What are you listening to now?

[Mirror Image]

Well . . . but you never know.

That's true. Messiaen could grow on me.

[Karl Henning]

In memoriam:

“Papa”
Symphony № 44 in e minor, « Mourning » (H.I/44)
AAM
Hogwood

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[Harry]

That's true. Messiaen could grow on me.

Well after my listening experience I can safely say "Never" will I like "Messiaen", and for that matter "Wagner", or all those romantic opera composers. As an antidote I might add, that I appreciate, nay even admire, the people that can stomach those composers. I am a lost case I am afraid, for I cannot.

[Mirror Image]

Well after my listening experience I can safely say "Never" will I like "Messiaen", and for that matter "Wagner", or all those romantic opera composers. As an antidote I might add, that I appreciate, nay even admire, the people that can stomach those composers. I am a lost case I am afraid, for I cannot.

I like Wagner but don't enjoy Romantic opera in general. Wagner pushed the envelope, but I can only take his music in small doses.

[Ken B]

That's true. Messiaen could grow on me.

If a Stockhausen grows on you 10% salicylic acid works well. Most people are immune though.

TD: Vagn Holmboe, Accordion sonata 2

[Mirror Image]

If a Stockhausen grows on you 10% salicylic acid works well. Most people are immune though.

TD: Vagn Holmboe, Accordion sonata 2

[listener]

A pair of Louisville lps to start :
LS-736 (release no.120)  KOECHLIN: Partita for Chamber Orchestra
IBERT: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
LS-654  LOPATNIKOFF: Variazioni Concertanti      PANUFNIK: Nocturne
Lousville Orch., Jorge Mester, cond.
PETROVICS: The Book of Jonah
soloists,  Budapest Chorus,  Hungarian State Orch.     Miklós Erdélyi, cond.

[Karl Henning]

In memoriam:

“Papa”
Symphony № 43 in E^b, « Mercury » (H.I/43)
AAM
Hogwood

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[Wanderer]

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[ritter]

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Those pieces from Christus are something quite beautiful, IMHO...

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 2 scored for string orchestra and solo trumpet. Jansons' performance is exemplary.

[ritter]

First listen:

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(but form the Decca "Gluck - The Great Operas" box)

[springrite]

That's true. Messiaen could grow on me.

Well, you are not telling us anything. Dislike can grow, too!

[Florestan]

Well after my listening experience I can safely say "Never" will I like "Messiaen", and for that matter "Wagner", or all those romantic opera composers. As an antidote I might add, that I appreciate, nay even admire, the people that can stomach those composers. I am a lost case I am afraid, for I cannot.

Not even Weber, Rossini, Bellini or Donizetti? You don't even have to follow the plot, or know what they sing about; just relax, pour a glass of your favorite wine, insert the CD, turn off the lights --- and revel in the marvelous melodies and glorious orchestration. 

I'm pretty sure that if instead of voices you heard violin, viola, piano, cello, clarinet, flute, oboe or whatever, you'd like it, or even love it. What is it about human voice that makes you recoil from it? 

[Lisztianwagner]

Some Liszt for me as well:


CD 2

[North Star]

Good evening, Ilaria! I read your post on About Mother, splendid that you liked it.
Next ones to hear: Things Lived and Dreamed, Op. 30, and Lullabies, Op. 30

Thread duty

Ravel
Piano Trio
Sonata for vn & pf
Sonata for vn & vc
Frank Braley & Capuçons
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[Harry]

Not even Weber, Rossini, Bellini or Donizetti? You don't even have to follow the plot, or know what they sing about; just relax, pour a glass of your favorite wine, insert the CD, turn off the lights --- and revel in the marvelous melodies and glorious orchestration. 

"I'm pretty sure that if instead of voices you heard violin, viola, piano, cello, clarinet, flute, oboe or whatever, you'd like it, or even love it." What is it about human voice that makes you recoil from it? 

You're absolutely right Andrei, but with a little modification on my side. I love the human voice, I sing myself in a choir, so..., but what I can tolerate is excessive vibrato, or screaming sopranos, or Heldentenors, and you find them in abundance in romantic opera. Now would those voices be like you said, Strings, piano, etc, I would be fine with the music.

[Ken B]

A. Bellemontaign, Symphonie du chambre No 1, Orpheus C O

[Mirror Image]

Well, you are not telling us anything. Dislike can grow, too!

That's true and like can turn into dislike as well.

[North Star]

A. Bellemontaign, Symphonie du chambre No 1, Orpheus C O

Ken, you do know that his music publishing company is Belmont Music Publishers, right?