What are you listening 2 now?

[Harry]

David Diamond.
Orchestral Works.
See back cover for all details.

After a long time of neglect one has to start anew listening. So that's what I do. Fine performance and sound, and unmistakable good compositions.

[prémont]

It does remind me of Leonhardt: the sober, inward looking mood, the meticulous construction. This might be similar to what Leonhardt might have sounded if he had recorded this again at the end of his career. It has the same rigour, but with the added flair and sparkle of his later years. The big difference is of course that former teacher and pupil came from opposite directions. After the rather wild (Suites) or eccentric (WTC) Bach recordings Rousset made in the last decade or so, for me this major shift comes very unexpected. In sum: a great recording, amongst Rousset's best.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R3QIH40DB8J547/

https://ionarts.blogspot.com/2024/01/briefly-noted-roussets-artful-fugue.html

This was not my impression. In these ears the performance sounds overly academical. But I may have missed something and shall relisten to the recording.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Pawel Kamasa - Szymanowski: Mazurkas.

[VonStupp]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Novorossiysk Chimes Op. 111b
Overture On Russian And Kirghiz Themes, Op.115
NSO of Ukraine - Theodore Kuchar

Don't think I have heard these before.
VS

[Ian]

Respighi, Brazilian Impressions, La Boutique Fantasque. John Neschling & l'Orchestre Royale Philharmonique de Liège.

[AnotherSpin]

CD4

[ritter]

First listen to priest-composer Lorenzo Perosi's Il Giudizio Universale (from 1904), a "vocal-symphonic poem for soloists, choir and orchestra".



Perosi himself conducts this live performance at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1950, with a distinguished roster of soloists. Although the title is on Italian, the sung texts are in Latin. It's a very contemplative work, with a long (16') orchestral intermezzo almost at the beginning, and no "dramatic intention" that I can discern.

Good to know, but not particularly memorable IMHO.

[Spotted Horses]

Schuman, Symphony No 9, Schwarz, Seattle



The work was inspired by a visit Schuman made to the site of a massacre of Italian civilians by Nazi officials during the war (Le Fosse Ardeatine). Not a depiction of the event so much as Schuman's emotional reaction to it.

The work is at times turbulent, at times mournful. The recording and performance are vivid.

[Iota]

Brahms, Op.119
Can Çakmur (piano)

A refinement and sensibility that entirely bewitch at times, the music just glows in his hands.

[Todd]

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi - Symphonies with Johannes Goritzki and the German Chamber Academy - 28 works are included in the 8-disc box (bolded in the listing below); Luigi wrote 28-32 'symphonies' so another disc might have been possible?  These were recorded between 1990-93 - the sound and performances are excellent (some reviews attached for the interested). I believe this is the only complete set?  Dave

 

Symphonies (Source)
G 490: Overture in D major (c. 1765, second movement related to G478)
G 491: Sinfonia concertante Op. 7 in C major (1769)
G 492: 6 Divertimenti (6 Sextets) Op. 16, G 461–466 (1773)
G 493: Symphony Op. 21 No. 1 in B-flat major (1775)
G 494: Symphony Op. 21 No. 2 in E-flat major
G 495: Symphony Op. 21 No. 3 in C major
G 496: Symphony Op. 21 No. 4 in D major
G 497: Symphony Op. 21 No. 5 in B-flat major
G 498: Symphony Op. 21 No. 6 in A major
G 499: Sinfonia concertante in G major (= G470)
G 500: Symphony in D major (1767)
G 501: Serenade in D major
G 502: 2 Minuets
G 503: Symphony Op. 12 No. 1 in D major (1771)
G 504: Symphony Op. 12 No. 2 in E-flat major
G 505: Symphony Op. 12 No. 3 in C major
G 506: Symphony Op. 12 No. 4 in D minor ("La Casa del Diavolo")
G 507: Symphony Op. 12 No. 5 in B-flat major
G 508: Symphony Op. 12 No. 6 in A major
G 509: Symphony Op. 35 No. 1 in D major (1782)
G 510: Symphony Op. 35 No. 2 in E-flat major
G 511: Symphony Op. 35 No. 3 in A major
G 512: Symphony Op. 35 No. 4 in F major
G 513: Symphony Op. 35 No. 5 in E-flat major
G 514: Symphony Op. 35 No. 6 in B-flat major
G 515: Symphony Op. 37 No. 1 in C major (1786)
G 516: Symphony Op. 37 No. 2 in D major (1786, lost)
G 517: Symphony Op. 37 No. 3 in D minor (1787)
G 518: Symphony Op. 37 No. 4 in A major (1787)
G 519: Symphony Op. 41 in C minor (1788)
G 520: Symphony Op. 42 in D major (1789)
G 521: Symphony Op. 43 in D major (1790)
G 522: Symphony Op. 45 in D major (1792)
G 523: Symphony in C major
G 576: Symphony in G major

[Mapman]

Beethoven: "Ghost" Trio, Op. 70/1
Barenboim, Zukerman, Du Pré

I don't think I'd listened to this before. The first movement is especially great!

[ritter]

First listen to Alexander von Zemlinsky's piano music, played by Siegfried Mauser.

[Lisztianwagner]

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sinfonia Antartica

Elisabeth Watts (soprano), BBC Symphony Chorus
Martyn Brabbins & BBC Symphony Orchestra

[Linz]

Morton Gould Spirtuals, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski

[VonStupp]

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet 10 in A-flat Major, op. 118
Shostakovich Quartet

VS

[Peter Power Pop]

Ravel: Tzigane, Shéhérazade etc. (London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado)

[VonStupp]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Mournful and Triumphal Prelude, op. 130
Royal PO - Vladimir Ashkenazy

VS

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Yes that's what put me on to her Debussy. Farhan's site is a bit vague about who's playing what -- he says "partially identified" and we don't know which pieces he's confident about. A quick check reveals that if they are all originally by Hisako Hiseki, Barrington-Coup slowed some of them down.

Let me know if you want it -- it deserves to be appreciated!  I'm kind of feeling a bit bowled over by it actually.

When the guy changed the speed of various recordings, could he do that without changing the pitch?