What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Taking my cue from @Harry but with a different performance



Hamlet Op. 67 (Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare)

[Florestan]

Taking my cue from @Harry but with a different performance



Hamlet Op. 67 (Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare)

I knew it wouldn't end there.

NP: Capriccio italien Op. 45

[Papy Oli]

Delalande

Te Deum
Super Flumina Babilonis

William Christie / Les Arts Florissants

[Irons]

It's a great work - Cesar is right. You won't be disappointed.

Cheap as chips on eBay.

Spinning - Nielsen: Symphony No.3 "Espansiva"

Planets aligned when Bernstein recorded "Espansiva". Thrilling!

[Florestan]

[Mookalafalas]

Toscanini 1939 LvB 7th on Pristine label.      What a transfer. What a performance.

[Florestan]

Vesna (Spring), Op. 20

[Harry]

Anton Bruckner.
The Complete Symphonies.
Disc 1 & 2.
Symphonien Nr.0 & 1.
See back cover for details.
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Mario Venzago.

I know for a fact that there was not much love for this Bruckner cycle on GMG. Which is a pity, for they are actually very good! Of course I still love the drama, and pumped up energy, through a very large orchestra done by the likes of Karajan. But Bruckner never heard it like this, but Venzago he would have recognized. For the first time you can walk through the desks, and hear all the tiny details that matter, and the coherence you get by a smaller orchestra, it simply flows as it should. You do not even need a score, for to follow it without is as good, and effective. Crystal clear sumptuousness, well played drama and it gets all the energy it needs. For me it was and still is a revelation. Pristine recordings, and performance. It never sounded as good.

[Traverso]

Bach

[Iota]

Anton Bruckner.
The Complete Symphonies.
Disc 1 & 2.
Symphonien Nr.0 & 1.
See back cover for details.
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Mario Venzago.

I know for a fact that there was not much love for this Bruckner cycle on GMG.

There was certainly some coming from this direction. It's been quite while, so probably time for a refresher.

Here:



String Quartet No. 13 In B Flat Minor, Op. 138

An extraordinary thing. I must say I've never seen a cover photo of a composer quite so perfectly express the character of a piece contained within. Bleakness pertains throughout, weighing like a gravity on everything, the unflinching clarity only intensifies the effect. A brilliant recording recommended on the thread bearing the quartet's name.

[Florestan]

Three Russians Songs, Op. 41

[DavidW]

[Todd]

A sampling.

[Papy Oli]

Martinu - Cello Concerto No.1

J. Belohlavek, Czech PO, R. Wallfisch

[Harry]

There was certainly some coming from this direction. It's been quite while, so probably time for a refresher.

Here:



String Quartet No. 13 In B Flat Minor, Op. 138

An extraordinary thing. I must say I've never seen a cover photo of a composer quite so perfectly express the character of a piece contained within. Bleakness pertains throughout, weighing like a gravity on everything, the unflinching clarity only intensifies the effect. A brilliant recording recommended on the thread bearing the quartet's name.

That's why I said almost no love, but I knew you liked them

[Traverso]

Handl-Gallus

Motet Ecce, quomodo moritur

[Florestan]

I had forgotten just how marvelous the Third Suite is, what with its overall quirkiness and humor and that final movement which resembles a mini-ballet. Great stuff, greatly underplayed.

[Harry]

FRANZ SCHUBERT 1797–1828.
SYMPHONY IN E MAJOR (NO. 7), (reconstructed by Richard Dünser)
Overture of the opera Fierabras.
BERNER SYMPHONIEORCHESTER, Mario Venzago.
Recorded: 1–5 June 2021, 2021 Casino Bern.

A performance of the Seventh Symphony, in a reconstruction, that has all the hallmarks and quality Schubert could have written, and he did for a very small part. I for one like what I hear. I do not shy away for reconstructions on the basis of so little original material. Rather this as nothing is my motto. You get a ravishing performance in almost SOTA sound. The Berners play as if their life hangs in the balance, conducted by Venzago as the prime sorcerer, waving his wand. Schubert soul is in this!

[Florestan]

No. 1 in D minor Op. 28

[kyjo]

Cras: String Quartet

What a tremendous piece. It doesn't feature the exotic, the marine quality that other pieces of his do. Instead, a solid musical argument with a notable mournful demeanor (above all in the first two movements), refined writing, distinctive rhythms, is what abound in this masterful, rather ambitious quartet which I put just behind the ones by Debussy and Ravel. Fascinating rediscovery.

Indeed, and the accompanying Piano Quintet is even more glorious and does contain the exotic/marine qualities usually associated with Cras' music. A real winner of a disc!