What are you listening 2 now?

[Brian]

Love the choice of cover photo!

[brewski]

Adolphus Hailstork: Sagrada (All-Star Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz, conductor). A work from 2016, inspired by the composer's visit to the famous Gaudi cathedral in Barcelona. Well worth a listen. Among the excellent musicians, some lovely oboe work by the great Nathan Hughes of the Met Opera Orchestra.

-Bruce

[DavidW]

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kent Nagano

[Todd]

Disc two.

[NumberSix]

Mozart: Requiem
Harnoncourt

[vandermolen]

Elmer Bernstein: To Kill a Mockingbird Soundtrack

[SonicMan46]

Spohr, Louis - String Quartets (SQs) just Vols. 1,2,4,5 today - Spohr wrote 34 Opus numbered SQs and 2 WoO numbers, Nos. 35 & 36 (WoO 41/42) - all have been recorded on the Marco Polo label by various SQ groups, listed below in 17 Volumes with their associated quartets - the ones in my collection are in bold (about half), probably don't need any more but who knows if a bargain comes along?  Dave
 

String Quartets on Naxos Website
Vol. 01 - Nos. 27 & 28
Vol. 02 - Nos. 29 & 30
Vol. 03 - Nos. 1, 2, & 5
Vol. 04 - Nos. 3, 4, & 6
Vol. 05 - Nos. 7 & 8
Vol. 06 - Nos. 15 & 16
Vol. 07 - Nos. 11 & 12
Vol. 08 - Nos. 13 & 14
Vol. 09 - Nos. 20 & 21
Vol. 10 - Nos. 24 &25
Vol. 11 - Nos. 32 & 34
Vol. 12 - Nos. 33 &35
Vol. 13 - Nos. 9 & 17
Vol. 14 - Nos. 31 & 36
Vol. 15 - Nos. 19 & 22
Vol. 16 - Nos. 23 & 26
Vol. 17 - Nos. 10 & 18

 

 

[ritter]

Again with Granados' Goyescas tonight, in the recording by José Menor. I'm finding this vastly more idiomatic than Aldo Ciccolini a couple of nights ago, and all-in-all much more satisfying. Tonight, though, my main interest is the "peripheral" pieces that make up the CDs filler.

[foxandpeng]

Spohr, Louis - String Quartets (SQs) just Vols. 1,2,4,5 today - Spohr wrote 34 Opus numbered SQs and 2 WoO numbers, Nos. 35 & 36 (WoO 41/42) - all have been recorded on the Marco Polo label by various SQ groups, listed below in 17 Volumes with their associated quartets - the ones in my collection are in bold (about half), probably don't need any more but who knows if a bargain comes along?  Dave
 
 

 

I like these very much - as with most things written by Spohr

Thread:

John Robertson
Symphony 3
Anthony Armoré
Sofia PO

[Linz]

Music from the  Court of King Janus,  Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel CD3 of A Secret Labyrinth

[brewski]

Yesterday, more Schoenberg birthday party with Erwartung, in the composer's own version for soprano and piano, which I don't recall ever hearing. The singer, Amanda O'Toole, was excellent, even if her gorgeous voice seemed slightly outsized for the relatively small room, and the pianist, Ting Ting Wong, was terrific, given that the piano part was often more formidable than the vocal role.

Part of the Philly Fringe Festival, a sprawling assortment of events held annually, but generally with more theater than music. I'm glad we went.

-Bruce

[André]

Reger: String Trio Op.77b

String Trio Bell'Arte, which includes the superb violinist Susanne Lautenbacher.



Eric Blom wrote in Grove's"Reger's work on the whole is oppressively deficient in light and air". Pity old Eric didn't listen to String Trio Op.77b! A work with great warmth and tunefulness in the style (and quality) of Dvorak.

The Bell'arte Trio recording of Mozart's trio K563 is priceless.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ernesto Halffter: Carmen [film score]. Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Fitz-Gerald.

[André]

Feeling lazy, but also pressed by time (leaving for Europe in a couple of days), so no pics:

- Schubert 9: Karl Böhm and the Dresden Staatskapelle, then Böhm again with the NDR Symphony (1956), then Munch and the BSO, Schuricht with the SWF Stuttgart, Rattle BP and finally Davis SD. The first 3 are tops, the best being Böhm in Hamburg (NDR). Accessories to the Schubert 9 orgy, were the Unfinished (Munch) and Mozart 34 (Böhm NDR).

- Bruckner 8, Aachen SO, Marcus Bosch. VG, but the recording is slightly recessed and can't accommodate all the brass detail in the coda - it's one big buzz. The perils of recording Bruckner in a church.

- Vaughan-Williams: a classic, the pairing of symphonies 4 (Mitropoulos and Stokowski, both with the NYPO), with the Tallis Fantasia thrown in as a bonus. Mono but clear and wide-ranging recording in no 4. Boxy but clear enough in 6. What a disc !

[Wanderer]

PS I'm about to leave on a long trip to South Korea & Japan.

How nice! If you happen to visit a Meikyoku Kissa or a classical CD store (I hear they're still a thing in Japan), I know I'd love to hear your impressions upon return, along with your travel impressions in general from these beautiful parts of the world. Have a wonderful time! 😎

[Mapman]

Bruckner: Symphony #3
Skrowaczewski: Saarbrücken

I didn't enjoy this as much as some of Bruckner's later symphonies, or the 2nd. I know that this symphony is supposed to quote Wagner (although much of that had been removed from this later version?) but I didn't notice that. I found it mostly less memorable than other Bruckner.

[VonStupp]

Wilhelm Stenhammar
Symphony 1 in F Major
Gothenburg SO - Neeme Järvi

Figured I would start in on Stenhammar.
VS

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony in D Minor, 1869 Ed. Leopold Nowak, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner

[NumberSix]

Now streaming on Idagio:



Brahms:  Piano Quartet NO. 3 in C Minor, op. 60
Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Emanuel Ax


I was reading the Brahms chapter last night in The Vintage Guide to Classical Music by Jan Swafford, and it said he spent 20 years working on this quartet - that it would have been his No. 1  instead of the 3rd. It was about his heartbreak over Clara Schumann.