What are you listening 2 now?

[André]

CD 1

These boxes are both a boon and a bane for the collector. They resurrect long gone or never issued before performances but they omit some really great ones: Where's the LSO Dvorak 7th ? One of the freshest, most invigorating performances ever.

[prémont]

@Mandryka and @Harry, thanks. I purchased Savall on Mandryka's recommendation, but it looks as if I need Pandolfo too.

[Papy Oli]

That's a good one! 

Re Kuijken SJP.

I bought the set with the above and the Leonhardt SMP "blindly" and dead cheap. I was expecting Sigiswald's "pared down" approach of course but this felt a little bit too much and a tad on the sluggish side too (Only went through Part I so far). First impressions only of course. The singing sounds top notch though.

(An accidental typo on the above gave me an idea for a username here: "Sigiswlad the Impaler"  )

Earlier this afternoon:

L'Archibudelli Plays Beethoven CD1
Trio For Violin, Viola & Cello In E-flat Major Op.3
Serenade (Trio) For Violin, Viola & Cello In D Major Op.8 I. Marcia, Allegro

Great stuff 


Now : JS Bach - Cantata BWV 248/1
Eugen Jochum, BRSO & Chor, Horst Laubenthal (tenor), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Elly Ameling (soprano), Hermann Prey (bass-baritone)

[PaulR]

Shostakovich: Symphony #8

[Philo]

This is so badass: John Kenny's Dragon Voices

[Traverso]

Dvořák

String Quartet No. 9 in D minor, Op. 34

Panocha Quartet

[Mandryka]

@Mandryka and @Harry, thanks. I purchased Savall on Mandryka's recommendation, but it looks as if I need Pandolfo too.

I'm afraid you will

[Mandryka]

@Mandryka and @Harry, thanks. I purchased Savall on Mandryka's recommendation, but it looks as if I need Pandolfo too.

And there's these too - just found them myself.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5eSWmoVw6qNxklzXHj6xdz?si=_F5MNngvTaSEgXW3sR0f7Q

https://earlymusicreview.com/sieur-demachy-pieces-de-violle/

And this too



https://www.classicalacarte.net/Production/Production_03_15/MF8016%20_03_15_fanfare.htm

[71 dB]

On TV: Yle Teema & Fem: Radion sinfoniaorkesterin konsertti 

Hector Berlioz: Love Scene from Romeo et Juliette Symphony
Lili Boulanger: Psalm 130
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 5

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Musiikkitalo Choir
Tuija Knihtilä, mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Collon


Interestingly I don't think I have ever heard one note of Berlioz' Op. 17 before this.  This Love Scene sounded great to my ears, but the whole Symphony is about 100 minutes long I believe and maybe it isn't all that good? Or is it?

[Florestan]

maybe it isn't all that good? Or is it?

It is. Listen to the whole thing and report back.

[Daverz]

Hector Berlioz: Love Scene from Romeo et Juliette Symphony

Interestingly I don't think I have ever heard one note of Berlioz' Op. 17 before this.  This Love Scene sounded great to my ears, but the whole Symphony is about 100 minutes long I believe and maybe it isn't all that good? Or is it?

Seconding Florestan, yes, the whole work is highly recommended.  Some classic recordings to try are Ozawa and the stereo Munch.

Thread duty:

Pettersson: Symphony No. 8 - Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra



Excellent!

[Florestan]

Seconding Florestan, yes, the whole work is highly recommended.  Some classic recordings to try are Ozawa and the stereo Munch.

Excelent recs. This one ain't half bad either:

[Florestan]

Interestingly I don't think I have ever heard one note of Berlioz' Op. 17 before this.  This Love Scene sounded great to my ears, but the whole Symphony is about 100 minutes long I believe and maybe it isn't all that good? Or is it?

Try this classic, it's on Spotify:



Don't be afraid of Berlioz, he's much better than his reputation. The quintessential Romantic, way before Liszt and Wagner.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1891 Vienna Revision by Bruckner himself. Ed. Guenter Brosche
Orchestre Metropolitain de Montréal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin

[Daverz]

Try this classic, it's on Spotify:



Don't be afraid of Berlioz, he's much better than his reputation. The quintessential Romantic, way before Liszt and Wagner.

Make sure you get the 10 CD box.  There's an older 8 CD box that doesn't have the stereo R&J and the second Symphonie Fantastique with Boston.  There was also a 2-CD set with those two extra items.

[Iota]

2 and 1/2 hours of great music. I have another set of those P&F, but Jalbert's is the one that really does it for me. He makes every moment come alive: superb musicianship, instrument and recorded sound. A splendid set.

Thanks for this excellent recommendation, I had a listen to the first half and they are indeed superb. Will be returning for the second half at the first opportunity. Clearly a pianist I need to pay more attention to.

To get a taste of what he's like elsewhere I also had a listen to his performance of Prokofiev's Ninth Piano Sonata below, which did nothing to diminish my interest in him.

[Bachthoven]

This is an excellent new release. His arrangements all have jaw-dropping playing, and his own work, the title track, is quite captivating, too.

[Linz]

Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Egmont, Op. 84: Overture
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
London Classical Players, Roger Norrington

[71 dB]

Try this classic, it's on Spotify:



Don't be afraid of Berlioz, he's much better than his reputation. The quintessential Romantic, way before Liszt and Wagner.

Thanks! I am not afraid of Berlioz. I have liked pretty much everything I have heard by him. I have just explored him in a limited fashion. I know/have

- Requiem (Noel Edison/Naxos)
- L'Enfance du Christ (Jean-Claude Casadesus/Naxos)
- Harold en Italie, Op. 16 & Tristia, Op. 18 (John Eliot Gardiner/Philips)

Tristia particularly seems like an overlooked work. It is wonderful! 

[cilgwyn]

Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek: Symphonies 2 "Ironic" & 5 "Dance Symphony" Berner Symphonie-Orchester/ Frank Beermann  cpo cd



Hello again!   Firstly,the two big tone poems (and the operas Donna-Diana & Ritter Blaubart if you like off the beaten track operas) are undoubtedly the place to start with this composer. If you're looking for tightly constructed symphonic argument don't bother with this cd. I wasn't too sure the first time around,but then it occurred to me that Reznicek wasn't actually trying to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Mahler and I just allowed myself to relax to some truly sumptuous orchestration that didn't seem to take itself too seriously at all. Gramophone magazine (or was it the bbc mag,I forget?) seemed to think that the music could have gained from a bit more welly! I think they may have a point? Indeed,I can only imagine what a Fritz Reiner or Furtwangler might have done with these scores. Still,these are all rarities & first recordings and cpo's recording quality is absolutely first class. The Dance Symphony was,unsurprisingly,turned into a ballet and,judging by the two b/w photos in the booklet,must have been interesting to watch!