What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Jan Dismas Zelenka Missa Dei Filii, Nancy Argenta soprano, Michael Chance Alto, Christoph Prégardien Tenor, Gordon Jones Bass, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jean Lamon

[Mandryka]

This one seems really good - like he does the real challenging thing about the music: he gives it a sense of logical flow. Or maybe it's just me who's starting to understand the logic of these pieces. Good recording, the quiet bits aren't too quiet to hear.

Loic Mallié was a student of Messiaen (of course!) Booklet here


https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/91/000170519.pdf

[ShineyMcShineShine]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Alfred Orel, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter

I never knew Bruno Walter was a mastering engineer as well as an orchestra conductor.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Robert Haas, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

[DavidW]

Well, the Mozart was a recording issue (JBS was spot on in their analysis), so recommend a recording, and I'll give it another shot. :-)

I'm not Karl, but I like Davis:

[Karl Henning]

Well, the Mozart was a recording issue (JBS was spot on in their analysis), so recommend a recording, and I'll give it another shot. :-)

I still love the first recording I heard: Riccardo Muti, Phila. Orchestra & al. Good luck!

[Karl Henning]

Do you have a link to this, as I'm not showing anything on my very quick first go around?

I don't find a link, but a newer recording by another conductor I hold in good regard:

[steve ridgway]

Berlioz: Requiem from what so far seems a good vinyl rip on Archive.org.



Got about half way through. It sounds very smooth, controlled and well recorded, a high quality production. I'm enjoying it enough to continue but it would be interesting to know if there are any more dramatic, awe-inspiring performances.

[vandermolen]

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.

Interesting! What's it like Danny?

[vandermolen]

Anthony Milner: Variations for Orchestra
I haven't listened to this for years (I had the LP).
The style is rather like Tippett and has a most moving and eloquent opening (and closing) section. The Variations are more approachable than the Symphony but both works are worthwhile.

[vandermolen]

Prokofiev: Symphony No.6
Liadov: Baba Yaga
Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy
Leningrad PO
Mravinsky

[pjme]

Anthony Milner: Variations for Orchestra
I haven't listened to this for years (I had the LP).

I discovered Milner through this disc. The very early Salutatio angelica I find extremely beautiful!

[vandermolen]

I discovered Milner through this disc. The very early Salutatio angelica I find extremely beautiful!

Interesting to know as I don't know those works at all. I'm not a fan of Maw however.

[Roasted Swan]

It is amazing what a good recording doors to a piece. That was amazing, in fact, this is a piece I love to see the CSO blast, as it seems right up their alley. Definitely going to add a recording of this to my collection. I still favor the Brahms more, but this is right there, level-pegging. That opening to the Mozart is still with me though - it sounded so strange that I can't it out of my head.

Many thanks. :-)

There is a brilliant scene in the film Amadeus (completely apocryphal but very effective!) where the dying Mozart is dictating the last pages he composed of the Requiem to his nemesis Salieri.  The music is pouring out of Mozart quicker than Salieri can comprehend or transcribe.  On the soundtrack the skeletal elements of the passage appear....

[vandermolen]

Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Alfred Orel, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter

That's a classic recording!

[Que]

[pjme]

Interesting to know as I don't know those works at all. I'm not a fan of Maw however.

"Scenes and arias" by Maw is also a very early work. Maw wasn't yet 30, if I remember well, but I find it an extremely beautiful work. Lyrical!


"" Back in the early 1960s, followers of new music in Britain soon became aware that the future would not be entirely dictated by the innovative radicalism of Princeton or Darmstadt – or even by such iconoclastic Brits as Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle. And anyone inclined to dismiss Nicholas Maw's Scenes and Arias, on its first version's Proms première in August 1962, as a nostalgic pseudo-Delian wallow, was put right by Anthony Payne's enthusiastic contextualization of Maw in this journal a couple of years later. In Payne's analysis, Scenes and Arias triumphantly avoided rambling romanticism, demonstrating a 'post-expressionist language' at 'a new pitch of intensity', as well as 'the composer's exceptional feeling for the movement inherent in atonal harmony'. ""

[Iota]

Musica Callada I

Intensely intimate and expressive music, demonstrating that the ripple can be mightier than the wave.

[Madiel]

I've gone full Danish tonight.

Nielsen's magnificent Helios Overture (1903)
Holmboe: Flute Concerto No.1 (1975-76)
Nørgård: Symphony No.6, 'At the End of the Day' (1997-99, rev.2000)

[Que]

I was already familiar with the "Prussian Sonatas", but not on clavichord.