I have listened to was intended to ask myself the fundamental question why some composers today are so much perceived as superior beings, as super-human composers.
Tahiti Trot, for orchestra (arr. of Youmans "Tea for Two"), Op. 16
Composed by Dmitry Shostakovich
Performed by Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
with Peter Masseurs, Ronald Brautigam
Conducted by Riccardo Chailly/quote]
Wow that is spectacular...I just do not get tired of this music.If only Shostakovich had seen more democratic regimes than Soviet Russia and could write a bit more of sweet music.Do not get me wrong his bittersweet symphonies are also magnificent i can not live a day without listening to one of them but he also shows great talent for these kind of pieces.
Ernest Bloch:
Concerto Grosso No.1 for String Orchestra and piano obbligato (1925), and
Concerto Grosso No.2 for String Orchestra and String Quartet (1952), Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, 5 May 1959. LP Mercury Golden Imports.
Ernest Bloch:
Schelomo. Hebraic Rhapsody for 'Cello and Orchestra (1916), Sir Charles Mackerras, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ofra Harnoy, cello. CD RCA Red Seal (1991).
Ernest Bloch:
Baal Shem, for violin and orchestra (orchestrated by Nico Richter)(1939), Serebrier, Royal Phil. Orch., Michael Guttman, violin. CD ASV.
Ernest Bloch:
Symphony for Trombone and Orchestra (1954), L. Segerstam, Swedish Radio Symphony Orch., Christian Lindberg, trombone. BIS (1992).
Ernest Bloch:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1938), Poems of the Sea (1922), Suite Symphonique (1944), Sakari Oramo, Malmo symfoniorkester, Oleh Krysa, violin. BIS (1995)
My Menuhin takes 38...
Bloch is someone who doesn't visit my cd player frequently... I may play some of his solo cello works tomorrow, as a reconciliation. (I can make it a full solo-cello-sunday, filling some gaps with Britten's suites)