What are you listening 2 now?

[T. D.]

[Karl Henning]

Love it!

[JBS]

Having dissed Delius in the Omissions thread, it's only natural that my run through of this box brings me to a CD full of Delius (RPO conducted by Beecham)

Over the Hills and Far Away
North Country Sketches
Eventyr
Closing Scene from Koanga

And moving on to the first Elgar CD in the set (he gets the lion's share, with 4 1/2 CDs out of 12)

Symphony 1
Sea Pictures
Yvonne Minton mezzo-soprano/London Philharmonic/Daniel Barenboim conductor

[brewski]

Dipping into the Minnesota Orchestra's livestream, with violinist Johan Dalene in Nielsen's Violin Concerto, which I don't recall ever hearing live. Thomas Søndergård and the ensemble are on point, as usual.

[ChamberNut]

Having dissed Delius in the Omissions thread, it's only natural that my run through of this box brings me to a CD full of Delius (RPO conducted by Beecham)

Over the Hills and Far Away
North Country Sketches
Eventyr
Closing Scene from Koanga

I gather the cover to this box set doesn't do any favours to remove the 'cow pat' prejudice of a lot of British music?

[Karl Henning]

And moving on to the first Elgar CD in the set (he gets the lion's share, with 4 1/2 CDs out of 12)

Symphony 1
Sea Pictures
Yvonne Minton mezzo-soprano/London Philharmonic/Daniel Barenboim conductor

I enjoyed the Delius in the Barbirolli doorstop better than I anticipated, but I still don't regard him as a favorite composer.

[André]

This will be my last post for awhile on this forum, but I just want to say I was in the Masur is dull as dishwater camp until I started to listen to some of his recordings with fresh ears. I'm proud to say that I have been thoroughly enjoying all of the recordings of his that I've been listening to over the past couple of days. Like the Mendelssohn Jungendsinfonien box set on Berlin Classics and now this Liszt box set on Warner (EMI). Seems as thought I've turned some kind of corner with Masur.

John is that you ? And you're leaving already ? 🤨

[Karl Henning]

Dipping into the Minnesota Orchestra's livestream, with violinist Johan Dalene in Nielsen's Violin Concerto, which I don't recall ever hearing live. Thomas Søndergård and the ensemble are on point, as usual.

Nice! I'm in!

[André]

Symphony No 7

One of my favourite versions of the 7th. Slow tempi in the allegros, but very pointed rythms. And the symphonic poems under Chalabala: chef's kiss !

[André]

The Violin Sonatas of Emil Sjögren!

Beautiful stuff. Nordic romanticism at its best.

[JBS]

I gather the cover to this box set doesn't do any favours to remove the 'cow pat' prejudice of a lot of British music?

No. And it leaves out a surprising amount.
RVW gets 1 CD, Holst none at all.
Elgar gets 4 1/2, Walton 2 1/2, Britten 1 1/2. So no Bax, Rubbra, Arnold. And some are old recordings: Beecham conducts Delius plus Arnell and Berners. Then there's Mitropolous's RVW and Stokowski's RVW 6. Most of the Walton is conducted by Kostelanetz and Ormandy.  Sony's British archives must have been rather slim.

[T. D.]

[Mookalafalas]

On Disk 3 of Brawn's LvB sonata survey.

[Madiel]

My own playing of a song from Sullivan's The Mikado on repeat, so that I can be my own backing track for an audition for The Pirates of Penzance because it turns out there won't be a pianist available (in part because I said no because I wanted to audition instead).

Which is VERY weird, and also reveals my piano could do with tuning. 

I'll be returning to listening to a commercial recording as soon as possible.

[Karl Henning]

My own playing of a song from Sullivan's The Mikado on repeat, so that I can be my own backing track for an audition for The Pirates of Penzance because it turns out there won't be a pianist available (in part because I said no because I wanted to audition instead).

Which is VERY weird, and also reveals my piano could do with tuning. 

I'll be returning to listening to a commercial recording as soon as possible.

Good luck!

[Madiel]

Nielsen

Symphony No.3, 'Sinfonia espansiva'
Violin Concerto



Plenty of sources will tell you both of these works premiered in the same concert. I've yet to find anyone who will tell me which got played first! Ah well. I'm doing the symphony now, the concerto straight after.

[AnotherSpin]

John is that you ? And you're leaving already ? 🤨

Some people leave without saying goodbye, while others say goodbye and never leave.

[Que]

And I just stumbled upon De Labyrintho's new recording of Josquin Desprez' Missa L'Homme Armé super voces musicales:

[Madiel]

Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail



Act One so far. I'm not sure I'll listen to the whole thing tonight as I started a lot later than planned (trying to find a version, video or audio, where I could read English - you'd think an English production from a legitimate Youtube channel would have English subtitles available but no).

But I might just be a fan of Singspiel. I rather like having some spoken dialogue in there to break things up, and it pays off really well in the very first scene where Osmin ignores Belmonte when he speaks and only pays attention to him once he starts singing.

Opinions on this particular recording seem to vary a bit, but it's perfectly fine for my purposes of hearing a work.

[Que]

Another from the same Italain label NovAntiqua. I knew Marco Pesci from an Italian Renaissance recital on Naxos. This is equally enjoyable! 

The Flemish Pierre Phalèse (c. 1510-c. 1575) was the first publisher to edit extensive anthologies of lute music with pieces by Italian and French lute composers.

The Luculentum, published in 1568, includes 163 compositions for lute, of which 8 are for two lutes. The music here selected represents all the musical genres of Renaissance lute composition: fantasies, dances and tablatures, arrangements for lute of famous vocal works.

https://www.novantiqua.net/prodotto/Luculentum-Theatrum-Musicum