What are you listening to now?

[EigenUser]

Ligeti's "Lontano"
I have such a hard time on deciding whether this piece is eerie, mournful, or even sort of beautiful. All three?
[asin]B00005Y34N[/asin]

[EigenUser]

Ligeti "Melodien".
The only piece of his that makes good background music, not that this was his intention  .
[asin]B000HWZALK[/asin]

[North Star]

Ligeti's "Lontano"
I have such a hard time on deciding whether this piece is eerie, mournful, or even sort of beautiful. All three?

Of course all three. I think I'll listen to this (same recording) before the the last Bach Trio Sonata from the Foccroulle box (i.e. No. 3, BWV 527)

[Mirror Image]

Could be as simple as few choruses outside of Hungary being trained to sing Magyar.  (Of course, Robt Shaw got around that by using an English edition.)

I forgot about it being sung in Magyar.

[EigenUser]

Ravel "Introduction and Allegro"
Whenever I hear this I am sure that it is my favorite Ravel piece...
[asin]B00004TCPS[/asin]

[Ken B]

Ravel "Introduction and Allegro"
Whenever I hear this I am sure that it is my favorite Ravel piece...
[asin]B00004TCPS[/asin]

Siesta?

[EigenUser]

Siesta?

[North Star]

Siesta?

*clicks 'Report to Moderator' like a Pavlovian dog*

[Karl Henning]

Bartók
A fából faragott királyfi [ The Wooden Prince ] Sz. 60 / Op.13 (1914-16)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Boulez presiding

[asin]B002DZX958[/asin]

[EigenUser]

*clicks 'Report to Moderator' like a Pavlovian dog*

The Ravel police. 

More French music: Boulez "Derive I"
[asin]B00BLDHPZS[/asin]

[Ken B]

Ravel
Introduction and Allegro for Harp & Orchestra

[North Star]

Utterly predictable, I know:

Игорь Фëдорович [ Igor Fyodorovich (Stravinsky) ]
Весна священная [ Le sacre du printemps ]
Cleveland Orchestra
Boulez presiding

[asin]B002XDFOGM[/asin]

G'day, Karl!

Listening to the works on Thursday's concert program:

Symphonies d'instruments à vent from Boulez DGG box

And next Hartmann's Concerto funebre

https://www.youtube.com/v/GGdIStCiOEk


Earlier today:

Beethoven
Symphony No. 3
Immerseel & Anima Eterna

The Ravel police. 
More French music: Boulez "Derive I"

Reporting for duty
How do you like Derive I?

[Mirror Image]

Ravel "Introduction and Allegro"
Whenever I hear this I am sure that it is my favorite Ravel piece...
[asin]B00004TCPS[/asin]

I have this disc somewhere. Martinon is great in Ravel.

[Lisztianwagner]

Today some Haydn is required:

Joseph Haydn
Farewell Symphony

https://www.youtube.com/v/Lm_OLznua6g

[bhodges]

Olga Neuwirth: Akroate Hadal, Quasare/Pulsare, ...?risonanze!... (Arditti String Quartet / Nicolas Hodges, piano / Garth Knox, viola d'amore) - Neuwirth has a feel for unusual timbres like few other composers.

[asin]B0009WVEE0[/asin]

--Bruce

[listener]

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS:   Violin Sonata in a       
also Violin Sonatas by RAWSTHORNE and Peter Racine FRICKER (2 of them)
Susanne Stanzeleit, violin     Julian Jacobson, piano
and vol. 21 of the Joh. STRAUSS II edition, includes the Tales from the Vienna Woods, and 2 Quadrilles - Orpheus (after Offenbach) and Rotunde
Johannes Wildner and the CS State Phil. O. Kosice)

[EigenUser]

G'day, Karl!

Listening to the works on Thursday's concert program:

Symphonies d'instruments à vent from Boulez DGG box

And next Hartmann's Concerto funebre

https://www.youtube.com/v/GGdIStCiOEk


Earlier today:

Beethoven
Symphony No. 3
Immerseel & Anima Eterna

Reporting for duty
How do you like Derive I?

I like it a lot, surprisingly!

[Daverz]

A new Ilya Murometz

[asin]B00HFDKTC4[/asin]

The mediocre sonics are a bummer.

[Ken B]

Hartmann, Concerto Funebre

[pjme]

Very interesting . Brillantly orchestrated ( those conductor-composers know the tricks of the trade) - possibly I miss a very personal voice? Will listen again, of course.

Peter