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Now for something completely different:

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Symphony #1

Different is good, especially if you're listening to Dutilleux. One of my favorite composers. That's a great work, too.

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Listening to Lyric Suite. Fantastic work.

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Listening to Symphony No. 3. Sizzling performance.

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Listening to Violin Concerto No. 3. Quite a Bartokian work with Bacewicz's own beautiful lyricism. Great performance as well.

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That Berg Lyric Suite is a good idea for tomorrow.  Should mix it up a little, the 20th century is starting to seem old-hat to me and anyway I've run outta Rossini for the moment - la-la-la-LA - And I've my Voyage à Reims to look forward to soon.

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That Berg Lyric Suite is a good idea for tomorrow.  Should mix it up a little, the 20th century is starting to seem old-hat to me and anyway I've run outta Rossini for the moment - la-la-la-LA - And I've my Voyage à Reims to look forward to soon.

Nothing wrong with a little mixing. Tomorrow I'm probably going to revisit some Dvorak as it's been just far too long for me. Probably will listen to a few of his symphonic poems.

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Am I the only person listening to music tonight? Anyway...

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A new acquisition. Listening to Weinberg's Violin Concerto. Sounds awesome so far.

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The Weinberg Violin Concerto wasn't a bad work but I didn't find it particularly memorable either. A few more listens will do. Listening to Tippett's Double Concerto. Love this work.

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Hey Nate, what do you think about Dutilleux's music? His music would be right up your alley IMHO. Another composer you may enjoy is Szymanowski. Are you familiar with any of his music?

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Morning listening:

 

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[Wanderer]

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Listening to: La Damnation de Faust.

[Harry]

Some exceptional fine organ music, only 7 stops, but gorgeous.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/09/new-acquisition-praetorius-johann.html?spref=tw

[SurprisedByBeauty]

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F. Schubert,
Symphonies 3, 4, 5
T.Dausgaard / Swedish CO
BIS SACD

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[Harry]

Ne Acquisition. One of the best female composers of her period, I simply adore her music.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/09/new-acquisition-pejacevic-dora-1885.html?spref=tw

[Florestan]

Agree wholeheartedly.  I've come to think - o'er the past coupla days - that Rossini is a greater composer than I (or many others for that matter) had given him credit for.  Am reading the lengthy entry about him in Grove and its author is explicit on that score :  "Thanks to an abundance of recordings and live productions throughout Europe and the USA, Rossini is no longer simply the composer of some delightful comic operas."  Thank goodness for that!  Also, not noted in the Grove article, he is one of the few composers ever to make me laugh aloud.  Reynaldo Hahn is another (Ciboulette). And Papa of course.

A few years ago I was in a rather blue-ish, almost depressed mood for days. One afternoon I gave a spin to this:



My mood improved a bit after the overture and went on higher and higher as the music progressed. But during the "Gioia e pace... pace e gioia" scene I was literally laughing in tears. Needless to say, my depression evaporated without a trace. I carried on the music in my mind for whole months after.

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Hey Nate, what do you think about Dutilleux's music? His music would be right up your alley IMHO. Another composer you may enjoy is Szymanowski. Are you familiar with any of his music?

I haven't heard Szymanowski, but I am familiar with Dutilleux. I like his first symphony. I didn't like the second as much, but it has been a long time since I've heard either. Ainsi de la Nuit is interesting, too. Not a favorite, but it seemed like a well-written string quartet.

Apparently Dutilleux and Ohana were friends and there are comparisons made between the two. I definitely prefer Ohana (a favorite of mine) for the jazzier and sometimes spicier flavor of his music, but I did like Dutilleux.

[Harry]

Another forgotten composer, which should not have been.......

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/09/new-acquisition-schumann-georg-1866.html?spref=tw

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Listening to Violin Concerto No. 3. Quite a Bartokian work with Bacewicz's own beautiful lyricism. Great performance as well.

Now : that is a curious pose.  Is she 1.) hiding something?; 2.) hiding nothing? ; 3.) provocatively drawing attn. by blocking our view?; 4.) drawing a simile between the lyricism of her instrument and feminine beauty? ; 4.) Saying - "Here buster, sublimate this...!" ; 5.) none of the above ; or 6.) all of this is completely and udderly irrelevant, as two musicians have been at pains to inform me.  And they point out that listeners read WAY TOO MUCH out of record and CD covers which, they say, are typically spur of the moment things and unpremeditated.

[Harry]

New acquisition. One of the eight cd's that arrived this morning at my doorstep....again a forgotten masterpiece!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/09/new-acquisition-kaminski-heinrich-1886.html?spref=tw

[Florestan]

The Opening Salvo

A talk and performance of Beethoven's String Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No.1

By Professor Christopher Hogwood and the Wilhelm Quartet

https://www.youtube.com/v/znciEO6stDk

There's a whole more lot of equally interesting Hogwood lectures here.