I have been thinking for a time of blogging what music I have been listening to. For the past eight days I was listening to one Bruckner symphony a day and I thought maybe I could listen to 366 different symphonies over the next year.
The new recording of Shostakovich 3 by Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic arrived in the post today.
I have been been buying each of their Shostakovich CDs on release and was eager to hear this. I can't call the 3rd a masterpiece, but here it gets a dynamic, brilliant performance as committed as if it were a major work. Interesting how some it also reminded me of the scherzo of the 10th.
I also listened to On This Island by Britten - great settings of Auden poems sung by the late Philip Langridge. I didn't plan this, but interesting to hear two early works by precocious composers who later became friends.
The link isn't Langridge. Apologies
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