What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III

[BBMmk2]

David Matthews - Symphony No. 7
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, John Carewe.

Off to get my haircut and some shopping in Tesco, so I've loaded this onto my DAP to listen to on the journey.

Diversity is the name of the game here - a symphony that's much loved and vouched for by people from Roger Scruton to our very own Jayne.

If it’s good enough for JLW, it’s good enough for me!

[Beef Oven!]

If it’s good enough for JLW, it’s good enough for me!

Good job you said, Jayne. If you'd have said Roger, you'd be a "fan"

[Beef Oven!]

Just finished listening no.7 while washing up and waiting for the rain to pass. Now moved on to No.6

[ahinton]

Just finished listening no.7 while washing up and waiting for the rain to pass. Now moved on to No.6

6 is the finest of them all, I think; I saw the score briefly during its preparation a few times and attended the Proms première. Enjoy!

[DublinJimbo]

Sibelius: En saga op. 9
BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Thomas Søndergård

Kalevi Aho: Clarinet Concerto (2005)
Martin Fröst, Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä
A terrific work, given a brilliant performance

Einojuhani Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 ('Angel of Light', 1994-95)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä

[Alison]

Where do you folk ‘source’ your BPO/Rattle CD’s may I ask?

[BBMmk2]

Where do you folk ‘source’ your BPO/Rattle CD’s may I ask?

Direct from their site.

[Beef Oven!]

6 is the finest of them all, I think; I saw the score briefly during its preparation a few times and attended the Proms première. Enjoy!

Thank you, I did enjoy! And I thought precisely what you have said - it's the finest of them all.

[jayne lee wilson]

Just finished listening no.7 while washing up and waiting for the rain to pass. Now moved on to No.6

Well there are 9 David Matthews Symphonies now, but the 8th and 9th (premiered 9/18) lack recordings, and AFAIK there've been no broadcasts since the 8th's Bridgewater premiere in 2015...(I fondly remember our epic "whither modern music" debate after that..(with RB, fhg, AH etc)...
...Seems to belong to a different, more innocent world now...)
There were plans to record the 8th with Chandos in Manchester c/w A Vision of the Sea, but it hasn't appeared so far....

Whilst the 6th is the most ambitious, achieved and impressively epic, I love the 4th and 5th most of all, for their deftness, subtlety and range of mood. There's an "unpredictable inevitability" within their striking concision. They're the closest to "neo-classical" Matthews Symphonies, though as individual as ever...
As with Mendelssohn's best music, lightness-of-touch doesn't preclude depth or profundity...

[Beef Oven!]

Well there are 9 David Matthews Symphonies now, but the 8th and 9th (premiered 9/18) lack recordings, and AFAIK there've been no broadcasts since the 8th's Bridgewater premiere in 2015...(I fondly remember our epic "whither modern music" debate after that..(with RB, fhg, AH etc)...
...Seems to belong to a different, more innocent world now...)
There were plans to record the 8th with Chandos in Manchester c/w A Vision of the Sea, but it hasn't appeared so far....

Whilst the 6th is the most ambitious, achieved and impressively epic, I love the 4th and 5th most of all, for their deftness, subtlety and range of mood. There's an "unpredictable inevitability" within their striking concision. They're the closest to "neo-classical" Matthews Symphonies, though as individual as ever...
As with Mendelssohn's best music, lightness-of-touch doesn't preclude depth or profundity...

I remember that ill-mannered, but very informative, nay, educational debate

I'm not as familiar with 4 & 5 as I am with 6, but I can't put them in the same class as 6.

[ahinton]

I remember that ill-mannered, but very informative, nay, educational debate

I'm not as familiar with 4 & 5 as I am with 6, but I can't put them in the same class as 6.

As my recollections of that are somewhat hazy, I can only hope that my own contributions, such as (and whatever) they were, did not fall into the "ill-mannered" category. For me, whilst there's no such thing as a duff David Matthews symphony, like you, I would value no. 6 above all of the others were someone to put a gun at my head and say "if you could take only one..."...

[Beef Oven!]

As my recollections of that are somewhat hazy, I can only hope that my own contributions, such as (and whatever) they were, did not fall into the "ill-mannered" category. For me, whilst there's no such thing as a duff David Matthews symphony, like you, I would value no. 6 above all of the others were someone to put a gun at my head and say "if you could take only one..."...

IIRC, you were well behaved!

Your oft-used gun at the head scenario is macabre!

Do we know if Dutton or others have any intentions regarding 8&9?

[ahinton]

IIRC, you were well behaved!

Your oft-used gun at the head scenario is macabre!

Do we know if Dutton or others have any intentions regarding 8&9?

I don't know but I cannot imagine that recordings of these works will need to be be long awaited. He has just completed a Concerto for Orchestra that will be premièred next May, by the way. I don't know whether he yet has any plans for a 10th sympohony...

[Beef Oven!]

I don't know but I cannot imagine that recordings of these works will need to be be long awaited. He has just completed a Concerto for Orchestra that will be premièred next May, by the way. I don't know whether he yet has any plans for a 10th sympohony...

The concerto for orchestra is something I will look forward to. Do you have any idea where it will be premiered?

Regarding the 10th, if he's not superstitious, he needn't plan for it. But if he is superstitious, he needs to get onto writing it!

[Petrushka]

Where do you folk ‘source’ your BPO/Rattle CD’s may I ask?

I got the BPO/Rattle Beethoven symphony set direct from the BPO online shop https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-...mpaign=dropnav but they are also available from Presto and Amazon. They aren't cheap though! The LvB symphony set is much, much better than the earlier EMI cycle with the VPO.