Classical Music - August 2017

Bach, J.S. - Bekennen will ich seinen Namen (I will acknowledge his name)
Barber

• Dover Beach
• Overture to 'The School for Scandal'
• Cello Sonata 

Beethoven

• The Creatures of Prometheus
• 12 German Dances for orchestra, WoO 8
• 12 Contredanses for orchestra, WoO 14
• Two arias for "The Beautfiul Shoemaker's Wife" 

Brahms - Piano Trio No.1
Bridge

• Mid of the Night
• Serenade (orchestral version)
• Valse Intermezzo à cordes
• Chant d'espérance
• Phantasie String Quartet
• Novelletten
• 3 Pieces for string quartet, H.43

Debussy - Cello Sonata
Debussy - La plus que lente (cello arrangement) 
Dvorak - String Quartets 2 to 5
Haydn - Symphonies 26, 42 and 65
Holmboe - Notturno
Holmboe - Hymn to the Sun 
Holten - Puder og skår (Pillows and Shards)
Lorentzen - National-Fanfare
Medtner - Skazki, opp. 8, 9, 14 and 20
Mozart

• Symphonies 29 and 30
• Piano Concerto No.5
• String Quintet No.1 

Nielsen - Symphony No.1
Nielsen - Two Fantasy Pieces for oboe and piano 
Nørgård - Symphonies 3 and 8
Poulenc

• Cello Sonata
• Serenade from Chanson Galliardes (cello and piano version)
• Bagatelle from Le Bal Masque (cello and piano version)

Rachmaninov - Six songs, op.38
Rachmaninov - Variations on a theme by Corelli
Schoenberg - Pelleas and Melisande
Schumann

• Carnaval
• Symphonic Etudes
• Symphony in G minor, 'Zwickau' 

Scriabin

• Piano Sonata No.7
• 3 Pieces, op.2
• 10 Mazurkas, op.3
• Fantaisie, op.28
• 4 Preludes, op.31
• 2 Poèmes, op.32
• Valse in A flat, op.38
• 8 Etudes, op.42

Sibelius - Songs/Lieder, opp. 36, 37, 38 and 50
Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No.9 (strings and choral versions)

I've fallen behind again, so I won't say an enormous amount about this list. In a lot of ways it's a continuation of the July listening pattern, with the surveys of various composers. I also started a Brahms chronological survey, and possibly I started that in July with the others, but as the earliest Brahms work I own is opus 8 it might not have registered.

The Sibelius songs are worth mentioning, because I was surprised by how good they were. While I had no doubts about Sibelius' quality as a composer, his reputation is almost entirely based on his orchestral work. But there is more than enough in these songs to repay the listener, and I was often struck by how modern they are.