What are you listening to now?

[Drasko]

[Todd]

Peppy, crisp and clean, and fast.  2/3 is superb, 79 very fine.  The first movement of Op 90 is tense and nasty (all to the good), but the second movement is too rushed.  101 is well played but maybe too grounded.  Sound is generally very good, but perspective seems to change a couple times.  An excellent addition to the cycle.

[aligreto]

Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli [Summerly]....

[SimonNZ]

Bach's [Cello] Suites nos.1-3 - Hopkinson Smith, theorbo

[HIPster]

Bach's [Cello] Suites nos.1-3 - Hopkinson Smith, theorbo

Excellent recording.   

Now playing ~

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Some Sunday Schubert.   

[Artem]

I like Fray's Schubert, but i didn't enjoy his Bach as much. From the first listen his playing on that disk feels a bit too romantic, not especially energetic.

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[André]

Hair-raising in its capacity to transport the listener back in time - say, before WWII - when violin playing was so free in phrasing and expression, and in its sheer honesty toward the instrument and the music.



I had the good fortune to hear Handel in concert a few times. Her incredible musicianship and jaw-dropping virtuosity - never breaking a sweat - stand among my most cherished musical experiences.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47. One of the great pinnacles of the violin repertoire.

[Todd]

Disc 6.  The Beethoven/Liszt transcription is good, the Schubert/Liszt transcriptions are way too fast and devoid of lyricism, and the Chopin Preludes are well executed but colorless.  Not a successful disc.

[The new erato]

You certainly did! By the way, did you see my Sæverud purchases? He's a very interesting composer to me.

He's a tough nut to crack, I have a few of the BIS discs and saw him occasionally at concerts in Bergen. Craggys's the word!

[Mirror Image]

He's a tough nut to crack, I have a few of the BIS discs and saw him occasionally at concerts in Bergen. Craggys's the word!

He certainly is a tough one, but I believe I have all the necessary information to crack this one wide-open. His music is very, and I mean VERY, temperamental! There's a lot of anger in his music (or what I've heard so far). Yes, there's a cragginess to the music, but there's also this eerie, macabre feel as well and it makes no apology for being this way, which some may find rather off-putting since the surface of the music doesn't have a sheen to begin with. That's all I'll say for now until I can finally sit down with more of his music and examine the full range of his compositional prowess.

Even in the photo below, he looks rather frightening. Like he's a crypt keeper or something:

[André]

One of the great interpreters of this difficult work. My preference is for the Hamburg NDR recording. He also recorded it in Cologne, Berlin (with the BP), Munich.

[Madiel]

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Listening to the Viola Concerto. Great stuff!

Nice to see you (with this and the symphony) enjoying Holmboe's late phase. He wrote a heck of a lot of music in 'retirement'.

[SonicMan46]

Live concert this afternoon w/ our local Winston-Salem Symphony under the direction of Robert Moody - kind of a 'spring theme' - Dave

Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite I

Aaron Copland - Appalachian Suite

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 2

[Mirror Image]

Nice to see you (with this and the symphony) enjoying Holmboe's late phase. He wrote a heck of a lot of music in 'retirement'.

He sure did and I'm constantly surprised by the consistency in his writing in this later stage (or really his entire compositional career). As a result of listening to Symphony No. 11, I listened to Symphony No. 12 as well. The last movement of the 12th was particularly impressive. I need to spend more time with Holmboe. I used to have trouble with his music, but, thankfully, that has changed. I have a friend who wants to get more Holmboe (he only owns the Chamber Symphonies recording), but can't decide between the SQ box set and the Symphonic Metamorphoses recording. Personally, I'd recommend the symphony set, but he felt this was a bit out of his price range for right now (and in his defense it is still an expensive set). What would you recommend?

[SimonNZ]

Michael Haydn's Symphonies 26-28 - Bohdan Warchal, cond.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

That's some dank kush, Simon

[HIPster]

CD3 from this wonderul set ~

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[SimonNZ]

That's some dank kush, Simon

Heh...that's a good thing, right? I agree, I've been pleasantly surprised by these recordings.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Heh...that's a good thing, right? I agree, I've been pleasantly surprised by these recordings.

M. Haydn is a terrific composer, and those recordings are great indeed.