What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Szymanowski SY4.

[Karl Henning]

Decided to skip ahead and also do a double dose of DSCH

Kondrashin/Moscow Philharmonic*
Symphony 13 in B Flat Minor Op 113 "Babi Yar"
Artur Eizen bass
Bass Group of the Russian State Choral Chapel
Recorded 1967

Symphony 14 Op 135
Yevgania Tselovalnik soprano
Yevgeny Nesterenko bass
Recorded in 1974

*Credited in Op 135 as Ensemble of Soloists of the Moscow Ph.S.O.

Two pieces I always enjoy!

[brewski]

Sorry to hear that.  Her recording of the first Shostakovich concerto has been in my collection for more than 30 years.

Thank you for posting this. Perhaps surprisingly, I was not aware of this violinist, nor of this recording, and am now eager to hear it. (PS, 30 years is a long time!)

-Bruce

[Daverz]

Two pieces I always enjoy!

A cathartic enjoyment, I hope.  Reminds me of Charles Emerson Winchester III's "dead children's glee club" (which was Honeycut's mangling of the Kindertotenlieder).

Thread duty: Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1



This would have been a special order import at the time, which I think was back before the wall came down. 

And now to get in the Halloween mood, Dvorak's tone poems based on very gruesome Czech folk tales.

[NumberSix]

Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Vinyl LP)
HEIFETZ
Walter Hendl / Chicago Symphony

Stumbled across this one on the youtubez. Obviously I could stream this recording in crystal clear sound, but this one's just enough crackly to give it charm.

[Symphonic Addict]

Tubin: Symphonies 7 and 8

The tam-tam of the Swedish Radio S.O. (in the 8th) sounds like a bomb. They got the right instrument to highlight the climaxes to maximum effect (the same in the 2nd, but there they are even more cataclysmic). As for the music, other two winning symphonies. My admiration for this composer remains cementing more and more.

[Keemun]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Blomstedt/Gewandhausorchester Leipzig)

[NumberSix]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Thielemann, Vienna

[JBS]

[Que]

Disc 2: Sacred Parodies and Secular Models

The sacred music had been almost completely neglected prior to this release, but I'm finding it just as impressive as the secular music.

Quite agree!

Yes indeed - and maybe try also the Currentes disc on Lawo.

Check!

[Harry]

Thomas Simpson
An Englishman Abroad.
Consort Music.
The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman.
Recorded: 1989.
The English Orpheus series, Volume 6.
See back cover for details.

A happy start in the morning. Yet another worthy of the past. A friendly and congenial approach. Alert, precise and with a good dose of warmth and compassion. I feel myself almost as a old piece of furniture perfectly fitting to the music. Its akin, so much that I finally hear, after all those years that have gone by, how well it was all performed and conceived. Well better late as never I'd say. The recording is as always with Hyperion, excellent.

[Que]

A late (2003) Leonhardt recital on claviorganum and harpsichord. Quite a treat.

[Mookalafalas]

In the Rerun today, because I find it to be that good.

  Inspired by Harry, dug this up and am presently enjoying it enormously. I'm a huge Ashkenazy fan, but had never even heard of this...

[vandermolen]

Well, you know well the Vauxhall of today. I'm sure it was quite different in Bach's or Arne's time. 

Apparently 'Voxhal' is the Russian for 'station' as British engineers helped the Russians (of the Tsarist era) develop their train system. My mother, in her later years, lived in Pimlico near the Vauxhall Bridge Rd, so I also know that area well (not far from the Tate Britain art gallery).

[Que]

Thomas Simpson
An Englishman Abroad.
Consort Music.
The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman.
Recorded: 1989.
The English Orpheus series, Volume 6.

Do you still have all these on disc from back in the day?

[vandermolen]

Bloch: Symphony in C sharp minor Malmo SO. Lev Markiz
I really regret missing the opportunity to hear this great, rather Mahlerian/Wagnerian, work in London some decades ago. I have three recordings (BIS, Naxos and Marco Polo) all are good but this is my favourite:

[Harry]

Do you still have all these on disc from back in the day?

Yes dear Que I have, fortunately!

[Harry]

George Lloyd (1913-1998).
Chamber Music.
Lament, Air and Dance (1977).
Sonata for violin and piano (1978).
Tasmin Little, Violin.
Martin Roscoe, Piano.
Recorded in St Martin's Church, East Woodhay, England on 7 & 8 September 1989.

Every bit as good as his Orchestral Works. The same fixation on details, passionate and introvert, opening melodies of great beauty, creating familiar harmonies, and never lose sight of his passion for life. Really an excellent performance and ditto sound. The Seven Extracts  from GL Opera "the Serf" are not on Qobuz., even though it is mentioned on the back cover. Cannot understand this decision, or did they simply forgot it. The extra 28 minutes could have been added for streaming.

[Iota]

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100

Temirkanov is on every single note of this, from tiniest semiquaver to largest tutti, chivvying it along with a striking grandeur and caressing melodic intensity. A conductor who seems to have a restless, vivid connection with the music at all times. What a sensational slow movement this one is.

[Cato]

  Inspired by Harry, dug this up and am presently enjoying it enormously. I'm a huge Ashkenazy fan, but had never even heard of this...

Vladimir Ashkenazy is a sure bet for everything!


I have never heard of Nimrod Borenstein: if he has been mentioned here at GMG, I missed it!


https://www.nimrod-borenstein.com/biography


Speaking of Vladimir Ashkenazy, I have been listening to this Scriabin/Nemtin epic: