[prlj]

Pohjola Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Finnish Radio Symphony Orch/Oramo

This was a happy accident! Was searching for something else, and came across this new-to-me composer. Lush, richly orchestrated and cleanly performed. Both are modern, but very accessible works. The 1st was composed in 2002, the 2nd in 2006.

 

[Knorf]

Jacob Druckman: Viola Concerto
Roberto Díaz
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch

 

[Klavierman]

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Pohjola Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Finnish Radio Symphony Orch/Oramo

This was a happy accident! Was searching for something else, and came across this new-to-me composer. Lush, richly orchestrated and cleanly performed. Both are modern, but very accessible works. The 1st was composed in 2002, the 2nd in 2006.

I really like that recording. His string quartets are very good, too.

 

[Neo Romanza]

NP:

Kodály
Duo for violin and cello
Barnabás Kelemen, Marc Coppey

I'm currently addicted to this work. It's actually caused me to re-listen to several works of this instrumentation like the Ravel, Martinů, Honegger, Schulhoff et. al.

 

[Bkeske]

Kertész conducts Dvořák

• Symphony No. 3 In E Flat Major, Op. 10
• "Hussite" Overture, Op. 67

The London Symphony Orchestra
London 1967

 

[starthrower]

Carter: Three Occasions for Orchestra / Varese: Deserts, Ecuatorial, Hyperprism

 

[sAmUiLc]

Quintet

 

[pmsummer]

CELTIC WANDERERS
The Pilgrim's Road
Music from the Early Middle Ages
Altramar Medieval Music Ensemble

Dorian

 

[Monsalvat]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C major, KV 425, “Linz”
Leonard Bernstein: Wiener Philharmoniker (1984)

Beautiful, string-saturated playing from the Vienna Philharmonic. Bernstein is no Szell here, but he capitalizes on the orchestra's strengths to create a really lovely recording. I don't think that the criticisms often given to Bernstein apply all that much in this recording; he acquits himself well.

 

[sAmUiLc]

Clarinet Concerto

 

[Neo Romanza]

Time for a Latin American fiesta!

NP:

Chávez
La Hija de Cólquide
The State of Mexico SO
Enrique Bátiz

From this OOP set -

And then:

Ginastera
Harp Concerto, Op. 25
Yolanda Kondonassis (harp)
Oberlin Orchestra
Raphael Jiménez

Villa-Lobos
Symphony No. 4 'A Vitória'
São Paulo SO
Isaac Karabtchevsky

 

[Nedeslusire]

An evening of Hildegard von Bingen at the Basilique de Saint-Denis in Paris in 2014.

Ibrahim Maalouf in la Seine-Saint-Denis

Festival de Saint-Denis 2014

www.medici.tv

In the magnificent Basilica of Saint-Denis, France, star trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, the maîtrise de Radio France, as well as a brass ensemble including Clément Saunier interpret and recompose Hildegard von Bingen's Canticles. The music of the 12th century composer and abbess finds new life under the fingers of Franco-Lebanese artist, laureate of the 2016 César Award for best film soundtrack, who deploys all of his creativity and sensitivity along the course of this concert.
One of the most poignant elements of this performance is Maalouf's use of unique extended techniques to recreate the plaintive and passionate chant of higher voices or to magnify harmonies. If one listens closely enough, one might also find virtuosic prowess such as melodies played on the quarter tone. This atypical program, along with its wonderful interpreters, allow us to immerse ourserlves in a new, captivating universe that we do not want to leave.

 

[Mannheim Rocket]

Sergei Rachmaninov

The Bells, Op. 35
Vocalise, op. 34 No. 14 (orchestral version)

Sheila Armstrong, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk
The London Symphony Orchestra Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn

 

[Bkeske]

Copland conducts Copland

• Appalachian Spring (Ballet For Martha)
• The Tender Land (Orchestral Suite From The Opera)

Boston Symphony Orchestra
RCA Victor Red Seal ‘Living Stereo’ reissue 1976, originally 1960

 

[Hogwash]

 

[Nedeslusire]

I want to introduce you guys to a great love of mine...

On April 16th (2021) Cappella Records is proud to present the release of Hymns of Kassianí performed by Cappella Romana, Alexander Lingas, music director.
Discover the world’s earliest music by a female composer: 9th-century nun, poet, and hymnographer Kassianí (Kassía).
The same men and women of Cappella Romana who brought you the Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia bestseller (44 weeks on Billboard), now sing the earliest music we have by a female composer, including long-suppressed hymns recorded here for the first time.
They close with two medieval versions of her beloved hymn for Orthodox Holy Week.
Cappella Romana is the world’s leading ensemble in the field of medieval Byzantine chant. Building on its extensive catalogue of this repertoire, Hymns of Kassianí is its 25th release. This is the first of a planned series to record all of Kassianí’s surviving works.

 

[sAmUiLc]

Sinfonia Concertante

with Kim Kashkashian

 

[LudwigvanBeetroot]

Today’s listening

Sibelius - Symphonies 3 and 4
Bernstein/NY Phil

Hindemith - Sonatas for piano and althorn, piano and cello, piano and trombone and piano and trumpet
Melnikov, piano; van der Zwart, althorn; Faust, violin; Rudin, cello; Costes, trombone

Bloch - Cello Suites, Meditations hebraique for cello and piano
Bertrand, Amoyel

Schoenberg - Gurrelieder
Mehta/NY Phil; Marton, Lakes, Quivar, Hotter

Mahler - Symphony 2
Jurowski/LPO; Kucerova, Stotijn

 

[Rogerx]

Murray Perahia - Songs Without Words

Murray Perahia

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV639 'Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV645 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'
Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV659 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'
Liszt: Erlkönig (No. 4 from Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558)
Liszt: Piano Transcriptions of Schubert Songs
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 1 in E major 'Sweet Remembrance'
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 3 in A major 'Hunting Song'
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 19b No. 5 in F sharp minor
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 2 in B flat minor
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 4 in B minor
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 6 in F sharp minor 'Venezianisches Gondellied No. 2'
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 2 in C minor
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 3 in E major
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 6 in A flat major 'Duetto'
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 53 No. 4 in F major
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 62 No. 2 in B flat major
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 1 in E flat major
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 2 in F sharp minor
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 4 in C major 'Spinning Song' or 'Bee's Wedding'
Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 102 No. 5 in A major 'Childrens Piece'

 

[Neo Romanza]

Changed my listening plans a bit...

NP:

Ravel

Le Tombeau de Couperin (original version)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano

Le Tombeau de Couperin (orchestral version)
Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire
Cluytens

From these recordings -

My set of the Ravel Bavouzet has a slightly different cover as the one pictured above is the original issue and the one I own is a reissue.