What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

I've been generally underwhelmed by this BIS series in Liege - The Sao Paulo Orchestra sound much more engaged.  The Sinfonia Drammatica is significantly less drammatic I reckon than Downes on Chandos (where's the organ in Liege!?!)

I like those BIS recordings, they are good alternative performances, but I'm not crazy about them either. On Metamorphoseon they took the lyricism too seriously and left the real impact of the music out.

[Symphonic Addict]

Górecki: Symphony No. 4 'Tansman Episodes'

It wasn't finished by the composer and it shows. A rather weird piece that got too repetitive in its material.

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NP: Adams Harmonium



Harmonium, Harmonielehre, Shaker Loops, The Wound-Dresser and Common Tones in Simple Time are the works that made me truly take notice of Adams' music and why he's become a favorite of mine through the years.

[Brian]

Stopped in at a sandwich shop for lunch and they had an actual radio - like a radio device, not a speaker system - playing a classical radio station. And the station was pretty good! This was the playlist of COMPLETE WORKS (not excerpts) that they played while I had my sandwich and talked to a colleague:

Haydn: Symphony No 88. Bucharest Virtuosi, Horia Andreescu
Schubert: Fantaisie in C. Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov
Elgar: Three Bavarian Dances. Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Norman Del Mar

there was also a concert aria by Richard Strauss sung by Kiri Te Kanawa, but I didn't hear which it was.

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Górecki: Symphony No. 4 'Tansman Episodes'

It wasn't finished by the composer and it shows. A rather weird piece that got too repetitive in its material.

Yeah, I don't like this work at all either.

[Lisztianwagner]

Aaron Copland
Clarinet Concerto
Connotations for Orchestra

Stanley Drucker (clarinet)
Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No.5 in B Flat Major, 1878 Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum  CD 12

[Traverso]

I was just listening to the Podger recording yesterday.  Op. 4 No. 2 was quite impressive.

The I Musici recording is in comparison something you have to adjust to.There are many roads that leads to Rome...🙂

[JBS]

NB
For those whose Hebrew is even worse then mine, fast forward to the 5'30" mark to get to the music.

[Mandryka]

BACH, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750)
Complete Organ works.
Volume I.
See for details back cover.
Masaaki Suzuki, Plays on the Schnitger organ, in the Martini Church, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Pitch: a' = 465 Hz & Tuning: after Hinz, Variant of Neidhardt.
July 2014 at the Martinikerk, Groningen, The Netherlands.

A marvelous performance, and SOTA recording, which is no mean feat in the acoustics of the Martini Church. Time and time again I hear this fine instrument, and know full well, it will not get better as the present time and age.

Have you heard Vols 6 and 7, the Leipzig Chorales at Groningen? I'm starting to explore them now.

(Did he give concerts with them there?)

[Linz]

Paul Le Flem 2 Interludes de [La Magicienne de la Mer
Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre
Symphonie No.1 in A major
Marie-Catherine Girod, piano
Orchestre de Bretagne, Claude Schnitzler

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Images: Hommage a Marcel Tournier. Emmanuel Ceysson · Quatuor Voce.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major, 1880 (aka 1878/80) - Ed. Robert Haas
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph Von Dohnányi

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NP: Rubbra String Quartet No. 4, Op. 150

[VonStupp]

Hugo Alfvén
Choral Music
Gustav Sjökvist CC - Sjökvist

I am becoming mighty impressed by Sjökvist's work with choirs.
VS

[DavidW]

FYI, I believe Vol. 17 is being released later this month.

The one I listened to (vol. 4) contains symphonies 60, 70, and 12.

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NP: Sibelius Everyman, Op. 83

[Symphonic Addict]

The string trios by Reinecke and Fuchs. Fine and well-crafted both.

[JBS]

FYI, I believe Vol. 17 is being released later this month.

The one I listened to (vol. 4) contains symphonies 60, 70, and 12.

June 20 in the UK and July 18 in the U.S.

Symphonies 36, 16, and 13, plus the first Violin Concerto.

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NP: Copland Billy the Kid