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A fair bit of todays listening will be taken up listening to the next leg of my Opera box set challenge for 2021. However with it being Saturday it will be interspersed with Rugby and Football games on tv.
Wagner, Tannhäuser - René Kollo (Tannhauser), Helga Dernesch (Elisabeth), Christa Ludwig (Venus), Victor Braun (Wolfram), Manfred Jungwirth (Biterolf), Hans Sotin (Hermann), Kurt Equiluz (Heinrich), Norman Bailey (Reinmar)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti.
7PM
Pannon Philharmonic
Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16
9PM
Budapest Festival Orchestra with Nicolas Namoradze
Legend No. 2 (in E major) (Saint Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves)
Totentanz
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Aleksandr Skryabin - various works part four for late morning and early afternoon
Symphony no.3 [Le Divin Poeme] for orchestra op.43 (1902-04): Le Poème de l'extase - symphonic poem for orchestra op.54 (1905-08):
Huit études for piano op.42 (1903): Étude for piano op.49 no.1 from Trois morceaux for piano op.49 (1905):
Prélude in E-flat for piano op.45 no.3 from Trois morceaux for piano op.45 (1904): Quatre préludes for piano op.48 (1905): Prélude in F for piano op.49 no.2 from Trois morceaux for piano op.49 (1905): Prélude in A-minor for piano op.51 no.2 from Quatre morceaux for piano op.51 (1906):
Deux poèmes for piano op.32 (1903): Poème tragique for piano op.34 (1903): Poème Satanique for piano op.36 (1903) Poème for piano op.41 (1903): Deux poèmes for piano op.44 (1904): Feuillet d'album in E-flat for piano op.45 no.1 from Trois morceaux for piano op.45 (1904): Poème fantasque in C for piano op.45 no.2 from Trois morceaux for piano op.45 (1904): Scherzo for piano op.46 (1905): Quasi valse in F for piano op.47 (1905): Rêverie in C for piano op.49 no.3 from Trois morceaux for piano op.49 (1905): Fragilité for piano op.51 no.1 from Quatre morceaux for piano op.51 (1906): Poème ailé for piano op.51 no.3 from Quatre morceaux for piano op.51 (1906): Danse languide for piano op.51 no.4 from Quatre morceaux for piano op.51 (1906): Trois morceaux for piano op.52 (1907):
The Boulez we all love. Very fine performance with the Clevelanders, which, for me always, is Americas most unstable high class SO. (this means > conductor's driven orchestra...) Splendid piece of music.
The French Baroque, Music Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel CD is an absolute corker. One of the best CDs of the genre ever released. I cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone who loves music, of any stripe ......
Erwin Schulhoff, Symphony No. 2
James Conlon, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Not the actual recordings discussed by Hurwitz, but definitely worth a listen. This one is actually a boxed set (!) which contains 6 CDs-worth of orchestral and chamber music and which I'm going to sample more from once the 2nd Symphony is done (it's only a 20-minuter)
Edited to add: The 1921 Suite for Chamber Orchestra that appears on disc 1 of the set, just after Symphony No. 2 is great fun: reminds me of the jazzy bits in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges (How is your Mug, Keng-ca-fou etc)
Really, never thought I'd enjoy it as much as I did a few days ago. I haven't studied or read about the piece, just listen and listen again. While you listen, you learn this new language.
It is just beautiful but I understand that there are still people who think that this is not possible.
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