What classical music did you listen to today?

[cjvinthechair]

@ Clive, no problem mate stay with what you are comfortable with, the uploading will come to you in time.

No, ultimate dinosaur, me !

S for Sunday concert tonight :

Yevhen Stankovych - 'Black Elegy' for chorus & orchestra
Franz Schmidt - Symphony no. 4
Martin Smolka - Agnus Dei for double choir
Stephen Schwartz - Concerto for Orchestra - 'Yellow Star'

The Schmidt & Smolka are on You Tube, as is plenty of Stankovych, but not I think this piece. Schwartz is only represented by his 'lighter' music.

Hope one or two may be a discovery for some here, if interested. Cheers. Clive.

 

[White Knight]

As a reflection of the below freezing temps in NYC tonight, I chose the following for my evening's listening pleasure {s}:
Vaughan Williams--Symphony No.7 {"Sinfonia antartica"} and Symphony No.8 in D Minor, both featuring Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic.The Seventh
also includes soprano Norma Burrowes and the London Philharmonic Choir, under choir master John Alldis.
Dmitri Shostakovich--Symphony No.7 in C Major, Op. 60 {"Leningrad "},
performed by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
Pyotr Chaikovskii--Symphony No.1 in G Minor, Op.13 {"Winter Dream"}; Symphony No.2 in C Minor, Op.17 {"Little Russia"} and Symphony No.3 in D Major, Op.29 {"Polish"}.
All three works once again feature Maestro Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.
Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.1 in D Major {"Titan"},
traversed by the James Levine led London Symphony Orchestra.
Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.10 {adagio}, once again featuring Maestro Levine, on this occasion leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

 

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Robert Simpson--Symphony No.3,
performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Jascha Horenstein.
Dmitri Shostakovich--Symphony No.1 in F Minor, Op.10 and Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Op.54,
both featuring Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.
Dmitri Shostakovich--Symphony No.1 in F Minor, Op.10,
traversed by the Efrem Kurtz led Philharmonia Orchestra.
Dmitri Shostakovich--Symphony No.4 in C Minor, Op.43,
featuring Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool PHilharmonic Orchestra.
Dmitri Shostakovich--Symphony No.5 in D Minor, Op.47, featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Andre Previn.

 

[cjvinthechair]

Some music tonight by composers I've found recently on You Tube - I think they're all highly listenable, though whether they're 'top drawer' composers...well, you might care to dip in & see:

Yuri Falik - Concerto for winds & percussion 'Skomorokhi' (Buffoons)
Guillaume Connesson - Cosmic Trilogy
Alexander Sojnikov - Rose of the World
Alfonso Rega - Symphony no. 6 'La Divina Commedia'
Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight

Longer evening than you'd get in the concert hall, but well worth it !

 

[White Knight]

Ralph Vaughan Williams--Symphony No.5 in D and Symphony No.9 in E Minor, both traversed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Adrian Boult. The Fifth--along with his Second {"London"}. Sixth and Seventh {"Sinfonia antartica"}--is rapidly becoming one of my "go to" works by this composer.
Josef Haydn--Symphony No.16 in B-Flat Major; Symphony No.34 in D Minor; Symphony No.72 in D Major; Symphony No.39 in G Minor; Symphony No.29 in E Major and Symphony No.28 in A Major. All six symphonies are performed by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies. First listen for most of these Haydn works for me, but I really liked No.34.
Ludwig Van Beethoven--Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92 and Symphony No.8 in F Major, Op.93, both featuring Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Standout performances of these Beethoven pieces, especially the ineffable beauty of the second movement of the Seventh as evoked by this conductor.

 

[Chi_townPhilly]

On Spotify:

Robert Simpson--Symphony No.3,
performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Jascha Horenstein.

Hmm- there's an interesting choice. Robert Simpson, the person who (you could well already know) is perhaps the the most well-known English-language commentator on Anton Bruckner.

Saturday was yet another workplace overtime session... but I brought a quality radio to my workplace, and listened to the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Borodin's Prince Igor. Good thing about operas chosen for MET in HD... eventually, they make it onto DVD... and then I'll have the opportunity to listen to it undistracted.

 

[White Knight]

Hmm- there's an interesting choice. Robert Simpson, the person who (you could well already know) is perhaps the the most well-known English-language commentator on Anton Bruckner.

Saturday was yet another workplace overtime session... but I brought a quality radio to my workplace, and listened to the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Borodin's Prince Igor. Good thing about operas chosen for MET in HD... eventually, they make it onto DVD... and then I'll have the opportunity to listen to it undistracted.

No, I actually didn't know that about Mr.Simpson. Thanks for the heads up! Hope you enjoyed your opera listening session at work. :cheers:

 

[cjvinthechair]

Since we're doing a little better than Mr(?) White Knight's freezing NYC, a Spring-themed evening !

Arnold Bax - Spring Fire
Martian Negrea - Spring Symphony
Yan-Yu Xua - Moonlight over the Spring River
Slava Vorlova - Spring Concerto for Flute & Orchestra
Efrem Podgaits - Missa Veris(Spring Mass)

Hope I need plenty of Summer music some time this year !

 

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

BorisLyatoshynsky--Symphony No.1 in A Major, Op.2; Symphony No.2, Op.26 and Symphony No.3 in B Minor, Op.50.
All three symphonies feature the Ukranian State SYmphony Orchestra led by Theodore Kuchar.
Piotr Chaikovskii--Symphony No.1 in G MInor, Op.13 {"Winter Daydreams"}; Symphony No.2 in C Minor, Op.17 {"Little Russian"} and Symphony No.3 in D, Op.29 {"Polish"}.
The three works are performed by the Herbert von Karajan led Berliner Philharmoniker. Having heard these readings some time ago--and not being too impressed--I have decided to give them another chance. Hopefully, they will not sound so leaden and devoid of
life as they did the last time I listened.
Carl Nielsen--Symphony No.4, Op.29 {"Inextinguishable"},
again featuring Maestro Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker. First listen to HVK conducting Nielsen, after having read many glowing accounts of how well he handles Nielsen and Sibelius.
Anton Bruckner--Symphony No.4 in E-Flat Major {"Romantic"}, ​traversed by Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker.

 

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Jean Sibelius--Tapiola, Op.112, traversed by the Herbert von Karajan led Berliner Philharmoniker.
Jean Sibelius--Symphony No.4 in A Minor, Op.63; Symphony No.6 in D Minor, Op.104 and Symphony No.7 in C, Op.105. All three works once again feature Maestro Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker.

 

[cjvinthechair]

Well, our mighty football team is trying to overcome formidable Denmark tonight, so in honour of the opponents :

Joachim Andersen - Ballade & Dance of the Sylphs
Ludolf Nielsen - Forest Walk
Niels Gade - At Sunset
Niels Viggo Bentzon - Symphony no. 12
Launy Grondahl - Trombone Concerto
Asger Hamerik - Requiem

 

[White Knight]

Robert Schumann--Symphony No.3 in E-Flat Major, Op.97 {"Rhenish"} and Symphony No.4 in D Minor, Op.120, both featuring Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker in two very lilting performances.
Joseph Haydn--Symphony No.52 in C Minor; Symphony No.42 in D Major; Symphony No.96 in D Major {"The Miracle"}; Symphony No.95 in C Minor and Symphony No.93 in D Major. ​All five works are performed by the Dennis Russell Davies led Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Truthfully, I'm still trying to figure out if I really like or "get" this composer, as he wrote so many symphonies {104, to be exact!} and many of them sound to me very similar in their expositions and developments. So far, there are no memorable themes or "hooks"--as I find with so many other composers to whom I listen--on which I might "hang my hat", and which serve to distinguish one symphony from the other. Not yet, anyways.

 

[Mat]

I listened to Tchaikovsky's symphonies 2-4 over the past few days. All three performed by the RCO under the baton of Bernard Haitink.

 

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Jean Sibelius--Symphony No.4 in A Minor, Op.63; Symphony No.5 in E-Flat Major, Op.82; Symphony No.6 in D Minor, Op.104; Symphony No.7 in C, Op.105 and Tapiola, Op.112. All five works feature Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Now having heard Maestro Karajan readings of Sibelius for the first time, I can now better understand why he has been so widely acclaimed as one of the top notch conductors of this composer. I believe he has captured all the nuances, the many ebbs and flows, of this artist.
Wilhelm Stenhammar--Symphony No.1 in F Major and Symphony No.2 in G Minor,
both performed by the Neeme Jarvi led Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
Edward Elgar--Enigma Variations,
traversed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Adrian Leaper.
@ Teddy, You're right, I do find the Nimrod Variation to be very moving and lyrical. probably my favorite of the whole lot.

 

[cjvinthechair]

Not enough of a musician to put together a concert for cerebral musical reasons, so my evenings are a little random (though do try for variety within the chosen 'theme' !)
Tonight is composer letter B, because....Gloria Bruni is the composer whose purchased work (Requiem a Roma) has just arrived.

Easley Blackwood - Concerto for oboe, flute & strings
Grazyna Bacewicz - Symphony no.3
Henk Badings - Concerto for harp & orchestra
Svetislav Bozic - The Racani Prayer
Roumen Boyadjiev - Requiem Mass

 

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Boris Lyatoshynsky--Symphony No.3 in C Major, Op 52; Symphony No.4 in B-Flat Major, Op.63 and Symphony No.5 in C Major, Op.67{"Slavonic"}.
All three symphonies are performed by the Ukranian State Symphony Oechestra led by Theodore Kuchar. Still "settling in" with this composer; overall, so far, I like him, hearing some echoes of Shostakovich and Prokofiev in his use of dissonance in some of these works.
Carl Nielsen--Symphony No.3, Op.27 {"Sinfonia Espansiva"}; Symphony No.4 , Op.29 {"The Inextinguishable"} and Symphony No.5, Op.50.
All three works are traversed by the Osmo Vanska led BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Jean Sibelius--Symphony No.1 in E Minor, Op.39; Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.43; Symphony No.3 in C Major, Op.52 and Symphony No.5 in E-Flat Major, Op.82.​ All four works once again feature the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, on this occasion conducted by Neeme Jarvi.

 

[cjvinthechair]

Mr(?) White Knight - seems a shame we're both posting 'concerts', which quite possibly nobody else is viewing with much interest, without comparing notes at all !

Do very much like almost all the music you put up, in fact it's Lyatoshynsky's work (just put on his 5th as a tribute) which encouraged me to write this.
Never quite sure how it happened that I moved on to seek out more and more 'different', not necessarily better, composers - certainly doesn't mean I exhausted, or grew bored with, the 'sung' composers of those times (really from about 1850 onwards).
Do have to confess my musical skills aren't strong enough fully to appreciate the qualities of sonata/quartet etc. pieces, so do tend to go for the bigger picture, & Nielsen, Bruckner, Martinu + others of that ilk would certainly tempt me into a concert hall.
Also, as anyone bothering to read my drivel will be beginning to realize, love choral work (& do a bit of singing - currently preparing for performances of Durufle Requiem & Elgar's Gerontius - only in the chorus...nothing posh!).

Hope you don't mind me breaking silence with you here - there aren't, I fear, many viewers of the site prepared to commit themselves to print, so if I'm to survive here I need to feel able to engage with 'regulars' such as yourself & Corno Dolce.
Clive.

 

[White Knight]

Mr(?) White Knight - seems a shame we're both posting 'concerts', which quite possibly nobody else is viewing with much interest, without comparing notes at all !

Do very much like almost all the music you put up, in fact it's Lyatoshynsky's work (just put on his 5th as a tribute) which encouraged me to write this.
Never quite sure how it happened that I moved on to seek out more and more 'different', not necessarily better, composers - certainly doesn't mean I exhausted, or grew bored with, the 'sung' composers of those times (really from about 1850 onwards).
Do have to confess my musical skills aren't strong enough fully to appreciate the qualities of sonata/quartet etc. pieces, so do tend to go for the bigger picture, & Nielsen, Bruckner, Martinu + others of that ilk would certainly tempt me into a concert hall.
Also, as anyone bothering to read my drivel will be beginning to realize, love choral work (& do a bit of singing - currently preparing for performances of Durufle Requiem & Elgar's Gerontius - only in the chorus...nothing posh!).

Hope you don't mind me breaking silence with you here - there aren't, I fear, many viewers of the site prepared to commit themselves to print, so if I'm to survive here I need to feel able to engage with 'regulars' such as yourself & Corno Dolce.
Clive.

Clive, Hi. I don't mind your "breaking silence" at all; in fact, I more than welcome the give and take. You don't write "drivel" at all, far from it. I must say that I am not much "into" choral works or operas, much preferring the symphonic and sq forms.
I have been trying to branch out as well, recently "discovering"--thanks to my fellow members on our sister cm forum--such composers as Martinu and Lyatoshynsky.
Anyways, stay in touch and keep your impressions of the music you are experiencing coming. After all, sharing our feelings about this wonderful music--I would think--is one of the great features of this wonderful Forum put together by Mr.Magle and run by our knowledgeable moderators.
Thanks again for reaching out!
Steve:cheers:

 

[White Knight]

On Spotify:

Carl Nielsen--Symphony No.3, Op.27 {"Sinfonia Espansiva"},
traversed by Jascha Horenstein and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra. Taken at a little slower pace than I have become accustomed to, but still a very effective reading of this great symphony.
Jean Sibelius--Symphony No.5 in E-Flat Major, Op.82,
once again featuring the Jascha Horenstein led BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra. First listens to Maestro Horenstein's readings of both Nielsen and Sibelius, and I do like his way with both of them. Bravo!
Piotr Chaikovskii--Symphony No.1 in G Minor, Op.13 {"Winter Dreams"}; Symphony No.2 in C Minor, Op.17 {"Little Russian"} and Symphony No.3, Op.29 {"Polish"}.
All three works are performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Claudio Abbado.
Carl Nielsen--Symphony No.4 {"The Inextinguishable"} and Symphony No.5, Op.50, ​both featuring Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra.

 

[cjvinthechair]

Clive, Hi. I don't mind your "breaking silence" at all; in fact, I more than welcome the give and take. You don't write "drivel" at all, far from it. I must say that I am not much "into" choral works or operas, much preferring the symphonic and sq forms.
I have been trying to branch out as well, recently "discovering"--thanks to my fellow members on our sister cm forum--such composers as Martinu and Lyatoshynsky.
Anyways, stay in touch and keep your impressions of the music you are experiencing coming. After all, sharing our feelings about this wonderful music--I would think--is one of the great features of this wonderful Forum put together by Mr.Magle and run by our knowledgeable moderators.
Thanks again for reaching out!
Steve:cheers:

Ah, that's just fine, Mr. Steve - by the way, our 'sister forum'....am aware of, & involved with, a couple, but may I know which one you have in mind ?

Having an English day while catching up with the world : Humphrey Searle - Symphony no. 2. Edmund Rubbra - Sinfonia Sacra (no. 9). Andrjez Panufnik (always feel strange listing him as English, but actually met him & attended several of his concerts - which I didn't understand & hated - while growing up near London, & that's the way the family seemed to think of themselves) - Concerto for timpani, percussion & strings.