What are you listening 2 now?

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Music of Griffes and Loeffler. Howard Hanson & The Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra.

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Before heading out --- Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80

[Karl Henning]

[Henk]

[Iota]

Stravinsky: Threni
LPO, Jurowski

Unrelentingly bleak, unrelentingly dodecaphonic and uncompromising in almost every aspect, and this seems to be its great strength. It should be suffocating, and perhaps kind of is, but not for a moment does the ear weary of such unbroken lack of appeasement, because it exudes utter belief in itself. A characteristic it shares with its creator I guess, and one for which I find myself ever more grateful for as time passes.

[Spotted Horses]

Pejacevic, 6 Fantasy Pieces, performed by Ekaterina Litvintseva.



Lovely music, traditional romanticism. If I had heard it out of the blue I might have mistaken it for Schumann.

This is a selection. I think I will switch to the cpo release which contains the complete solo piano music, performed by Natasa Veljkovic.

[Traverso]

Messiaen

Livre Du Saint Sacrement

Stunning performance by Hans-Ola Ericsson



 Organ in North Sweden (Lapland)

[Karl Henning]

[Henk]

Very nice Henk! Love Villa-Lobos guitar works.

Nice indeed. I've just continued and finished listening to this album. It's light and happiness and some sadness. It's speaks about modesty to me. The music is very natural imo.

[SonicMan46]

Bach, JS - Keyboard Concertos - Papa Bach wrote 13 works in this genre, 7 for solo KB and 3 for multiple instruments as described below.  I own Lifschitz on piano and Mortensen on harpsichord for the solo concertos, BUT had none of the multiple (usually harpsichords) variants - did not want to repeat all of them or spend a fortune so found the first recording below w/ the performers on the front cover - on 2 discs are 3 of the 7 solo works and all of the others - OLD recordings from the early '60s but excellent sound on headphones with a nice mix of well-balanced small orchestra and the harpsichords - I know there are many other more modern versions but this might suit me for a while and at $10 Amazon MP was a bargain.  Reviews attached of these recordings + the one on piano if not familiar with him.  Dave

The keyboard concertos, BWV 1052–1065, are concertos for harpsichord (or organ), strings and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach. There are seven complete concertos for a single harpsichord (BWV 1052–1058), three concertos for two harpsichords (BWV 1060–1062), two concertos for three harpsichords (BWV 1063 and 1064), and one concerto for four harpsichords (BWV 1065). Two other concertos include solo harpsichord parts: the concerto BWV 1044, which has solo parts for harpsichord, violin and flute, and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, with the same scoring. In addition, there is a nine-bar concerto fragment for harpsichord (BWV 1059) which adds an oboe to the strings and continuo. (Source)

 

 

[Florestan]

I agree with the liner notes: the opening "Prologue" is more substantial and more impressive than quite a few of the pieces it is prologuing.

This is a kind of calling card for Medtner: he was later to set Lermontov's poem The Angel, which poetically encapsulates his own musical aesthetic, to the very same music of the Prologue, which indeed and quite uncannily fits the words like a glove, evidence in Medtner's book for his twofold theory that all music is discovered, not invented, and proceeds directly from God's divine harmonies. 

[Christo]

Music of Griffes and Loeffler. Howard Hanson & The Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra.

Nice suggestion: I played my Griffes immediately again, after decades. Pleasant listening: the only American impressionist that I'm aware of.

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Now playing Rachmaninov Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13

[Linz]

Cleveland Symphonic Winds Suite No. 1 for Military Band in E-Flat Major, Op. 28
Suite No. 2 for Military Band in F Major, Op. 28
Johann Sebastian Bach Fantasia in G Major, BWV 572
George Frederick Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
Cleveland Symphonic Winds, Frederick Fennell

[Symphonic Addict]

This is one of the most satisfactory CDs devoted to Henze I know. Each work leaves a very powerful impression.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak
Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm

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Now playing Ives Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting"



I seem to be working my way backwards through this Ives Dudamel cycle. Anyway, such a great cycle --- impressive performances all-around.

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Now playing Roussel Trio for Flute, Viola and Cello, Op. 30

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Now playing Piston Symphony No. 7

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Symphonies CD17
Symphony in A minor 'Odense', K.16a/Anh.220*
Symphony in G major 'Alte Lambach', K45a/Anh.221*
Symphony in F major, K.76/K.42a
Symphony No. 6 in F major, K.43
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood