What are you listening 2 now?

[Spotted Horses]

Mozart, Divertimento KV439b, No 3, Le Trio di Bassetto



Nice work, I have a slight preference for the Trio di Clarone recordings (Sabine Meyer).

[Brian]

Like Madiel, a nice little Dvorak Saturday.

[Leo K.]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887 Original Version. Ed. Paul Hawkshaw, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschmer

I am listening to No.9 and it sounds glorious. I like the fast pacing overall. Such a great box, enjoying it so far.

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Mozart

Symphonies 29-35 & 36

[Bachtoven]

Great playing and sound.

[Iota]

Britten: Double Concerto
Kremer (violin), Bashmet (viola), Halle Orchestra, Kent Nagano

A real beauty. And youthful it may be (indeed I can't help thinking every time I listen to it what a staggering achievement it is for a teenager) but already imbued with the spirit of Aldeburgh it seems to me. A lovely reading from assembled luminaries.

[NumberSix]

Saturday Symphony!

Now streaming on Idagio:



Haydn: Symphonies 99 & 102
Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

[Linz]

Alexander Glazunov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov

[71 dB]

Today:

J. S. Bach - Suites Nos. 5 & 6, BWV 1011 & 1012
Csaba Onczay, cello
Naxos 8.550678

Elgar - Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
Hugh Bean, violin
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Groves
EMI 5 03603 2

[Linz]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst

[Bachtoven]

I listened to the Prokofiev No.2 earlier this morning. This is a perfectly fine version, but it lacks some of the intensity of either Trifonov/Gergiev or Matsuev/Gergiev.

[André]

Bought yesterday at the shop of National Auditorium in Madrid, and listening to now.



Comala is a 1897 (Belgian) Prix de Roma cantata by Joseph Jongen, on texts by Paul Gilson (himself a composer), based on Ossian.

I should have learnt by now that whenever I see "Prix de Rome" on a CD cover, I better run in the opposite direction and never look back... 

  Very funny ! I have that disc in the Liège big box. I last listened to it 8 years ago and can't remember a thing about it. I'll give it a spin.

BTW you can try another Comala, Niels Gade's. Very fine, very conservative. Gade is a fairly bland composer most of the time, but I liked this one.

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[NumberSix]

I am listening to RVW's No. 2, the "London" symphony (Barbirolli, Hallé). In the first movement, several times a chord progression sounds like Phantom. My brain keeps expecting it to keep going.

I know Lloyd-Webber has been accused multiple times of plagiarism. Has that piece ever been part of the accusations, or am I just imaging things?

[SimonNZ]

52,53,54

[JBS]

Another go with this

[Symphonic Addict]

Larsson: Orchestral Variations, op. 50

Very interesting late work that incorporates twelve-tone ideas without being totally dissonant.

[NumberSix]

Anna Federova: Shaping Chopin

Back to this one from the other night. I was listening to Dokken, which I thought is what I wanted. But about five songs was enough, and solo Chopin is a great palate cleanser.

[Symphonic Addict]

Shchedrin: Concerto for orchestra No. 3 'Old Russian Circus Music'
Hurum: Bendik og Aarolilja - Symphonic poem

This animated concerto for orchestra has a merry countenance on the surface, but given that is a work by Shchedrin, the music has elements of attractive strangeness as well. For instance, the passages at 15:20 and 17:49 marks evoke something like unnerving and enigmatic at once. Being [old] music of this sort of spectacles, no wonder Shchedrin wanted to conjure up some bizarre circus freaks.

The only complete disc devoted to that Norwegian composer I'm aware of and it's quite good. If you resonate with the music of Sibelius and/or Atterberg, this tone poem will delight you too.

[AnotherSpin]

Bach: Goldberg Variations,
Hikari Fukuda