What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Courtesy of Gurn & Andrei:

http://www.youtube.com/v/3ee0rwFaSsE

[ritter]

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Mammoth, flawed, overambitious, you name it, but this concerto is quite marvelous. And seeing it live in concert here in Madrid earlier this year was a great experience. I like it more each time I listen to it. I don't know that particualr recording, though.

[Karl Henning]

I actually listen to Игорь Фëдорович:

Threni: id est Lamentationes Jeremiæ Prophetæ

[Madiel]

Trying Tubin's 1st Symphony again.

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One of my online "let's try a composer we don't know much about" projects, which I started but then thought better about because I was trying too many at once. So, given the elapsed time, trying number 1 again before I move through the rest of the symphonies.

[Karl Henning]

Trying Tubin's 1st Symphony again.



One of my online "let's try a composer we don't know much about" projects, which I started but then thought better about because I was trying too many at once. So, given the elapsed time, trying number 1 again before I move through the rest of the symphonies.

That's earlier than any Tubin symphony I've yet listened to; will be curious to learn your response.

[ritter]

I actually listen to Игорь Фëдорович:

Threni: id est Lamentationes Jeremiæ Prophetæ

Good day to you, Karl.

It's sooooo good to see a Threni-Renaissance taking place. Let's hope it sticks.


Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo! 

[Mandryka]

I liked all the Leonhardt recordings for what they are, excellent interpretations belonging firmly to their time. .

You may know more about the latest ideas about how to play these things than I do. I just listened to opfer and it seemed pretty good, melancholic, I don't see that it's dated.

[Karl Henning]

Good day to you, Karl.

Cheers!

[Sergeant Rock]

A couple of short works by Stravinsky: Epitaphium (1959) and Tango (1940)

https://www.youtube.com/v/uecxpgM44k4

https://www.youtube.com/v/jl80gn91grA


Sarge

[Harry]

I keep being amazed about this composer and how good his music actually is, and about the excellent performance it gets. A series not to be missed in my humble opinion.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2016/09/richter-franz-xaver-1709-1789.html?spref=tw

[Harry]

You may know more about the latest ideas about how to play these things than I do. I just listened to opfer and it seemed pretty good, melancholic, I don't see that it's dated.

Well I am heartily glad you think so. After all my opinion is just a personal one, for some I am right, for others not . Its a win-win situation.
The impression one gets from music is individual and subjective, and therefore always debatable.

[Madiel]

That's earlier than any Tubin symphony I've yet listened to; will be curious to learn your response.

Well, it's only a fairly surface listen of course but I've quite enjoyed it. Not at all "modern" for something written in the 1930s. Thoroughly tonal, following in the footsteps of late Romantic composers with lots of notes and grand swells of sound. But it doesn't feel bloated or aimless.

I fear any attempt to make more specific comparisons because I'm conscious of how many traditionalist 20th century symphonists are still just names to me. I've seen people throw Bax's name around in this context online, but as I don't know any of Bax's music I can't speak to any similarity myself!

[Brian]

Tried to listen to these three Kenneth Fuchs albums, but mostly ended up picking my way through carefully - seems I like him best when he's in his subtlest, calmest moods, like "Falling Canons" for solo piano and "Quiet in the Land" for viola, cello, and wind trio. The bigger glitzier orchestral stuff, like "United Artists" and "Canticle to the Sun", annoyed me and felt a lot like empty calories.

"Atlantic Riband" seems like a perfectly okay, enjoyably-crafted bit of Coplandish (even Vaughan Williams-ish) populism, so Kenneth Fuchs is not a total loss for me. And I'll try a couple of his string quartets before giving up.

[Karl Henning]

A couple of short works by Stravinsky: Epitaphium (1959) and Tango (1940)

https://www.youtube.com/v/uecxpgM44k4

https://www.youtube.com/v/jl80gn91grA

Sarge

Brilliant miniatures.

[Brian]

"Atlantic Riband" seems like a perfectly okay, enjoyably-crafted bit of Coplandish (even Vaughan Williams-ish) populism

Never mind, the last minute or so is pure sugar.

[Mandryka]

Well I am heartily glad you think so. After all my opinion is just a personal one, for some I am right, for others not . Its a win-win situation.
The impression one gets from music is individual and subjective, and therefore always debatable.

Sure, it's just the idea that it was somehow dated, belonging firmly to its time, which I thought was worth pursuing. 

[Karl Henning]

A couple of short works by Stravinsky: Epitaphium (1959) and Tango (1940)

https://www.youtube.com/v/uecxpgM44k4

https://www.youtube.com/v/jl80gn91grA


Sarge

Brilliant miniatures.

I ran into the score of the Epitaphium at the NEC library once.  I was, in fact, looking about for fl/cl/hp music.  But:

1.  It is illegal to photocopy the score;
2.  I could not really see spending £10 of my own hard-earned at Boosey & Hawkes for a 2-minute piece, when
3.  I can just write my own music.

[Brian]

More, and hopefully better, first listens.



(skipping the Elgar)

[North Star]

I ran into the score of the Epitaphium at the NEC library once.  I was, in fact, looking about for fl/cl/hp music.  But:

1.  It is illegal to photocopy the score;
2.  I could not really see spending £10 of my own hard-earned at Boosey & Hawkes for a 2-minute piece, when
3.  I can just write my own music.

I had no idea that £ is the New England currency.  0:)

[Harry]

Sure, it's just the idea that it was somehow dated, belonging firmly to its time, which I thought was worth pursuing.

Yes I understood that. I will try to explain, but again it is very personal.  Harald Vogel, and Joseph Kelemen are my prime examples and comparison if it comes to Leonhardt. Vogel was always very much aware of the knowledge that grew on him over the years and he adapted his style of playing to get as close to what is must have been. Extensive research into composers and playing techniques made him the organist he is today, and as such he is my reference. Leonhardt and Vogel, have many things in common, but their styles could not be more different. I was in the lucky circumstance of having met him (Vogel) at a concert somewhere in Germany, and I asked him a lot of questions, so many in fact, that he invited me to a cafe nearby and patiently answered all of them. And yes we also talked about Leonhardt. So after this I understood some things that were quite unclear to me. Vogel grew over the years, Leonhardt firmly embedded himself in his somewhat academic approach, and this I call outdated but not invalid.
Kelemen is in many way a combination of both organists, but adding also many new elements.
There are of course more organists I admired....