What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Geirr Tveitt. Hardanger.
Suites Nr.1 & 2.
Stavanger SO, Ole Kristian Ruud.
Recorded: 1998, at the Stavanger Concert Hall, Norway.

Tveitt is worth the effort.

[Harry]

Bloch: Trois Poemes Juifs

A fine recording if I remember it right.

[Madiel]

Granados: 6 Piezas sobre cantos populares españoles



It turns out I slightly know the first piece because it's one of the works that Tori Amos based a song on for her classical-crossover album. That was a slightly startling experience.

[vandermolen]

A fine recording if I remember it right.

Definitely Harry and much more recent than the other two works on the CD (1993 rather than 1967).

[Selig]

This recording by this (here) all male choir was recorded in 1992 and issued on the tiny Italian label E Lucevan Le Stelle, but reissued on Pan Classics  (2018).

Recorded in 2009, I believe. Maybe 1992 is the year the label was founded?

[Traverso]

Dowland

First book of songs

CD 1

Come away,come sweet love..

These recordings remind me that I am getting old, very pleasant memories of the time when I bought this music (back then on LP's)

[Harry]

Dowland

First book of songs

CD 1

Come away,come sweet love..

These recordings remind me that I am getting old, very pleasant memories of the time when I bought this music (back then on LP's)

Ditto!

[Harry]

Viktor Ullmann.
Orchestral Works.
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht.
Recorded: 2008 at the Studio 4, Flagey, Brussels.

Viktor Ullmann was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz in 1944, but they were not to succeed in permanently erasing the memory of him and his music. And rightly so. Before his deportation to Auschwitz, Ullmann composed the 5th and 7th piano sonatas in the "showcase camp" Theresienstadt, which he later planned to orchestrate into symphonies. After his murder, the composer and conductor Bernhard Wulff took over this task in his place, with a impressive result. Gerd Albrecht has already recorded numerous works by Ullmann and his murdered and persecuted colleagues, and the present CD is one of the best in these series.

[Brian]

First-ever listens to the two sets of etudes, specifically. Something like fourth or fifth listen to the other two works.

[Traverso]

Brahms

piano Concerto No.1

The  Wiener Philharmoniker

Carl Schuricht

[Traverso]

Brahms

Symphony No.2

I have always loved these Brahms recordings with Haitink, warm and honest whatever that means. The closing bars are full of jubilant joy.

[Que]

Brahms

Symphony No.2

I have always loved these Brahms recordings with Haitink, warm and honest whatever that means. The closing bars are full of jubilant joy.

Haitink doesn't get much love outside of Bruckner & Mahler. But his RCO Brahms cycle is one of my favourites.

[Traverso]

Haitink doesn't get much love outside of Bruckner & Mahler. But his RCO Brahms cycle is one of my favourites.

I am not so negative about his Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde and the fourth with Ameling are still my favorites.( and not to forget his live recordings) His later Bruckner recordings with the Bavarian Orchestra are great but I also find the recordings with the Concertgebouw attractive. Oh well, there is choice enough for everyone.

[Lisztianwagner]

Johannes Brahms
Fantasies Op. 116
Intermezzi Op. 117

Pianist: Julius Katchen

[Karl Henning]

Johannes Brahms
Fantasies Op. 116
Intermezzi Op. 117

Pianist: Julius Katchen

Classic!

[André]

Concerning the Latvian composer Imants Kalnins:

The unusual Symphony #3:

And...

Coincidentally, yesterday night I listened to symphonies 1 and 2. Symphony no 7 is on my playlist for tonight.

Tomorrow I'm meeting with a quartet of music lover friends and I'll introduce them to the music of Kalnins. I've chosen the 3rd and 4th movement of the 6th for the occasion.

[André]

Haitink doesn't get much love outside of Bruckner & Mahler. But his RCO Brahms cycle is one of my favourites.

Haitink doesn't get much love outside of Bruckner & Mahler. But his RCO Brahms cycle is one of my favourites.

Haitink gets all my love !

Coincidentally, JPC is selling his BIG box of orchestral recordings from the  Concertgebouw (113 CDs + 4 DVDs).

I'm contemplating buying it and selling that 'Symphony Edition' release. That means a huge amount of duplications, but the rest is almost impossible to find elsewhere (the alternate COA Bruckner 7-9, Mahler 1,4,7 and Kerstmatinees performances as well as a large amount of concertos and early COA recordings). I'm probably crazy, but I'm sorely tempted to spend 168 € for that box...😵

[Luke]

Haitink gets all my love !

I love this portrait of him by a relative of mine.

[Luke]

Waiting in a rainy, dark hospital car park. All I want to hear is the best of the best at the moment. Why waste time on anything else. So, Luonnotar, on this disc. The most extraordinary music, a desert island piece (an odd image when one considers the text...). Sibelius at his most concentrated and intense? Well, I think so.

[André]

I love this portrait of him by a relative of mine.

I believe it was used on one of his Bruckner 7 recordings. I've been 5 times to the Concertgebouw but never got to attend one of his concerts 😪