What are you listening 2 now?

[Karl Henning]

Good afternoon, Jeffrey. The music sounds similar to Kodaly and Bartok.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mmfJsN0eSjXU8zHssPVArtSzLJ_UE0VJ8&si=CVILcd3f0m_JJUmm

[Quoting to keep this in my queue]

TD:

[Karl Henning]

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

Nice! I was in Symphony Hall for the première of the Horn Concerto.

[Karl Henning]

Always something enjoyable in these symphonies. The odd choice not to stream all of these works is very frustrating 

Thread:

Edmund Rubbra
Symphony 11
Richard Hickox
BBC NoW
Chandos

Bit of a breather elsewhere with more recent music before I come back to prod the Lyrita releases, I think. Nevertheless, Rubbra is gold.

Unrelatedly ... Danny, this was the piece which somehow came to mind when, some time ago, you mentioned an interest in investigating more Stravinsky.

[Number Six]

Music of the Night: Pops on Broadway 1990
John Williams, Boston Pops

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 2

[Karl Henning]

I'm in!

[Christo]

A work that chimes with me, a favourite.

A long time my favourite Rubbra symphony, mainly thanks to this performance.

[Traverso]

Greatest Bach review I ever saw -- many thanks, much appreciated! 

Greatest Bach review I ever saw -- many thanks, much appreciated! 

... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Exactly my thoughts....

[Henk]

One of my favourites.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Schumann
Symphony No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 38 "Spring"
SFSO
MTT

From this set -



Stunning performance! This Schumann MTT symphony cycle has become one of my favorites. Gorgeous performances.

[vandermolen]

Glazunov: Symphony No.6

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Rachmaninov
Three Russian Songs, Op. 41
London PO & Choir
Jurowski

From this set -



Such an underrated work within Rachmaninov's oeuvre. Nobody ever talks about it and that's a shame. A stunning piece, especially this performance from Jurowski of which I've listened to several times now.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP:

Rachmaninov
Six Poems, Op. 38
Elisabeth Söderström, Vladimir Ashkenazy

From this set -

[ritter]

First listen to Tamara Stafanovich's recently released recording of Boulez's Deuxième sonate.

From this CD:



A very eloquent and engaging performance. I don't remember the second movement, lent, sounding so seductive in any previous recording of the work.

[Linz]

Richard Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Anton Bruckner \Symphony No. 6 in A Major, 1881 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt 

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Probably will just end up listening to this entire Schreker disc on Chandos with Vasily Sinaisky:

[North Star]

Handel
Le Cantate per il Cardinal Ottoboni
Raffaella Milanesi, Salvo Vitale
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni

[Symphonic Addict]

Respighi: Quartetto Dorico

Ravishing music, and this performance sounded particularly intense and poignant at once.

Enjoyed immensely each of these quartets again.

A pity that his early quartets haven't received any recording yet (P. 18, 20 and 46) and I don't mind if they don't have the hallmarks of the composer.

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Symphonies CD 5
Symphony No. 18 in F major, K. 130
Symphony No. 19 in E flat major, K. 132
Symphony in D major, K. 185 / K. 167a
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

[Lisztianwagner]

Claude Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Nocturnes

Bernard Haitink & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra