[SanAntone]

Duruflé : Requiem, Op. 9
Robert Simpson: Houston Chamber Choir

 

[Red Terror]

 

[Bkeske]

Musical consolation whilst working on my taxes...

Well, at least you do not feel the need to listen to a requiem. 😁

 

[Merl]

Their K516 was top notch so no surprise that their K515 is too.

 

[Malx]

Their K516 was top notch so no surprise that their K515 is too.

Why do I think of a track from Frank Zappa's 'One Size Fits All' album when I look at this cover?

 

[cybernaut]

Listening to more pieces by Antheil and loving them! Yeah, he's going to join my pantheon of favorites. This is wild, fun and exciting music to my ears.

George Antheil - SeSecond Sonata ("The Airplane"), Sonata Sauvage, Jazz Sonata
piano - Steffen Schleiermacher

 

[Lisztianwagner]

Carl Nielsen
Violin Concerto

Johan Dalene (violin)
John Storgårds & Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

 

[Klavierman]

Not much to say about this except 'excellent'!

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You beat me to it--I'm just about to play it!

 

[Merl]

Why do I think of a track from Frank Zappa's 'One Size Fits All' album when I look at this cover?

Lol, I didn't even notice the lack of footwear.

 

[Malx]

Vaughan Williams, English Folk Song Suite / Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 / Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' / In the Fen Country'* / The Lark Ascending* - Hugh Bean London Symphony Orchestra / New Philharmonia Orchestra*, Sir Adrian Boult.

In other words the whole disc excluding the Serenade to Music which I just can't listen too - I find it a touch mawkish.
The rest of the small VW pieces have, for me, a distinct Englishness to them but that isn't a bad thing, its just a thing. Hugh Bean's 'Lark' has always been one of my favourite recordings of the piece he and Boult get the balance about right for me - no over sentimentality on show.

 

[janwillemvanaalst]

César Cui (1835-1918): Velichit dusha moya Gospoda, op.93 (To the Most Holy Mother of God) (1914), as recorded in 1995 by Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano) with the St.Petersburg Chamber Choir, directed by Nikolai Korniev.

The beauty of this composition and its performance almost literally left me breathless. I find it inexplicable why Cui has been all but forgotten nowadays.

 

[sAmUiLc]

 

[Rtnrlfy]

Well, at least you do not feel the need to listen to a requiem. 😁

Well, admittedly that might apply - and it's not too late in the day for it...

 

[Rtnrlfy]

Normally not a Stravinsky fan but decided to stretch myself, and I'm so glad I did.

 

[MartinDB]

Tippett, Child of our time, Rozhdestvensky, BBC SO.

This is becoming a favourite Child of our Time.

 

[Bkeske]

Kiril Kondrashin conducts Shostakovich

• Symphony No. 2 in B, Op. 14 (October Revolution)
• Symphony No. 1 In F Minor, Op. 10.

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
Melodiya/Angel 1973

 

[Red Terror]

Normally not a Stravinsky fan but decided to stretch myself, and I'm so glad I did.

Not a Stravinsky fan? Sacrilege! 🥴

 

[Andrew Kenneth]

Georg Friedrich Haas - Ich suchte, aber Ich fand Ihn nicht
Evan Johnson - Die Bewegung der Augen
Jani Christou - Anaparastasis III "The Pianist"
Georg Friedrich Haas - ...Wie Stille brannte das Licht

 

[Rtnrlfy]

Not a Stravinsky fan? Sacrilege! 🥴

I'm working on fixing that now that I realize the error of my ways!

 

[janwillemvanaalst]

Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944): Six études de concert, op.35 (1886), as recorded in 2018 by Mark Viner (2018).

From Wikipedia:
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman."
Born in Paris, she studied at first with her mother, then with Félix Le Couppey on piano, Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard, Martin Pierre Marsick on violin, and Benjamin Godard in music composition, but not officially, since her father disapproved of her musical education. Chaminade married a music publisher from Marseilles, Louis-Mathieu Carbonel, in 1901, and on account of his advanced age, the marriage was rumored to be one of convenience. He died in 1907, and Chaminade did not remarry.
In 1908 she visited the United States, where she was accorded a hearty welcome. Her compositions were tremendous favorites with the American public, and such pieces as the Scarf Dance or the Ballet No. 1 were to be found in the music libraries of many lovers of piano music of the time. She composed a Konzertstück for piano and orchestra, the ballet music to Callirhoé and other orchestral works. Her songs, such as The Silver Ring and Ritournelle, were also great favorites.