What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to My Country Childhood. Gorgeous music. I just love this composer's music so much. Truly underrated IMHO.

[listener]

for BACH-day   a new sampler from Bis of bits from the
Suzuki series of Cantata recodings

[Ken B]

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Listening to My Country Childhood. Gorgeous music. I just love this composer's music so much. Truly underrated IMHO.

That looks tasty. Very underrated from what I have heard of his music.

[Mirror Image]

That looks tasty. Very underrated from what I have heard of his music.

I might be overextending myself here, but I believe I'm the biggest Sculthorpe fan on GMG. From his orchestral music to the concertante works to the SQs, I've really been enamored by everything I've heard.

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Great Sandy Island.

[Bogey]

Best orchestral Haydn I have ever heard. Love this set to death.

Thread duty: second spin for Tcherepnin PC 1,2,3

Does your set have the 76 and 77 , Ken?

[Ken B]

I might be overextending myself here, but I believe I'm the biggest Sculthorpe fan on GMG. From his orchestral music to the concertante works to the SQs, I've really been enamored by everything I've heard.

You may well be. You need people if you are going to keep moving Shosty down! 
You know Ketelby at all? 
But I like all the Sculthorpe I have heard. You saw the quartet for 1cent I posted?

I lay claim to being GMG's biggest fan of another down-underer, Graeme Koehne.

[Ken B]

Does your set have the 76 and 77 , Ken?

Opus? No. All 6 PCs only last 3 are opp 78 96,99

[Mirror Image]

You may well be. You need people if you are going to keep moving Shosty down! 
You know Ketelby at all? 
But I like all the Sculthorpe I have heard. You saw the quartet for 1cent I posted?

I lay claim to being GMG's biggest fan of another down-underer, Graeme Koehne.

Sculthorpe is in my top 20 list of favorite composers. And Shostakovich will remain in my top 5 no matter what phase I go through. I believe I did see that Sculthorpe purchase you made. His SQs are great stuff, but his orchestral music really is something else. You know what you may be surprised but I own about three or four Koehne recordings.

The Selfish Giant (Tall Poppies)
Inflight Entertainment (Naxos)
Powerhouse (ABC Classics)
Tivoli Dances (ABC Classics)

Do you own any of these? I'm sure you do.

[Ken B]

Sculthorpe is in my top 20 list of favorite composers. And Shostakovich will remain in my top 5 no matter what phase I go through. I believe I did see that Sculthorpe purchase you made. His SQs are great stuff, but his orchestral music really is something else. You know what you may be surprised but I own about three or four Koehne recordings.

The Selfish Giant (Tall Poppies)
Inflight Entertainment (Naxos)
Powerhouse (ABC Classics)
Tivoli Dances (ABC Classics)

Do you own any of these? I'm sure you do.

I am surprised. I only own the Naxos but have heard the others.
I know Lilburn but cannot think of any other antipodeans. Goosens does not count.

[Mirror Image]

I am surprised. I only own the Naxos but have heard the others.
I know Lilburn but cannot think of any other antipodeans. Goosens does not count.

Sculthorpe and Carl Vine are favorite Australian composers. Do you know Vine's music? I may be the biggest Vine fan on here as well.

Other Australian composers I enjoy: Broadstock, Meale, Mills, and Granville-Hicks.

[Ken B]

Sculthorpe and Carl Vine are favorite Australian composers. Do you know Vine's music? I may be the biggest Vine fan on here as well.

Other Australian composers I enjoy: Broadstock, Meale, Mills, and Granville-Hicks.

I have heard a symphony by Vine but just once a few years ago. No clear memory either way.

[Mirror Image]

I have heard a symphony by Vine but just once a few years ago. No clear memory either way.

I think you would enjoy his music. His Oboe Concerto still has managed to stay in my memory along with his Piano Concerto.

[Ken B]

I think you would enjoy his music. His Oboe Concerto still has managed to stay in my memory along with his Piano Concerto.

I'll search him on youtube.

Thread duty: Miaskovsky 22 from the box.

[Madiel]

Carl Vine's first piano sonata is a knockout.

I had his string quartets on my Christmas wishlist, but no-one in the family bit. They went for the pop music. Not that I'm complaining, as it was some damn fine pop music.

[Mirror Image]

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Listening to Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1. Excellent performance and this Batiashvili may be my favorite on record.

[Octave]

More of this week's little project.  Thanks to DD for some input on the Easter Oratorio in the Bach Bungalow thread.



Secular Cantata BWV201 'Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde' [Edith Mathis eta w/Kammerorch Berlin dir. Schreier - rec. 1983 Berlin]

Wedding Cantatas BWV 202/210 [Edith Mathis & Lucia Popp w/Kammerorch Berlin dir. Schreier - rec. 1981/84]

Secular Cantatas BWV 208/204 [Edith Mathis, Arleen Auger et al w/Kammerorch Berlin dir. Schreier - rec. 1978]

Secular Cantatas BWV205/207 [Mathis/Kammerorch Berlin etc dir. Schreier - rec. 1979/85]

[Moonfish]

More of this week's little project.  Thanks to DD for some input on the Easter Oratorio in the Bach Bungalow thread.



Secular Cantata BWV201 'Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde' [Edith Mathis eta w/Kammerorch Berlin dir. Schreier - rec. 1983 Berlin]

Wedding Cantatas BWV 202/210 [Edith Mathis & Lucia Popp w/Kammerorch Berlin dir. Schreier - rec. 1981/84]

Secular Cantatas BWV 208/204 [Edith Mathis, Arleen Auger et al w/Kammerorch Berlin dir. Schreier - rec. 1978]

Secular Cantatas BWV205/207 [Mathis/Kammerorch Berlin etc dir. Schreier - rec. 1979/85]

Bach Cantata projects are always so inspiring!!!     
How are you enjoying these relative to other cycles you have heard?

[Moonfish]

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 15, 17 & 23  Annie Fischer

Definitely an experience - I need to listen to these over a few times as she seemingly brings the piano into a different realm....

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[Willow Pattern]

Milhaud: Symphony No. 1, Op. 210

I sickened myself of this Composer for quite a while but today I felt like listening to him again - the first Symphony is a pretty good work. I will listen to the Symphony No. 12, "Rurale" a bit later. Next I want to play Roussels 3rd Symphony from the big box: