What are you listening to now?

[SimonNZ]

^Snap again! I'm playing that right now, but from this album:



followed by Steve Reich's Drumming

[Kontrapunctus]

Symphony No.3 and the Piano Concerto--very nice.

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followed by Steve Reich's Drumming

Reich's Drumming is one work I can't get into and I'm a former percussionist! I'm actually not too fond of his earlier music actually. It's Gonna Rain, Piano Phase, and several of the other works lack the brilliance and diversity that emerged with Music for 18 Musicians and forward. But thanks to the Reich documentary titled Phase To Face, I understand the importance of these early works and how they affected his musical thinking.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Concerto for Two Pianos. Remarkable work and performance.

[SimonNZ]

Reich's Drumming is one work I can't get into and I'm a former percussionist! I'm actually not too fond of his earlier music actually. It's Gonna Rain, Piano Phase, and several of the other works lack the brilliance and diversity that emerged with Music for 18 Musicians and forward. But thanks to the Reich documentary titled Phase To Face, I understand the importance of these early works and how they affected his musical thinking.

Drumming does go on about three times longer than it needs to, which is why I almost never play it. That documentary sounds interesting - I'll try and find it.

now:



David Lang's Love Fail - Anonymous 4

[TheGSMoeller]

Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and David Lang on the same page?!?! 
I think a tear of joy just went down my cheek.
I'll join in...

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[kishnevi]

Need some contrast here
BWV 988 played by Charles Rosen

From the Sony Charles Rosen set.
This seems to be the  most available re-issue

[Mirror Image]

Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and David Lang on the same page?!?! 
I think a tear of joy just went down my cheek.

Now:



Listening to Melodien. Great stuff.

[Mirror Image]

Now:

[The new erato]

Well, Hindemith was a violinist, you know 

I thought he was primarily a violist (playing viola in the Amar Quartet)? But perhaps the difference isn't htat great, and I seem to remember that Hindemith once said that he could play all instruments in the orchestra to some degree.

[Que]

Morning listening:

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[SimonNZ]

Georg Friedrich Haas' Three Works For Mollena - Alexander Liebreich, cond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQOR9JzgEKU

The first I'd heard of Mrs. Haas. The photo above appears to be one of the few of her that wont get me banned.

From her author profile on Amazon: "This "Delicate, Trembling Flower of Submission" is a NYC born and raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator, Storyteller and an Award-Winning Executive Pervert. She currently lives in NYC, and is owned by her Maestro, an internationally renowned contemporary composer. She is extremely proud to have served as International Ms Leather 2010. She is also thrilled to have been named Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009 after that contest's decade long slumber."

But, hey, vive la difference!

[Autumn Leaves]

The 24th and the 27th are my personal favorites from Miaskovsky. They really got under my skin the most.

Yes that 24th is good - definitely one of the best I have heard so far.

This evening's listening:



Waltzes and some Polonaises

[Jo498]

I thought he was primarily a violist (playing viola in the Amar Quartet)? But perhaps the difference isn't htat great, and I seem to remember that Hindemith once said that he could play all instruments in the orchestra to some degree.

Yes, I have heard this as well. In any case he wrote sonatas for all of them and then some. But as almost all violists started on the violin first as youngsters, he was probably more familiar with the violin than with some other instruments.

[Harry]

Choral singing in the early morning

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/08/vaet-jacobus-c1529-1567-te-deum.html?spref=tw

[Autumn Leaves]

Now playing:



Von Der Weige Bis Zum Grabe

Lovely work - full of Lisztian goodness

[SimonNZ]

Magnus Lindberg's Two Episodes - Vladimir Jurowski

World premiere: 2016 BBC Proms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KBH8BwYOnc



Kaija Saariaho's Château de l'âme - Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond.

[Harry]

Music that makes you happy!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/08/handel-georg-frideric-1685-1759_9.html?spref=tw

[SimonNZ]

on the radio, can't find an image:

Mahler's Symphony No.1 - Franz-Paul Decker, cond.

haven't heard this work in quite a while - its like bumping into an old friend on the street

[Karl Henning]

In memoriam ДШ (died 9 August 1975):

http://www.youtube.com/v/IjmZaBKB8y0