What are you listening to now - I ?

[BBMmk2]

Tonight's Prom, Andris Nelsons and co and Britten's War Requiem

[Dave2002]

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 1, Richard Goode, Ivan Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra

via Spotify. I crumbled eventually, and ordered the CDs.

[Hitch]

Bartók: Dance Suite, Sz. 77, BB 86a. LSO/Solti.

From the R3 Essential Choices playlist on Spotify...

[EdgeleyRob]

Myaskovsky - Piano Sonatas.

Murray McLachlan.

Inexplicably neglected music.

[teamsaint]

Recently.

Fourth Sonata. Colin Matthews.

David Matthews Symphony #2 .

Strauss. Four last songs. BPO/Karajan/Janowitz.

LvB . Missa Solemnis. Gardiner/ English Baroque Soloists etc.


Brilliant, all of it.

Must have a bash at the Myaskovsky Sonatas, sound interesting.

[AmpH]

ARNOLD

Viola Concerto Op 108
Roger Best (viola) / Northern Sinfonia

Concerto for two violins Op 77
Alan Loveday & Frances Mason (violins) / London Philharmonic Orchestra

Horn Concerto No 2 Op 58
Alan Civil (horn) / English Chamber Orchestra

All conducted by Sir Malcolm Arnold
( CARLTON CLASSICS )

[pastoralguy]

ARNOLD

Viola Concerto Op 108
Roger Best (viola) / Northern Sinfonia

Concerto for two violins Op 77
Alan Loveday & Frances Mason (violins) / London Philharmonic Orchestra

Horn Concerto No 2 Op 58
Alan Civil (horn) / English Chamber Orchestra

All conducted by Sir Malcolm Arnold
( CARLTON CLASSICS )

Lovely cd. Alan Loveday is one of my all time favourite violinists.

[Pianorak]

TTN:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Quartet for flute, viola and continuo (Wq.93 / H.537) in A minor

Performer: Andreas Staier. Performer: Wilbert Hazelzet. Ensemble: Les Adieux. Performer: Hajo Bass.

Really enjoyed that - set me up for the day!

[Stanfordian]

Glazunov:
Complete Symphonies No’s 1-8
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio/Vladimir Fedoseyev
Recorded live 1974/82 Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Brilliant Classics

‘Brother’ Jack McDuff with Jimmy Forrest, Grant Green & Ben Dixon:
'The Honeydripper'
Prestige (1961)

[Dave2002]

Anna Bonitatibus
Semiramide album - http://open.spotify.com/track/6xZj0U7o7yWup4R0HVcLyR

[Roehre]

Today:

Allegri:
Miserere

Terence Thompson:
2 Light Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (1999)

Downes
Violin sonata

Crump:
Four Poems of George Herbert
Berceuse

Copland:
The Tender Land: suite (1952/’54)

[Nimrod]

Mahler's 4th Symphony, BBC Symphony/Barbirolli live from Smetana hall Prague, 03.01.1967. A truly lovely performance with Heather Harper in glorious voice. I hear on the grape vine that the Barbirolli Society will be issuing a Mahler 1st from this same venue with JB conducting the Czech Philharmonic in Mahler 1. Can't wait!!
Nimrod

[Suffolkcoastal]

Today - Felix Mendelssohn:

String Symphony No 9 in C major 1823
Piano Trio No 1 in D minor op49 1839
Lieder Ohne Worte op19 1830
Overture: A Midsummer Nights Dream op21 1826
Organ Sonata in F minor op65 no1 1844
Six Anthems op79 1846
Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor op40 1837
Paulus - Part I op36 1836
String Quartet in F minor op80 1847
Cello Sonata No 2 in D major op58 1843
Octet for Strings op20 1825
Rondo Capriccioso op14 1824
Symphony No 3 in A minor 'Scottish' op56 1842

Mendelssohn is certainly one of my 'soft spot' composers and for me the greatest child composer prodigy, I find his early music far more accomplished than Mozart's at the same age. Whether he fulfilled his early promise entirely is often questioned. True there are some bland works from the later 1830's & 40's with Mendelssohn relying too much perhaps on key stylistic formulas, yet of course at the same times he was still composing masterpieces such as the F minor Quartet and the D major Cello Sonata, I'd forgotten how good this was before today, I was listening to a 'period' recording and although not always particularly keen on these it really brought out the energy and humour in the work and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The early Octet is still a favourite and I always marvel at the level of accomplishment in a boy of 16. I'm not so sure on works like Paulus, though I have to admit it grew a bit on me today, so it'll be worth another try of the full work in the not too distant future.

[EdgeleyRob]

Today - Felix Mendelssohn:

String Symphony No 9 in C major 1823
Piano Trio No 1 in D minor op49 1839
Lieder Ohne Worte op19 1830
Overture: A Midsummer Nights Dream op21 1826
Organ Sonata in F minor op65 no1 1844
Six Anthems op79 1846
Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor op40 1837
Paulus - Part I op36 1836
String Quartet in F minor op80 1847
Cello Sonata No 2 in D major op58 1843
Octet for Strings op20 1825
Rondo Capriccioso op14 1824
Symphony No 3 in A minor 'Scottish' op56 1842

Mendelssohn is certainly one of my 'soft spot' composers and for me the greatest child composer prodigy, I find his early music far more accomplished than Mozart's at the same age. Whether he fulfilled his early promise entirely is often questioned. True there are some bland works from the later 1830's & 40's with Mendelssohn relying too much perhaps on key stylistic formulas, yet of course at the same times he was still composing masterpieces such as the F minor Quartet and the D major Cello Sonata, I'd forgotten how good this was before today, I was listening to a 'period' recording and although not always particularly keen on these it really brought out the energy and humour in the work and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The early Octet is still a favourite and I always marvel at the level of accomplishment in a boy of 16. I'm not so sure on works like Paulus, though I have to admit it grew a bit on me today, so it'll be worth another try of the full work in the not too distant future.

One of my favourite composers sc.
The chamber music especially is very special to me.
Do you know the string quintets and piano quartets ?,marvelous stuff IMO.

[Stanfordian]

Grainger:
Works for Chorus and Orchestra I
Shallow Brown,
Marching Tune,
I’m Seventeen Come Sunday,
Two Sea Chanties:
I Shenandoah
II Stormy
Molly on the Shore,
Brigg Fair,
Early One Morning,
After-word,
There Was a Pig Went Out to Dig,
The Lonely Desert-man Sees the Tents of the Happy Tribes,
Gracious Power,
County Derry Air,
Handel in the Strand,
Six Dukes Went Afishin’,
Anchor Song,
Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon,
Mark Padmore, tenor; Stephen Varcoe, baritone; Penelope Thwaites, piano;
Joyful Company of Singers,
City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox
Recorded London 1992/2002
Chandos

Glazunov:
Complete Symphonies No’s 1-8
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio/Vladimir Fedoseyev
Recorded live 1974/82 Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory
Brilliant Classics (orig. Melodiya/Teldec )

Coleman Hawkins with Charlie Shavers, Ray Byrant, Tiny Grimes, George Duvivier with Osie Johnson:
‘Hawk Eyes’
Prestige (1959)