What are you listening 2 now?

[hopefullytrusting]

By serendipitous happenstance: Wilhelm Stenhammar (post-Sibelius aka post-1911, according to Wikipedia)

Symphony No. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ey3wdhE1OI
Serenade for Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlVSnFGM3QE
String Quartet No. 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nObuyJBWy9g
Late Summer for Piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do-RzX1ffkw

[foxandpeng]

Alan Bush
Symphony 2 'Nottingham'
Martin Yates
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Dutton

I do enjoy Bush when I remember to play him.

[Karl Henning]

[foxandpeng]

Arnold Bax
Symphony 3
David Lloyd-Jones
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Naxos

Possibly tonight's final, or perhaps, penultimate piece. Listening to Bax is always a helpful experience. After a long day experiencing the dysfunctional mess that is the NHS, it is a welcome oasis.

[Karl Henning]

Cross-post.

[brewski]

Live from the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, violinist Melissa White and pianist Pallavi Mahidhara, in this program:

Pärt: Fratres
Brahms: Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op. 108
Beach: Romance, Op. 23
Esmail: Jhula Jhule
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess [Sel] [Arr. by J. Heifetz]
Still: Suite for Violin and Piano

[pianococo90]

Galina Ustvolskaya
Sonata For Violin and Piano
Duet for Violin and Piano

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin | Markus Hinterhäuser, piano

[JBS]

By serendipitous happenstance: Wilhelm Stenhammar (post-Sibelius aka post-1911, according to Wikipedia)

Symphony No. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ey3wdhE1OI
Serenade for Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlVSnFGM3QE
String Quartet No. 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nObuyJBWy9g
Late Summer for Piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do-RzX1ffkw

I have the Stenhammer Quartet's recording of the complete String Quartets. I think they should be much better known.

TD

Symphonies 5 and 6. The "Drammatica" is essentially 30+ minutes of soprano vocalises. I remember not being keen on it when I listened to it before; reacquaintance has not improved my opinion. The "Concertante" features a solo oboe; hopefully it's better.

[Karl Henning]

I have the Stenhammer Quartet's recording of the complete String Quartets. I think they should be much better known.

TD

Symphonies 5 and 6. The "Drammatica" is essentially 30+ minutes of soprano vocalises. I remember not being keen on it when I listened to it before; reacquaintance has not improved my opinion. The "Concertante" features a solo oboe; hopefully it's better.

I should revisit those ....

[JBS]

I should revisit those ....

The first two seem to be the best this time around.
I just realized I made a mistake: the concertante instrument in the Sixth is a clarinet. I humbly apologize.

[ChamberNut]

More Presto streaming of the Mozart Serenades.  Ok, hot take here perhaps. But the Haffner Serenade is as good if not better than any of Mozart's symphonies!
And boy, what a barn burner of a performance here!!

Mozart

Serenade No. 7 in D major, K250 "Haffner"

[Karl Henning]

More Presto streaming of the Mozart Serenades.  Ok, hot take here perhaps. But the Haffner Serenade is as good if not better than any of Mozart's symphonies!
And boy, what a barn burner of a performance here!!

Mozart

Serenade No. 7 in D major, K250 "Haffner"

Nice!

TD:

[Karl Henning]

The first two seem to be the best this time around.
I just realized I made a mistake: the concertante instrument in the Sixth is a clarinet. I humbly apologize.

Good save!

[Duke Bluebeard]

NP:

Arnold
Symphony No. 9, Op. 128
Royal Liverpool PO
Handley

From this set -



I always viewed Arnold's 9th symphony like watching someone self-destruct right before your very eyes.

[Duke Bluebeard]

And now I've reached the end of my Ádám Fischer Mahler traversal:

[Harry]

Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Petits Motets.
See for details the back cover.
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie.
Recorded: 1987.


These masterpieces are only small in name! They are real jewels that are performed here. It simply mirrors the magnificence of the French Court at that time. Each motet has its own emotional flavour, great in detail and intent. One quibble; Lesne was never a favourite counter in my book, but I have to take the sour with the sweet in this case. The recording is excellent, as are the sopranos and Mezzo.

[Harry]

William Croft.
Music by.
Ayres In The Comedy Of 'Courtship A La Mode'   
Mock Song 'Ah How Sweet'   
Cantata 'Lost Is My Love'   
Song 'How Charming Is Beauty'   
'With Noise Of Cannon' From Musicus Apparatus Academicus   
Song 'The Wanton Celia'   
Ayres In The Comedy Of 'The Funeral'
The Parley of instruments.
David Thomas, Bass.
Recorded:1980 in a College somewhere in England, (cannot read the back cover properly) it's on the Meridian label.

A fine recording and performance, a highlight in its genre and a reference performance to boot. I was unaware of this interpretation, and am happily surprised.  This is music one should have. David Thomas is a favourite Bass singer in my book.

[ritter]

Revisiting Louis Vierne's Symphony in a minor, op. 24. Pierre Bartholomée conducts the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra.

[foxandpeng]

JesperNordin
Emerging from Currents and Waves
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Martin Fröst
BIS


I don't really know Jesper Nordin so well, apart from his work 'Pendants', but this Clarinet Concerto (sandwiched between Currents and Waves and therefore Emerging from the two) is very much my sort of thing. Martin Fröst is pretty good, so a nice start to the day.

[AnotherSpin]