What are you listening to now - I ?

[Stanfordian]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
Berg: Violin Concerto
(Christian Ferras, violin)
Berliner Philharmonic/Joseph Keilberth
Recorded live 1960 Philharmonie, Berlin
Testament

Mendelssohn:
Symphony No. 5 ‘Reformation’,
Berliner Philharmoniker/Lorin Maazel
Franck:
Symphony in D minor,
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin/Lorin Maazel
Recorded 1961 Jesus Christ Church, Berlin
Deutsche Grammophon

Jimmy Smith with Quentin Warren & Donald Bailey:
'Straight Life'
Blue Note (1961)

[DublinJimbo]

This Afternoon —

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Prelude – 'O sink hernieder…' – Kurwenal! Hor! Ein zweites Schiff – Liebestod)
Kirsten Flagstad, Ludwig Suthauten Flagstad, Blanche Thebom, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Philharmonia Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwängler

Nielsen:
String Quartet No. 1
Young Danish Quartet

Symphony No. 4 ('Inextinguishable')
Berlin Philharmonic / Herbert von Karajan

This Evening —

Sally Beamish: Opus California (after Beethoven's String Quartet No. 4)
Brodsky Quartet

Gloria Coates: Symphony No. 15 ('Homage to Mozart')
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michael Boder

Sofia Gubaidulina: The Canticle of the Sun
Nicolas Altstaedt (violoncello), Andrei Pushkarev, Rihards Zaļupe (percussion), Rostislav Krimer (celesta), Chamber Choir "Kamēr..." / Māris Sirmais

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Concerto Grosso (1985)
New York Philharmonic / Zubin Mehta

[Roehre]

...

This Evening —

Sally Beamish: Opus California (after Beethoven's String Quartet No. 4)
Brodsky Quartet

Gloria Coates: Symphony No. 15 ('Homage to Mozart')
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michael Boder

Sofia Gubaidulina: The Canticle of the Sun
Nicolas Altstaedt (violoncello), Andrei Pushkarev, Rihards Zaļupe (percussion), Rostislav Krimer (celesta), Chamber Choir "Kamēr..." / Māris Sirmais

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Concerto Grosso (1985)
New York Philharmonic / Zubin Mehta

[Roehre]

Today:

Sibelius:
Tapiola op,.112

Keuris:
Concertino for string quartet and bass clarinet (1976/’77 rev ’79)
Violin sonata (1977)
Capricio for 12 wind instruments and double bass (1978)

[Dave2002]

Earl Kim
Violin Concerto, Cecylia Arzewski (violin), Scott Yoo, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

[Roehre]

Earl Kim
Violin Concerto, Cecylia Arzewski (violin), Scott Yoo, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

What do you think of it, Dave?

[Stanfordian]

‘Wartime Consolations’
Weinberg:
Concertino op. 42
Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, Op. 47, No. 3
Hartmann:
Concerto funebre
Shostakovich:
Unfinished Sonata for violin and piano (1945)
Linus Roth (violin), José Gallardo (piano)
Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn/Ruben Gazarian
Recorded 2014 Kulturforum Saline, Offenau, Germany
Motormusic Studio, Mechelen, Belgium (Shostakovich)
Challenge Classics SACD

Nielsen: Complete Symphonies
BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds
Recorded 2012/15 MediaCityUK, Salford
Chandos

Clark Terry, Junior Cook, Curtis Fuller, Horace Parlan, Dave Bailey & Pack Morrison (The Dave Bailey Quintet):
‘One Foot in the Gutter - A Treasury of Soul’
Riverside (1960)

[Dave2002]

What do you think of it, Dave?

Hi Roehre

To quote Chairman Mao "It's too early to tell"!

One "review" I read of it clearly did not think much of it.
I think I could listen to it a few more times, and then make a better judgement. I didn't dislike it. I think unless one is very familiar with the genre/idioms etc. it could be difficult to make sense of it. I could come to like it though.

Do you know it fairly well?

THe other work on the CD, based on Rilke's Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (The Story of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke) has similarities, and to me seems less interesting - though again it may take more effort. Sometimes associating words with music is helpful, but sometimes it just doesn't work, or if it does work, results in a piece which can only be listened to very occasionally. Here I'm thinking of pieces like Lincoln Portrait, which I would not wish to hear often. I have a very vague recollection of hearing that, or something like it, performed live - in America, of course.

[Roehre]

Hi Roehre

To quote Chairman Mao "It's too early to tell"!

One "review" I read of it clearly did not think much of it.
I think I could listen to it a few more times, and then make a better judgement. I didn't dislike it. I think unless one is very familiar with the genre/idioms etc. it could be difficult to make sense of it. I could come to like it though.
.....

Thanks Dave.
I've listened to it more than twice or so and it's one of those rare pieces which escapes me getting grip on it.
The jury is still out as far as I am concerned too.

[soileduk]

Thanks to the magnanimity of our very own HighlandDougie a veritable selection from the wonderful Ralph Vaughan Williams symphony cycle from Vernon Handley and the Royal Liverpool Phil. Good on yer.

[visualnickmos]

Yesterday.

Dipped into some of the choral music in the Vaughan Williams 30-CD set.

Although familiar with his orchestral and some chamber music etc, it was a glorious couple of hours of pure 'bliss' (don't go there!) listening. Perfect for a Languedoc summer evening. And at 4,40€ from Az.... Italia - cheap as 2 or 3 coffees! Un achat parfait!

Looking forward to the rest of this beautiful journey.....

[EdgeleyRob]

Yesterday.

Dipped into some of the choral music in the Vaughan Williams 30-CD set.

Although familiar with his orchestral and some chamber music etc, it was a glorious couple of hours of pure 'bliss' (don't go there!) listening. Perfect for a Languedoc summer evening. And at 4,40€ from Az.... Italia - cheap as 2 or 3 coffees! Un achat parfait!

Looking forward to the rest of this beautiful journey.....

Another convert.

Incidentally,the latest RVW society journal comes with an Albion Music sampler that includes The Wasps Overture arranged for Piano Duet by Constant Lambert.
I've never heard this version before,any one else familiar with it ?

[Suffolkcoastal]

The last week -

M Weinberg

Sinfonietta No 2 op74
String Quartet No 7 in C op59
Cello Sonata No 1 in C op21
Symphony No 4 in A minor op61
Clarinet Concerto op104
Piano Trio op24
Partita for piano op54
Children's Songs op13
Trio for Flute, Viola & Harp op127
Requiem op96
Violin Sonata No 4 op39
Cello Concerto in C minor op43
The Passenger op97 (extracts)
String Quartet No 10 in A minor op85
Symphony No 12 'In Memoriam D Shostakovich' op114

Egon Wellesz

Symphonic Elegy op108
Missa Brevis op89
String Quartet No 4 op28
Symphony No 4 'Sinfonia Austriaca' op70
Drei Klavierstuck op9
Piano Concerto op49
Sonnet by E B Browning for soprano & strings op52
Sonata for Solo Cello op30
Die Bakchantinnen - Act I op44
Triptychon op98
Violin Concerto op84
Leben, Traum und Tod op55
Symphony No 9 op111

Since I first discovered Weinberg's music about 20 years ago, I have been steadily more convinced of his stature as not only one of the great composers of the Soviet era, but of the 20th century. The power and strength of his music is quite awe inspiring and he is in no way just another Shostakovich imitator, his musical influences were much wider and his style quite individually forged. I listened to some works which were new to me, for some reason I'd never heard the Piano Trio before, all I can say is that I was bowled over by it, what a terrific, powerful work. Even an apparently lightweight work like the Partita for piano is full of fascinating invention.

Egon Wellesz, although making some headway with recordings is very rarely programmed or broadcast. His music can be uneven, but at its best is strikingly powerful and thought provoking with real presence.

[Jonathan]

A fantastic CD which I urge anyone interested in this sort of thing - Alkan - Transcriptions volume 1 on Toccata. I eagerly look forward to volume 2, 3....etc....

JUST BUY IT!!

[EdgeleyRob]

A fantastic CD which I urge anyone interested in this sort of thing - Alkan - Transcriptions volume 1 on Toccata. I eagerly look forward to volume 2, 3....etc....

JUST BUY IT!!

You are preaching to the converted here Jonathan.