What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Orchestral works, Volume III.
See back cover for details.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan.
Recording: Grand Hall, City Halls, Glasgow, 2024.

First listen.....

[Mister Sharpe]

Up this morning, Chausson's Symphony - his only - and a work that as of yesterday I greatly esteem, mostly thanks to a radio listen. Proof positive that even if you don't enjoy a work, or (like me, in this case) are ambivalent, best to give it extra innings. My new-found admiration brings with it news of a relevant book (from my old alma mater and former place of employ) I should get a hold of: The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle by Andrew Deruchie (University of Rochester Press, 2013). On LP today:

 

[Cato]

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Orchestral works, Volume III.
See back cover for details.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan.
Recording: Grand Hall, City Halls, Glasgow, 2024.

First listen.....

For those who want more Tchaikovsky, those four (seemingly) neglected suites should help to fill the void!

e.g.

Love the Octet!

Yes, the String Octet is another (seemingly) neglected, but excellent work by Max Bruch:

[Cato]

Up this morning, Chausson's Symphony - his only - and a work that as of yesterday I greatly esteem, mostly thanks to a radio listen. Proof positive that even if you don't enjoy a work, or (like me, in this case) are ambivalent, best to give it extra innings. My new-found admiration brings with it news of a relevant book (from my old alma mater and former place of employ) I should get a hold of: The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle by Andrew Deruchie (University of Rochester Press, 2013). On LP today:

 

I always liked the Charles Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra recording, coupled with a massive-slam-dunk performance of Le Chasseur Maudit by Cesar Franck!

[brewski]

These German regional/radio orchestras are playing so well at the moment.  Proof of the insane quality of players coming out of the various conservatoires around the world.  Fingers crossed economics allow Germany to maintain this number and quality of orchestras (and opera houses).

Totally agree. Last Friday, three of them were livestreaming at the same time (SWR, WDR, and Elbphilharmonie), and though I decided on Măcelaru because he's leaving, honestly I would have been happy with any of them.

[Harry]

Seicento
Italian early baroque music.
ACCADEMIA DEL RICERCARE, Pietro Busca.
Recorded: at the Chiesa di San Raffaele Arcangelo, San Raffaele Cimena (TO), Italy, 2018.
Cover image: Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610-1617/1662), Borea rapisce Orizia

It is a very sympathetic recording, mild, pure, and played without the use of gyropractics. The wind instruments are easy on the ear, and the depth and detail in the sound are amazingly clear. Moreover the performance is superb. I have, unless I forgot, never heard any recordings of the Accademia del Ricercare, but the quality is such, that I will try to source out more of their recordings.

[Mister Sharpe]

I always liked the Charles Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra recording, coupled with a massive-slam-dunk performance of Le Chasseur Maudit by Cesar Franck!

Thanks, Cato, that is likely the better performance.  I always preferred Le Chasseur Maudit to the Symphony.  Funny how some works wax and wane: one could hear Le Chasseur fairly regularly on the radio, but not so much anymore - that's also true of the Franck Symphony.

[foxandpeng]

Philip Glass
Company
Takuo Yuasa
Naxos

Little time for music or GMG in all of our personal stress and busyness, at the moment.

Still alive though.

Wooo.

[Harry]

Philip Glass
Company
Takuo Yuasa
Naxos

Little time for music or GMG in all of our personal stress and busyness, at the moment.

Still alive though.

Wooo.

That's good to hear, and gives me comfort and ease of mind.

[SonicMan46]

Clementi, Muzio - Keyboard Sonatas on fortepiano with Susan Alexander-Max on 4 volumes - unfortunately she died less than a year after the last recording (apparently, cancer in 2016; age not clear, likely under 60 y/o) - she presumably? would have continued putting out these volumes? - the reviewers seem to prefer her interpretations over the others (see attachment).  Dave

P.S. listening on a Spotify playlist.

[VonStupp]

NP: Mahler's 5th

From this set -

I always get confused with Solti's Mahler 5 offerings. Does that set contain the 90s live recording Chicago did in Vienna or the one recorded in Chicago in the 70s. I have preferred the latter, but still have both of them in their individual CD incarnations (pictured below).

I laugh at the live cover, for the visual metaphor of Solti walking on water is not a subtle one.
VS

[Roasted Swan]

I always get confused with Solti's Mahler 5 offerings. Does that set contain the 90s live recording Chicago did in Vienna or the one recorded in Chicago in the 70s. I have preferred the latter, but still have both of them in their individual CD incarnations (pictured below).

I laugh at the live cover, for the visual metaphor of Solti walking on water is not a subtle one.
VS

its the analogue studio recording (I think!)

[prémont]

Seicento
Italian early baroque music.
ACCADEMIA DEL RICERCARE, Pietro Busca.
Recorded: at the Chiesa di San Raffaele Arcangelo, San Raffaele Cimena (TO), Italy, 2018.
Cover image: Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610-1617/1662), Borea rapisce Orizia

Pietro Busca - I can recommend these:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8122453--erasmus-widmann-michael-praetorius

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8160726--schein-banchetto-musicale

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8064556--anonimi-italiani-del-xvi-secolo-claude-gervaise-pierre-attaingnant-tielman-susato-giorgio-mainerio

[Harry]

Pietro Busca - I can recommend these:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8122453--erasmus-widmann-michael-praetorius

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8160726--schein-banchetto-musicale

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8064556--anonimi-italiani-del-xvi-secolo-claude-gervaise-pierre-attaingnant-tielman-susato-giorgio-mainerio

Perfect Poul, will bookmark them

[prémont]

Reached Op. 7. And now I have a new ear worm: the Scherzo. 

It's not a Scherzo, and LvB just calls the movement Allegro.

[Brian]

A real eclectic work playlist today.

[Florestan]

It's not a Scherzo

Third movement, ABA form. How do you call it then? Minuetto, perhaps? 

[prémont]

Third movement, ABA form. How do you call it then? Minuetto, perhaps? 

Yes, the third movement. The A part could be a menuetto, but the B part is not a trio. Maybe the reason why LvB just called it allegro.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Reich Jacob's Ladder



Reich at the rehearsal for Jacob's Ladder with the New York Philharmonic


This is such a gorgeous work that reveals its beauty more and more with each successive listen.

[Florestan]

Yes, the third movement. The A part could be a menuetto, but the B part is not a trio. Maybe the reason why LvB just called it allegro.

Andras Schiff disagrees.

https://download.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio/Arts/Culture/2006/11/01/SonataEflatOp.mp3

(from 12:45 onwards; he calls the movement a scherzo and the central section a trio --- and I reckon he knows a thing or two about this stuff)