What are you listening 2 now?

[NumberSix]

Ooh, Baby Barenboim had some fun hair!

[Lisztianwagner]

Allan Pettersson
Symphony No.7

Leif Segerstam & Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

[Florestan]

I had never heard Christian Ferras before, but I thought I would try him out after reading that Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto thread. I may do his earlier recording next.

An outstanding violinist. You can't go wrong with any of his recordings.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1888 Third Version - Ed. Benjamin Korstvedt, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner

[Florestan]

Ooh, Baby Barenboim had some fun hair!

And some sideburns too! 

[Florestan]

Disc 1, first two SQs.

Excellent performance, great sound.

[Bachtoven]

[Linz]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Keyboard Works Vol. 13, Miklós Spányi 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Ravel piano works.

[Mandryka]

Faure's C minor piano quintet, FAQ and Cristina Ortiz - understated maybe, nothing underlined, still passionate. Sound is certainly listenable.

[Florestan]

Ravel piano works.

Love her Schubert.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Love her Schubert.

Lovely cover art.

[vandermolen]

Yes, Bliss Cello Concerto excellent, not familiar with Hymn to Apollo.

Armstrong Gibbs symphonies on my playlist at present. I discovered that he and Bliss were on good terms. I thought of you Jeffrey when coming across this photo.



Left to right: Gordon Bryan, Cyril Rootham, Arthur Bliss, Dan Godfrey, George Dixon, Armstrong Gibbs, Patrick Hadley.

Yes, Bliss Cello Concerto excellent, not familiar with Hymn to Apollo.

Armstrong Gibbs symphonies on my playlist at present. I discovered that he and Bliss were on good terms. I thought of you Jeffrey when coming across this photo.



Left to right: Gordon Bryan, Cyril Rootham, Arthur Bliss, Dan Godfrey, George Dixon, Armstrong Gibbs, Patrick Hadley.

What a great photo Lol! Armstrong Gibbs's 3rd Symphony 'Westmorland' is a favourite of mine and very moving (in memory of his son I think who was killed in the 2nd World War). We both love Hadley's 'The Trees so High' and both Rootham symphonies are wonderful scores - one very outgoing and the second one much more reflective. Rootham was the teacher of Bliss. I think that you would enjoy 'Hymn to Apollo' (there are several recordings).

[Symphonic Addict]

FWIW I did get to see a performance of No.1 some years ago, Michael Jurowski conducting the LPO.  And I say "see" advisedly as it was as much a theatrical experience as musical.  E.g. at one point the entire brass section got to their feet and filed off stage left, still playing their instruments - carried on playing while processing audibly around the outside of the auditorium - then re-entered stage right and sat back down, all without missing a note.  Great entertainment. 

Sounds like a quite cool experience for sure. There's hope for that work being performed elsewhere then.

[Madiel]

Leif Segerstam in memoriam...

Florent Schmitt: Haybessée, op. 110.

I had missed the news that there was a need for a Memoriam...

I can pull out a box of Sibelius recordings later.

[JBS]

Disc 1, first two SQs.

Excellent performance, great sound.

One of my first CD purchases years ago. An excellent set no one ever seems to mention.

TD


He really needs to do more LvB.
Timings on Opus 106 for those who might be interested

10'56"
3'00"
18'40"
12'13"

[Symphonic Addict]

Karayev: Suite from 'The Seven Beauties'

This suite is so good that I wonder why the complete ballet has not been recorded in its entirety yet. The same goes to the another suite on this disc.

[steve ridgway]

Bartók: Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra



This is a very promising Op.1 (even if there had been two previous lists ).

[steve ridgway]

Crumb: Voice Of The Whale



A great cover art concept for 1974 before there was any AI to do Voice Of The Whale plus Night Of The Four Moons for you .

[steve ridgway]

Crumb: Voice Of The Whale



A great cover art concept for 1974 before there was any AI to do Voice Of The Whale plus Night Of The Four Moons for you .

Out of curiosity I signed up to Canva and it made me this within minutes so I'm sure that someone with a clue and bothering to read the instructions could do a very good job .