What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E Major, 1885 Original Version. Ed. Robert Haas
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Japan,  Joseph Keilberth
Richard Wagner  'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg' - Prelude to ACT1

[ritter]

I'll be seeing Queyras live next Tuesday playing the cello part in Ravel's Chansons Madécasses. 

TD: While driving North from Madrid to the Basque Country this afternoon, I caught (after it had started) on Spanish National Radio an orchestral work which I could not recognise, but that I found utterly charming. Only at the end, when the presenter talked, did I learn it was Joly Braga Santos' Symphonic Overture No. 3.



Very enjoyable!

[Karl Henning]

I'll be seeing Queyras live next Tuesday playing the cello part in Ravel's Chansons Madécasses.

Sweet! Good evening, Rafael!
TD: Revisiting with delight the first piece by Jack Gallagher I had occasion to hear, as a student at the College of Wooster

[Karl Henning]

[Linz]

Dimitri Shostakovitch Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135
Polina Pastirchak (soprano), Dmitry Ivaschchenki (bass), Dresdner Philharmonie, Michael Sanderling

[Karl Henning]

Loving this all over again!

[SimonNZ]

[SimonNZ]

Kempff's 1951 recording of Schumann's Papillons


edit: they only list Schumann and Brahms on the box cover, but disc five is taken from these two 1955 lps:

[Wanderer]

[steve ridgway]

Bartók - Two Portraits

[AnotherSpin]

Giovanni De Macque, Peter Philips, Andrea Gabrieli, Severin Cornet, Jean de Turnhout, Cornelis Verdonck, Luca Marenzio, Jean Desquesnes, René del Mel, Alessandro Striggio, Jean de Castro, Roland de Lassus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Si breve è 'l tempo - Madrigals in the Low Countries
La Compagnia del Madrigale

Beautiful music does not cause anything. It simply invites you inward. What awakens is not born from the music itself, but from the silence that was already waiting. In truth, it has no cause. Close your eyes and know you are it, a fullness beyond words, vast and peaceful. If any word can approach it, that word is love.

[AnotherSpin]

Painting by Jan Massys:

[hopefullytrusting]

This morning: Chou Wen-chung

Twilight Colors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8SCeBmGacQ
String Quartet 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59SFjZGSJYg
The Willows are Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiOWgAyJvUo

[Que]

^^^
I love that recording (fairly recent purchase), and the presentation of the physical issues Musique en Wallonie is always amazing. 


My discovery of a new Lassus recording the other day brought me back to the music of this late Franco-Flemish composer at the Bavarian court. An old favourite:

[Iota]

Casella: Concerto per Archi, Op. 40 (arr. E. Stein for string orchestra)
Bolzano-Trento Haydn Orchestra
Alun Francis

On to my second Casella piece, which like the first (Serenata) appeals very much. Fresh, lyrical ideas seem to pour from his pen, and there's something open and un-solipsistic about his music whatever territory he wanders into. Originally written as a string quartet and arranged here for string orchestra, it sounds very at home in that form, but I guess a visit to the chamber version is inevitable. Until then I'm happy with the very favourable impression this arrangement has left on me.

[Karl Henning]

Bartók - Two Portraits

Sweet!

[DavidW]

Started the morning with some Mozart!

[Todd]

[Madiel]

Vivaldi for 'various' instruments, though in the original numbering system for the edition it was listed in the series of concertos for wind instruments (and that's mostly true).

So far:

Concerto in C for 2 oboes and 2 clarinets, RV 559 (the matching RV 560 closes the album)
Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV 497
Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, 2 recorders, 2 oboes and bassoon, RV 566



This album is definitely looking a winner.

[Henk]