What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

CD 7

[Karl Henning]

Nos. 48 & 49

[ChamberNut]

First listen to anything by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Where has this gorgeous music been all my life? It's right up my alley, reminding me of Nino Rota and in the slow movements even of Rachmaninoff. The Dances are splendid as well. My discovery of the year. 

I look forward to receiving the set of string quartets and several discs of his guitar music! 😊

[Daverz]

Hermann Koppel: Piano Trio

Koppel sounds more like Messiaen here than his usual style.  A fine work.

[Lisztianwagner]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dona Nobis Pacem

Sheila Armostrong, John Carol Case
London Philharmonic Choir
Sir Adrian Boult & London Philharmonic Orchestra

[Linz]

Bruckner SYmphony No. 3 in D Minor, 1878 Version Ed. Fritz Oeser (Scherzo coda not included) Based on 1880 Stichvorlage, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

[Karl Henning]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dona Nobis Pacem

Sheila Armostrong, John Carol Case
London Philharmonic Choir
Sir Adrian Boult & London Philharmonic Orchestra

Love it!

TD:

[Madiel]

Isabelle Faust's superb recordings of the Berg and Beethoven Violin Concertos, with the Orchestra Mozart conducted by Claudio Abbado.



I loved this disc when it first came out, and an loving it as much this time around, more than a decade later...

It completely unlocked the Beethoven violin concerto for me. The pacing of the 1st movement somehow feels exactly right.

[Madiel]

Beethoven: Piano concerto "no.2" in B flat

[Karl Henning]

It completely unlocked the Beethoven violin concerto for me. The pacing of the 1st movement somehow feels exactly right.

Nice!

[Vox Maris]

NP:

Zemlinsky
Die Seejungfrau
ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien
Cornelius Meister



Totally enchanting performance. Meister is a conductor that's pretty hit/miss with me, but he is totally attuned to Zemlinsky's idiom. Too bad he hasn't recorded more of his music.

[JBS]

First listen to anything by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Where has this gorgeous music been all my life? It's right up my alley, reminding me of Nino Rota and in the slow movements even of Rachmaninoff. The Dances are splendid as well. My discovery of the year. 

Flabbergasted that he's new to you. He has a thread here, so you can explore to heart's content.

TD


Two CDs of this 6 CD set, a compilation of previously issued Hanssler issues: Bach violin concertos (with FP Zimmerman) and Mozart serenades.

[hopefullytrusting]

This week I'll be celebrating the superior string quartet aka the brass quintet:

Jean Bellon's Brass Quintet 2
Victor Ewald's Brass Quintet 1
David Sampson's Morning Music
Victor Ewald's Brass Quintet 2
David Sampson's Strata
Victor Ewald's Brass Quintet 3
Anthony Plog's Four Sketches
Victor Ewald's Brass Quintet 4
Anthony Plog's Mosaics
Jaclyn Breeze's Brass Quintet 6

[Madiel]

This week I'll be celebrating the superior string quartet aka the brass quintet:

Jean Bellon's Brass Quintet 2
Victor Ewald's Brass Quintet 1
David Sampson's Morning Music
Victor Ewald's Brass Quintet 2
David Sampson's Strata
Victor Ewald's Brass Quintet 3
Anthony Plog's Four Sketches
Victor Ewald's Brass Quintet 4
Anthony Plog's Mosaics
Jaclyn Breeze's Brass Quintet 6

Nice, but you're missing all the Danish ones I know because of my pursuit of Holmboe. Including the 2 by Holmboe...

[Vox Maris]

Last work for the night:

Delius
Songs of Farewell
Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Richard Hickox

[Christo]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dona Nobis Pacem

Sheila Armostrong, John Carol Case
London Philharmonic Choir
Sir Adrian Boult & London Philharmonic Orchestra

Heard Dona Nobis Pacem live in the Amsterdam Dominicus Church, last Month. For the third time in my life -- but it showed better than I remembered, especially in comparison to the other piece performed: Britten's A Child of Our Time (which is spoiled by his own chaotic texts IMHO).

[Daverz]

Isabelle Faust's superb recordings of the Berg and Beethoven Violin Concertos, with the Orchestra Mozart conducted by Claudio Abbado.



I loved this disc when it first came out, and an loving it as much this time around, more than a decade later...

Is this Faust in HIP mode?  I don't like her HIP playing.  I suppose I can figure that out in a few seconds of streaming...

[Christo]

NP:

Duruflé
Requiem, Op. 9
Teresa Berganza, José Van Dam
Ensemble Vocal Audite Nova de Paris, Orchestre Colonne
Michel Corboz



After a rather tiring day, it's always nice to unwind with a work that's meant a lot to me over the years.

Wonderful. I've heard it live three or four times over the years, the last time this autumn in Utrecht. In the end, I found Howells' Hymnus Paradisi -- which I never heard performed live, because Howells is hardly a name in the traditionally more Central European and French music-oriented Netherlands -- an even more impressive "successor" to Fauré's Requiem. 

Just as I have also come to greatly appreciate Saint-Saëns' contemporary Requiem.

[Que]

Last night:



This morning:



An old favourite. Some Renaissance but mostly early German Baroque.

[Madiel]

Haydn: keyboard sonatas 15 and 12 (the latter apparently slightly doubtful in its authorship)