What are you listening to now?

[North Star]

What do you think of the work, aligreto?

[aligreto]

What do you think of the work, aligreto?

Oh I love the work with its powerful sentiments and emotions. This is the third but most powerful version that I now own.

[Moonfish]

A First Listen Friday celebrating Butterworth's music!!!   

Butterworth:  A Shropshire Lad               
Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow   
Bax: Tintagel
Holst: The Perfect Fool Ballet Suite                       

London PO/Boult


A wonderful compilation! I was especially charmed by the pastoral themes in the Butterworth pieces.  Is he a composer worth pursuing?  The British composers of this time period certainly have their own unique "footprint" within the auditory landscape. Butterworth reminds me quite a bit of RVW. 

EDIT: I just read that Butterworth suggested that RVW should turn one of his tone poems into a symphony (what would become the London symphony). I was unaware that Butterworth died at 31 in the trenches of WWI in 1916.  I wonder what compositions he would have created if he had survived the war...?

[aligreto]

Brahms: Symphonies 2 & 4 / Mengelberg....

[North Star]

Oh I love the work with its powerful sentiments and emotions. This is the third but most powerful version that I now own.

Excellent! (and not just because it's the only one I own )
How much else Messiaen do you know?

[Ken B]

Bach
Cantatas big box disc 1
Gardiner

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Still there'll be more :

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other than the Unfinished, the Impromptus were my first exposure to Schubert.  I liked them immediately and played 'em over and over and over until they seemed not so impromptu at all (Schubert didn't name them, his publisher did).  Boss once asked me, "What are humming all the time?"  Schubert's Impromptu No. 3, I told him; I think he was impressed...but maybe not.  The French seem esp. to like them, or at least to use selected ones in films - three to my knowledge : Trop belle pour toi, L'homme du train, and Amour.

[TheGSMoeller]

Amazing, I love the three Bernstein recordings of Sibelius symphonies (1, 2, 5 & 7) on DG.

[Green Destiny]

Listening to this set of String Quartets for the first time - starting with SQ #1.
3 Movements in so far - pleased that's its an attractive work. I struggle to like Hindemith's Orchestral works so im hoping the SQ's might be a gateway to a further appreciation of his music:

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[Moonfish]

Bruckner: Symphony No 6           New Philharmonia O/Klemperer

After last summer's ordeal I can never forget the passionate themes and vibrant waves of Bruckner's eternal 6th. Yummm!

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[aligreto]

Excellent! (and not just because it's the only one I own )
How much else Messiaen do you know?

Nothing else I am afraid to say 

[Moonfish]

Sibelius:
Kung Kristian II  Op 27         /Laukka
Kuolema JS 113                    /Laukka/Tiihonnen
Svanevit JS 189                    /Tepponen/Pietiläinen

Lahti SO/Vänskä

Time to listen to this box for the second time this year.     Great music! I get stuck on Svanevit every time I listen to this recording. Sublime!

from Vol 5 of the BIS Sibelius Edition
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[The new erato]

A small Brahms retrospective under way:

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[The new erato]

and this:

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[Que]

A small Brahms retrospective under way:

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Love that recording, it was my first acquintance with Brahms' chamber music.

Q

[Que]

My morning listening:

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I love the Jacobus Vaet series (4 volumes) by the Dufay Ensemble (Freiburg). And that love is confirmed every time I return to it! Great intimate and lively singing, great ensemble work.

Q

[NikF]

Debussy: 12 Etudes pour le piano - Pollini

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[The new erato]

My morning listening:

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I love the Jacobus Vaet series (4 volumes) by the Dufay Ensemble (Freiburg). And that love is confirmed every time I return to it! Great intimate and lively singing, great ensemble work.

Q

I have a couple (vols 1 & 3) of those bought cheap from jpc offers. Perhaps I should seek to complete the series?

[North Star]

Nothing else I am afraid to say 

Some to try: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus, L'Ascension, and Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum.


Morning listening

Palestrina, Ashewell & Lasso
Huelgas Ensemble
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[aligreto]

A small Brahms retrospective under way:

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Wonderful recordings.