What are you listening 2 now?

[ritter]

Cross-posted from the Opera board:

A candidate for one of the "perfect operas" of all time, in its first ever recording (from 1949). Ernest Bour conducts vocal soloists and the forces of the French Radio in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges....

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Before heading out for the day:

Varèse
Amériques
Utah SO
Abravanel



Dare I say this is one of Abravanel's best recordings. Scorching performances.

[Karl Henning]

Cross post

[VonStupp]

Eugene Goossens
Phantasy Sextet, op. 35
Concertino for String Octet, op. 47
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields CE

VS

[pjme]

Dare I say this is one of Abravanel's best recordings. Scorching performances.

This disc (first as an LP) was my introduction to Varèse. I still love these performances - even if Boulez, Chailly, Nagano, Metzmacher Lyndon-Gee....etc. benefit from beter sound. 

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 1

[Que]

I don't have the Dufay and don't remember the Herreweghe, so I can't compare.
The choir is 4 sopranos, 2 male altos, 5 tenors, 4 basses. It was recorded in the Pieterskerk of Utrecht.
One little extra is the inclusion of QR codes that allow you to download the original manuscript (now in the Bavarian State Library), a set of 4 codices lavishly illustrated by a painter based in Munich, Hans Meilich. The cover image is apparently taken from the manuscript.

Thnx!

[brewski]

More for Ravel's 150th birthday (yesterday): Rapsodie espagnole, here with Les Les Siècles and conductor Adrien Perruchon, from May 2024. My first time hearing the ensemble, which sounds marvelous.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Alfred Orel, Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter
Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op.28

[Cato]

Yuri Butsko: Violin Concerto #3

A Neo-Classical, even Neo-Romantic work: I cannot find a date for its composition.  It contrasts strongly with the strident dissonances and warlike expressions of the Symphony #2!

The ending may remind you of Mahler's Ninth Symphony!

[Cato]

Yuri Butsko: Violin Concerto #3

A Neo-Classical, even Neo-Romantic work: I cannot find a date for its composition.  It contrasts strongly with the strident dissonances and warlike expressions of the Symphony #2!

The ending may remind you of Mahler's Ninth Symphony!

Okay, after digging around what seems to be an official Butsko website, there is a listing for a 1997 Violin Concerto #3 for String Orchestra...and Organ.

But I am not sure I detect an organ anywhere in the recording above!  Perhaps it is optional, or the listing with organ is mistaken about it (?)

I will need to listen tomorrow with the headphones to see if an organ might be present!

[ritter]

CD 4 of the London Sinfonietta box on Australian Eloquence...

Schubert: Mass No. 4 in C major, D. 452, and other works.



After this, we jump to Schoenberg and other 20th century music (not necessarily Viennese, but that's OK  ).

[Karl Henning]

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[Karl Henning]

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One fun thing about the live recording is, those places where the audience breaks into applause.

[Mapman]

Sibelius: Symphony #3
Davis: Boston

An excellent performance!

[Lisztianwagner]

Joseph Haydn
Symphonies No.92 & 95

Otto Klemperer & New Philharmonia Orchestra

[VonStupp]

Eugene Goossens
Phantasy Sextet, op. 35
Concertino for String Octet, op. 47
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields CE

I really took to the Concertino for Strings.


Eugene Goossens
Oboe Concerto, op. 45

Ruth Bolister, oboe
Elgar CO - Stephen Bell

And thanks to @vandermolen for putting me on to his Oboe Concerto recently, another gem.
VS

[Cato]

Sibelius: Symphony #3
Davis: Boston

An excellent performance!

Sir Colin Davis and Sibelius are always perfect together!

The Third Symphony is an all-around fave!

[brewski]

Ravel: La Valse (Mariss Jansons / Bavarian Radio SO). Spectacular playing, and as someone in the comments notes, the oboe section seems to be having a particularly good time.

[Karl Henning]