What are you listening to now?

[André]

And this one (on going): Pettersson - Symphony No. 7 (Segerstam, on BIS): I had forgot a bit how an involving journey this music is. Tremendous. Segerstam gives aplomb enough to get the bleakest and realistic sounding experience.

EDIT: Oh yes, a scream in music!

Tremendous indeed!

......................

TD:

[SimonNZ]

[Alek Hidell]

Boy, it's taken a long time for me to catch up in this thread!

TD:



I have to admit I struggle with Hindemith. I keep trying, and I've had better luck with some of his work - for instance, the string quartets and some of the sonatas for various instruments - but the orchestral music continues to elude me. The above recordings, by the way, are from the mid-1950s with Hindemith himself wielding the baton (well, except the Cello Concerto, where Ančerl conducts). Mono sound, but not bad at all for recordings of this vintage. And I have to say I'm still struggling with the music.

Also, over the past few days:

     

As Madiel did recently, I've been bingeing on the Cello Suites, more or less comparing them (in my case via streaming - can't remember if that's how Madiel did it or not). I'm listening to the brand-new Bertrand recording as I type this. As others have noted, these pieces are easy to kind of get fixated on. My current fave is Wieland Kuijken's, but I've enjoyed all four of these: Queyras is probably in the lead, but it's pretty much a three-way tie for second. Beschi probably has the most idiosyncratic approach, at least in the beginning: he takes the opening of 1007 at a much faster pace than you usually hear. (I don't have the expertise or memory needed to compare any further than that: I'm playing each of these all the way through, so it's hard to remember what one player's approach to any individual suite is like compared to another.)

I generally admire Cocset's playing very much (big fan of his Geminiani recording). No exception here, but it must be said that this is a closely-miked recording, where you can often hear Cocset's fingers striking against the fingerboard. That's really not a criticism, just an observation as it might be off-putting to some. In my case I grew to rather like it: combined with Cocset's woody tone, the incidental sounds give the music an immediacy and presence, a sense that you really are there, immersed, as the music is being called forth from the bow. YMMV, of course.

I'll be searching Spotify for more of these to listen to. There are more than a few of them from which to choose.

[Alek Hidell]

Hey, Simon, what happened to your avatar?

[SimonNZ]

You can't see it? That's interesting - it shows up on my phone and on my work computer but not on my laptop at home, for some reason.

I'll have to reload it from a different source.

[Daverz]

Daughtery: Trail of Tears, for flute and chamber orchestra

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Beautiful work!

[Karl Henning]

Now Orpheus: Yeah, now I consider myself a converted. A much more distilled and economical Stravinsky we need here. Nice stuff.

Excellent!

[Alek Hidell]

You can't see it? That's interesting - it shows up on my phone and on my work computer but not on my laptop at home, for some reason.

I'll have to reload it from a different source.

I dunno what happened - I used to be able to see it just fine. I've noticed one or two others whose avatar has gone AWOL lately, too.

[Kontrapunctus]

In honor of Mr. Rouse's passing today at age 70.

[SimonNZ]

I dunno what happened - I used to be able to see it just fine. I've noticed one or two others whose avatar has gone AWOL lately, too.

Looks like mine is because it was linking to another chat site where I use the same image, and that site has been down for repairs for a couple of weeks.

[Ken B]

Debussy Syrinx
Sibelius Luonnatar
Ravel Daphnis & Chloe 2

Hamilton Philharmonic
Gemma New

Live, tonight. The Ravel especially was excellent. That's the last half of the concert.
Gemma New is going places I predict.
The orchestra has never sounded better, and is better for her than for anyone else. Plus she did guest spots at Cleveland and Philadelphia this summer.

[Madiel]

Also, over the past few days:

     

As Madiel did recently, I've been bingeing on the Cello Suites, more or less comparing them (in my case via streaming - can't remember if that's how Madiel did it or not). I'm listening to the brand-new Bertrand recording as I type this. As others have noted, these pieces are easy to kind of get fixated on. My current fave is Wieland Kuijken's, but I've enjoyed all four of these: Queyras is probably in the lead, but it's pretty much a three-way tie for second. Beschi probably has the most idiosyncratic approach, at least in the beginning: he takes the opening of 1007 at a much faster pace than you usually hear. (I don't have the expertise or memory needed to compare any further than that: I'm playing each of these all the way through, so it's hard to remember what one player's approach to any individual suite is like compared to another.)

I generally admire Cocset's playing very much (big fan of his Geminiani recording). No exception here, but it must be said that this is a closely-miked recording, where you can often hear Cocset's fingers striking against the fingerboard. That's really not a criticism, just an observation as it might be off-putting to some. In my case I grew to rather like it: combined with Cocset's woody tone, the incidental sounds give the music an immediacy and presence, a sense that you really are there, immersed, as the music is being called forth from the bow. YMMV, of course.

I'll be searching Spotify for more of these to listen to. There are more than a few of them from which to choose.

Yeah I did streaming (though I'm a Deezer man rather than a Spotify one).

The Queyras and Watkin albums are both hopefully in the post right now, coming from France and the UK. I'm not sure that any of the other 3 besides Queyras that you're listening to even made the starting line way back when I started trying to decide what I wanted to buy. There are just so many versions out there.

It's also the only music where I've deliberately bought a 3rd and 4th version to add to my collection. Hanging out on a forum where people regularly own a dozen copies of the same work might just be beginning to affect me. 

[SimonNZ]

followed by:

[Madiel]

Continuing my commitment to occasionally listen to the Vivaldi I actually own, and not just stream the Naive edition with its pretty covers...



Volume 3 is Psalm settings.

And already the very first movement has plenty of flair.

[vandermolen]

Pretty sure the Maxim Shostakovich is the No.15 in this box......

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also available from Klassichaus restorations here......

http://klassichaus.us/Orchestral-Page-4.php

(near the bottom of this page)

Thank you RS. When I click on the link it just takes we to the Amazon Welcome page but you are right about the Klassichaus release. I have bought a few of their CDs which I think are transfers from LPs.

[Roasted Swan]

Thank you RS. When I click on the link it just takes we to the Amazon Welcome page but you are right about the Klassichaus release. I have bought a few of their CDs which I think are transfers from LPs.

Its that Melodiya box with all the symphonies shared out between different Russian/Soviet conductors & orchestras.  Similar box cover (DSCH style spectacles) to the last version of the Kondrashin cycle they issued

[Que]

Morning listening:

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Orlando di Lasso aka (Orlandus) Lassus, born in the Southern Netherlands as Roland de Lâtre, is a composer close to my heart.

Q

[Florestan]

Continuing my commitment to occasionally listen to the Vivaldi I actually own, and not just stream the Naive edition with its pretty covers...



Volume 3 is Psalm settings.

And already the very first movement has plenty of flair.

The sacred music is his best kept secret, imho. And that box is superb.

[Que]

The sacred music is his best kept secret, imho. And that box is superb.

Robert King made his own brand of Vivaldi IMO....

Q

[Florestan]

Robert King made his own brand of Vivaldi IMO....

Q

Could you please detail?