What are you listening 2 now?

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Maestro267

My brain's decided today has been a Piano Quartet afternoon/evening. Brahms, Schumann and now Saint-Saëns.

Symphonic Addict

Shchedrin: Cello Concerto 'Sotto voce'

Two attributes that come to mind when I give this work a listen: surly and stern, but in a good way. What it has of severe, it has of absorbing. It sort of reminds me of Penderecki's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Bridge's Oration, it inhabits a similar sound-world. One of the greatest cello concertos of the 20th century in my view.

There's another recording with Rostropovich which is very fine too.




McEwen: Viola Concerto

A first listen, and I must say that it exceeded my expectations a little. It gets more easygoing as it progresses from one movement to the next one.

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Lisztianwagner

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.3

Sir Adrian Boult & New Philharmonia Orchestra


"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

VonStupp

Franz Schmidt
Symphony 3 in A Major
Chicago SO - Neeme Järvi

VS

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

My Musical Musings

foxandpeng

#115444
Malek Jandali
Symphony 6, 'The Desert Rose Symphony'
Marin Alsop
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra


Great music from this Syrian-American composer.. Qatari folk tunes, percussion and melody, violin solos, dances... very worthwhile indeed.
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Tolstoy

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Bach: Sonata No. 1 and Partita No. 1

Writing of the highest inspiration, and the same goes for the interpretation.

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Eshpai: Symphony No. 3

It has an interesting structure which intersperses sections of deep, heart-rending lyricism and others more agitated. Another winning symphony.

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JBS

Just started: the Fourth Symphony.


So far it's good.  But "so far" is only 7 minutes in so we shall see.

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brewski

Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 (Petrenko / Oslo Philharmonic). For years, my go-to performance has been Muti and Philadelphia. Did not realize that this recording came out in 2018, and it is excellent, too. If the Philadelphia version is more sumptuous, some may prefer the slightly cooler Petrenko, as a counterweight to the inherent hotheadedness of the score.


-Bruce
"I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts."
—Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

JBS

Quote from: JBS on August 26, 2024, 05:08:17 PMJust started: the Fourth Symphony.


So far it's good.  But "so far" is only 7 minutes in so we shall see.

After the full thing--it was good but seemed a bit too cerebral and emotionally cool.
Further listening needed. Nor have I yet heard the Fifth and Sixth yet; they're on the second CD of this duo.

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JBS

After DSCH, music by and for Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia.


There's a flute sonata and a lied by Her Highness, a polonaise by WFB, and a trio sonata by Kirnsberger. All the other music--some lieder, some keyboard pieces, and three sonatas in which the solo instrument is the flute--is by CPE Bach.

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Symphonic Addict

Quote from: brewski on August 26, 2024, 06:10:12 PMScriabin: Symphony No. 1 (Petrenko / Oslo Philharmonic). For years, my go-to performance has been Muti and Philadelphia. Did not realize that this recording came out in 2018, and it is excellent, too. If the Philadelphia version is more sumptuous, some may prefer the slightly cooler Petrenko, as a counterweight to the inherent hotheadedness of the score.


-Bruce

My go-to recording is with Svetlanov on Melodiya. I like that symphony uninhibitedly hedonistic and passionate, and Svetlanov and the USSR SO did a splendid job I must say.
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steve ridgway

Penderecki: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis


steve ridgway

Maderna: Concerto For Oboe And Orchestra No. 3


steve ridgway

Xenakis: Linaia-Agon (Safir, 2014)

Madiel

Haydn: string quartet in C major, from op.20 (with a particularly memorable "capriccio" 2nd movement).

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steve ridgway

Messiaen: Le Livre Du Saint Sacrement


AnotherSpin

Emil Gilels

CD1 (Concertgebouw, 26.X.1976):

1. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major, Op. 79
2. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major, Op. 81a 'Les Adieux'
3. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
4. Brahms - 4 Ballades, Op. 10
5. Schumann - Arabesque, Op. 18
6. Prokofiev - Prélude, Op.12


Roasted Swan

Quote from: André on August 26, 2024, 11:21:49 AM



A good pretext to listen to a kind of orchestral playing that has disappeared: sharply characterized orchestral sections (they play one another instead of attempting to blend), slashing string attacks, piquant wwinds, penetrating brass tone, zippy rythms.

The set takes 136 minutes. The same program played today in just about any country would clock in about 10-20 minutes longer. Today's favoured style of orchestral sound requires blended orchestral choirs. That produces a different, lusher sound, with more 'air' around phrases. This is especially striking in the Prokofiev and Roussel works of that set, where Martinon  and the orchestra are in their element, producing exhilarating, stunningly spirited playing. Martinon was a huge champion of Prokofiev. He recorded symphonies and orchestral pieces with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, the Lamoureux, the ORTF (a full symphony cycle). His Prokofiev is spiky, astringent, driven but also full of colour and eloquent phrasing.

Conductors like Paray, Munch, Markevitch, Albert Wolff and Martinon were trained that way - and trained french orchestras to play in that style. Cluytens and Monteux were very much of the same persuasion, although their personalities often injected a warmth the other conductors did not have to the same extent.

 

Excellent summary/all round observations - and I agree completely.  I really miss the variety and individuality of different orchestral/national ways of playing.  Of course part of that was a generally lower level of technical finesse except in the very finest orchestras.  Nowadays, the listener is pretty much assured executional excellence but at the price of sonic and interpretative independence.  I suspect if you played a lot of people some of this set they would say the playing was 'poor' precisely because of the lackof blend/occasion ensemble slips etc.  A case in point is the Martinon/ORTF Prokofiev cycle you mention (which you can still find in various VOX boxes).  I really enjoy it a one possible approach to this composer's music.  In fact both playing and recording are pretty decent.

Maestro267

Brahms: Piano Quintet
Nash Ensemble