What are you listening 2 now?

[Que]

Picked up from Harry's playlist:

[AnotherSpin]

[Traverso]

Mauricio Kagel

A rhythmically charged piece full of atmospheric references

[foxandpeng]

Krzystof Penderecki
Orchestral Works, Volume 1
Symphony 2, Christmas Eve
Threnody on the Victims of Hiroshima
Orchestra of the Cracow Philharmonic
Wojciech Czepiel
Dux

Nice. Penderecki has a special talent that speaks often to where I am at. Cool beans.

Listened earlier this morning to his Viola Concerto and Cello Concerto #2. Always helpful.

Also had a run at Stale Keliberg's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra and The Bell Reef (His Symphony 1). Majestic stuff.

Oh, and Bax's Spring Fire. And some P!nk (but I don't think that belongs in this thread  )

[Madiel]

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Act 2.

So, we have some really good music (although the whipping scene is just a frenetic mess), and some fairly awful characters.

Katerina's father-in-law decides he's going to sleep with her, and then gets really upset when he finds out someone else got there first. Frankly, after that the two murders during this Act seem relatively conventional.

[Cato]

Wyn Morris is - it seems to me - not well known anymore.

But c. 50 years ago, this was the absolute must-have Symphony #10 by Mahler!

The second revision of the Deryck Cooke performing edition:

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

another classic Ulster Hall recording from Chandos - gorgeous sound! (love the piece...)

Yes, indeed. I've long-admired Handley's conducting and his Bliss recordings are excellent.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Now playing Bliss Meditations on a Theme by John Blow

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Bizet, Symphony in C. Thomas Beecham.

[VonStupp]

Benjamin Britten
The Burning Fiery Furnace

Peter Pears as Nebuchadnezzar
John Shirley-Quirk as Shadrach
Robert Tear as Meshach
Stafford Dean as Abednego
Bryan Drake as The Astrologer
Peter Leeming as The Herald

English Opera Group
Benjamin Britten

Less emotionally gripping than Curlew River, but the same singular musical experience from Britten. Very different from George Dyson's take on the Nebuchadnezzar story.

Incidentally, I found a documentary on the making of The Burning Fiery Furnace from Tony Palmer (below), as well as the BBC broadcast (below). It is always fun seeing recognizable musicians working in a professional atmosphere
VS

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Some Beethoven before heading out --- now playing Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat, Op. 110

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich: Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917' (Prétre)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Erato boxed set

Ahoy, Jeffrey! Your unwavering enthusiasm for this piece is (only a mild) puzzle to me. I'll listen again:
Vladimir Ashkenazy leading the Royal Philharmonic.

[Spotted Horses]

Martinu, 7 Czech Dances, Koukl



This is mind blowing, psychedelic!

[Spotted Horses]

Pejacevic, Piano Sonata No 1 and 2. Viljkovic



The second sonata, in one movement, didn't really resonate with me. The first sonata, in three movements, was very compelling to me. Occupying a style close to Brahms, it is sensuous music with interesting thematic development.

[DaveF]

Wyn Morris is - it seems to me - not well known anymore.

His Beethoven symphony cycle is possibly my favourite modern-instrument one.  But he seems to have been the Richard Burton of Welsh music - brilliantly talented, but difficult to work with for much the same reasons that Burton was.  He was born just a few miles from where I live in Monmouthshire, although I don't think we have any sort of memorial to him.

[Roasted Swan]

Shostakovich: Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917' (Prétre)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Erato boxed set

I remember that performance as this CFP LP.....



but I have no memory of the actual performance.....

[prémont]

His Beethoven symphony cycle is possibly my favourite modern-instrument one.

Yes, an impressive set, unfortunately almost forgotten.