me pull this one from my shelves, Harry! Very little Mortensen seems to be available. The symphony is a very fine work indeed. Long-breathed themes, beautiful instrumental solos, sumptuous orchestration - what's not to like ? Quite surprisingly, it has been recorded 3 times. I don't know this disc. I have the symphony and a few other works on Simax under Terje Mikkelsen. It's also been recorded by Mariss Jansons with the Oslo Philharmonic.

Listening to this right now:

[Symphonic Addict]

Langgaard: String Quartets in A-flat major and No. 2 (from the Dacapo set)

Lovely and quirky music that doesn't follow a more traditional development of ideas, but rather they flow freely or in an episodic manner. I can understand that some listeners struggle with this way of presenting the musical discourse and find it, say, weak or discouraging, but somehow I do like it.

[Bachtoven]

After a steady diet of digital audio, I needed a break, so I turned to one of my favorite recordings. I have yet to hear better, more realistic piano sound from any medium than on this 2-LP set. His playing is spectacular, too.

[Madiel]

Nielsen: Symphony no.1



(I'm actually using the Dacapo Masterworks box, but same performance.)

What a good symphony this is. Nielsen was a member of the orchestra at the premiere, what an experience that must have been!

[AnotherSpin]

[vandermolen]

Dyson: 'In Honour of the City'
A rather endearing work:

[vandermolen]

Bax: The Garden of Fand:

[Traverso]

Bach

Clavier Übung - beginning


BWV 552.1 is one of those organ works by Bach that always puts me in a jubilant mood. 
Bach must have been in an exuberant mood to give shape to this musical yearning invocation filled with the joy of life.
A great opening to the Clavier Übung

[Harry]

William Alwyn. Music for String Quartet.
Winter Poems.
String Quartet-No.3.

Doreen Carwithen. Music for String Quartet.
String Quartet No.1 & 2.

Tippett Quartet.
Recorded: May 2018, Parish Church of St, Nicholas, Thames Ditton.

Both composers leave a seal of excellence on this recording. Captivating works of great beauty, perfectly performed, and recorded.

[VonStupp]

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Introduction to the Chôros
Deux Chôros
Chôros 2
Chôros 3 'Pica-Pau'
Chôros 10 'Rasga o Coração'
Chôros 12
São Paulo SO & Chorus - John Neschling

What a variety of musical styles Villa-Lobos' music inhabits.
VS

[steve ridgway]

Schnittke: Symphony No. 2

[Harry]

An Excess of Pleasure.
See back cover for details.
Palladian Ensemble.
Recorded in 1992, Venue unknown.
Linn recording.

A truly delightful project. Well performed and excellently recorded. Insightful, detailed in expression, and well articulated in a broad sense.

[Madiel]

Tubin: Balalaika Concerto



To be honest, this recording doesn't convince me that the balalaika is a viable solo instrument in a concerto. Maybe it would work if it was spotlit more strongly. No idea how it comes across in an actual concert, or to put it another way I don't know whether I'm underwhelmed because of the players or the recording engineers.

[steve ridgway]

Ives: 3 Quarter Tone Pieces

[Traverso]

Pieces of Africa

[steve ridgway]

Takemitsu: Twill By Twilight