What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

Symphony Saturday!



Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
Ormandy, Philadelphia

A fine pioneering performance!

[vandermolen]

Messiaen

Turangalila Symphony

This is the only CD that I won in an online competition hosted by the long gone 'Film Music on the Web' site.

[Irons]

What do you think of it Lol?

Loved it, Jeffrey. Romanticism spiced with modernism.

[Madiel]

I believe this is Alicia de Larrocha's first ever album.



As reproduced here.



I'm really only sampling now, but it sounds very good for something recorded in 1953. And it's also reinforcing the idea that Turina is a composer worth hearing.

[Traverso]

This is the only CD that I won in an online competition hosted by the long gone 'Film Music on the Web' site.

Congratulations and do you like it ? 

[Traverso]

Purcell

Come Ye Sons of Art  (1694)

The Early Music Consort
David Munrow

A masterful work by a great composer.I have fond memories of this recording,I love it!  To celebrate to celebrate......

[Traverso]

Bach


Weihnachtsoratorium  BWV 248

[Que]

 

The new Church Year did already start last week with the Sundays in the run up to Christmas aka Advent. Time to catch up on my Bach cantatas!

[Mandryka]

Monteverdi madrigals, Alessandrini, at 3 in London Queen Elizabeth Hall. Someone behind me is having a huge row with his friend, very gay vibe, and very nasty. Quite a glamorous audience in fact. Woman in front, wearing a Hermès scarf and pearl earrings, is busy taking selfies. Light has dimmed  but no sign of the singers. Oh, turn off phone

[SonicMan46]

Biber, Heinrich (1644-1704) - planning to go through my medieval-early Renaissance collection - starting with Biber (of course, dates make him Baroque, sorry) - own just over a dozen CDs - listening to the ones shown below at the moment; have 3 recordings of the Rosary or Mystery Sonatas - will be the afternoon's listening and would like to cull one and will be interested in favorites here?  Dave   

Heinrich Biber was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist. Biber worked in Graz and Kroměříž before he illegally left his employer, Prince-Bishop Karl Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn, and settled in Salzburg. Biber was among the major composers for the violin in the history of the instrument. His own technique allowed him to easily reach the 6th and 7th positions, employ multiple stops in intricate polyphonic passages, and explore the various possibilities of scordatura tuning. (Source)

[Spotted Horses]

Bacewicz, Tansman, Piano Concerti, Kociuban



The Bacewicz is a colorfully orchestrated piece with a generally Neo-classical feel. Beautifully performed here. Tansman's concerto complements Bacewicz, another 20th century Polish composers who seems to have had similar influences.

I have also collected the Jablonsky recording of the Bacewicz Piano concerto. I have a vague impression that I listened to it, but it's not mentioned in my listening notes, so probably not. I should rectify that.

[ChamberNut]

I have also collected the Jablonsky recording of the Bacewicz Piano concerto. I have a vague impression that I listened to it, but it's not mentioned in my listening notes, so probably not. I should rectify that.

I had purchased it over a year ago and haven't listened to it yet. I'll rectify soon.

[Traverso]

Monteverdi madrigals, Alessandrini, at 3 in London Queen Elizabeth Hall. Someone behind me is having a huge row with his friend, very gay vibe, and very nasty. Quite a glamorous audience in fact. Woman in front, wearing a Hermès scarf and pearl earrings, is busy taking selfies. Light has dimmed  but no sign of the singers. Oh, turn off phone

You might wonder why people go to a concert, selfies...... 

"mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all.
And the looking-glass would answer,
"You are fairest of them all."
Are people more narcissistic today?

[Karl Henning]

I had purchased it over a year ago and haven't listened to it yet. I'll rectify soon.

Nice to see you back.

[Karl Henning]

TD:
CD 5
Trauer-Symphonie and La Passione

[Traverso]

Telemann

A box with 50 Telemann CD's ....   


Overtures  CD 11 with the famous overture in A minor
Collegium Instrumentale Brugense
Patrick Peire

[Karl Henning]

I do like the entire Orpheus box, but this is in my Top 10.

[Que]

Telemann

A box with 50 Telemann CD's .... 


Overtures  CD 11 with the famous overture in A minor
Collegium Instrumentale Brugense
Patrick Peire

I have the box set with just the overtures! Very nice. 

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.2

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Hilde Rössel-Majdan (mezzo-soprano)
Otto Klemperer & Philharmonia Orchestra

[brewski]

Martinů: Symphony No. 1 (Václav Neumann / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded live in 1982). What a find. Sound and video are not ideal, but never mind; the magic of the interpretation, the orchestra, and the piece itself win out.

-Bruce