Music new to you

[HighlandDougie]

(CDs out there but pricy...)

...it goes to extremes of tempi and dynamic, but almost always in a good way. And has by some margin the best recorded sound.

But the SRO/Luisi stands apart...

Not so pricy as physical CDs at:

https://boutique.rts.ch/musique-classique/10194-arthur-honegger-symphonies-et-mouvements-symphoniques.html

which is where I bought them, two or three years ago. Jayne, as ever, is on the button in recommending this cycle as the one to acquire (Dutoit is, frankly, dull; and Baudo somewhat hazily recorded, although I wouldn't want to be without his recordings).

[jayne lee wilson]

Cheap download here:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8501669--dutilleux-symphony-no-2-le-double-metaboles-honegger-symphony-no-4-deliciae-basiliensis

Lamoureux applies only to the coupling, I think, which might be why jlw has inadvertently caused some confusion.

On the CD I linked to (the one I have here), the ORTF is listed as only playing the Metaboles...
Some earlier releases go the other way... so...

Presto has used one of the LP covers for their download... but if you look around online at these & other releases, the attributions still seem confused...

[Pianoman]

Chamber Symphonies from Riga that JLW mentions earlier is undoubtedly one of my discoveries of the year.

[richardfinegold]

If, as in my case, you dragged yourself up educationally to appreciate 20th century modernist music through both the post Debussy/Stravinsky and Second Viennese School lineages as key* to keeping faith with historic antecedents, Honegger can come to represent a highly satisfying amalgamation or reconciliation between two main, and once thought to be opposing sets of musical aesthetics.

*No pun intended!

I like that analysis. And yes, my 20th Century exploration pattern seems to parallel yours.

[Barbirollians]

Webern Symphony op 21

[BBMmk2]

Martinu, his VC II. Very good. Music to my ears.

[Barbirollians]

Martinu, his VC II. Very good. Music to my ears.

Yes a lovely piece - there is a splendid Josef Suk recording on Supraphon coupled with VC no1 and the Rhapsody Concerto for viola.

[Dave2002]

The Tchaikovsky Waltz-Scherzo in C - from (grrrr...) Essential Classics today was completely new to me. Certainly worth a listen, and perhaps even a repeat listening.

[LMcD]

Just now on 'Breakfast': what is probably Elgar's shortest composition, 'Kindly Do Not Smoke', beautifully sung by Roderick Williams.

[BBMmk2]

Just now on 'Breakfast': what is probably Elgar's shortest composition, 'Kindly Do Not Smoke', beautifully sung by Roderick Williams.

Heard that too. Very good it was too.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Kurt Weill's Whitman songs, with orch, recently on afternoon R3 with Thomas Hampson. Had one on CD by TH with piano but must investigate the whole set, preferably with orch: Amazon not yet fully consulted

PS Amazon (UK, US and German) and Presto disclose no complete recordings with orch, though Bostridge & Pappano have done them with pf on their war songs recital, duly ordered. Please, anyone know of anything with orch??

PPS There's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nROA4mXYt_o on YouTube if you wish to sample the orch version. Note the rather apposite misspelling of the poet's name!

[Edgy 2]

Ernst Levy

Symphony No 7

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

David Oberg

Naxos Libray

Excellent,plenty more of his music on there too

[Pulcinella]

Kurt Weill's Whitman songs, with orch, recently on afternoon R3 with Thomas Hampson. Had one on CD by TH with piano but must investigate the whole set, preferably with orch: Amazon not yet fully consulted

PS Amazon (UK, US and German) and Presto disclose no complete recordings with orch, though Bostridge & Pappano have done them with pf on their war songs recital, duly ordered. Please, anyone know of anything with orch??

PPS There's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nROA4mXYt_o on YouTube if you wish to sample the orch version. Note the rather apposite misspelling of the poet's name!

There is some interesting background here (program(me) notes):

https://thomashampson.com/2005/02/20/music-from-the-new-and-old-worlds/

[LeMartinPecheur]

There is some interesting background here (program(me) notes):
https://thomashampson.com/2005/02/20...nd-old-worlds/

Pulc: many thanks for that. One excellent typo though: After Japan’s attack, the call to join a “lust war” seemed to make sense again.

Always does for me!

[Pulcinella]

Pulc: many thanks for that. One excellent typo though: After Japan’s attack, the call to join a “lust war” seemed to make sense again.

Always does for me!

I wonder if the notes were scanned and there is a bit of optical character (mis)recognition?
There's an instance of 'Weill' as 'Weil!', which suggests something not quite right somewhere!

PS: Must compare the setting of Whitman's Dirge for two veterans with those by Holst and RVW (in Dona nobis pacem, one of my very favourite works).