What are you listening 2 now?

[Symphonic Addict]

I love the E flat quartet.  The Maggini's on Naxos strike me as more impressive than the Vanbrugh though....

Agreed on the Maggini. That ensemble has excelled in that repertoire.

[Symphonic Addict]

Long time I hadn't heard this glory of Russian choral writing.

[brewski]

Schnittke: Faust Cantata (1983) (USSR Ministry of Culture SO, soloists, Valery Polyansky, live recording 1989).

Wow, an arresting piece and performance, and the video is an evocative snapshot from the time period.

-Bruce

[Symphonic Addict]

Grieg: Old Norwegian Romance with Variations, op. 51

I must confess that it sounded more like anything by Berwald than by Grieg. Anyway, a rather interesting work.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, 1887/90 Mixed Versions. Ed. Robert Haas, Wiener Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez   

[Bachtoven]

[JBS]

Symphony 2 and the two Overtures

[Mirror Image]

Now playing Weinberg's Symphony No. 5 in in F minor, Op. 76 with Kondrashin leading the Moscow Philharmonic on the defunct Russian Disc label:



@vandermolen sent me this disc many years ago and I had only previously heard it through a Chandos recording (forget the conductor and orchestra), but this account from Kondrashin is more to my own taste.

[Mirror Image]

Last work for the night:

Debussy
La Damoiselle élue
Melody Louledjian, soprano
Emanuela Pascu, mezzo-soprano
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Maîtrise de Radio France, Chœur de Radio France
Mikko Franck

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Éclairs Sur L'Au-delà...

[AnotherSpin]

Op. 106

[Maestro267]

I listened to one of Simpson's string quartets recently and he started off with something that sounded very classical and then his variations upon it quickly took it off of Earth and off towards like Neptune!

This must be referring to the 9th. It sounded very classical because it was literally the palindromic Minuet from Haydn's 47th Symphony.

[vandermolen]

Now playing Weinberg's Symphony No. 5 in in F minor, Op. 76 with Kondrashin leading the Moscow Philharmonic on the defunct Russian Disc label:



@vandermolen sent me this disc many years ago and I had only previously heard it through a Chandos recording (forget the conductor and orchestra), but this account from Kondrashin is more to my own taste.

It's the best of several recordings John. It was reissued on Melodiya some years ago.

[vandermolen]

Good to know, Jeffrey. The 12th is the only one I have yet to listen from set. I thought 11th excellent.

Amazingly I heard No.11 in concert (with GL conducting).

[vandermolen]

Parsadanian 1st Symphony - 'In Memory of the 26 Commissars of Baku' It's rather derivative of Shostakovich (especially the 8th Symphony) but I still really like it:

[Mandryka]

Quatetto di Cremona, Art of Fugue, Wigmore Hall now. Couldn't get out of bed this morning, still feeling rough but proud of myself that I didn't miss it. If it's crap I'll leave early. It's full, much to my surprise - youngish too -  AoF is evidently in fashion.

[Todd]

Disc two.

[Roasted Swan]

Symphony 2 and the two Overtures

I'd passingly assumed the cover image was a portrait of Louise Farrenc but evidently not;



so I have no idea why this image was chosen......

[Harry]

I'd passingly assumed the cover image was a portrait of Louise Farrenc but evidently not;



so I have no idea why this image was chosen......

The image of the cover art is just a modern interpretation of her.

[Mirror Image]

It's the best of several recordings John. It was reissued on Melodiya some years ago.

Yeah, I own the remastered issue of it as well. The remaster sounds much better, but I won't lie and say that I love the rawer quality of the Russian Disc issue.