What are you listening 2 now?

[Linz]

César Franck Symphonic excerpts from Psyché
Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
Hendrik Andriessen Miroir de Peine, Irma Kolassi (soprano)
Rudolf Escher Musique pot l'esprit en deuil,
Concergebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum

[Karl Henning]

That bit caught my attention as well, but from what I've read, it's more "edited by" than "arranged by" Malipiero...

Good evening, Karl.

That makes sound sense, Rafael!

[Karl Henning]

Serenades for strings and winds,  respectively.

[Lisztianwagner]

Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: Auf dem Anger, In Taberna

Gundula Janowitz, Gearhard Stolze, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Eugen Jochum & Chor und Orchester der deutschen Oper Berlin

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E Major, 1885 Version. Ed.Leopold Nowak, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski

[Traverso]

There's a brand new release of this one with Yuja Wang at the piano. I think it just came out yesterday.

I think I prefer this one,I have also Whung and Previn.I do not often listen to it.I prefer his piano ,organ works and other orchestral works.

[André]

Yes the two in the pictures are the bad ones.Your symphony edition  has excellent sound.Of course it is possible that the box you ordered from JPC does not contain those heavily edited masterings. Hopefully the booklet will provide clarity on that.
It shows once again that not every remastering is an improvement.
I have enough with the symphony edition and also this one. And many separate CDs

Thanks Jan !

Now I feel a bit relieved. I don't have these specific composer boxes. Hopefully the one I'll get will have the right masterings (some time next year: Canadian Post has been on strike and no deal is in sight - guess there'll be a deluge of mail when it eventually settles, as well as lost parcels ...

I'll make a close A/B comparison with the Symphony Edition box before I decide on the latter's fate (out it goes if they are identical). I do have a few of the individual discs as well, mostly violin concertos (Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok). These will be dealt with too, I guess.

Thanks a bunch for all the info !! 👍

[AnotherSpin]

There's a brand new release of this one with Yuja Wang at the piano. I think it just came out yesterday.

What Messiaen needs is Yuja.

[André]

Yesterday I met with 5 of my friends to listen to our 'coups de coeur' releases for 2024. Thereafter we gathered for a meal at the restaurant. Love these guys !

Kalnin's 6th symphony (one of my offerings for the evening) met with a lot of approval. Tabakov's 9th was a mixed success. Among the discs I discovered, this one really caught my attention: gorgeous works, amazing musicality and an *absolutely perfect* recorded sound to showcase it: Roman Helmich Roman was nicknamed 'the Swedish Telemann'. As played by Sue-Yin Kuang these solo violin 'assagis' (essays or exercises) rival Bach's partitas. Dances dance, violin flights fly, emotions are plumbed. A superb release !

[AnotherSpin]

What Messiaen needs is Yuja.

Let's set jokes aside: Yuja Wang and Andris Nelsons did it for me. I've known about this piece by Messiaen for at least 40 years, if not more, but this is the first time I'm listening to it with genuine interest. @steve ridgway - what do you think?

[Number Six]

Symphony Saturday!



Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
Ormandy, Philadelphia

[hopefullytrusting]

Now THIS is a concert:
https://www.npoklassiek.nl/uitzendingen/het-zondagmiddagconcert/9bb9a4db-9072-427d-a3a2-a94268339dd4/2024-11-24-het-zondagmiddagconcert

Henri Dutilleux - Timbres, espace, mouvement, ou 'La Nuit étoilée'
Liza Lim - A Sutured World (celloconcert, opdrachtcompositie, Nederlandse première)
Matthias Pintscher - Un despertar (celloconcert, Nederlandse première)
György Ligeti - San Francisco Polyphony

[JBS]

Angela Hewitt playing the French Suites, 18 Little Preludes, Sonata in D Minor, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor

[hopefullytrusting]

Now THIS is a concert:
https://www.npoklassiek.nl/uitzendingen/het-zondagmiddagconcert/9bb9a4db-9072-427d-a3a2-a94268339dd4/2024-11-24-het-zondagmiddagconcert

Henri Dutilleux - Timbres, espace, mouvement, ou 'La Nuit étoilée'
Liza Lim - A Sutured World (celloconcert, opdrachtcompositie, Nederlandse première)
Matthias Pintscher - Un despertar (celloconcert, Nederlandse première)
György Ligeti - San Francisco Polyphony

If you view-source:, then ctrl-f mp3; copy that link into your address bar, and it will allow you to download this (just in case you can't listen to it before it vanishes behind a paywall).

[André]

Symphony no 7 (2015). Oboe concerto (2012). Santa Cruz (2015).

Completing my survey of this set after first encountering it 3 years ago. The symphony is quite fine, if understated compared to the mighty 6th symphony from 2001. Typical Kalnins though.

The oboe concerto was the revelation of this disc. It is a sizeable work, with the soloist never stopping chirping and cajoling for long. Kalnins has him accompanied by the lower wind family soloists, to great effect. It's like listening to a oboe with a huge lower extension (clarinet and bassoon repeating  and commenting on the long, sinuous phrases of the oboist). The constantly swaying rythms contribute to the sense of unending movement, like gentle waves happily caressing the shore. A hypnotic, trance-like half hour.

Santa Cruz is a sweet, smiling intermezzo that neatly encapsulates Kalnins' musical language. Soaring strings, delicate celesta and triangle weave a barcarolle-like musical cocoon. A fine postlude to the oboe concerto. This set contains a mega dose of musical endorphins. I loved it.

[Linz]

Joseph Haydn London Symphonies, Heidelberger Sinfoniker, Thomas Fey CD3

[Number Six]

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Simon Standage
Pinnock, The English Concert

[Number Six]

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
Maurizio Pollini
Böhm, Vienna Philharmonic 

[hopefullytrusting]

The drop-dead gorgeous, Marc Andre performing Serge Koussevitzsky's Double Bass Concerto with the Junge Philharmonie Zentralschweiz conducted by Segura Herrera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VAY35eMHyU

Unsurprisingly, given the composer, this is a virtuostic, technical showcase. The orchestration is balanced and serves up the double bass on a platter. There is lots of room left for the lofty sonorities, the lush richness, of that deep tone. I only wish he had composed more (such a small oeuvre, but quality over quantity, am I right?). 

[Valentino]

Ragnhild Hemsing doing Vivaldi's Four Seasons on a Hardanger fiddle has me smiling.