What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Another first listen:

Birtwistle
Tragœdia (1965)
Melos Ensemble

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[Brahmsian]

I'm listening to the piece now, myself. Florestan started a listening party!



Now, on my 4th or 5th listen, finally realized that the pianist foreshadows the largo/passacaglia by playing its main theme, in full, at the end of the scherzo.

By the way, I sampled a couple minutes of the Yudina recording on YouTube and, aside from the 1957 sound, the 2-3 clips seemed good enough.

Pounds the table.  Without vehicle.

[North Star]

Another first listen:

Birtwistle
Tragœdia (1965)
Melos Ensemble

A cool piece, as far as I recall (it's been a long while, though). What do you think of it, Karl?

[Todd]

Disc 1 again.  One of my purchases of the year, no doubt about it.

[Karl Henning]

A cool piece, as far as I recall (it's been a long while, though). What do you think of it, Karl?

Agreed!

[Camphy]

String Quartets 3 & 5

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm listening to the piece now, myself. Florestan started a listening party!

I'd like to join the party. I bought the same performance Brian has but it's lost in one of the uncatalogued piles that clutter my house    I'll keep looking.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

K.A. Hartmann Adagio (Symphony No.2), Dohnányi conducting the Cleveland




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Hat tip to our Brian (a first listen):

Mendelssohn
Prelude & Fugue in e minor, Op.35 № 1
Frith

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[Tsaraslondon]

This is a gorgeous disc. It starts with the Serenade to Music, in its original version, which was written for 16 famous soloists, who performed it at its premiere at the Royal Albert Hall on October 5th, 1938, on the occasion of Sir Henry Wood's "Jubilee". The soloists here (names of originals in brackets) are
Elizabeth Connell (Eva Turner)
Anne Dawson (Stiles Allen)
Linda Kitchen (Elsie Suddaby)
Amanda Roocroft (Isobel Baillie)
Diana Montague (Mary Jarred)
Jean Rigby (Astra Desmond)
Sarah Walker (Muriel Brunskill)
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Margaret Balfour)
John Mark Ainsley (Heddle Nash)
Arthur Davies (Walter Widdop)
Maldwyn Davies (Parry Jones)
Martyn Hill (Frank Titterton)
Thomas Allen (Roy Henderson)
Alan Opie (Robert Easton)
John Connell (Norman Allin)
Gwynne Howell (Harold Williams).

Though some of these names may not resonate in the mind as some of their illustrious predecessors, they nevertheless give a beautiful performance.

It is followed by the Five Mystical Songs and Fantasia on Christmas Carols, both featuring Thomas Allen as soloist, and the disc finishes with that beautifully strange work Flos Campi, for viola (Nobuko Imai), small wordless chorus and chamber orchestra, one of the most haunting pieces Vaughan Williams ever wrote.

The Corydon Singers and English Chamber Orchestra are conducted by Matthew Best.

[NikF]

Hat tip to our Brian (a first listen):

Mendelssohn
Prelude & Fugue in e minor, Op.35 № 1
Frith

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My copy is on the way. And it'll be a first listen for me too.
Hope you enjoy yours!

[Karl Henning]

My copy is on the way. And it'll be a first listen for me too.
Hope you enjoy yours!

Very well!

Now:

Mendelssohn
Prelude & Fugue in D, Op.35 № 2
Prelude & Fugue in b minor, Op.35 № 3
Frith

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[Karl Henning]

This is a gorgeous disc. It starts with the Serenade to Music, in its original version, which was written for 16 famous soloists, who performed it at its premiere at the Royal Albert Hall on October 5th, 1938, on the occasion of Sir Henry Wood's "Jubilee". The soloists here (names of originals in brackets) are
Elizabeth Connell (Eva Turner)
Anne Dawson (Stiles Allen)
Linda Kitchen (Elsie Suddaby)
Amanda Roocroft (Isobel Baillie)
Diana Montague (Mary Jarred)
Jean Rigby (Astra Desmond)
Sarah Walker (Muriel Brunskill)
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Margaret Balfour)
John Mark Ainsley (Heddle Nash)
Arthur Davies (Walter Widdop)
Maldwyn Davies (Parry Jones)
Martyn Hill (Frank Titterton)
Thomas Allen (Roy Henderson)
Alan Opie (Robert Easton)
John Connell (Norman Allin)
Gwynne Howell (Harold Williams).

Though some of these names may not resonate in the mind as some of their illustrious predecessors, they nevertheless give a beautiful performance.

It is followed by the Five Mystical Songs and Fantasia on Christmas Carols, both featuring Thomas Allen as soloist, and the disc finishes with that beautifully strange work Flos Campi, for viola (Nobuko Imai), small wordless chorus and chamber orchestra, one of the most haunting pieces Vaughan Williams ever wrote.

The Corydon Singers and English Chamber Orchestra are conducted by Matthew Best.

This can be no coincidence . . . that I ordered a copy of this very disc this past week . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

Hat tip to our Brian Mendelssohn
Prelude & Fugue in e minor, Op.35 № 1 (a first listen):

Saul would be so proud 

(Full disclosure...I love Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)

Sarge

[Brian]

How are you liking it, Karl?

Since I'm going on a trip tomorrow, there will be no chance for classical music listening for me...until the NY Phil LIVE Saturday  getting in a few beloved pieces and beloved performances to tide over my spirit, starting with this ultra-bold Dvorak account:

[EigenUser]

Saul would be so proud 

(Full disclosure...I love Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)

Sarge

He's taking a break from composing The Worst Viola Sonata Ever.

[Tsaraslondon]

This can be no coincidence . . . that I ordered a copy of this very disc this past week . . . .

Really? I got it today.

[Karl Henning]

He's taking a break from composing The Worst Viola Sonata Ever.

That one's long done. Striving for The World's Worst Clarinet Sonata.  I can do it!

[Karl Henning]

How are you liking it, Karl?

Very much.  (Pardon my brevity.)

[listener]

I put this off for a long time because the disc and the booklet felt heavy, but the music isn't!!
SCHUMANN: Der Rose Pilgerfahrt  op. 112
Christian Oelze, Birgit Remmert, Werner Güra, Hanno Müller-Brachann  SATB,  RIAS-Kammerchor
Philip Mayer, piano (Streicher)    Marcus Creed, cond.
Schumann later orchestrated it, probably losing its intimacy.
nice, Romantic lieder/cantata, to be repeated soon