What are you listening 2 now?

[hopefullytrusting]

Miloje Milojevic's Songs (selection) sung by Ivanka Milojevic (soprano) with Miloje Milojevic (piano):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85i8xcBiOiI&list=WL&index=29

Recorded in 1928, this is a historical artifact, which is not to apologize for its sound, which is pretty good except on the top-end (limiting the range of the singer). These songs feel more like arias, as they feel like powerhouse pieces. I liked them enough to look into these composer's work further, so they worked for me, but I find that I am a lot more forgiving than the average person, and compared to many on here - I am a saint, so take that for what you will.

Miloje Milojevic's Countryside Images (Zivojin Zdravkovic conducts the Radio Television Belgrade Symphony Orchestra):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ftwLBHutOo

An extremely attractive work that does as it should by painting a musical image of a ride through the countryside. Interestingly, it feels, to me, like a ride through an Illinois countryside, not Serbian, so that allows me to presume there might be some universality in the feeling of a ride through the countryside, and I find that intriguing. If you like the pastorale, I cannot imagine you not liking this. It definitely captures the feeling.

[foxandpeng]

Edmund Rubbra
Symphony 9, Sinfonia Sacra
Richard Hickox
BBC NoW
Chandos

Rubbra wrote positive sacred music.

[Christo]

Now playing disc 1 from this Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras set on Naxos with Kenneth Schermerhorn at the helm:

I own quite a few versions of the Bachianas Brasileiras, "but" for the main orchestral pieces, i.e. for me Nos. 4, 7 and 8, I prefer this set. Great to see it exposed here! 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Paul Constantinescu - Symphony no. 1 and Piano Concerto.

[Linz]

Antonin Dvořák Dvorak - The String Quartets CD4
String Quartet No.4 in E minor, B. 19
String Quartet No.5 in F minor, op. 9 B. 37
Prager Streichquartett

[Lisztianwagner]

Arnold Schönberg
Wind Quintet

David Atherton & London Sinfonietta

[AnotherSpin]

Debussy, Ravel - Music for Violin and Piano
Salvatore Accardo, Laura Manzini

[foxandpeng]

Edmund Rubbra
Symphony 10, Sinfonia da Camera
Richard Hickox
BBC NoW
Chandos

[Symphonic Addict]

Daniel Jones: Symphony No. 4

[JBS]

CD 1 of this double CD


Contents:
Horn Concerto* **
 Martin Owen horn
Mad Regales (on poems of John Ashbery)
 BBC Singers
Tintinnabulation for six percussionists
 New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble/Frank Epstein conductor
Wind Rose for wind ensemble * **
Sound Fields for string orchestra * **
On Conversing With Paradise text excerpted from the Cantos of Ezra Pound
Leigh Melrose baritone
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group**

*BBC Symphony Orchestra
** Oliver Knussen conductor

[Que]

Suite from Holberg's Time.
Just in case anyone is wondering how many more times I'm going to post this picture: this set has 7 discs... 

[Linz]

Roberto Gerhard Don Quixote, Pedrelliana, Albada & Interludi I Dansa
Orquesta Sinfonica De Tenerife, Víctor Pablo Pérez

[ritter]

Roberto Gerhard Don Quixote, Pedrelliana, Albada & Interludi I Dansa
Orquesta Sinfonica De Tenerife, Víctor Pablo Pérez

An all-time favourite CD of mine... 

[André]

Who needs multi-vitamins when you can listen to Soler's sonatas ?

[Symphonic Addict]

Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 3

[foxandpeng]

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cello Concerto #2,  'Towards the Horizon'
John Storgårds
Helsinki PO
Ondine

Rautavaara is always a welcome night time companion. Not always conducive to sleep, but always welcome  🙂

[JBS]

CD 4 Paris 1831-33

Ballade in g minor Op 23
Etudes Op 10 nos 1-12
Mazurkas Op 17 nos 1-4
Mazurka in B major Op 56
Waltz in G Flat major Op 71 no 1

Erard 1849 piano

[Symphonic Addict]

Respighi: String Quartet in D minor, P. 91

Superb! One wouldn't think of Respighi as a notable composer of string quartets, but this one is truly impressive and more memorable than the P. 53 (wonderful as it is). With an interpretation of the calibre given by the Quartetto Noûs the music shines effortlessly.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

I own quite a few versions of the Bachianas Brasileiras, "but" for the main orchestral pieces, i.e. for me Nos. 4, 7 and 8, I prefer this set. Great to see it exposed here! 

Yes, I've always enjoyed Schermerhorn's V-L recordings. His earlier recording of Chôros Nos. 8 & 9 on Marco Polo (later reissued on Naxos) is very good, too.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Act I:

Handel
Alcina, HWV 34
Magdalena Kožená (Alcina), Anna Bonitatibus (Ruggiero), Erin Morley (Morgana), Elizabeth DeShong (Bradamante), Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto), Alex Rosen (Melisso), Valerio Contaldo (Oronte)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski