What are you listening 2 now?

[foxandpeng]

Out of curiosity, do you know the music of Carl Ruggles and Ruth Crawford Seeger?

I'm barely familiar, to be honest, with Ruggles, and know nothing if Seeger.

Very happy to be educated, please!

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I'm barely familiar, to be honest, with Ruggles, and know nothing if Seeger.

Very happy to be educated, please!

You should definitely check out this Samuel Andreyev video on Ruggles:

[foxandpeng]

You should definitely check out this Samuel Andreyev video on Ruggles:

Thank you 😊

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NP:

Schubert
Piano Sonata in C, D 840, "Reliquie"
Uchida

From this set -

[Karl Henning]

Have I even heard the Chausson before? I expect I must have, in the Paul Paray Mercury box. This one was originally issued on 78s 2 May 1949

CD 6

Ernest Chausson
Symphony in B^b, Op. 20
recorded 9 Mar 1946

Wm Walton
Portsmouth Point concert overture
recorded 10 Mar 1946
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Minnesota Orchestra)
Dimitri Mitropoulos

[Karl Henning]

CD 4

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Scriabin, USSR/Golovanov.

[foxandpeng]

Charles Ives
Symphony 1
Andrew Litton
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Hyperion

Quality.

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And now a total contrast with the Schubert I just listened to:

Schoenberg
Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11
Pollini

[Karl Henning]

CD 4

Oh, man! The finale to the E^b Serenade is so high-spirited!

[Kalevala]

Martinu: Symphony No.4 (from the above CD)
Live Concert
I agree with Rob Barnett's review in stating that the deeply-felt slow movement (taken a bit slower here) is even more affecting that in Martin Turnovsky's famous recording.

Isn't that heresy?!   

K

[foxandpeng]

Carl Ruggles
Sun Treader
Michael Tilson Thomas
Boston Symphony Orchestra
DG

[Karl Henning]

Carl Ruggles
Sun Treader
Michael Tilson Thomas
Boston Symphony Orchestra
DG

Great stuff!

[Karl Henning]

Cross-post:

[foxandpeng]

Kalevi Aho
Symphony 12, 'Luosto'
John Storgårds
Chamber Orchestra of Lapland
BIS

Another obvious winner from Aho before calling it a day.

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NP:

Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Michael Korstick, piano
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Constantin Trinks

From this set -

[Cato]

Cross-post:

Oh my!!!  I watched that concert on television with my grandmother, who was an excellent professional pianist in night-clubs!

It was on a Saturday night: she found it noisy, and sort of shook her head in puzzlement, but I was enthusiastic! 

On another trip down Memory Lane today...

[DavidW]

In December when I had the 6th on repeat it was Lindberg. Tonight I listened to Trojahn. What a passionate performance! The rest of my recent listening has all been Mozart.

[Baxcalibur]

Mozart: Serenades Nos. 10-12, Divertimento No. 6
Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble



I have a couple of fine recordings of the "Gran Partita" that I listen to quite often. But this one makes me feel like Salieri in a certain movie, when he reads the score of the first Adagio and realizes that the man with the simian laugh isn't some performing monkey. I also enjoyed the other Serenades and the Divertimento, the latter curiously scored for two flutes, five trumpets and timpani.

[Karl Henning]

CD 7
Giacomo Puccini
Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo sinfonico from Cavalleria rusticana
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Two Intermezzi from I gioelli della Madonna
Gian Carlo Menotti
Sebastian — Ballet Suite

Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Phila
Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor