What are you listening 2 now?

[JBS]

A friend "dumped" three grocery sacks of CDs a couple of months ago, and it's time I sorted/culled. I'm semi-certain this is redundant (but I'll have to check.) The entire program is superb, of course. I don't often listen to the Hammersmith Pr & Scherzo. And I always love the Crown Imperial March (esp. in band transcr.) which I involuntarily think of as Pomp & Circumstance #6.
@vandermolen 

I have to wonder if those Fennell CDs are in any of the Mercury Living Presence boxes, but I'm not in the mood to dig them out.
TD
CD 18
The last CD with uncollected lieder. (CDs 19-21 comprise the song cycles.) Therefore, although most of these lieder have Deutsch numbers above 900, the very last track is quite appropriately D829, Abschied.

[Karl Henning]

I have to wonder if those Fennell CDs are in any of the Mercury Living Presence boxes, but I'm not in the mood to dig them out.

It's my trip, so I dug. I have box 2 of that series, which does include the Grainger/Persichetti/Khachaturyan disc, but not the Gordon Jacob/Walton/Bennett/Clifton Williams disc, so this is useful info.

[steve ridgway]

Penderecki: Cantata

[Mapman]

Respighi: Gli uccelli
Christopher Lyndon-Gee: Australian Chamber Orchestra

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

My Berlioz extravaganza ensues...

NP:

Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17
Patricia Kern (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, John Alldis Choir
Sir Colin Davis

From this set -

[JBS]

[steve ridgway]

Schoenberg: Moderner Psalm

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Last work for the night:

Handel
Ero e Leandro, HWV 150
Raffaella Milanesi
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni

From this set -

[steve ridgway]

Schnittke: (K)ein Sommernachtstraum

[vandermolen]

A friend "dumped" three grocery sacks of CDs a couple of months ago, and it's time I sorted/culled. I'm semi-certain this is redundant (but I'll have to check.) The entire program is superb, of course. I don't often listen to the Hammersmith Pr & Scherzo. And I always love the Crown Imperial March (esp. in band transcr.) which I involuntarily think of as Pomp & Circumstance #6.
@vandermolen 

Looks like a fine CD Karl. I saw the orchestral version of 'Hammersmith' at the Proms last year.

[vandermolen]

Symphonic Ballad 'Grazhyna' by Boris Lyatoshynsky
Bournemouth SO, Kirill Karabits

[Que]

Nicolas Gombert liked his polyphony complex and dense...

The challenge of listening can be either very satisfying or off putting.

Advanced Early Music listening, I'd say.

This morning disc 2.

[Que]

Wonderful Italian chamber music from around 1700 featuring the cello, in impeccably recorded sound.

https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Dec/Violoncello_Cardinale_368.htm

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/Alpha_368_Lindoro_NL-3039.html

Cardinals Benedetto Pamphili and Pietro Ottoboni played a prominent role in Rome at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with their patronage of the three most important composers of the day, Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Handel. At that time, numerous musicians converged on Rome, and the large orchestra directed by Arcangelo Corelli at the church of San Luigi dei Francesi included several famous cellists, among them Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier, Nicola Francesco Haym, Filippo Amadei and Giuseppe Maria Perroni. As well as notable virtuosos, these men were often also composers of oratorios, vocal music, and pieces for their own favourite instrument, though very few of these have survived. It is to their music, often unpublished, that Marco Ceccato and his Accademia, winners of a Diapason d'Or of the year in 2015, introduce us here, along with works by the composers who subsequently formed the core of this group after Handel left for London: Giovanni Bononcini, Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni, and Giovanni Battista Costanzi, who was later to teach Boccherini.

[Cato]

For Symphonies by Russian Composers Month! 

This apparently is the world premiere of an early one-movement symphony from 1910 by Nikolai Roslavets, whose life as a composer was ruined by the Communists ("formalism" "anti-revolutionary") in the late 1920's.


From the notes:

"...As a work from the composer's student years, it reflects a period in the composer's life where he was searching for his own individual voice. While it still has a foot in the romantic school of Tchaikovsky there is clear exploration into the more adventurous styles of Scriabin which Roslavets was fascinated by at the time. ..."

[Traverso]

Geminiani

Concerti Grossi

La petite Bande

[North Star]

Bach
Concerto for Harpsichord in D minor, BWV 1052
Concerto for Oboe d'Amore in A major, BWV 1055
Concerto for Violin no. 2 in E major, BWV 1042
Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 in D major, BWV 1050

Amandine Beyer (Violin), Claire Cachia (Violin), David Plantier (Violin), Antoine Torunczyk (Oboe d'amore), Céline Frisch (Harpsichord), Patricia Gagnon (Viola)
Café Zimmermann
Pablo Valetti



Schubert
Piano Sonatas D. 959 & D. 960
Paul Lewis

[VonStupp]

George Lloyd
Piano Concerto 3

Kathryn Stott, piano
BBC PO - George Lloyd

A sizeable concerto at 50 minutes in length. I like it much more than the previous two, which were rather glum and surly entries from the composer.
VS

[ritter]

Bohuslav Martinů: Symphonies No. 3 and No. 4. Vladimir Válek conducts the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.

[Iota]

Don't know the work or performance but love the description.  I'm off to the moors....... (I may be some time)

Haha, hope you have a good trip!

Here:



Schumann: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 41 No. 2

Nothing but a deep sense of gratitude and pleasure comes from listening to this lovely work. Nicely judged by the Dover Quartet.

[Roasted Swan]

Respighi: Gli uccelli
Christopher Lyndon-Gee: Australian Chamber Orchestra

A very early (1988ish?) CD purchase - fine performances!