What are you listening to now - I ?

[pastoralguy]

Mozart. Divertimento. K. 131 and Cassation. K. 99.

ASMF under Sir Neville Marriner.

I don't know these works at all.

[Roehre]

Mozart. Divertimento. K. 131 and Cassation. K. 99.

ASMF under Sir Neville Marriner.

I don't know these works at all.

KV131 is exceptional, as it uses 4 horns, a feature it shares with the surrounding symphonies KV130 and 132, something Mozart never did before or after these 3 works AFAIK, not even in the Symphony [no.20] in D KV133, to which for obvious reasons I personally refer as the "Hornsignal" (which symphony shows another anomaly: the reverse of 1st and 2nd themes in the recapitulation of its 1st mvt, btw).

[pastoralguy]

KV131 is exceptional, as it uses 4 horns, a feature it shares with the surrounding symphonies KV130 and 132, something Mozart never did before or after these 3 works AFAIK, not even in the Symphony [no.20] in D KV133, to which for obvious reasons I personally refer as the "Hornsignal" (which symphony shows another anomaly: the reverse of 1st and 2nd themes in the recapitulation of its 1st mvt, btw).

Thank you for that. It's attractive music which I must listen to again.

[Daniel]

I found this an odd performance, committed, but ill-fitting of the music somehow. Don't think I've heard of Colin Davis and Mahler linked before, and having heard this I must say I'm not that surprised.
Jessye Norman sounds lovely in a Straussian way, but maybe I prefer a darker voice in this music. Vickers in places, verges on sounding like a frustrated football manager giving his players the hair dryer treatment, I don't know if he struggled with this part.
Nonetheless I found the orchestral colour at times memorably vivid, the avian woodwinds echoing the words, 'Die Vogel hocken ..' in Der Abschied for example, and a darkening evening air pretty persuasively pervaded the score in the susbsequent orchestral passage I thought. For what it's worth, I'll certainly be listening again sometime.

[EdgeleyRob]

Elgar

Froissart
Falstaff

interval

Symphony No 1

BBCSO,Sir Andrew Davis.

[richardfinegold]

I found this an odd performance, committed, but ill-fitting of the music somehow. Don't think I've heard of Colin Davis and Mahler linked before, and having heard this I must say I'm not that surprised.
Jessye Norman sounds lovely in a Straussian way, but maybe I prefer a darker voice in this music. Vickers in places, verges on sounding like a frustrated football manager giving his players the hair dryer treatment, I don't know if he struggled with this part.
Nonetheless I found the orchestral colour at times memorably vivid, the avian woodwinds echoing the words, 'Die Vogel hocken ..' in Der Abschied for example, and a darkening evening air pretty persuasively pervaded the score in the susbsequent orchestral passage I thought. For what it's worth, I'll certainly be listening again sometime.

Norman, Davis, and Mahler do seem a strange mix

[Petrushka]

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 1
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 (Pastoral)

[interval]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 9

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

[pastoralguy]

Beethoven: Symphony No 6 (Pastoral)



London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

[Roehre]

Today:

Trapani
Rust and Stardust (2015)

Miller
Duet for Cello and Orchestra (2015)

Shostakovich (orch.Barshai):
Chamber symphony op.118a
Chamber symphony op.83a

[EdgeleyRob]

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 9

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult

[Dave2002]

Help! Can you identify the conductor and orchestra?

Nielsen
Symphony 3

https://open.spotify.com/track/4MRgj2XJy1UxhCngKVItLX

This version seems rather good - but I can't identify the conductor or orchestra from the metadata, and I can't read the cover of the CD to find out who they are.

Maybe someone else will recognise this CD.

Actually it appears in the browser (not in Spotify) from the link above as by
Sjællands Symfoniorkester / Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)

I've never heard of Giordano Bellincampi before. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bellincampi

Further, I don't know much about the Sjaelland orchestra, either. This looks like a Danish EMI CD.

I recommend this one.

It is available from iTunes as a download. I can't see if the CD is still available.

[BBMmk2]

Can't help you out there, Dave, sorry.

Wagner: Das Reingold. Solti(!!)

[Bryn]

Nielsen
Symphony 3

https://open.spotify.com/track/4MRgj2XJy1UxhCngKVItLX

This version seems rather good - but I can't identify the conductor or orchestra from the metadata, and I can't read the cover of the CD to find out who they are.

Maybe someone else will recognise this CD.

Actually it appears in the browser (not in Spotify) from the link above as by
Sjællands Symfoniorkester / Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)

I've never heard of Giordano Bellincampi before. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bellincampi

Further, I don't know much about the Sjaelland orchestra, either. This looks like a Danish EMI CD.

I recommend this one.

It is available from iTunes as a download. I can't see if the CD is still available.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Carl-Nielsen-Symphony-Espansiva-kunstners/dp/B001KUCSKO

Also available as lossless download from Qobuz.

[Dave2002]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Carl-Nielsen.../dp/B001KUCSKO

Also available as lossless download from Qobuz.

How much is the Qobuz one?

iTunes has it in aac for £8.99 - currently a pound less than amazon's mp3.

[Bryn]

How much is the Qobuz one?

The lossless is a somewhat inflated €12.99.