What are you listening to now?

[Que]

Morning listening:

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Note to myself: move Rousset's new Louis Couperin album up on the priority list...

[Draško]

[Que]

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[aligreto]

JC Bach: Piano Trios Op. 2 Nos. 1-3 [Trio 1790]

[Florestan]

I find myself wondering how Faure decided on these forms to focus on, Barcarolle, Nocturne, Impromptu, Valse-Caprice. Once you get past the very early works, they all seem like free-form fantasias for piano solo.

AFAIK he told his son that he actually hated giving such titles to his pieces and he'd have rather preferred to name them Piano Piece No. X. I don't know, though, if he really meant or it was rarher a tongue-in-cheek comment. Be it as it may, I think these titles are indicative of overall moods and feelings rather than form.

[aligreto]

Telemann: Two Concertos from CD 5 of this set





Concerto for Trumpet, 2 Oboes & B/C [Friedrich/Budapest Strings]
Concerto for Alto Recorder, 2 Violins & Continuo [Huntgeburth/Berliner Barock Compagney]

[Que]

Easy going music in exemplary performances:

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[Traverso]

Bach

cd 12

[Traverso]

I can think of plenty of voices besides Janet Baker's. I think what you meant to say was that you have yet to hear a better than Baker's in Elgar's Sea Pictures. And, of course, I agree!

Of course this is what I meant.

[aligreto]

Spohr: Clarinet Concerto No. 4 [Ottensamer/Wildner]

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 13

[Madiel]

Nørgård, Symphony No.1

[Karl Henning]

I don't know. Aren't computer games precisely about human beings making autonomous decisions? 

I can think of only one incentive to make me listen to such stuff: the point of a gun. 

Tangentially, there is a wrily funny torture scene in Woody Allen's Bananas where the instrument of suffering is Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta on a record player.

[Karl Henning]

Haydn, Symphony No.73 in D

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The first Haydn symphony to be published, just as he was transitioning from writing for the Esterhazys to writing for the wider public.

I'm in, though with "the Hobbit" and the Freiburger Barockorchester.

[Florestan]

Tangentially, there is a wrily funny torture scene in Woody Allen's Bananas where the instrument of suffering is Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta on a record player.

Never heard one single note of Herbert's music but judging by Wikipedia I'd rather have one of his entire operettas rather than 10 minutes of "listening to an alien consciousness, something produced entirely without human input making decisions autonomously."

[Karl Henning]

Never heard one single note of Herbert's music but judging by Wikipedia I'd rather have one of his entire operettas rather than 10 minutes of "listening to an alien consciousness, something produced entirely without human input making decisions autonomously."

Understood, and I might, possibly.  But the scene is funny, both musically, and for its being set in a Latin American military dictatorship.  I think you would laugh, even if in spite of yourself  0:)

[Florestan]

Understood, and I might, possibly.  But the scene is funny, both musically, and for its being set in a Latin American military dictatorship.  I think you would laugh, even if in spite of yourself  0:)

Oh, I always laugh when watching a Woody Allen movie --- sometimes for the wrong reasons, granted. 

Seriously now, I'll have to watch Bananas asap*, you really picqued my interest.

* for a traditionalist Romanian like me, asap means "possibly some time in the future, don't hold your breath though".   

[Karl Henning]

Oh, I always laugh when watching a Woody Allen movie --- sometimes for the wrong reasons, granted. 

Seriously now, I'll have to watch Bananas asap*, you really [piqued] my interest.

While I am not generally a fan of Marvin Hamlisch, I entirely enjoy the music Hamlisch provided for Bananas.

[Florestan]

While I am not generally a fan of Marvin Hamlisch, I entirely enjoy the music Hamlisch provided for Bananas.

Another one whom I have never heard about...

[Karl Henning]

Another one whom I have never heard about...

I must first have been aware of him with the enormously successful musical A Chorus Line (12 Tony nominations, winning nine of them).  But I found that A Ch. Line did not wear as well as (e.g.) West Side Story.  YMMV