What are you listening to now?

[Karl Henning]

Karl, here's a lengthier intro to Kenneth Woods for you: http://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2016/09/13/on-funding/

Thanks.

[ritter]

First listen (one I was really looking froward to  ) to Alberto Ginastera's Estudios sinfónicos:

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[Karl Henning]

Karl, here's a lengthier intro to Kenneth Woods for you: http://kennethwoods.net/blog1/2016/09/13/on-funding/

If you're in the club, you're in the club. If you're not, you're not, and you're probably not going to be. There are many great, great artists in the club, but also plenty whose last ten projects were stinkers, but they're still fundable because of something they did (or someone they knew) in 1974.

Speaking as one who ain't in the club, that is some of the pithiest musical truth I've ever seen in the blogosphere.

[Sergeant Rock]

Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, the composer conducting




Sarge

[North Star]

Stravinsky
Dumbarton Oaks
Ensemble InterContemporain
Boulez
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[ritter]

Good evening, Karlo!

I too actually listen to Stravinsky. 

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Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex - Jean Vilar (narr.), Joseph Peyron (Oedipus), Marie-Thérèse Hollet (Jocaste) et al., Choeur de la RTF, Orchestre National, Ernest Ansermet (cond.) - live, Paris 1951

[North Star]

Good evening, Karlo!

I too actually listen to Stravinsky. 

Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex - Jean Vilar (narr.), Joseph Peyron (Oedipus), Marie-Thérèse Hollet (Jocaste) et al., Choeur de la RTF, Orchestre National, Ernest Ansermet (cond.) - live, Paris 1951

Good evening, Rafael!

I too am listening to more Stravinsky, actually.

Élégie for solo viola (in memoriam Alphonse Onnou) (1944)
Gérard Causse
Epitaphium for flute, clarinet and harp
Double Canon for string quartet
Ensemble InterContemporain

[prémont]

JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-3 [Abbado]....

I may have listened to this set about four times since I got it on LP many years ago for completist reasons. But I never warmed much to it. Abbado's later set with the Mozart orchestra expresses more zest for life and has a better lineup.

[ritter]

Good evening, Rafael!

I too am listening to more Stravinsky, actually.

Élégie for solo viola (in memoriam Alphonse Onnou) (1944)
Gérard Causse
Epitaphium for flute, clarinet and harp
Double Canon for string quartet
Ensemble InterContemporain

I think your program is rather more palatable than mine (I love those two late minatures). I'm not really that much into Oedipus Rex, and this performance is dreadful, I'm sorry to say.

[North Star]

I think your program is rather more palatable than mine (I love those two late minatures). I'm not really that much into Oedipus Rex, and this performance is dreadful, I'm sorry to say.

Oedipus Rex never was one of my favourites, either, but yes, the stuff I listened to is up there. 

Finishing off the evening's listening with some Frescobaldi from Leonhardt
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[listener]

MÓOR    Concerto for Cello in c# op. 64   Concerto for 2 Cellos in D op. 69
Prelude for Cello and Orch n E op121   
Péter Szabó, Ildikó Szabó cellos  Miskolc S.O.,  Zsolt Hamar, cond.
BARBER: Capricorn Concerto op. 21  Essay for Orchestra no. 1
COPLAND: Saga of the Prairies (Music for Radio & Prairie Journal),  An Outdoor Overture
IVES: 3rd Orchestral Set: Overture
Pacific S.O.   Kenneth Clark, cond.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

And as an encore, Argerich on the ivories

Chopin
Scherzo no. 3 in c sharp minor, Op. 39
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+1. That is an absolute scorcher of a 3rd scherzo!

[Brian]

This new recording to end my day, after a late morning + afternoon devoted entirely to Hans Gál's concertos, chamber music, and solo piano works.

[aligreto]

Mozart: Piano Quartet K478 [Sonnerie]....





Another sparkling performance.

[aligreto]

I may have listened to this set about four times since I got it on LP many years ago for completist reasons. But I never warmed much to it. Abbado's later set with the Mozart orchestra expresses more zest for life and has a better lineup.

My sentiments entirely. It was a major disappointment for me when I first got it; plodding and listless, which are not adjectives one would ascribe to the music of JS Bach. I do not know the later version that you mention.

[Kontrapunctus]

Concerto. No.5:



Symphony No. 86:

[ritter]

My sentiments entirely. It was a major disappointment for me when I first got it; plodding and listless, which are not adjectives one would ascribe to the music of JS Bach. I do not know the later version that you mention.

That early Abbado recording of the Brandenburgs caught my attention when I saw it some time ago in a B&M store. It seems I didn't lose much by not picking it up. The later one with the Orchesta Mozart on DG is a stupendous achievement IMHO. Really, really enjoyable perfomances of the six, with great soloists.

[HIPster]

My sentiments entirely. It was a major disappointment for me when I first got it; plodding and listless, which are not adjectives one would ascribe to the music of JS Bach. I do not know the later version that you mention.

Here it is ~

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Also available as a video.

HIPish, "all star" lineup.  Makes me want Dantone to record these concertos with his own group.

[Mister Sharpe]

Still rate Munch the highest, as do many listeners, but never understood the comparative indifference to Previn who brought (along with the LSO) an extraordinary sensitivity and luster to this work. 

[Johnnie Burgess]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony # 6 in A minor



Maurice Abravanel, Utah Symphony Orchestra