What Have You Been Listening To Lately? - #3

[Green Knight]

On Spotify:

Pyotr Tchaikovsky--Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Op.74 {"Pathetique"}, featuring Yevgeni Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.
Antonin Dvorak--Symphony No.7 in D Minor, Op.70 and Symphony No.8 in G Major, Op.88, both performed by the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of George Szell.
John Adams--The Dharma At Big Sur, featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Tracy Silverman on electric violin.

[Green Knight]

On Spotify:

Pyotr Tchaikovsky--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 Major, Op.29 {"Polish"}. All three symphonies feature the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Bernstein.

[Roehre]

Today:

Cherubini :
Marche Funebre (1820) (CotW iPlayer)

Pärt: (iPlayer)
Magnificat (1989)
The Deer's Cry (2009)
Für Alina (1976)
Spiegel im Spiegel (vn+pf; 1978)
Stabat Mater (1985)

Rautavaara: (iPlayer)
Cello concerto no.2 “Towards the horizon” (2009)

Stier:
Monolith (1995)

[Green Knight]

Pyotr Tchaikovsky--Symphony No.4 in F Minor, Op.36 and Symphony No.5 in E Minor, Op.64, both performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton of Herbert von Karajan.

[Green Knight]

On Spotify:

Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.6 in A Minor {"Tragic"}, featuring George Szell leading the Cleveland Orchestra.
Robert Schumann--Symphony No.1 in B-Flat Major{"Spring"} and Symphony No.2 in C Major, Op.61, both performed by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leonard Bernstein.

[Mambo]

Originally Posted by Roehre

For a start, James, one thing you should be aware of: the "Gothic" is really the only OTT symphony of Brian's, in terms of scale as well as in length.

His fingerprints are definitely to be found in this piece, but there are a couple of CDs / recordings with his smaller (in time and in scale) symphonies, of which especially no.32 (13 minutes) gives in a concentrated but very listenable form all these too (to be found on an EMI CD or 2CD set).
On Naxos there are a couple of the other recordings originally released on Marco Polo to be found, of which I only want to "warn" for Symphony no.4 "Siegeslied" as an a-typical work (it is choral and German).
His violin concerto (Naxos) is very enjoyable too.
Other works of his are to be found on full priced Toccata Classics CDs, with his english suites available on YouTube too. "Lighter" music than the symphonic works, IMO enjoyable.

[It might be of interest, that one of the Brian fingerprints are to be found in some of Arnold Bax' symphonic works too (it's a specific bass line + rhythm). ]

Hey Roehre (and James) - i'm going to translate OTT as Over the Top (?) which i think fits with the context.

I recently read somewhere too that Brian's style is
like Arnold Bax's, but i am not familiar with much of Bax..
I have started listening to the "Gothic" on Spotify. It sounded a lot
like Mahler, so those Mahler devotees probably will like Brian.
I recently ordered the Gothic on a two-LP Aries set, which
is the 1966 performance with Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC
Symphony. Maybe i can compare it with the Spotify/Marco Polo CD.

[Green Knight]

On Spotify:

Vaughan Williams--SymphonyNo.2 {"A London Symphony"} and The Wasps, both performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra led by Kees Bakels.
Robert Schumann--Symphony No.3 in E-Flat major, Op.97 {"Rhenish"} and Symphony No.4 in D Minor, Op.120, both featuring the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Sir Adrian Boult.

[Roehre]

Today:

Bredemeyer:
Oboe concerto (1977)

Mathus:
Violin concerto (1968)

[CamQTR]

I just discovered Alfredo Campoli, on youtube. I'd never heard of him before !!! Now I know!

[Green Knight]

On Spotify:

Gustav Mahler--Symphony No.7 in E Minor, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra led by Valery Gergiev.