What are you listening 2 now?

[Spotted Horses]

The Sonata is included in the Hindemith recording from LeSage and Les Vents Francais. IIRC you have that.

It's true, I do have that, but have found the set a bit underwhelming. I've listened other sonatas in the set, but not the clarinet yet. I should give a listen, but since I mainly use streaming these days there isn't much of an incentive to listen to things because I "own' them.

[Linz]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K.361
Violin Concerto No.3 in G major, K.216
Violin ConcerTo No. 2 in D major, K.211
Orchestra of the Eighteenth  Century, Frans Bruggen

[AnotherSpin]

The quality of Baroque performances these days is just insanely good - and we got used to it!  

A wonderful album, in perfect harmony with homemade pasta carbonara, a bottle of wine, the gentle sea breeze intertwined with the scent of wild herbs from the boundless steppe, all set against a breathtaking sunset.

[Brian]

Catching up to this 2022 release. First-ever listens to all the music contained, as far as I know, including some of Telemann's most colorful character suites. The Turkish movement is better than almost any other Western faux-Turkisms pre-Mahler 7.

[Lisztianwagner]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Valery Polyansky & Russian State Symphony Cappella

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Staatskapelle Dresden, Eugen Jochum

[Karl Henning]

Sergei Rachmaninov
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom

Valery Polyansky & Russian State Symphony Cappella

Exquisite!

[Karl Henning]

[Todd]

[Karl Henning]

CD 6
Arnold Schönberg
Erwartung, Op. 17 (1909)
Dorothy Dorow, sop

Anton Webern
6 Stücke für Orchester, Op. 6 (1909)
5 Stücke für Orchester, Op. 10 i(1919)

Alban Berg
Kammerkonzert (1923-25)
Theo Olof, vn
Theo Bruins, pf

It is wrily amusing, to a degree, how "expansive" the pieces of Webern's Op. 6 pieces feel, compared to the more radical concision of the Op. 10, ten years later.

[JBS]

The entire CD meaning
Day Signal
Quotation of Dream
How Slow the Wind
Twill by Twilight
Archipelago S
Dream/Window
Night Signal

[AnotherSpin]

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn Symphonies Vol 8  CD 3
Symphony No 57  in D major
Symphony No 60  in C major "Il distratto"
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

[kyjo]

de Frumerie: Horn Concerto and Trombone Concerto

One of the most arresting concertos for horn and orchestra I've stumbled upon in recent years. It manages to convey a serious mood, but at the same time it shows some quirky gestures and a haunting Nordic atmosphere. It's that good. The other concerto is the alternative trombone version of the Cello Concerto. Fine too, but not at the same degree as the Horn Concerto.

Totally agreed about the Horn Concerto - along with the one by his countryman Atterberg, it's certainly one of the most compelling horn concerti in the repertoire. Have you heard Frumerie's substantial (25 min.) Variations and Fugue for Piano and Orchestra on that same album? It's a simply glorious work, suffused with a life-affirming spirit and nobility.

[Wanderer]

[Madiel]

The remainder of this album, namely:

Concerto for 2 oboes in C, RV 534
Concerto for oboe and violin in B flat, RV 548
Oboe concerto in D minor, RV 454
Concerto for 2 oboes and 2 clarinets in C, RV 560



Which does help illustrate that this album of concertos 'for various instruments' is to some extent an album of oboe concertos in disguise. The leader of the group is an oboist, and a few years later they went on to record the actual 'oboe concertos' album in the series.

Pretty good music, though to be honest by the end I would have liked to have a fraction more variety in my 'various instruments'. But I'm also in recovery from a really strange migraine, which might affect my ability to enthuse about music.

Meanwhile, 12 more volumes have arrived today in a couple of packages, including 5 operas. The package from Europadisc somehow triggered an inspection by biosecurity control. What exactly did they imagine they saw on the X-ray that led them to think a box full of CDs was a possible biosecurity risk?   

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - Herma

[steve ridgway]

Nono - Post-Prae-Ludium

[steve ridgway]

Szymanowski - Litany To The Virgin Mary

[AnotherSpin]

I was a tad delayed in completing the pinnacle cycle in the history of musical drama. Yet, for the grand finale, one has the magnificent Knappertsbusch, enveloped in the legends of the 1956 Bayreuth cycle. The ultimate cream of the ultimate crop. The demise of gods, elegantly served.