What are you listening 2 now?

[brewski]

Indeed, excellent recording. The following Diversions for Left Hand Piano & Orchestra is a real pot of delights too.

I am looking forward to that!

Now listening to yet another Young Apollo, this time with Peter Donohoe, Simon Rattle, and the CBSO, after reading this short blog post by Ben Hogwood. He created Good Morning Britten as a year-long project to coincide with the composer's centennial in 2013.

Honestly, after hearing this one, Osborne, and Lugansky, any of them is recommendable.

-Bruce

[Harry]

Frank Bridge: Oration
BBC Scottish SO
Laura van der Heijden (Cello)
Ryan Wigglesworth.
Chandos (New Release)
Also Walton Cello Concerto and Cheryl Frances-Hoad Cello Concerto 'Earth, Sea, Air'.

I asked my wife to give me this CD for my birthday (she just loves buying CDs for me  )
The performance of the Bridge work is terrific in all respects.
I realised that I have another recording of this fine, young Dutch cellist performing music by Miaskovsky and Prokofiev:

I was just sippin a glass of wine, in fact a fine Chardonnay, when I read this. Don't do that again, it made me almost choke with great peals of laughter. I imagine your wife ordering it or God forbid going in a shop, and see her demeanor that shouts inwardly, No, No, No, he has a bloody shed full of them already...better buy a pair of slippers.....yes, yes, that will be nice, wouldn't it    

[Karl Henning]

When she played The Star Spangled Banner it was the home of the brave all right .

"It's Enrico Palazzo!"

[Traverso]

English Consort & Keyboard Music (1)

Dowland
William Lawes
Coprario
Byrd
Simpson
Lupo

Wonderful music performed with good taste, the music central and without distracting attention-seeking.

[DavidW]

I'll post my thoughts on the Mahler thread.



And some lovely Bach!

[Spotted Horses]

Weingartner, String Quartet No 1, following SymphonyAddict's lead



Twentieth century music in a traditional late-romantic style, brings Schubert to my mind, but with a distinctive voice. Weingartner is on my list of composers to explore.

Also two brief pieces from the Koechlin chamber music box, two nocturnes, and the Wind Trio.



The wind trio is particularly mesmerizing.

[Mandryka]

And some lovely Bach!

Neu is reliably good - including these sonatas.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Prokofiev SY2. Leinsdorf/Boston.

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev SY2. Leinsdorf/Boston.

I'm in!

[SonicMan46]

Clementi, Muzio (1752-1832) - composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer, who was mostly active in England (Source). This morning, listened to the first 3 recordings below (some of his non-KB sonata music); in the chamber music disc, Claudio Brizi plays a claviorgan - you have to hear it - 

This afternoon, plan to alternate (very selectively!) my 12-CDs of Shelley on piano w/ the 18-disc box of Mastroprimiano on fortepiano (not sure why the latter needs 6 more discs - does record many WoO and timings may be different?)

One question - don't own but has anyone heard the last pic box (bottom right) - these are sonatas w/ violin, flute, cello, and piano (either 2 or 3 instruments only).  Dave

ADDENDUM: Poor AllMusic Review  (2 1/2*/5*) on the 8-disc box - will not be a purchase for me.

   

   

[kyjo]

Brian: Symphony No. 16

One day this music sounds interesting, another day it doesn't. Today is the latter. It seems I wasn't wrong when claimed that this composer is awfully overrated.

Agreed, especially regarding his symphonies past No. 8 or so. The only ones of his I can say I enjoy are the 5th and 6th, along with certain sections of the Gothic and the 8th. Most of the rest sound too chaotic for my tastes.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I'm in!

I like Leinsdorf!

[kyjo]

Britten: Young Apollo (Steven Osborne, piano / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov, conductor). Love this early Britten piece, which was scheduled to be on the Minnesota Orchestra concert the other night — until both the pianist and conductor were taken ill.

First time hearing this recording, and it's great: captures the composer's youthful high spirits, and the sound quality is typical Hyperion excellence.

-Bruce

That Hyperion recording is desert-island material for me! Britten's three works for piano and orchestra - the Piano Concerto, Diversions, and Young Apollo - are amongst his most brilliant, effervescent, and approachable works. And they receive superb performances by Osborne and the
BBC Scottish SO under Volkov!

[kyjo]

Hilding Rosenberg: Symphony No.2 'Sinfonia grave'
Stockholm PO, Herbert Blomstedt
This powerfully inspiriting symphony has a wonderfully redemptive ending, which reminded me of 'the long struggle towards the sunrise' at the end of Allan Pettersson's 6th Symphony. The ending of Rosenberg's 3rd Symphony is similarly redemptive:

Agreed, Jeffrey, although my favorite symphony of his may be the imposing choral No. 4! The Louisville Concerto that's coupled to the 2nd Symphony on that disc is quite an intriguing work in a slightly more acerbic style. It's effectively a concerto for orchestra with several significant solos for the principal string players IIRC.

[Brian]

This new release has cover art that seems perfectly matched to the composer. And an 82-minute program!

[kyjo]

I've been listening to this disc too.  Laura van der Heijden is excellent throughout but I must admit I think the Chandos recording is far from their finest - a bit distant and lacking 'bite' - quite an issue in the Walton (solo part as well played as I have ever heard) and the Bridge.  Not sure I felt Wigglesworth has full measure of Oration - I prefer Hickox - both his recordings - and best of all Dickens/RLPO with Wallfisch on Nimbus.  Enjoyed the Frances-Hoad

Also worth mentioning is this intelligently-programmed BIS album containing a superb recording of Oration by the great Steven Isserlis and the Deutsche SO Berlin under Hugh Wolff:

[kyjo]

Weingartner, String Quartet No 1,



Twentieth century music in a traditional late-romantic style, brings Schubert to my mind, but with a distinctive voice. Weingartner is on my list of composers to explore.

Weingartner's chamber output may very well contain his finest inspirations. This disc of his Sextet and Octet for mixed winds, strings, and piano contains some powerful, memorable, and truly unique music:

[Lisztianwagner]

Igor Stravinsky
Mass for Mixed Chorus and Double Wind Quintet

Trinity Boys Choir, English Bach Festival Chorus
Leonard Bernstein & Members of the English Bach Festival Orchestra

[Linz]

Mahler Symphony No.3 in D minor, Symphony No.3 in D minor, Seiji Ozawa

[ritter]

A rare appearance of John Cage chez ritter. James Tenney plays the Sonatas & Interludes.