What are you listening to now?

[Wakefield]

Playing my various Seon discs (mostly to convince myself I have enough already without getting the giant SEON box)

A classical case of probatio diabolica, I think. 

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Simply magnificent. Love Kempe's performance as well, but this is something quite special for me.

[Mookalafalas]

A classical case of probatio diabolica, I think. 

Weird...I wrote a rather long response to this, but it's not here. Did I forget to hit "Post"?  To summarize:
1. I have 1/4 of it already
2. I keep waiting for a price drop
3. I have too much similar music I haven't gotten to yet.

  Still, if any box threatens to stir up my CDCDCD, this one is it

[Mandryka]

Marie Claire Alain's 1974 Art of Fugue. I'm noticing two things. One is the way she gives each cpt its own poetic character, so that the music seems both diverse and integrated. Always fresh, never repetitive. A sense of inevitable flow from one fugue to the next - it makes me think of some of the best performances of the Chopin preludes. And second, how she seems to find this way of playing both Voix Egales style - the whole of the music, all the lines, bathed, revealed, exposed, in a soft light - and  basso continuo style - a clear melody, often a clear single principle melody, supported by all the other music. This way she has of squaring the circle, finding the synthesis between these two approaches to polyphony, sa façon de réunir les goûts, impressed me a while ago when I was listening to her final recording of CU3. It may be her trademark.

The other thing I'm starting to wonder about is the global structure, the climaxes, the ebbs and flows. There definitely is a global structure as Alain plays it - it's not just a bunch of fugues.

[Green Destiny]

For a diversion I'll recommend the VOX set with Walter Klein and Rena Kyriakou/Beatrice Klein which includes CHABRIER's Souvenir de Munich, a quadrille based on tunes from Wagner operas. BIZET, DEBUSSY and RAVEL, are also in the set

Thanks for the recommendation - I will check it out

Thread duty:
Starting listening to various recordings of M7 - now playing:



love it!

Next - M7 again:



Im expecting to be working a lot of overtime the next 3 weeks at work so I may be gone for a while - take care everyone and happy listening

[Que]

Morning listening, going easy on the neighbours on this 2nd Easter day. 

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I'm halfaway my 2nd run, and as as usual on repeated listening the plot thickens and deepens.
This has already been an excellent year in terms of new and satisfying purchases, and this will definitely be one to mention on the list.

Q

[EigenUser]

I am enjoying works for 2 Piano lately after not having explored them much in the past. Certainly Poulenc, Messiaen and Milhaud wrote some good 2 Piano music. A 2 Piano Mahler arrangement sounds very attractive - We will see what happens

You must mean Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen. I love that piece.

There's also the Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. And while I'm not terribly fond of Stockhausen, his Mantra (for two pianos and electronics) is quite good. It is being performed in DC in a couple of weeks. I'd like to see it live, but it seems to be sold out.

[Green Destiny]

You must mean Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen. I love that piece.

There's also the Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. And while I'm not terribly fond of Stockhausen, his Mantra (for two pianos and electronics) is quite good. It is being performed in DC in a couple of weeks. I'd like to see it live, but it seems to be sold out.

Yes, indeed I do mean Visions de l'Amen - I agree its a lovely piece. I have a recording of Bartok's Sonata knocking around somewhere (Rattle's I think) and I only listened to it the once (quite a while ago!) so I will definitely give that a shot too. I've heard of Mantra though I don't have it in my collection (only have about 2 or 3 Stockhausen recordings). A work for 2 Pianos and electronics sounds like it might be quite nice - thanks for making me aware of it

[Florestan]

[Florestan]

[Que]

One of my recent purchases:

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Comes wrote this "battle mass" in 1638 on occasion of the 400 aniversary of the conquest of Valencia by the king of Aragon.

Q

[aligreto]

What do you think of the music?

It was much to my liking on first listen. I had heard nothing of Merulo prior to this so I had no preconceived notions of what to expect. I found the music to be reverent and not demonstrative in style but interesting nonetheless.

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Cantata BWV66 for Easter Monday....

[Que]

Listening:

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I notice that I'm drawn to Mozart more lately.
Might have been triggered by the purchase of the sacred music set with Neumann.
Anyway,  revisting this set is an unalloyed pleasure.

Q

[Henk]

Fragments pour un portrait. Really great stuff.



Contretemps. Still haven't formed by opinion on Aperghis. It's good for sure and definitely remarkable, but how good?

[Florestan]

[aligreto]

Listening:

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Still my go to set in Mozart.

[Florestan]

[Karl Henning]

Hmm, I wonder if Cato knows that Franck.

Happy Monday, Andrei!

[Florestan]

Hmm, I wonder if Cato knows that Franck.

I should think so. This is extraordinary beautiful. Amen dico tibi is indeed heavenly.

Happy Monday, Andrei!

To you too, Karl!