What are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

[Traverso]

If you would discount religious and elitist music, there wouldn't be much be much pre-20th c. music left. 

Music written for churches, popes, kings, princes, dukes and sofort...?  More please....

Q

Sounds rational and in the right  perspective to me.

[Traverso]

Bach

Slowly nearing the completion of listening to all the sacred cantatas.

[Que]

On with this set:

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Disc 4 has 12 virtuosic sounding Polonaises and a "Concerto" for solo harpsichord.

Q

[Mandryka]

If you would discount religious and elitist music, there wouldn't be much be much pre-20th c. music left. 

Music written for churches, popes, kings, princes, dukes and sofort...?  More please....

Q

we should all listen to more Cornelius Cardew

[Madiel]

Various bits of the short religious music that Faure wrote. And also the Cantique de Jean Racine and Messe basse.



When this arrived this week I was slightly disappointed at the lack of texts, then realised that all of the Latin stuff is pretty much standard.

EDIT: This version of the Cantique de Jean Racine is rather plodding unfortunately.

[Madiel]

Sibelius

Arioso (completely mislabelled as op.3, written just after the 4th symphony)



Wedding March for the play "The Language of the Birds"

[SimonNZ]

[Traverso]

Telemann

Suites

[Karl Henning]

I'm not sure how you say "The Swamp" in French 

Or for that matter Prelude to Prelude to Prelude of Afternoon of a Faun (which sums up the sludge-like tempo of this version)

Quaalude in the Afternoon of a Faun.

[Karl Henning]

By coincidence rather than design (I had already planned to listen to it today), following in your footsteps with the same recording of The Wild Dove.

That's what my edition in a box set calls it, at least.

I may well have mistyped!

[Madiel]

More Sibelius, now streaming rather than CDs.

Rakastava



Scenes Historiques II. This album is probably going on the shopping list. The renditions of both sets of Scenes sound pretty fabulous to me.

[Harry]

No listening for me this weekend. They have large and loud festivities in my village for the proletariat. That means heavy bass rolls, Dutch Schlagers,  loud shouting, and general causing great discomfort to my mind and ears. And that all when I like silence on my birthday coming up tomorrow. O, well, in our small country there is no escaping such atrocities. Earplugs then!

[Karl Henning]

My sentiments exactly, thank you. And I hasten to add, music written for bourgeois salons.

"Even the bourgeoisie are entitled to some happiness!"

Thread Duty:

Hovhaness
Khrimian Hairig, Op. 49 (1948)
The Holy City, Op. 218 (1967)
Psalm & Fugue, Op. 40a (1958)
Symphony of Metal Instruments, Op. 203 (1963) Symphony # 17

Chris Gekker, tp
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
Richard Auldon Clark

[Karl Henning]

No listening for me this weekend. They have large and loud festivities in my village for the proletariat. That means heavy bass rolls, Dutch Schlagers,  loud shouting, and general causing great discomfort to my mind and ears. And that all when I like silence on my birthday coming up tomorrow. O, well, in our small country there is no escaping such atrocities. Earplugs then!

I hope the day treats you as gently as possible, mijn vriend!

[aligreto]

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier [Kleiber]

[aligreto]

A great set.

[Todd]

[Traverso]

Bach

CD 4

Chorale Preludes
Preludes and Fugues

[ChopinBroccoli]

Quaalude in the Afternoon of a Faun.

HA! Brilliant