What are you listening 2 now?

[Brian]

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Scheherazade,  Symphonic Suite after the 'Thousand and One Nights', Op.35.
Symphony No.2 (Symphonic Suite), 'Antar' Op.9 (1868/75/97.
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Kees Bakels.

Both works are superb performed and recorded. There are many good performances of both works and this is one of them. I consider Kees Bakels not much appreciated for all his efforts on the BIS label, but then again so are many others suffering the same fate. Recommended for all what it is worth.

Completely agree - I listened to another volume from this series (with the Capriccio, Tale of Tsar Saltan, and Sadko) last week and thoroughly enjoyed the clarity of the recording to understand Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestration tricks.

[DavidW]

Tchaikovsky's Manfred Rostropovich

[Todd]

59/1.

[Mister Sharpe]

I found the ending overwhelming! I have the Markevitich and have just ordered an inexpensive S/H Pretre recording.

There's a lot to love (besides the operas - 12 of 'em!) in the otherwise neglected Gounod, the Petite Symphonie in particular is addictively charming and fun (there are two symphonies); the String Quartets (five, I've only heard three from Quatuor Danel); and innumberable songs of which Chanson de printemps is an all-time personal favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozI9dGc4F-k&list=RDozI9dGc4F-k&start_radio=1 Lyrics and translation: https://oxfordsong.org/song/chanson-de-printemps. His piano music I know nothing of and really only a smidgeon of the sacred music. 

[Mister Sharpe]

Just heard that Christoph von Dohnanyi died Saturday. Thanks for the music, maestro.

[Brian]

Folk song arrangements (mostly from original vocal transcriptions) of Dvorak, Janacek, Bartok, and several more composers. For the last few tracks, the quartet is joined by a double bass and cimbalom player.

[Linz]

Gian Francesco Malipiero Sinfonie del silenzio e de la morte
Symphony No. 1 in »quattro tempi, come le quattro stationie«
Symphony No. 2 »elegiaca«
Moscow Symphony Orchestra,  Antonio de Almeida

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra

Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Philharmoniker

[hopefullytrusting]

Entering my evening with charm:

Hammann's Galaxy Suite for Piano (left hand only): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RMUuXXgtw
Elisa D'Urzo (11) playing Slonimsky, Bach, Glinka, and Saint-Saens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihjkbuMDsNE
Beethoven/Liszt's Symphony No. 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM1BRlqnQhQ

[Todd]

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D minor, 1873 Original Version Ed. Leopold Nowak
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies

[JBS]

[Symphonic Addict]

Cooke: String Quartets 1 and 2

I was waiting for the second volume to listen to his quartets in order. Interesting music showing the influence of Hindemith, albeit the 2nd quartet sounds more personal and it was the more interesting one of these two.

[JBS]

Pulled this out to listen to because it contains RV234 L'Inquietudine. @Madiel had commented on the percussive use of bows in the Naive recording. There does seem to some of that here, especially in the orchestral tuttis of the third movement, but not done so obviously that I can be sure it's not just my ears*.  The liner note is very general and doesn't mention any individual concerto.


I'm listening to the Brilliant Classics re-issue with all three of Carmignola's Divox Vivaldi recordings.

Other concertos on the CD
RV 277 Il Favorito
RV 199 Il Sospetto
RV 271 L'Amoroso
RV 180 Il Piacere
RV 153 Concerto for strings and b.c.

*ETA: Listened again and it was just my ears.
The effect seems to be the result of some very forceful attacks on the first note of phrases during the tuttis.

[Mapman]

Mozart: Piano Sonata #16, K.545
Julius Katchen

I've heard the opening measures many times recently, so it seemed appropriate to listen to the entire piece.

[brewski]

From last March but uploaded two days ago, Three Places in New England by Charles Ives, with Patrick Hahn conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Right now, one of my favorite orchestras.

[brewski]

Rand Steiger: Undone [Keir GoGwilt, Batya MacAdam-Somer, Igor Pandurski, Pei-Chun Tsai (violins); Ethan Pernela, Andrew Waid (violas); Alex Greenbaum, Kevin McFarland (cellos)]. After hearing this with the JACK Quartet a few weeks ago, I found this version for string octet, from 2018 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

[Symphonic Addict]

Larsson: Concertinos for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn

Charming miniatures. The concertino for bassoon was my favorite of this group.

[Madiel]

Vivaldi for mandolin or lute



In total there are 2 mandolin concertos, a concerto for lute and viola d'amore, a chamber concerto for lute and 2 violins, and 2 trio sonatas for lute and violin (and continuo).

It's completely marvellous and making me wish this wasn't the sum total of Vivaldi's music featuring these instruments.

[JBS]

Vivaldi for mandolin or lute



In total there are 2 mandolin concertos, a concerto for lute and viola d'amore, a chamber concerto for lute and 2 violins, and 2 trio sonatas for lute and violin (and continuo).

It's completely marvellous and making me wish this wasn't the sum total of Vivaldi's music featuring these instruments.

That was one of the first volumes in the series, and was really a straight re-issue of this


The only other installment of the series to do that was [IIRC] the Jordi Savall recording of Farnace.