What are you listening 2 now?

[VonStupp]

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
   Zino Francescatti, violin
   NYPO - Leonard Bernstein

Max Bruch
Violin Concerto in G minor, op. 26
   Zino Francescatti, violin
   NYPO - Thomas Schippers
   

I think it was @JBS who mentioned the mixed-conductor format here, in a set of Bernstein conducting Sibelius. No matter, for I enjoy these original jackets.
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From this set:

[Mister Sharpe]

It's an all-Satie weekend for me in commemoration of 2025 marking the centenary of his decease. (Thanks and a tip of the Satie bowler to Mandryka for reminding me). There was a time when I listened to nothing but (well, there might have been a few spins in there of Mompou and Sauget, so clearly influenced by him).  It amazes me that his detractors have not ceased and desisted (and that I've refrained from throttling them), despite such notables as Frank Zappa and Virgil Thomson espousing his music and/or antics; the latter thought him the most original mind in modern music. That's sayng something! BTW, you can hear Thomson discussing Socrate here: https://archive.org/details/C_1965_03_25

[Linz]

Luigi Dallapiccola Taertiniana
Due Pezzi for orchestra
Piccola Musica Notturna
Frammenti Sinfoniicti dal Balletto 'Marsia'
Variazioni per Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic  Gianandrea Noseda, James Ehnes violin

[JBS]

I like those recordings from Melodiya. Too bad they are not available in digital or disc format. Sofronitzky's Scriabin music is solid.

Amazon lists 2 CDs for Zhukov, although they are not cheap.

And this one from a label called CDK which was issued in 2003.


There are also several on vinyl listed.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

@JBS and others, I think my comment was inaccurate. Probably many of Zhukov recordings are available in digital format now.
Yes, I like the Chopin and Scriabin preludes. Also his first Scriabin sonatas recording (Melodyia) is nice and available. His second sonatas recording is excellent too.
Scriabin Piano Works is excellent, but I don't think it's available. If anybody has it in digital format, please help me.
I'm so happy to post the pic of this album.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Happy 4th to all my fellow Americans:

NP: Copland Symphony No. 3

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

NP: Hovhaness Symphony No. 63, Op. 411, "Loon Lake"

[AnotherSpin]

[...]
Scriabin Piano Works is excellent, but I don't think it's available. If anybody has it in digital format, please help me.
I'm so happy to post the pic of this album.

According to the information on Discogs, the album Piano Works (А.Скрябин, Фортепианные произведения) was released in the USSR only on LP and never came out on CD. I remember the cover, saw it in stores back then.

[AnotherSpin]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 "Romantische"

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Alan Gilbert

Live, Hamburg, 2021

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen - Couleurs De La Cité Céleste

[Que]

This appeared unexpectedly in my mailbox, over three weeks after ordering. I had already given it up...



But very glad it did...this stuff is rare, and often expensive if available at all. I guess you can always stream it... 
Happy with this new addition to my small Trecento collection!

[AnotherSpin]

Wim van Beek plays Bach, Böhm, Bruhns. From Famous Dutch Organs series.

[vandermolen]

Holst: Choral Symphony - arguably his greatest work:

[Que]

Well, yes... This recording does tick all the boxes..

Thnx to Mandryka and Prémont for recommending it!

PS Great organ, well recorded: (This is were Olivier Houette, which looks great on paper, went wrong IMO...)



Orgue Marin Carouge / Michel Garnier de l'Abbatiale Saint-Robert de La Chaise-Dieu

[AnotherSpin]

[Mister Sharpe]

I love this disc, including the cover, even if (or maybe because) the keyboard is extra large. The genius of the cover is in conveying Queffélec's affection for this music - Satie creatively interspersed with some of his contemporaries - amply communicated via the recording.

[Harry]

Johann Friedrich Fasch.
Chamber Music.
Overture FWV K: F3 for 2 horns, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, bassoon; Overture FWV K: A2 for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, strings, bassoon; Sinfonias FWV M: A2 & FWV M: G4 for strings & bassoon; Concerto FWV L: F2 for 2 corni da caccia, 2 oboes, violino concertino, strings, bassoon; Concerto FWV L: D22 for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings, bassoon.

Les Amis de Philippe, Ludger Remy.
Recorded: 2008, Landesmusikschule, Sondershausen, Germany.

His Overtures, Symphonies, and Concertos recorded here demonstrate a fascinating creativity in his handling of traditional and new forms, as well as a special skill in the field of instrumentation and effective sound combination! A recording, which inevitably leaves you wondering what to admire more, the incredibly attractive music or its stylistically competent performance by the Amis de Philippe and Ludger Rémy. The most beautiful thing, however, is that everything here seems so simple and natural, Fasch's music thus unfolds a radiance and freshness that perhaps underscores the composer's significance more than any grandiose words. Excellent recording to boot.

[steve ridgway]

Henning - Op130 The Young Lady Holding a Phone in Her Teeth

Nice piece for double wind quintet, and a decent recording  .

[AnotherSpin]

Trio Sonatas

[Harry]

Johannes Schenck.
Sonatas op.8 No.2,3,7,8,11,12 for 2 Gambas "Le Nymphe di Rheno"
Wieland Kuijken, Bass viol, (Nicolas Bertrand Paris, ca. 1690).
François Joubert-Caillet, Bass viol (François Danger, Rouen 2006, after an instrument attributed to Nicolas Bertrand).
Recording: August 2012, église Notre-Dame de Centeilles.

These works always strike a chord with me. Two bass viols, joined in contemplative conversation, seem to shape a world of hushed emotion—drawing out a quiet melancholy that feels deeply connected to solitude and reflection. They bring to mind a kind of imagined silence, the kind you might associate with nature—an anachronism, of course, since nature is rarely silent. Yet the organic flow of these sonatas evokes something akin to that stillness: a presence, a pause, a sense of breath between the sounds.
Johannes Schenck's Le Nymphe di Rheno, Op. 8, published in Amsterdam around 1702, is a collection of twelve sonatas written for two bass viols without continuo—an unusual configuration at the time, and one that highlights Schenck's inventive, intimate writing. These duets explore a striking range of textures: delicate imitative dialogues, stately dance movements, and passages of almost vocal expressiveness. The six sonatas selected here (Nos. 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, and 12) show Schenck at his most lyrical and refined, with a language that speaks not only to the intellect, but directly to the heart.
Wieland Kuijken and François Joubert-Caillet are among the finest gambists of our time, and their partnership is nothing short of inspired. Each voice remains distinct, yet entirely responsive to the other—creating a seamless interplay that honors the spirit of these intimate duets. Their interpretation is nuanced, restrained, and expressive in all the right ways.
The recording, made in the warm acoustic of the Église Notre-Dame de Centeilles, captures the richness and subtle detail of these instruments beautifully. If one needs to dwell in a gentle melancholy—or finds peace in reflective music—this disc offers a rare and deeply rewarding experience.